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The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1903-02-17
JUDGE simonton Dead.

Harrisburg, Pa, Feb. 12.-Judge j.
Simonton of the Dauphin county
court died today of pneumonia after
an illness of one month. He was
serving his third term as judge of the
local courts and was regarded as one
of the ablest jurists in the state.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1903-02-17
Pollock Will Deliver EN-.

New Haven, Conn, Feb. lit was
announced yesterday that the Storrs'
lectures for 10000 in Yale law
schools will be delivered by Sir Fred
erick Pollock of London.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1903-02-17
Oppose Confirmation.

Washington, Feb. 12.-The senate
committee on commerce today agreed
to report adversely the nomination OF
DR.. w. D. Crum to be collector at the
port of Charleston, S. G.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1903-02-17
A $4,000 Fire.

New Orleans, Feb. 12.-The Audu-
bon club on st. Charles street, known
for the past quarter Of a century as
the Academy of Music, was destroy
ed by fire last night. Loss $4,000.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1903-02-17
SENATORS HELD HANDS THAT
WE'RE GOOD ENOUGH.
AN INNOCENT AMENDMENT
Would Have Made the Publicity
Feature of Antitrust Bill
Worthless.

Chicago, Feb. 11.-William e. Cur
Record-Herald, says:
There is a great deal Of curiosity
concerning the authorship and re-
sponsibility for the "little joker" that
was offered as a substitute for the
Nelson a~nccEGncrt creating the bu-
reau of corporations, under the new
department of commerce and labor.
This 'little joker" was typewriter,
and if it had been adopted would
have reduced the publicity scheme.
for dealing with the trusts to what
DIR. Cleveland, of Princeton univers-
ity, would call %innocuous ~desuetude
at it's very birth. 1t provided that
the proposed commissioner of corpora
tons should simply sit in his chair
and draw his salary, and read such
reports and communications as the
officials of the trusts and "combina-
lions of capital" might be gracious
enough to send to him.
1t left him no authority to call for
reports or power to make examina-
tons or to search for the truth. 1t
made him nothing more than the
custodian of a lot of useless and in
nocent information and practically
created a sinecure.
This typewriter proposition was
first handed to Senator Nelson, a
member of the conference committee,
by one of the most prominent mem
bers Of the United States senate from
one of the prominent states, and, al
though Mr. Nelson declined to men
ton names, common rumor says that
he comes from Ohio. Mr.. Nelson was
advised that the proposed substitute
was a great deal simpler and less in
tricate than the amendment he had
added to the bill, and the senate
who offered it to him said that he
was assured that it would meet with
no objection from the white house
house of representatives, the manag
ers of the trusts or from anybody
that the entire universe was unan1
NOUS in it's support. Senator Nelson
replied frankly that he was committee
to his own amendment, and might bf
accused of Inconsistency and insin
cerity if he offered a substitute fol
} his own proposition.
The senator in question next wen
to Senator Hanna, who was also {
member of the committee of confer
ence, and he, being an innocent ant
} unsophisticated individual, declined
positively to receive or even read tn
proposed substitute, which SO discon
: certed his adviser that the converse
ton was very brief.
. After this experience Senators Han
ma and Nelson were naturally aston
, ished, when at the next meeting O
l the committee Of conference, Chali
7 man Hepburn, Of the house, produe
ed the very same typewriter paper
l and explained that it had been hand
! ed to him by a very prominent gen
: tleman-he did not mention names
but it was understood that he referee
to Speaker Henderson-with the re
quest that it be inserted in the depart
ment of bill as a subst
) tute for the Nelson publicity prov
sion.
He added that II had bee
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1903-02-17

He added that assurance had been
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1903-05-01
A POLITICAL OBJECT LESSON.

