The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1905-01-19
KaIanianaOI0
And The Work At
Washington
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personal letter has been sent to each
member of the committee, covered the
needs and claims of both Honolulu
and Hilo, and a hearing will be had as
soon as public building bill is de-
termined upon
After Mr. Young decided to offer
his building for sale, not having any
expression of opinion from Honolulu to
guide me, l consulted with Chairman
Gillett of the Committee on Public
Buildings' Mr. Gillett thought that the
probabilities Of such a building being
accepted We're very slight, and advised
that / introduce Mr.. Young's bill "by
request only. Not wishing to i'm
peril my own public building bill told
Mr.. Young that preferred to introduce
his bill as a request measure but he
chose to have it introduced on its me-
rits by another member.
l secured an interview for Mr.. Young
with Chairman Gilett, and have
thrown no obstacles in his way; but I
have followed a consistent course to
keep the interests of Honolulu para
mount to those of Mr.. Young, and to
do nothing to prejudice our request for
a federal building for Honolulu,
1 have held the Honolulu harbor mat
ter as of first Importance, and bent
every energy to that measure. The
cooperation of all who have helped in
the effort to secure special action
necessary to get Honolulu harbor into
the appropriation bill this year has
been appreciated; but the matter has
In rnH
easy to be defeated by any confusion
in handling.
Secretary Atkinson is very anxious to
help the cause; but one of his first acts
since returning from New York was,
without consulting me, to go to the
Secretary of War and ask him to do
what the War Department had just
completed doing. Secretary Taft not
being personally familiar with the
matter consented and at once passed
the order down to his subordinates;
the natural result at the War Depart
ment will be confusion, and dissatis-
faction and distrust of Hawaii's men
and methods.
If had broken into Secretary Atkin-
sons bond negotiations in the same
1
would have justly criticized me.
1 chose Mr.. Mcclellan as my secre-
tary with the approval of both the
commercial organizations of Honolulu;
we have worked Systematically for
the securing of this difficult harbor le-
gislation, and his services have been
very satisfactory After the first con-
ference with Mr.. Burton he told his
secretary that our statement was one
of the strongest non-techinacal pre-
sensations of new harbor project
that had ever been made before him,
1t is nauseating to have to quote such
personal matters as these, but it seems
necessary i'm order to show that my Sc
cretary and myself are really able tc
intelligently present measures in Con-
gress
l do not claim all the credit for Sc
curing the special order from Mr.. Bur,
ton, but if it had been induced by Mr.
Atkinson's efforts. it would naturally
have come when he saw him last il
November instead of two weeks after
Mr.. Atkinson had left the city.
l appreciate the help of every citi
zen of Hawaii who will cooperate il
a definite plan of work here at tn,
capital. But for individual men il
Honolulu to maintain Secretary Akin
son or any one else here by the montl
as an Independent worker can leaC
only to confusion and injury to Ha
, waits interests.
Very truly yours,
j. KALANIANAOLE
Delegate to Congress.