The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1904-02-18
HAWAIIAN AFFAIRS IN CONGRESS

| and the collection of statistics for IN
third annual report is now being pros
ecuted. From the character of tn
statistics which have been secured eac
year, and the information accompany
| ing them, it seems quite evident to tn
| Bureau that changes in labor condi
tions in the Hawaiian Islands are no
sufficiently rapid or great to warran
the expense of collecting the necessar!
data for annual reports. He alsc
| states that the passage of the bin
which has his approval, will not only
| save expense to the Department OF
/ Commerce and Labor but will also
save the expense of printing and pub
! fishing these annual reports of Ha-
, waii, which are not paid out of the
appropriations of that Bureau
The bill also has the approval of
Hon George B. Corte1you, Secretary
of Commerce and Labor, in a letter
dated January 10. 1904, and addressed
, to, Hon. Gordon Russell
After careful investigation the Com
mittee on Territories are unanimously
OF the opinion that there is not suffi-
Gent good arising or resulting from
the annual reports as to warrant the
expense thereby incurred, and that the
passage of the bill will necessarily do
away with considerable expense both
of taking the statistics and of printing
the same, and that in the interests of
economy, without in anyway impairing
the efficiency of the public service, the
change proposed in this bill can be
made and should be- The committee
therefore unanimously recommend the
passage of the bill referred to-
COUNTY LAW.
The view that the County law of Ha-
waii is dead, by reason of the decision
of the Territorial court, as expressed
to me by members of the House Ter
ritories Committee, is not unanimously
shared here.
Il think it not improbable that the
committee will take the matter up fur
Their" said Representative Spaldfng, of
North Dakota, one of the committee
and chairman of the subcommittee that
had the county law under considera-
ton.
We are waiting now he added, ITO
hear from some representative people
out there as to what we ought to do |
OF course we have the power here in !
Congress to 1egislate along that line, if
we care to, subject only to the limita- I
lions of the Constitution. We can make !;
the law, which the Territorial court
killed, valid, if it is deemed wise TO
do so. The trouble here is we are al
at sea as to what the people of Ha-
wall want and ought to have. There
are so many differences of opinion over
every matter that comes up, we are
eft in the dark as to what the right
hing is. /
decision of the Territorial court we
we're decided to make an adverse report
III the ratification of the county law.
But that does not prevent us from
making n1odifica tons in the law and
rom. reporting some sort of bill, oas-I
ID on the county law. I have hoped
hat we could hear from Hon. W. o.
smith. who is now in town and who is
amiliar with conditions ont there. We
hall try TO reach some conclusion in
he matter that will be for the best in
erests of the islands,
THE DELEGATES DOINGs.
Delegate KalanIanaole stated today
hat he expected within a day or two
o have an audience with members If
he Lighthouse Board in the Treasury
department. about the establishment
nd construction of new lighthouses {
there needed around the islands of the :
erritory as recommended by GOV. ;
'arter. The recommendations of the 2
light House Board are indispensable ,
efore Congress can be induced to act. ,
he Delegate has already received {
from the Master Pilots )
ssociation, through its officers on the :
'acific Coast, favoring the proposed
rejects. He says he is pressing the :
natter as earnestly as he knows how.
Il am contemplating an effort to Sc
lre legislation for a preliminary sur
ey of Honolulu Harbor by army en-
ineers,' said the Delegate, ''as pre-
TO legislation for the improve
rent of that harbor. 1 have talked d
18th a number of Congressman recent
= who advise me that that is the
lrest way to secure harbor improve I
ents. These men are doubtful in the
ltreme about Congress ever under n
king such an Improvement till army =
lgineers make a survey. They be- b
eve that Congress will never be will g
g to vote money on the survey of
rritorial engineers" a
INJURE LILIUOKA- 9
LAM. "
Ex-Queen Liliuokalani is enjoying
,od health here this winter. Delegate :
says he saw her only two q
three days ago and found her in o.
cd spirits. He is doing nothing to adj OF
nee her claim, entertaining the view a.
at, under the circumstances with. pro-
ssionaI lobbyists working in her, be-
If Congress is not likely to vote the n,
oney. II believe Congress would vote -,
+ fair sum- said the Delegate. IF a,
were asked without the Intervention :,
LOBBYISTS MANY I-,1, m
10 me ABOUT IL ~, lil9 '5l' c;
l ma Atas 90 49,, II
ndled in such a way" "a