The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1902-01-11
HAWAIIAN INTERESTS IN
THE NATIONAL CAPITAL

selves with the beet sugar growers and
the cane sugar growers in this regard,
said Mr.. Haywood today. standing
alone the Hawaiian planters would be
weak before Congress. but in joining
/ with others, whose interests are almost
| Identical, we can help them and they
can help US. The proposition for a
bounty will, if carried into effect, place
the burden of helping Cuba on the en-
tire American people, where it should
be. a lower tariff rate on Cuban sugar
(, would in effect be only an entering
wedge for free trade, and at the same
| time would throw the burden largely
upon the sugar planters of Hawaii,
very apparently great wrong. By i'm
posing a bounty in favor of Cuban SUI
gar we help the Cubans without taking
upon ourselves any of the evils that
lower tariff and ultimate free trade
would assure US.
THE CANAL.
There is little new to be said about
the other large questions before Con-
gress, interesting to Hawaii. In spite
of talk about opposition to the 18th
milan Canal by pleas of the duty to try
to buy the Panama canal, the measure
will probably be passed in Senate and
House within month, although a vote
may be delayed in the Senate beyond
that period. 1t will be later when the
cable bills are considered, and if a bill
passes at this session, which seems
quite probable, it may not be for three
or four months yet. The Chinese Ex-
clusion re-enactment, which Is assured
at an early date by Congress, and with
out any proviso of relief for the labor
conditions in Hawaii, as has been re-
iterated in these letters, is being con-
sidered in detail by Treasury officials
and by Pacific Coast Congressman.
1t will be plain later that the only
hope the Hawaiian planters can have
for relief must come from a separate
act, which will not be possible before
next winter. Then the excitement and
eagerness of politicians will have pass
ed, most of them will be reelected and
the question can be discussed dispas-
Although these statements
may seem peculiar in Hawaii, where
conditions of legislation are naturally
not so well understood as here, they are
as your correspondent be-
lieves, absolutely correct.
HONOLULU'S RAT CRUSADE.
DR.. Wyman, surgeon-general of the
Marine Hospital Service, has been
watching, with his usual sense of hui
NOR. as we'll as vim and interest in
sanitary conditions, the crusade
against rats in Honolulu. Bring me
copies of the rat bulletins, he shouted
through the telephone to one of his
chiefs in the Butler building the other
day, when your correspondent called
for any news he might have of the
situation. y bulletin was brought. con-
tanning report by DR.. L. E. Cofer.
Honolulu. H l., Nov @ 1901
Sir: nave the honor to inclose here
with copy of a letter, which DR.. Pratt |
the executive officer of the Hawaiian ter
ritorial board of health read to the board
at its last meeting. He calls attention
10 the necessity or at least TO the desira- |
bility of establishing here a weIl-organiz- |
ed rat crusade. measure of precaution |
which commends itself to q large num- |
Der of the citizens of Honolulu, and |
which was favorably received and i'm |
mediately acted upon by the board of |
health. as viii be seen from the letter |
from DR.. Pratt to this Office a copy of |
which IS also inclosed. Since my invi- |
tation to serve on the committee for or }