The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1902-01-29
OUR SPECIAL LETTER
FROM WASHING TON

j state affair. Whether the Government
would be willing to interfere with it is
! another matter, perhaps.
However, it is an interesting bit OF
| gossip that a Senator brings from a
| recent White House dinner. President
| Roosevelt was talking about a cable
| and canal and prophesied that both
would be authorized at this session OF
| Congress. They will be-" said the
President, cor there will be an extra
session of Congress"
LILIUOKALANI AND WILCOX.
Col. and Mrs Parker and Prince and
Princess David called on ex-Queen
Liliuokalani Sunday evening, at her
residence. Col Parker said yesterday
that the Queen had taken no decisive
steps about her claim and he has adj
vised her not to, until he has oppor-
tunity to sound the sentiment of lead
ers in Congress. The colonel will I'M
doubtedly be able to ascertain whether
! the task is a hopeless one. If it is he
will frankly tell her so. If he sees
some chance of having Congress grant
her some compensation he will take his
coat off and try TO help her get at least
a portion of whatever may be due her.
AS soon as he was able to learn tGe
address of Delegate Wilcox, Col. Par
ker called to express his sympathy and
to offer to do anything to alleviate his
sufferings. Although Delegate Wilcox
is so i'll that his physician does not al
low visitors to see him, the Delegate
wanted Col. Parker to come up to his
apartment With his characteristic
generosity Col. Parker told the Dele
gate that his services or his purse were
ha na1aOufnfS tn nd ny
thing that could possibly make him
more comfortable.
'Mr. Wilcox has been a very, very i'll
man. said DR.. Harry a. Sellhausen,
one of his attending physicians, today,
but we think he is now well on the
road to recovery. His trouble of ulcer
of the stomach is an old one with him
but he has neglected himself and the
r1alady finally forced him to bed. His
illness was attended win severe hem
orrhages, which gave the case at one
time a very grave aspect.
I'm the last eight or ten days, Mr..
Wilcox has been mending gradually.
He is still on liquid diet and will be
for some weeks yet. I doubt if he is
able to be out of doors for six weeks
yet"
ISTHMIAN CANAL.
The different forces have been quiet
iy at work this week on the iSthmian
canal question, but there have been no
outward developments worth special
mention. A poll of the Senate was
taken by the New York Herald two or
three days ago, and developed that
there were forty Senators in favor of
considering the offer of the Panama
Canal Company and thirty-one in ia
vor of the Nicaragua canal.
There has been a great deal of dis
cussion and pamphleteering on the
Chinese exclusion question. A some
what bulky pamphlet, supposed to
have been inspired and perhaps writ
ten by the Chinese Minister, has been
widely distributed this week During
the House hearings on the sugar tariffs
this week, there was some inquiry as
to the percentage of Chinese iaborers
on the Cuban plantations, and Mr.. At
kins, the rich Boston planter, said
there were about two per cent of Chi
nese in the laborers in the cane field,
People who have been to Cuba and in
spected the cane fields are inclined 20
question this statement.
HAWAIIAN LEGISLATION
Although Delegate Wilcox is i'll in
bed some petitions have been in
troduced recently in the House for
him. He has presented a petition of the
executive committee of the II orne Rule
party of Hawaii, of Honolulu H. l.. in
favor of forest extension and agricul-
tural improvement; also a petition of
Antoine Mendonca and forty-eight
other citizens of the Hawaiian Islands
against the granting of water rights to
private individuals or to corporations
and asking that they shall remain for
the common benefit of the landawa-