The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1904-02-19
KalanianaoIe's Bills Upon
Lighthouses, Harbors
and Labor.
tMan Special to the Advertisero

(Mail Special to the Advertiser)
WASHINGTON, d. c.. Jan. 2s.-Tht
efforts of Delegate kalanianaole and
others to secure compensation to the
Territory for money expended in main
tanning the lighthouse service about
the Islands have not met with much
success here thus far. The House
committee on appropriations refused
to incorporate the item in the Urgent
Deficiency appropriation bill, which is
now under debate and which will be
passed soon. The Senate Committee
may possibly accede to the request but
Delegate Kalanianaole has not waited
for that. having already introduced a
bill which has been referred to the
House Committee on claims. This bill
provides as follows:
THE LIGHTHOUSE BILL.
THAT the sum of thirty thousand
dollars be- and hereby is, appropriated
out OF any money in the Treasury not
otherwise appropriated, and paid to
the Territory of Hawaii to reimburse
said territory for money paid, laid
out and expended by said Territory
in maintaining lighthouses, bell buoys,
and lighthouse service on its coasts
from the time said Territory became
territory of the United States until
said lighthouses, bell buoys, and light
house service We're transferred to and
taken under the management and con-
troll Of the lighthouse board"
HAWAIIAN HARBOR BILLS.
The Hawaiian Delegate has also in
troduced a bill appropriating 100000
| or as much thereof as may be neces-
sary, to enable the Secretary of War
to make survey and estimate for the
construction of a breakwater, from
the ocean along Blonde Reef to Cocoa
nut Island for the protection of the
! harbor at Hilo. He has also intro
duced bill appropriating $250,000 for
the construction Of an artificial chan
mel in the coral sand at the entrance
of Honolulu harbor to the depth of
80 feet and to the width of 400 feet
in accordance with the estimate of the
engineer of the Territory.
! 1T has been suggested that Congress
ought first to make provision for a
survey by army engineers of the Homo
| lulu harbor, as that is the usual rou-
/ TINE lOIloNtu III SuCIl
improvements. Senator Mitchell, of
Oregon, who is good friend of the
/ Territory, has. however. suggested to
| Delegate Kalanianaole that 1t will, in
| his judgment, suffice for appropria-
tons that the Territorial engineers
have made a careful estimate. together
with maps, of the proposed improve
ment.
DELEGATE AVOIDS RESPONSE
BILITY.
| Delegate Kalanianaole has intro
duced the same bill in the House that
Senator Mitchell introduced in the Sen
' ate, ito prohibit the employment OF
aliens on public work in the Territory
of Hawaii" but the Delegate marked
the bill by request" which demon
strates that he wishes i'm no wise to
become responsible for the sentiments
it expresses.
The Senate Committee on Immigra-
ton held meeting this morning but it
did not deal with any questions of i'm
migration o. interest to Hawaii. The
Lodge bill, providing certain amend
ments to the existing immigration law,
was considered but none of those
amendments affect Hawaiian interests.
1t is another bill, introduced by Mr..
Lodge and which proposes an educa-
, tional qualification, that would affect
immigration in Hawaii. AS stated in
my last letter there are no prospects
that any immigration legislation will
be considered at this session of Con-
gress.
! Mr. w. o. Smith, of Honolulu, has
arrived on the mainland and tele-
| graphed here a few days ago that he
was coming at once to Washington.
, He Is now expected here daily. AS
soon as he arrives it is expected that
| the electric light franchise bill will
be taken up by the House Committee
an extended hearing.
FEATURELESS SESSION.
| The present session of Congress has
been one of the most featureless for
many years. The program in the Sem
ate is one of drifting. Republicans
/ and Democrats are both anxious to
make public speeches on the Panama
Canal and to allow them opportunity
the consideration of the pending treaty
in secret session is being deferred. No
one now expects that the treaty will
| be ratified much before the end of
| February, perhaps not then. No doubt
in the world exists about the ratifca-
ton when once vote is reached Sem
ator Teller informed some of his Re-
publican colleagues yesterday that
| there We're IA Democratic Senators
who would certainly vote for ratifi-
cation and probably more.
| For the present the canal treaty and
kindred matters are having the right
of way in the Senate. The House is
working along slowly with appropria-
| ton bills, but there is no haste. All
| idea of hurrying with business and
| getting away from Washington early