The Hawaiian gazette., 1901-04-12
A VISITING
STAT SMAN

Congressman b. y yam ~ the
Fourth u strict of Connecticut. and
Republican, is visitor in the
city arriving YES erday on the
transport Huford. lie Is the guest OF
l.. A. Thurston ara viii visit tho usu-
nj points Of { te est during the b lief
stay OF the vessel in Honolulu. Con-
gresham lili Is on las way around the
world, and, To- use his own expression,
g trying to see the outlying countries
which the United states is taking in SO
fast"
From Honolulu his vessel goes to
Guam and thence to Manila, where Mr..
Hin hopes to make a stay of at least
two weeks, AID at the most four weeks,
He has no mission az n Congressman,
but Is merely on TRIP of education and
pleasure. He will make study Of con-
dtions in the Philippines as far as pos
sibe and as yet has no opinion TO ex-
press concerning the future OF the arch
ipelagu From Manila he goes to
Shanghai and afterwards will spenu
many weeks in Japan. He VIII next
visit Vladlvostok, and make a voyage
of 1,5OO miles on the Amur river He
will then go by rail to st. Petersburg
and by easy stages return to his home
in Connecticut, where in private life
he is a banker, and is the vice presi-
of n Nnrw1
Conn.
Mr.. Hill is a member of the House
Committee on Banking and Currency,
and the Committee on Coinage,
Weights and Measures, and as such has
had much to do with the affairs of Ha-
wall in financial way. In an inter-
view accorded an Advertiser reporter
yesterday evening, Congressman Hill
said with reference to the Hawaiian re-
demption bill which failed of passage
during the last session of Congress:
Yes, did have something to do with
the redemption bill. The bill original
ly came before the committee two
years ago upon the return of the Ha-
waiian Commission from the Islands,
No action was taken at that time, in
asmuch as it seemed to involve the
pending fight in the United States on
the silver question. In the first ses
sion of the Fifty-sixth Congress the bill
went to the Committee on Territories.
The committee reported favorably on
the measure, but 1t was perhaps a lit
tie unfortunate that the bill should
have contained clause which made 1t
rather embarrassing under the circum-
stances in view of the political issues
in the United States. This clause was
to the effect that when the coinage of
Hawaii was taken up by the United
States ii should be re-coined into pieces
of the same denomination. That would
of course have the effect of making us
coin about half a million legal tender
silver dollars, and we certainly have
these to burn at the present time. There
was a good deal OF objection to the
bill on that account. There would not
have been the slightest objection to it |
had the matter of coinage and RECON- |
ing been left to the discretion of the |
Secretary of the Treasury, the same as
with the Porto Rico coins. There was
not the slightest objection to taking |
the coins at par and substituting for
them United States coins. We cannot |
see that it makes any difference to the .
Hawaiian Government how the coins
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