The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1902-02-01
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to the others would permit.
Judge George Davis left Saturday for
San Francisco, when it was decided
that the Hawaiian case he came here
to argue would not be heard till April
IA.
Mr. William Haywood expects to ap-
pear before the Ways and Means Com
mittee for a hearing on the sugar ques-
ton Jan. 25-neXt Saturday. His argu-
ment will be governed much by the de-
velopment of hearings during this
week but he is we'll equipped with
facts and figures to controvert the
statements thus far made by the Gu
bans and those interested in the reduc-
ton of duties. Since the cases OF the
Cuban planters were heard by the
Ways and Means Committee the con-
viction has grown that nothing will
come out of that committee. Those
who spoke for lower duties were chief
ly Americans, owning plantations in
the island, and their testimony on the
whole was more injurious to their
cause than helpful. They established
that labor in the island was all en-
ployed at good wages; in fact, that
more labor must be imported before
more sugar could be grown.
The beet sugar men have further en-
trenched themselves during the last
week, and it would as though the
chances were more favorable for no
reduction of duty whatever. But eau
tious men are getting more and more
wary of predicting anything political
this winter. In the last two or three
months everything seems to be slipping
from its moorings. People who were
strong in influence are losing hold and
one of those periodical shakeups which
occur in politics seems to be impend-
ing.
Mr.. Haywood has the sworn state
ments of operations of three sugar
plantations in Hawaii during the past
year, including expenses and prohts
and other important details. These will
be very useful to him in the arguments
about cost of producing sugar in Ha-
wall and Cuba. He will probably fol- |
low the Louisiana cane growers.
You may say that the Wilcox leper
bill will not pass Congress, Mr.. Hay
wood stated today to the Advertiser |
He made the statement
very emphatically There is no occa-
sion for any worry about it by the peo-
pie of Honolulu.
The bill for the recoinage of Ha-
Naiian coins, which Mr.. Haywood had
introduced in Senate and House and
which was favorably reported from the
House Committee on coinage, weights
and measures, as told in my last letter,
Will be taken up by the Senate Com
nittee at an early day. After Mr..
bill had been introduced in
he House by Representative Hill of
Delegate Wilcox introduce
ID a similar bill, following the same
language. Mr.. Wilcox is a member OF
he Committee on Coinage, Weights
ind Measures, but his bill was pigeon
loled and the Haywood bill was re-
ported out instead. 1t passed the Sen
tie last year, and apparently ought to
ave plain sailing this year. 1t should
,e remembered that Mr.. Hill, who in
the bill, is also one of the
MEMBERS of the Coinage, Weights and
deasures Committee, and sits Well up
owardS the head on the Republican
ide, while Mr.. Wilcox is Delegate,
las no vote, and accordingly sits at the
cot of the table, below Democrats as
veil as Republicans.
General G.. L. Gillespie, chief of en-
ineers, will go before the House Com
nittee on Appropriations before long
o explain details regarding an ~appro- :
ration of S526, 100 recently asked for :
and seacoast defenses for
he Territory. Secretary Root has the
etailed report of the board, ordered
ept 9th last, consisting of Colonel
Ieuer, Lieutenant-Colonel Davis, engt-
eer officers, and Major Birkhimer and
aptain Adam Shaker, artillery officers
These officers went over the ground
IN miles east and ten miles west or
honolulu, said General Gillespie today,
nd picked out the desirable locations
,r Notifications. The authorization OF
expenses by Congress, as requested,
leans that eventually there will be a g
rye artillery station at Honolulu.
Jherever the stars and stripes float
mericans will hear the drum beat.
he defense of Pearl Harbor and Hon
ulu are urgently needed not only to
-otecr the Territory of Hawaii AMI the
roperty of the United States located
,ere, out also to prevent the interrupt
on of cable communication between
an Francisco and Honolulu, which /.
ill be a station of the projected Pa /
tic submarine cable.
r. w. Breckons of Wyoming was )
,nfirmed by the Senate Jan. IS as
nited States District Attorney for
avail, and left here Jan. IS for Wy t
ming. He expects to sail from San f
Francisco for Honolulu FEB. 16. Late
lis afternoon the Senate Committee t
the Pacific Islands and Porto Rico, t
.nator Foraker, chairman, had n 1T re- n
rted on the nominations of W. J. r
obinson to be Circuit Judge and Eu- d
enc r. Hendry to be United States
arshal, but the clerk was intending t
poll the committee that the nomlra- Z
0ns might be taken up in the Senate. II
+. Foraker has been absent in OHIO 9
UGH of the time since the holidays,
gagged in his canvas for reelection,
Id for that reason has paid little at
ntion to the business of the commit
e. There has seemed to be no one TO
ess the confirmation of either Judge
Ob!pson or of Marshal Hendry, ana
T that reason there has been delay IN
ton Mr.. Breckons has brother IN
e Senate Committee on Claims and
e Wyoming Senators are his warm
lends Accordingly they pressed ms
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