The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1901-01-11


90 farmers, where thry were suppose,
10 ilo awake ~ nights g. hate tfusil
and rich mon. both ~ which iiannf
b. was supposed t0 represent ln his publ,
J ana private capacity hut be- made
friends and votes. too. Since the fRhl
upon his pct measure came up he dc.
terminpd tp take the floor aud nght fpi
u az hard a. h. had done ln commit.
tee 50 h. did. and the result. Will,
II may not be- apparent In the matter
! of votes for the bill, was at least {,
Indicate that when he ~ aroused and
: IN earnest Hanna can make as force.
{ ful an agreement as any member Of tn,
b upper house.
But there VIII be necessary some con.
? versions before the bin gets through
for there are men who dislike the word
. subsidy" so heartily that they will not
be denied the right to vote against any
bin which proposes to give money to
any man or corporation except for ac-
tual service There IL also a feeling
among western Coast men that with
the growth of the carrying trade in
that ocean there should be given a
greater proportion OF the proposed sub
lsidy than Is allotted in the bill now be-
fore Congress- OF the $4,000 600 con-
templated to be distributed by this
measure, the amount which may reach
the Pacific shipowners Is about $1,000
900. This Is deemed insufficient by such
men as Senator Bard of California, who
thinks that there would be, during the
time of the life of the bill, more ship
building for Pacific trade than for the
Atlantic. But this is ony small mat
ter on the whole. for there would be
practically as much opposition to the
bill with a more equal division Of the
bounties as there is now.
In the case of the Nicaragua canal
there is an element which cannot even
yet be fully weighed. This is the re-
viyified Panama canal scheme When
a coterie of American capitalists
bought the old French interests, put
ting into the scheme something like
81, 900, 000 there was never much belief
on the part of Congress that there
would be any future for the ditch.
There was the Calebra cut, the floods
in the river and many other objections
which in the past had made the scheme
come near to the point of impractical
bility. But despite this primary feeling
the men who arouse interest in such
affairs went to work, there was money
to spend and the result was that now
there has arisen in the minds of many
what may be called "a reasonable
doubt to to whether or not there may
not be two canals, should the United
States go ahead and build the Near
aqua ditch.
The latest plan is said to be for an
European corporation to take over a
share of the stock of the American
company, build the canal as private
enterprise, and it is figured out that
this can be done at a cost of not more
than 1925, 100000, and should there arise
any difficulty, appeal to the powers of
Europe to guarantee the neutrality of
the ditch. 1t is pointed out that there
could not be called into play the Mon
roe doctrine. as any investment made at
first would be by private owners of
stock and not by any government Of !
fcially. This may be the idle talk of
the men who wish to cry wolf to fright |
en- your Uncle Samuel into purchasing |,
to prevent competition, and again it
may be the earnest work of the capital !
lists, who number among them some Of
the greatest financiers in the country. !
Their men here say. and in this they
are borne out by the Walker commits |
sion, that they can complete their ditch !
within eight years, while the United |
States with start at Nicaragua could !
not go on with actual work for two
years. and then would have ten years
very hard work until the canal was
ready for use, for four years of which
time traffic would be going through !
Panama canal and thus creating a
route which would be preferable before
the American enterprise had gone be-
yond the stage of talk.
1t will be apparent that with the
many cross purposes working that !,
there will be a hard fight, not against
the canal IN itself, but against any
action until the best terms shall have
been gotten out of the Panama people, \
and then a decision could be made
which would be more likely to give TO
the country interoceanic connection
quickly and cheaply.
NOTHING FOR HAWAII
The failure of the House Committee
on Rivers and Harbors to place in the
bill which is to be submitted for con-
sidere ton soon after the recess any
provision for the surveying of the
1arbOrS of the Hawaiian Islands must |