The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1904-01-28
Legislation for ia.
waii in Con-
.gress.
spalmer Woods Urged
for Democratic
Committeeman.
1Mall speeial to the Advertiser.l


WASHINGTON, D. c., Jan. 10
Matters of Hawaiian legislation before
Congress have been in abeyance this
past week, except for a favorable report
from the Senate Committee on Pacific
Islands and Porto Rico, which reported
favorably the bill to recompense in full
the claims Of Ex-Queen Liliuokalani.
The report was made by Senator Black
burn, of Kentucky, who made the same
report from the Committee last year
and there will be an effort to get it on
the Sundry Civil Appropriations bills.
AS things look now the initiatiYe will
abe made on the Senate side, just as
was done last year.
The House Committee on Territories
is awaiting the arrival of President Gar
tley of the Electric Light and Power
Company, when hearings will be re-
s,1rned on that bill. AS stated in my last
letter, there is no disposition to take that
matter up again till all the facts about
the company are available.
The bill to confirm another charter
for Hawaiian territory, the company OF
w. w. Dimond for the furnishing OF
fuel and illuminating gas, has been IN
troduced by Delegate Kalananiole IN
the House and by Senator Burrows, OF
Michigan, at the other end of the Cap
itol. The bill will not be taken MP till
some one comes prepared to present all
the facts in connection with It, as the
provisions will be as carefully scrut1-
nized as those Of the Electric bill. The
Gas Company bill is very lengthy one,
but provides simply for the ratification
of the act of the Hawaiian Legislature,
that act being incorporated in the meas
ure as introduced here.
Delegate Kalanianole is doing all he
can to further the passage OF bill to
authorize the construction of Revenue
Gutter for the sole use of the Territory
of Hawaii. The matter has been taken
up at the Senate end by Mr.. Perkins, OF
California, as already told, and the bill
eyer there has been favorably reported
from the Senate Committee on Conn
merce and is now ON the Senate calendar
The Delegates bill, which is identical,
provides for the construction OF cutter
at a cost of S25o,ooo. The bill has been
referred to the House Committee on In
terstate and Foreign Commerce, OF
which Col. pete" Hepburn, of Iowa, IS
the chairman.
REMISSION OF DUTIES.
The following bill has been introduced
in the House by Representative Cushman
of Washington state, and referred to
the Committee on Claims:
Be it enacted by the Senate and the
House of Representatives of the United
States of America in Congress assem-
bled. That authority be, and the same IS
hereby. given the Secretary of the Treas
urv 10 refund and repay from the appro-
pHiation "To repay to importers the eX-
cess of deposits for unascerta1ned du-
ties. or duties or other moneys PAID uil-
der protest" made by section thirty-six
hundred and eighty-nine OF the REVISED
Statutes the amount OF duties paid
without protest into the United States
Treasury on any and all goods, wares,
aqd merchandise shipped to HAWAII
pnor to July seventh, eighteen hundred
and ninety-eight, the, date OF the pas
sage OF the joint resolution anneNing
Hawaii. and shipped therefrom into the
United States subsequent to June four
teenth, nineteen hundred, the date OF the
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