The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1905-12-23
HAWAIIAN
AFFAIRS AT
WASHINGTON
The Bond lssue..-M Mr.. Hatch Takes a
House.-.kuhio Busy---Ship
Subsidy Bill.

what the membership will be. AS both
Senators Mitchell and Burton were on
that committee there will be at least
two new Republican Senators to take
their places.
Delegate Kalanianaole has been look
ing around the departments this week
and getting ready for the work of the
session. He was very lucky in the
drawing of seats the first day of the
session, being one of the first ten
names called. He chose the old seat
of Representative Dalzell, of Pennsyl-
vania. and when Mr.. Dalzell had very
bad luck, his name not being called
till one of the last, the Delegate yield
ed his seat to the Pennsylvanian and
himself went over to an obscure cor
ner of the hall.
|, The annual report of the Command
ant of Marines has the following para
graphs:
Honolulu, Hawaii.-The marines at
Honolulu are now temporarily quarter
ed in a coal shed which the Bureau of
Equipment, Navy Department, has,
under date of August IL, 1905, in
formed these headquarters will be re-
quired in the near future for the stor-
age of coal Provision must therefore
be made for a marine barracks at said
station, and to that end 100000 for it's
erection has been incorporated in the
estimates, and a further sum of $12,-
900 for the construction of officers
quarters.
Island of Guam.-The sum of $4,000
is included in the estimates for con-
struction work at this post, it being
the unexpended balance of the appro-
priation of $1s,500 which was made
available in the deficiency appropria-
tion act approved March 8, 1908, for
repairs and improvements of barracks,
quarters, and stOrehouses at said sta
tion. The necessity for the reappro-
priation of this money is due to the
fact that the Comptroller of the Treas
ury decided on February Z, 1905, that
this amount was not now available be-
cause it was placed in the digest of ap-
preparations as available during the
years 1904. This money is necessary
to make the required repairs and i'm
provements to the barracks, quarters,
etc.
THE OUTLOOK IN CONGRESS.
Old stagers in congressional life will
long look back to the first week of the
Fifty-ninth Congress. 1t started off
with a snap The leaders were crowd
ing on steam both in the Senate and
the House. The first body enacted no
legislation of note, but its committees,
although incomplete because not re-
organized, have been working. The
rate bill, foremost in consideration at
the Capitol, has been the subject of al
most daily deliberation, with the lead
ers busy trying to arrange compro-
mise bill. The House in passing the
Panama canal appropriation bill, dis
posed of a troublesome subject for the
present, but not without considerable
friction. Generally at the beginning of
a Congress, the House moves along with
great harmony, especially within the
ranks of the dominant party. Most of
the trouble over the Panama bill grew
out of the Republican opposition.
The Senate was not altogether as
quiet and harmonious as it is usually
at the beginning Of a session. The agi-
tation over the rate question has been
there and the prospects of
trouble with the Panama canal bill be-
came apparent early. Then the nomi
nation of Franklin &. Lane, of San
Francisco, to be an Interstate Com
merce Commissioner, forecasted a |
clash between the President and the
Senate Probably there will be no
clash, for the Senate leaders will find
on