This is a good time for the Republic
cans of Hawaii to make up their minds
to nominate no more legislative tickets
and no county tickets which represent
Home Rule ideas. 1t is clear from the
course of the Legislature that the ma
jority on the Republican side have no
Republican principles. They are Home
Rulers at heart-such in their ideas,
their affiliations, their predatory in
stincts, their friendships and in their
hatred of the Republican Territorial adj
ministration.
One of the first steps of the Repub-
leans of the House was to nominate a.
Home Ruler for Speaker and he in turn
gave chairmanships to his own kind,
the leaders of the minority. Then be-
gan a saturnalia of spois. Every prom
inent Home Ruler who wanted a job
got it. Even the clerkship of the House
went to a man who voted against the
Republican legislative ticket. Such
creatures as Prendergast, such Wild
eyed Wiicoxites as Markham, Tesla,
Nakuina, the latter member of the
Home Rule Executive committee-ka-
lauollalani. Jr., Makainai, ad nauseam;
Republican secret allies of the Home
Rule party and the rifraff of the politi-
cal beach-combers, these are the men
who went from the legislative session
with fun pockets. There We're not
enough genuine Republicans in clerk
ships to fill bus. 1t was as if sign
had been put up: mo Republican need
apply. More Home Rulers wanted"
If the honest men of the Republican
party let this sort of thing go on in
future it will be their own fault and
they will deserve to be robbed. Their
first duty will be to take part in the
county primaries and stop all schemes
OF plumber there. The pretended Re-
publicans should be driven back into
the Home Rule ranks where they be-
long: not elected to office so that they
can rob the taxpayers under the guise
of legality and build up the interests
of the political opposition.
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1903-05-01
THE WESTWARD RUSH.

How does 1t strike our tardy pro-
moters, this news from San Francisco
of "a 900 colonists entering California
during the past ten weeks? Twenty
four thousand are lot of people to get
in a little over two months time, but
there they are; and the fact shows how
much can be done, even for place dis
tant from the centers of population. by
shrewd, expansive and well-placed ad.
vertising.
The Caifornians have been making a
strong campaign for settlers during a
year or more past< For one thing the
press has been unit in the work; there
have been no journalistic whiffets bark
ing at the heels of those whose labor of
love it Is to fill up the country with
a productive population. Foremost in
the fight is the Chronicle, which has
made each issue one of advantage to
California. Chambers of Commerce
and Boards of Trade have labored as
one man and the railroads have been
induced to use their advertising powers
to the limit. The result is the most
rapid and marvellous expansion the Pa
cifc Coast has seen since the original
boom period: and such an access of
in California is today Boosting of its
prosperity.
And while all this and an influx of
$4,000 tourists besides is going on just
across the way, what is Hawaii doing?
one hears the usual snore In the Cham
Der of Commerce. The tourist plans of
three and four months ago hang trem-
bling in the balance. Everything is
propitfous for work-cable, big hotels,
giant steamers, all are in hand; plenty
of room for small farmers and plenty
for them to do. The Paradise of the
Pacific is all here But the workers
who used to get together and push
things through for Hawaii--things like
reciprocity and anneXation-where are
they? Are they dead or asleep?
The westward movement is enormous,
not only to California but to oregon
and Washington. Some of 1t can be
attracted here If our people will only
bestir themselves. But the strangers
from the East are not coming unless
they are given a chance to find out
what they are coming to. They must
first learn of what the summer islands
have to offer. That brings the matter
up to us; it means hard work and
large outlay for the progressive men of
Hawaii. But as the California example
shows 1t Is labor that brings the most
acceptable results-new wealth, new in
dustry, new inhabitants.
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1903-05-01
AS TO BRIBERY.

