The Hawaiian gazette., 1906-06-19
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lecior Of Customs Stackatle l. hoie. d
guest at the Raleigh. lie l. accom,
panied by Mr.. Fraser. Since his arrival
Mr.. stackahlc has been aged in
looking over the situation and also In
attending to business before the Treas
ury Department rs woll ~ before the
Department of Commerce and Labor.
His stay here depends very largely
upon the fate of the Immigration
kill now pending before the House.
1t is improbable that he will
leave on his mission to the Azores until
there is something definite about the
immigration bill. If he leaves Wash.
ington before that time, 10 will be to
90 to New York, whore 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
passed the Senate recently with the
Lodge educational test, struck out all
after the enacting clause and substi.
tuted its own bill, which is known rs
the Gardner bill. That is not nccessar-
lily conclusive that the Dillingham; bill
will pass the House unamended But it
is known that the Dillingham; bill is less
offensive to Speaker Cannon than the
Gardner bill. The Gardner bill, it
should be remembered, is the measure
that Hawaii wants, simply because it
contains, in addition to the Lodge edu-
cptional test provision that exempts
all the insular territories from educa-
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 let big bunch of measures go
through with a rush and that it will be
nj Il tn
cation of the Dillingham; bill.
There has been but little else doing
here in the last three days with refer
ence to Hawaiian matters. The Sun
dry Civil bill, just reported to the
House, contains an item for 10000 for
Federal law library, which, as told in
my last letter, is due to the good eff
forts of Col. w. p Hepburn, of Iowa.
Col. Hepburn s testimony on the neces-
sity of that appropriation, as delivered
before the House Appropriation Com
mittee, Mr.. Tawney, Chairman, has
been made public. 1t is as follows:
Mr.. Hepburn. Mr.. Chairman and
gentlemen, when / was I'm Honolulu
last SUMNER was there some seven
or eight weeks--I got pretty well ac-
quainted with the bar and the judges
there, and found that they were very
much embarrassed and suffered very
great distress from the fact that they
had no law books, no library
You remember that was foreign
country until quite recently.
There is not a good library in the
whole islands. The nearest approach
to IT is the private library of the late
Judges Estee. He took that with him
when he went there. II is old, how
ever, ana IL has not been well kept up.
1t is the basis of a good library. but
1t needs good many of the later re-
ports
Judge Dole talked with me about the
matter and urged me to see II | could
not help them before this committee,
and asked me to appear before the
committee. Since l got back / received
a letter from him. / went to the At
torney General with that letter, and
had conversation with him. and he
wrote me, or rather he wrote TO the
chairman of this committee and in
trusted the letter to me to present to
the committee. asking that am appro-
priation of $4,000 might be made to as
sist In this matter.
He says that 1t will not be a prece-
dent, he thinks, because of the very
great difference there Is between the
out there and the conditions
surrounding ordinary judges. although
the many reports of the Supreme Court
and Statutes are furnished to all the
judges.
The Chairman. They also furnish
The Federal Reporter. do they not?
Mr. Hepburn. | am not sure about
that but | think, gentlemen, this
would be wise expenditure.
Mr.. Smith How much Is IL proposed
20 expend?
Mr.. Hepburn. Ten thousand dollars
y the suggestion In the letter OF the
AttOrney General
II You viii permit me. Mr.. Chair
nan, | VIII just hand you these let
ers.
The Chairman. Just leave them here
ma ! VIII Insert them la the hearing.
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