The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1905-07-07
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their confidence. II was stated today
that whatever action President Roos-
eyelt takes in naming Governor Oar
ter g successor, he will be largely guild;
ed by what Gov. Carter himself rec
ommends. If the Governor Is not re-
appointed he will probably, in effect,
name the man who succeeds him. And,
because of President Roosevelt's adj
miration for the young governor the
latter will likely remain strong in
fluence with the administration in
shaping Hawaiian affairs, as far as
that task falls to the President.
MCCLELLAN IN TOWN.
Mr.. George B. Mcclellan, secretary
to Delegate Kalanianaole, arrived here
yesterday and registered at the Dewey
Hotel. He came by way of the South
ern Pacific, leaving his wife in New
Mexico, where she is visiting friends.
As is known in Honolulu, he came to
secure an attorney to conduct the
delegates contest before the House Of
Representatives ana also to arrange
other matters in that connection. He
stated this afternoon that he had not
talking with two or three different at
torneys and would probably reach a
decision within two or three days.
IAUKEA's CONTEST.
While all these preliminaries are
necessary, it by no means follows that
Iaukea's contest against Kalanianaole
will be heard very soon, AS rule
the House is slow to consider election
contests and it sometimes happens that
these contests go over into the short.
or last session of a Congress. The
contest against the Delegate from Ha-
wall must first be presented before one
of the three election committees of
the House. But these committees will
hardly be named before next Christ
mas, certainly not for two or three
weeks after the next House organizes
and elects a, Speaker. 1t is equally
certain that the committee, to which
up to hear the evidence and the argu-
ments of attorneys on both sides be.
fore the beginning of the New Year,
1906, and it would not be surprising
if the consideration of the contest be.
fore the committee were postponed till
February or March of next year. As
elections Committee No. 2, Of which
Representative Olmsted, of Penn, is
chairman, considered the Hawaiian
protest from the Home Rulers at the
last session of Congress it is quite like
ly that the Speaker OF, the next House
will refer the Iaukea- Kalanianaole
contest there for consideration. 1t
might also be proper to say right here
that the chances are nine out of ten
that the House committee will find
against Iaukea. In that event, with a
House Of about 116 Republican major
ity, it is certain that the House itself
will give the contest little considera-
ton and that the vote will be over
whelming against Iaukea. Those may
sound like sweeping statements but
men who have been around the Ma
tional House with an opportunity to
observe the trying of election contests
will recognize them as true. Many a
contestant has tried to secure a larger
allowance than $4,000 for the expense
of conducting his contest, as Iaukea
may think of doing. Such efforts, from
much more influential men than Tau
kea have utterly failed. The general
policy of the House is to discourage
contests and the opinion prevails that
$4,000 is too much any way for the
expenses of the contestant. If Iaukea
pays his TRANSPORTATION from Honolulu
to Washington and back again, and
adds to that the cost of living here
three or four months, with something
for attorneys fees and for other ex-
penses, there will be deficit in his
personal exchequer before the rumpus
is over.
HONOLULU HARBoR.
Gen. Alexander Mckenzie, chief Of
engineers, said today that the award
for the Improvement Of the harbor at
Honolulu had not Deen made, as the
bids had not yet reached him. Some
days ago ne received an inquiry from
the San Francisco Bridge Company for
specifications of tile Honolulu project,
which, as planned, will eventually cost
81, $780, 900. 81 was little surprised"
said Gen. Mckenzie, "that this firm
should have written here. We have
left the matter almost entirely to the
San Francisco Office and / suppose the
specifications have been distributed
out there"
AS is undoubtedly understood in
Hawaii, the purpose of the engineer
office is to devote the appropriation
of the last Congress to digging an en-
trance to the harbor 400 feet wide and
80 feet deep and then to spend as
much of the appropriation as there is
left towards deepening the harbor
proper.
ERNEST G. WALKER.
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