Legislative bribery is always a hard
thing to prove because the man who
brides cannot expose the man he has
corrupted without discriminating him
self. Such transactions are confined to
two persons and are rarely witnessed
by third parties. on that account, OF
all the offenders who commit crimes
against the body polite, bribe- givers
and bribe-takers are least in evidence
ON prison rolls.
But II the technical demands of the
law cannot be met in way to insure
convictions, the public is at liberty in
making up its own mind, to throw them
aside and consider the plain signs. The
character of pretty nearly every man
in a community Is known to those who
have watched him do business, and at
that, without verdict about 1t in
court. So with the character of Leg
islature. 1t can be justly sized up
by any one, of fair intelligence, who
takes the troube;. and the verdict is
likely to be far more impressive than
that of members of the accused body
organized as a committee of investiga-
ton. For instance when certain
Oh AWAY iu'iiNo W
the support of suspicious bill, bill
that is known to be pushed by UNI
scrupulous men, whom its passage
would enrich, there is but one infer
ence to be had. Again where a legisla-
tor with bill pending to confer some
advantage upon himself or upon bust
ness or firm with which he is connect
ed. joins the element that favors
e,,I q fair
presume that he does so for the sake
of questionable trade--a matter of
mutual bribery. That the facts cannot
be established in court amounts TO very
little Out of some ten thousand muir
derers arraigned in the United States
last year, less than four hundred were
legally convicted and hanged. That the
of the law governing con-
victions cannot be met is no proof of
innocence Nor does it debar the pub
lie from framing its own conclusions. !
Morally speaking, we believe that
distinct group in the present Legisla-
ture is badly tarred. These members
were an unsavory lot when they were
elected and they probably did not i'm
prove under the temptations of office.
Many of them share the responsibility
of foisting high officials upon the Exec
utive two years ago whose names have
since been identified with deficits in the
Treasury. These were their ideal poll
their accepted leaders; the men
for whom they were glad to stand
own kind. 1t is to them
that we owe the decision to let whole
legislative session go by without touch
ing the appropriation bills, so as to get
q chance for the salary and perquisites
Of an extra session. They are the ones
who have squandered the public money |
in committee" work, translations,
extra pay for employees and |
the like. 1t may please them to be
by a committee of their |
peers; but the byplay does not deceive |
the public.
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1903-05-01
WANT THE TRANSPORTS.

The work being done by the Mer-
chants Association for the securing of
the visits of the army transports to
Honolulu, on both the in and out bound
trips, deserves to succeed. The purpose
is worthy one and the results cannot
fail to be of benefit to the city.
The ships are not less than one 4
month and it is safe to say that each
would mean the leaving of some thou
sands of dollars day during the stays
of the vessels in port Then too the
men during any stoppage here would
assuredly send back to the States such
reports of the city as would result in
the interesting of settlers and tourists.
which would have beneficial results.
The question of the cost of coal may
have decided influence on the choice
of the city for a stopping place. The
ships would take on at the least 800
tons of coal here, which would mean
that each would have just that much
more carrying room. The three days
added TO the trips would be offset by
this, If the coal bill is not increased.
This should not be the case, as Ho-
nolulu is nearer to Newcastle than is
San Francisco. The Merchants Assoc
citation is at work, and its secretary, p,
r. Helm, will get the order issued If it
is possible.
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1903-05-01

Judge Perry is i'll with dengue fever.
The Governors office hours are now
from / to 3 o'clock, as before the Leg
islative session.
Lou D. A. Prince, bookkeeper of the
Aiea store, who has been at the john
son sanatorium for some time, is much
better.
Construction work has been COM
menced on the big Nahiku ditch by the
Hawaiian Commercial and Sugar Com
pany on Maui. NJ. NJ. O'Shaughnessy
is the engineer in charge.
The probate calendar has been as
signed to Judge Gear for the May term.
He still refuses to draw a jury, claim
ing that it is against his principles.
under the construction he gave the en-
banc law.
X. Gusman has brought suit for di-
vorce against Ben Gusman on the
ground that he is addicted to the use
sof Intoxicating liquors. Dora l.. O'Con-
nell has sued John F. O'Connell for
divorce alleging non-support
The head pumping engineer at the
Oahu plantation, Mr.. Colman, has re-
signed his position and will be succeed
ed by an engineer of experience named
| Scoville,, formerly employed in SIM
liar capacity on Kihei plantation.
There will be no general celebration
of May Day today. In the schools
there will be the usual exercises. A
May Day festival is to be held this
morning in the Capitol grounds for the
children of the Free kindergarten.
The tree at the Government Nursery
called a mangosteen belongs to the
same genus and resembles it in foliage,
leaf and flower. But its fruit is not
the mangosteen. The name of the tree
is the Garcenia. Mr.. Austin says that
he knows of no mangosteens on Oahu'
! but there is one in bearing on kauai'
and several coming along.
| Clerk Meheula of the House says
that one bill was sent to the Governor
and signed by him by mistake. This is
/ for the reimbursement of the road
| boards to cover the amount WILCOX
says he gave Wright The bill to reor-
ganize the Board of Health, which Is
causing so much trouble, passed three
readings all right, but was certified by
Z. A. Knudsen. the vice speaker, IN
stead of Beckley, which accounts Tor
the misunderstanding. The road bill
was sent to the Senate certified by the
clerk and speaker of the House and II
there is any mistake it Is the fault OF
| the House officials,
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1903-05-01
THE LEGISLATURE.

