The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1906-01-11

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/ paragraph 273 and override the protest
Representative Butler Of Pennsyl-
vania has introduced II the House a
biz appropriating $4,000 to I'll in the
United States quarantine station at
Honolulu, Hawaii
WASHINGTON RUSHING.
To borrow a rural phrase this has
been a might forward season Every
thing Is on the rush. a month before
the winter was due. the official pro-
caedings and unofficial proceedings
that belong 10 winter were in full
swing. That has been true Of matters
mundane from politics 10 society
Probably II is entirely correct 10 say
that this is largely due 70 the energy
Of the President
For instance. Washington has always
been socially dull til after New Years
Big official dinners were unheard of till
after the long line of visitors had
crowded within the White House with
the beginning Of 1906. This year theI
President and Mrs. Roosevelt werei
giving official dinners early in Decem-
Der. All the other dinner givers Of
Washington followed suit The feet Of |
merry dancers were started in Del
cember. where heretofore they havei
been stin TIL January.
Then there was Congress. Both
houses generally pursue a very even
way til after the holidays A scrap
in either branch or an outbreak among
the majority members has been almost
an inapossibility til month or more
OF the session has passed This year
there Were scraps a plenty in both
branches and II began to look like
an advanced period Of the session, when
men were getting tired cut with
and delays. But the
President was largely responsible for
that IN injecting Panama canal appro-
matters into The Congressional situa-
ton.
The holiday recess this year is for
two full weeks. which is a trife longer
than usual Some think that there will
oe an ample tine for all concerned TO
cool down, but that remains 10 be seen.
The elements Of trouble still exist. But
everybody who has been going it SO
fast whether IN legislation or germans.
s wondering how long the rapid paceI
an be kept up. Statesmen as well as
society devotees may become very worn
before Lent comes.
There has been and viii continue 70
- large influx Of visitors IN Wash
ngton- Great doings in Washington
always attract multitudes from the
7taVes and territories. The visitors are :
,0uing from every section. The names
N he hotel registers are Of people
rom Maine and every locality al The :
way across the Continent, as wen as
rom Honolulu and the Philippines.
Many come for pleasure. as the tourist
contingent is very large. But the in
.reasing magnitude Of the govern
nent's operations brings people also
II business before the departments, 7
before Congress, and with the Presi- !
lent AL this increases the cosmo- I
'olitan character Of the city's popula-
ion during the winter months
Il does nor yet appear just how the
all VII be started in House and Sen
te next week Speaker Cannon is in =
ornething OF q quandary whether ID
ght out The battle Of statehood first
= take up the Philippine tariff bill
both viii be ready for consideration
the Speaker and his ueuten-
MS VIII decide 70 move along the line
: least resistance and take up that
III which, as things appear when the
assi0n is resumed, can BE- pass
j with the Least friction within the
epUblican majority.
PUBLIC BUILDING BILLS
One very interesting subject viii
7ue 70 the front soon in the House.
hat Is the matter o. public building
lis. Speaker Cannon has indicated
nee Congress adjourned that ne can
u see how al omnibus public build