The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1905-01-19

ment who has supervised the publish
ing of the governors report, and who
suggested the desirablity Of having
the Secretary remain. While it is not
my habit to talk i'm newspapers Of my
own work l want, under the circum-
stances, to make brief statement Of
the work done by me during the four
teen days of the December session.
first called on the President and re-
ceved his assurance of help on both
the Honolulu harbor and the Leprosy
study bills. At his suggestion / fur
nished the president with the names
of the particular members of the
House and Senate with whom it was
/ desirable that he should take these
matters up personally.
on the second day 1 secured a con-
! ference with Chairman Burton to pre-
sent harbor matters. Mr.. Burton told
me frankly in the beginning that har-
Dor surveys would be all that we could
secure at this session; however after
a full statement of our case by myself
and Mr.. Mcclellan, the chairman con-
ceded that our case was a special one
q and promised to see whether he could
shape a special bill to care for our
needs without throwing down the bars
to a score of other claimants.
I at once followed this up with a
personal presentation of the matter to
individual members of the committe,
followed by a letter to each Of them
giving facts, statistics and a concise
summary of the special claims of Ho7
nolulu harbor. 1 also called on Cen
eral Mackenzie at the War Department
and secured from him a statement of
the complete data available from the
Board of Engineers. 1 had already,
while in San Francisco, enlisted the
cooperation of the San Francisco
Chamber of Commerce, and a petition
was promptly forwarded by them to
each member of the California dele
cation, and presented to the commit
tee.
AS a result of all the work done, 1
finally secured from chairman Burton
on December 18th the necessary spe-
cial request, addressed to General
Mackenzie chief of Engineers, that the
data in the Honolulu office of the
Engineering Board be cabled for, and
it is now here ready for the commit
tee.
Today I was requested by Chairman
Burton to furnish him draft of a Sec
ton for insertion in the River ano
Harbor bill, covering the survey fol-
Hilo Harbor breakwater and was
given assurance of its inclusion in the
original bill.
In the matter of an appropriation fol-
leprosy study at the request of the
Honolulu Board of Health / delayed
action until the receipt of their petit
ton 1 then saw Surgeon General
Wyman, who took the matter up witt
commendable interest; he felt that the
best chance for the passage of bill
would be through treating it as a ma.
tional, rather than as an Hawaiian
measure, and it was consequently ar.
ranged to have it introduced by the
chairman of the committee that viii
, report on the same.
AS 1 am more interested in getting
relief for Hawaiian lepers than 1 an
in getting political prestige out of thu
, measure, l cheerfully waived my RICH
to introduce and press my own bill
and shall cooperate in securing tn
passage of Chairman Hepburn's mea
sure.
A bill for the repayment to tn
HTerrtory of the funds expended in har
Dor improvements and light hous
maintenance has been introduced an
an effort has also been made by me {
secure an appropriation covering tn
Territorial Legislatures expenses.
In the matter of public buildings,
So 8. g..