The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1906-06-18
STACKABL.E
KEPT BUSY
Hepburn's Good Work
for Federal Law
Library.
(Mail Special to the Advertiser.)

1dll Specldi TO the auFeFtISer.(
WASHINGTON, D. c., June 1.-Col
lector of Customs Stackable is here, 8
guest at the Raleigh. He is accom-
panied by Mr.. Fraser. Since his arrival
Mr.. Stackable has been engaged in
looking over the situation and also in
attending to business before the Treas
ury Department as well as before the
Department of Commerce and Labor.
His stay here depends very largely
upon the fate of the Immigration
bill now pending before the House.
1t is improbable that he will
leave on his mission 10 the Azores until
there is something definite about the
immigration bill. IF he leaves Wash
ington before that time, it viii be to
go to New York, where he also has
some affairs demanding attention.
Nothing very definite can be told at
this time about the immigration bill
The House Committee on Immigration
has taken the Dillingham; bill, which
passed the Senate recently with the
Lodge educational test, struck out all
after the enaeting clause and substi-
Suited its own bill, which is known as
the Gardner bill That is not necessar-
ily conclusive that the Dillingham; bill
viii pass the House unamended. But it
As known that the Dillingham; bill is less
offensive to Speaker Cannon than the
-shouId be remembered, is the measure
that Hawaii wants, simply because it
contains, in addition to the Lodge edu-
cational test a provision that exempts
tional requirements in the admission of
immigrants.
Speaker Cannon is against the edu-
cational test. but whether the Dilling-
ham bill can be modified by an amend |
ment that will exempt Hawaii is the |
question. 1t may happen that no immi- |
grafton. bill will pass at this session of |
Congress Speaker Cannon may hold it |
up to the very last.
The chief danger for the Hawaiian !
Islands, however, is that the Speaker /
during the last week of the session,
will Jet big bunch of measures 60
through with rush and that it will be
exceedingly difficult to get a modifi-
cation of the Dillingham; bill.
There has been but little else doing
here in the last three days with refer
enee to Hawaiian matters. The Sun
dry Civil bill, just reported to the
House, contains an item for $4,000 for
a Federal law. library, which, as told in
my last letter. is due to the good eff
forts of Col. ". P. Hepburn, of Iowa.
Col Hepburn s testimony on the neees-
sity of that appropriation, as delivered !
before the House Appropriation Com
eittee, Mr.. Tawney, Chairman, has i
been made public. 1t is as follows:
gentlemen, when 1 was in Honolulu {
l eight weeks-I got pretty well ac I
Iuainted with the bar and the judges /
here, and I found that they We're very 6
much embarrassed and suffered very q
.reat distress from the fact that they ]
lad no law books. no library. 7
You remember that was "a foreign a
ountry until quite recently.
There is not good library in the I
yhoie islands The nearest approach 5
o it is the private library of the late 2
Judges Estee. He took that with him II
5hen he went there. 1t is old, how l
YER and il has not been well kept up. o
t is the basis of a good library. but
needs good many of the later re- a
orts. a
Judge Dole talked with me about the j
latter and urged me 10 see if 1 could h
OF help them before this committee, v
nd asked me to appear before the fl
ommittee. Since / got back I received fl
letter from him. L went to the At to
)rney General with that letter, and al
ad q conversation with him. and he d.
rote me. or rather he wrote to the w
lairnan of this committee and in I
'uasted the letter to me TO present to W
,e~conmittee. asking that an appro- pC
ration of $4,000 might be made to as m
81 n his matter. pc
He says that it Will not be a prece-
snt. he thinks. because of the very pa
eat difference there is between the til
out there and the conditions of
rroundne ordinary judges, although tn
e L.arlv reports of the supreme Court
ld~Statutes are furnished to all the sa
dges tiT
The Chairman. They also furnish to
e Federal Reporter. do they not? a0
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