The Hawaiian gazette., 1906-01-09
STATEHOOD BILL
TO PRECEDE OUR
OWN MEASURE
fMail Special to the Advertiser.)


WASHINGTON, D. c., Dec. 25.-
Nearly all the Honolulans, in Washing
ton for the season of Congress, are
staying in town over the holidays.
The interim is only about ten days in
duration and there is enough to do IN
preparation for the events after the
New Year to keep them occupied. Ex-
Minister and Mrs. +. M. Hatch are get
ting well settled in their new residence
at 1907 / street, where Mrs. Hatch has
Just come after a visit in New York.
They are delightfully."- located. Dele
gate Kalanianaole is staying at the
Dewey over the holidays and does not
plan to leave Washington before Con-
gress assemblies again. Secretary
George B. Mcclellan, of the Mer-
chants Association, is staying at the
Cumberland, where Mrs. Mcclellan is
slowly recovering from typhoid fever.
Secretary Atkinson is still away on his
mission to New York.
Judge Hatch said today that he ex-
pected the Philippine Tariff Bill to
pass. "I see no opposition in the
House that can prevent its enact
ment,n he remarked. 81 suppose the
Philippines Committee of the Senate,
with Mr.. Lodge as its chairman, will
act quickly and favorably when the
bill reaches that end of the Capitol. !"
He indicated that, under all the circum-
stances, little could be done towards
. defeating the measure.
THE REFUNDING BILL.
| He has cooperated with all his pow
ers to help along the rs per cent. re-
| funding measure, which Secretary Nc
Clellan and Delegate Kalanianaole pre-
; pared. "Nothing can be done with
that" added Judge Hatch, Gin the
e Territories Committee for a few weeks
! yet. The statehood bill has the right
2 of way there and we shall have to wait
5 till that bill is out of the way, before
we can get a hearing. / have not
heard yet of any pronounced opposi'
( tion to the Presidents Is recommenda.
tion among members of Congress, but
D have been too busy with matters
0 pressing for immediate consideration,
i to sound sentiment very extensively.
$ All those interested in the measure are
e concerned over the attitude of EX-Gov
e Llewellyn Powers, of Maine, a mem
t ber of the Territories Committee, with
! out whose support no important meas
o ure can get out of the committee anC
= COlHHlduu sOllu ouppuII Oh lhe NUN VI
= the House. Gov. Powers is now il
It Maine but expects to return in about {
y week. He has not yet indicated how
re he will stand on the refunding propo
IS stion.
J. Secretary Mcclellan said today tina
h he had received two cablegrams, o
'r late, from the Merchants Associatio
e of Honolulu, regarding the refundin
lie bill and inquiring how late the hearing
l. could be deferred. He has advised tn
N Association that the hearing could b.
n had about February /. Besides th
?, statehood the Territories Committe
It has to consider the Alaska Railroad
h Bill, which has the right of way in tn
'e committee over the Hawaiian refund
1t ing bill.
LIGHTHOUSE BILLS.
The House Committee on Interstat
and Foreign Commerce has reported fla
forably two lighthouse bills that tn
Hawaiian delegate introduced. One o
them carries an appropriation of $40,
R 600 for a lighthouse in Honolulu har
II bor and is made an emergency measur
~ because of the removal of the point ol
which the present light is placed b.
the dredging operations now in prog
Ie ress. The other carries an appropria
A. tion of 100000 for light on Makapul
d Point. The Delegate hopes to get tina
l. through with the emergency bill an
e the favorable action of the Interstat
n Commerce Committee justifies him i
II that hope.
,e HAWAIIAN CONTRACTS.
N During the hearing before the Ser
ate Committee on Appropriations som
r DAYS ago, with reference to, the Cana
,t Appropriation, Senator Perkins, of Ca
le ifornia, brought out as n digressio
as some testimony about the Hawaiia
Commercial Steamship Company an
p its contracts for shipments of Hawaiia
,r crops. The following from the offici;
+ report of the testimony confirms n
NJ ports that have been in circulation:
r Senator Perkins.-It is reported as
r fact that the Hawaiian Commerci;
m Steamship Company has made a cor
" tract with the Mexican Government G
NJ the Mexican Central Railroad, opera
ng ing via Tehuantepec, for all the crop
n of the Hawaiian Islands for the neS
a two years, because, they said, the
sh were unable to make as advantageor
as. contract with you. OF course it
of not germane to this question, but
ar should like for you to say wheth,
re there is any truth in that statement.
I Mr.. Shonts.-lt was done before
" had anything to do with the matte
e AS the Secretary said, the old facil
ties of the Panama Railroad Compan
on if they were in good condition, while
zee they were not, were inadequate for Il
n business. SO when the commerce
he business increased, as it did for val
d. Gus reasons, 80 per cent, and then {
nut top of that came all the supplies f
a the Commission, they were swampe
dy The old company had not spent dc
,ii, lar on docks, equipment, or engines 4
tic twenty five years. We have had, Wi
lie this congestion in freight, TO
IN through the sweat of clearing up wi
ext those facilities-we are now clearil
II up-and at the same time to impro'
are the facilities SO that we can take
in more business and handle il economi
ally and promptly That, | presun
was the condition which confronted /
people when the question was up,
though IL was before my time.
sr- Secretary Taft.-The order from I
on President is that there shall be no q