The Legislature, after all has been
said that needs to be about its short
comings, is better law-making body
than its predecessor. The other one
was hopeless; it's product of some twen-
ty odd enactments, including appropria-
lions. had for its special feature lady
dog bill. But the second Legislature has
done hard work, sending eighty-eig
bills and twelve joint resolutions to the
Governor, many of them of great value
and Importance to the people. For this
much thanks.
The difference in favor of the present
Legislature. however, should not blind
the eyes of the public to the need of
a better lawmaking body next time.
When we consider that, the manage
ment of the Territory is a greater bust
ness enterprise than that carried on
by any corporation of Hawaii, one en-
ployng more men, using more capital
and affecting more interests, 1t follows
that the managers should be men equal
to the task. 1t is II singular fact that
for the intricate affairs of State so
many directing spirits are chosen who
could not run a peanut stand success
fully in a place where peanut-eating
was a fad. Men of the highest capacity
are not too good for legislators: but it
is not once in a dozen times that a man
of average parts is elected. Hawaii
should change all this. 1t is duty
which falls upon native and white alike.
Neither make it practice to elect their
best men; both should, by careful work
at the primaries, do precisely that.
Then and not till then will We have
good government in the Hawaiian ISL
ands.
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1903-05-01

(From Thursdays Daily)

The Supreme Court adjourned yes
terday to June 10
The bark Martha Davis arrived at
San Francisco from Hilo on April q.
Judge De Bolt yesterday continued
the hearing of the Fowler VS.. Cation
case.
| The Hongkong Maru carries treasure
valued at $4,000 and 5000 tons of
freight.
A petition for articles of incorpora-
ton for the Hawaiian Association has
been filed.
Judge Gear yesterday admitted Har-
ry u. Austin to practice law in the
district courts.
The Marion Chilcott arrived at San
Francisco from Honolulu on April 20,
fifteen days out.
The Siberia is reported to have left
Hongkong for San Francisco via Ho-
nolulu on Saturday, April IS. She is
due here May 9.
A wireless message from Lahainaluna
states that the house occupied by Mr..
seminary, burned at midnight, Monday.
Cause unknown.
Capt. Watts has assumed command of
the bark C. d. Bryant, now at San
Francisco. The San Francisco papers
state that Capt. Willer has accepted a
position with Hackfeld & Co.
Captain Kimball, Mrs. Kimball and
daughters, popular army people from
Presidio, where the captain has been
quartermaster, are aboard the trans
port Sumner en- route to Manila.
Mrs. Couden, wife of Captain Cou-
den, well known naval officer to Ho-
nolulans, accompanied by her daugh-
ter, is passenger in the Sumner en-
route to Cavite to join her husband.
Yesterday afternoon at o'clock the
funeral of the nine months old baby
boy, child of Chas. Crockett formerly
an engineer at the brewery, and Eva
Lancaster Crockett, took place from
the residence of Mr.. and Mrs. Henry
Lancaster, the childs grandparents.
Miss Won Hoorbeck, a passenger in
the transport Sumner, is en- route to
Manila from Salt Lake City to be mar
considerable notoriety a couple of years
ago in Manila in connection with the
army quartermaster supplies and con-
tract scandals.
II. Hirota, the Japanese convicted
under the immigration laws, was yes
terday sentenced by Judge Estee to
three years in Oahu prison, and fined
So, 900. The money with which he at
tempted to bride District Attorney
Breckons and Interpreter Geffney was
ordered paid into court to apply on the
fine.
H. Nakamura, a japanese from Shi-
moneseki, Japan, who has been tour
ing the world on a bicycle since 1891,
and is now enroute home, arrived in
the Hongkong Maru yesterday. Mr.
Nakamura started out to learn some
thing of the world, and returns with a
broad knowledge of the various coun-
tries through which he has passed and
possesses a smattering of many Ian
guages. He has earned his living dur
ing this time, and is proficient in many
trades.
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1903-05-01
BEET SUGAR FAILURES.

