The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1902-07-18
RNEST G. WALKER.

mornus characterization of the bill, in
Slsting that 1t was not born the right .
way. "The House is asked" he eX- .
claimed, ito adopt this illegltlmate
child"
II would like to ask what part the
attorneys have taken in this proposi-
tion that would entitle them to 10 per
cent" inquired Mr.. Coombs of Califor-
MIA.
THE people interested in the claim
and God know | do not responded
Mr.. Cannon, who added that there were
not 80 persons in the House who knew
anything about the bill. Then Mr..
Cannon began to tell about the rich
sugar plantations in the islands and
how we removed the duty of from l1a
TO cents "A pound on sugar some wears
ago for the benefit of the Hawaiian
people During 80 years said he,
1--WE practically paid a bounty of two
cents pound on Hawaiian sugar
amounting in round numbers to $780,
900 600. She prospered Great plana-
tions grew up there, such as | have
, never seen anywhere else. | am not
, thoroughly familiar with sugar planta-
, tions, but ! was down there once. Great
, fortunes have been piled up there;
great plantations exist there now"
Then MIR. Cannon told how, after an
nexation in 1898, Congress agreed To
pay every dollar of Hawaiian indebt-
edncss and also to pay the Hawaiian
D postal savings bank indebtedness. Mr.
cannon insisted that it was just as
% much the duty of Hawaii to pay for the
q losses ensuing on the plague as 1t wac
r for Arizona to bear the loss from al
% epidemic of smallpox or for Other
q communities to pay for whatever IN
= convenience there might be from th'
chicken pox. the measles, whoopini
cough and diphtheria.
. Now. is there anything from char
Is table standpoint that should MAKE
10 Uncle Sam give IA million dollars to thi
dusky daughter? She does not begil
IT to be as poor as New Mexico or Ari
Ia zona is She has no debt at all, ant
IS Arizona and New Mexico and the mu
a. nicipalities have much debt. If we ar
IS going into the giving business for ou
n Territories. let us have fair divide
"A If IL s fair to pay million dollars I
~ the Territory of Hawaii, ii is fair I
give million and a half the tota
Sc amount of property destroyed. Legal
p ly, we are not bound; equitably an
~ morally we are not bound. We are nc
n bound from any standpoint of publ
sc policy"
err Thereupon TIE vote was taken, as a.
ready stated, and the result was unfa
m vorable to the amendment, which wer
90 out subsequently in a conference on IN
~ bill.
,d The Senate shortly before the ac
n journment of Congress adopted res,
20 luton authorizing the visit or SUI
y, committee of the Senate Committee @
a' the Pacific Islands and Porto Rico
Ms visit Hawaii during the summer. TT
resolution authorizing this was muc
or modified from the original resolutlc
" presented by Senator Mitchell OF Or
ef gon After being adopted by the Sci
es ate Committee on the Pacific lslan'
~, and Porto Rico, il was passed upc
favcrably by the Senate Committee {
-. control of contingent expenses. II
,'o resolution as it passed reads as fc
' lows:
an Resolved That the Committee on r
IT. cihr Islands and Porto Rico be, and
hereby authorized and directed to !
ne vest igate the general condition OF I
is islands of Hawaii and the administr
~ ton of the affairs thereof, and FOR I
w. purposes aforesaid said committee.
20 "A subcommittee thereof, appointed
ne the chairman, shall have power TO Sc
leu for persons and papers. to visit the II
err ands, to administer oaths, to sit durl
zee the recess of Congress, and said col
ed mittee shall report at the beginning
IN the next session OF Congress the resi-
'ad of its Investigations; the expenses
iNa said vestigation to be PAID out OF
,ur contingent fund of the Senate
Senator Foraker has designated I
,tr following subcommittee 10 visit the l
hill a@nos @ o., Sanotnr Foster
h'S Washington, Senator Burton. kaps
IN Republicans: and Senator CockreM
OF Missouri and Senator Blackburn
.ts Kentucky. Democrats. They met
the capitol at 3 o'clock this afterno
in and talked over the plans for their I
ia- and other matters.
,eir The Marine Hospital Bureau. I
AXE city. in announcing its contracts for
net present fiscal year for caring for q
e "A senm.n in different ports. has the
the lowing announcement for Eonoiulu
not The medical attendance TO be y
nishea by g medical officer OF the n