If sugar beet farming will not pay in
California where two more crops per
annum can be raised than in the cold
belt and where labor is cheap, it is hard
to see how it can be made to pay in the
East. The fact is. the failure at Wat
sonVile was anticipated by slump in
beet sugar production in many Eastern
localities, notably in New York; and the
Advertiser lately printed news from
Utah to the effect that unless Orientals
can be got to raise beets by contract,
the local manufacture must stop. Is IL
too much to anticipate that, in the next
few years, the American output of beet
sugar will practically cease?
There are but two circumstances, and
these quite unlikely to happen, which
could restore the industry. One is so
great a rise in the market price or
sugar that the crop could be profitably
raised by dear labor: the other is the
introduction to the mainland or some
form of cheap labor One must be SAN
guine indeed to think that either of
these conditions will come to pass.
Cane sugar. therefore, may be re-
garded as a safer investment than II
was when the prospects of beet sugar
were so bright. Then it looked as II
the mainland would eventually feed IT.
self: but if beet sugar is to be aban-
doned it means the closing out OF
dangerous competitor to cane IN the
protected American market.
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1903-05-01

Why the Mahukona agent OF the
wireless telegraph should have sent his
meteor story here on April 80 instead
of April /, is a thing he ought to eN-
plain. For such a vivid bit of Nun
chausenism the earlier date would have
been more appropriate. The late Joe
Mulhatton did a thing or two with
meteors but he never invented one
which passed through the sky rumbling
and shaking the earth and keeping on
view for full hour and forty minutes.
This Hawaii meteor either had some Of
the qualities of fixed star or 1t moved
in circles like celestial pinwheel. The
chances are. however, that the MANU-
kona man was the one moving i'm cir
Giles; in which case the authorities
should go where he lives and search
the lantana,
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1903-05-01

1t is disquieting circumstance,
though not strange one, that a vol
cano should break out in the Northwest
Territory of Canada, the district which
adjoins Alaska. All that region Is vol
canic; and If its history were known,
IN very recent times, great seismic ac-
tlyity would perhaps be expected of it
as much as of Japan, Some day, no
doubt, the civilized people OF the North
west Territory and Alaska, will wit
ness volcanic phenomena OF which
those in Guatemala are the type; and
In doing so but repeat the experience
OF many natives tribes in the recent
past.
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1903-05-01

The death of Irving NJ. Scott re-
moves the builder of the oregon, san
Francisco Charleston, Monterey ana
many other vessels of the modern
American Navy. Mr.. Scott was an able
man but a better ship-builder than
politician.
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1903-05-01

A careful search of the Coast files of
April Il fails to reveal a single item
about Great Britain's liabilities being
ssoo'OoO,OO 600 In fact no reference to
the liabilities OF Great Britain appear
so far as the Advertiser can see, The
discovery that Great Britain owes
twice the wealth OF the world appears
10 nave been made for our afternoon
contemporaries exclusively. Was it a
beiated April Fool joke?
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1903-05-01

The United States may be gathering
warships at Yokohama but II Will not
strike promptly" at any crisis In the
Manchurian affair, until Congress mas
exercised its constitutional prerogative
of declaring war, Hawaii ought 10
know that after seeing Cleveland ana
Willis lower the uplifted hand to await
the wider discretion" OF the nations
lawmakers,
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1903-05-01

L. G.. Kellogg, a practical WahiaWa
farmer, said in an address before the
Farmers Institute, Il am convinced
that the gross returns from the produc-
ton of such staple commodities as
onions, potatoes, celery, corn, Deans
turnips, peas, rhubarb and many other
crops too numerous to mention, VIII
not equal the expenditure for the nee
essary fertilizer required to produce
them" If this isn't small farming
heresy the morning press should ex-
plain why. Yet II is the conclusion OF
Observation-Disclosures,
1t Is hardly worth while to discuss
agriculture with a paper which does
not know the difference between small
farming ana market-g gardening. Nor
is 1t possible to admire the candor OF
one which prints such an extract from
Mr.. Kellogg's address and caretuiiy
omits his statement that there are
four crops from which the small farmer
can make money.