The Hawaiian gazette., 1906-04-06
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WASHINGTON, d. c., March "a
The legislative appropriation bill, which
the National House has been fighting
fiercely over for a week contains a pro
vision of $4,000 for the expenses OF
the legislature of Hawaii. Apparently
this clause will weather the storm on
that measure, for no one has yet up
dertaken to have it stricken out. Along
with the appropriation goes provision
that there shall be no extra compensa-
tion voted to the members of the ter
ritorial legislature and that there shall
be no extension of the term of the ses-
sion. This was inserted to prevent the
extra session evil and with "A hope of
squirting the territorial lawmakers to
pass the appropriation bills within the
time specified for the regular session.
Mr.. George b. Mcclellan took this
matter up with the Appropriations COM
mittee last fall, soon after he came here
and it is very largely due to his eff
forts that the appropriation was put in
the BILL
NO PUBLIC BUILDING LIKELY.
Delegate Kalanianaole and Mr.. Nc
Clellan appeared recently before the
House Committee on public buildings
and grounds to argue for an approprla-
tion for Hawaii. Chairman Bartholdt
told them at the very start it was not
proposed to appropriate any money for
buildings in the territories and accord
ingly that it was as good as futile to
argue for Honolulu. Still, the commit
tee would be glad to hear something
about the needs of the territorial cap
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asked for 100000 for the purchase of
a site. Mr. Mcclellan said today that
three members of the committee have
since said they favored voting that
amount and that there is some hope of
getting it into the omnibus bill.
On the other hand it is much doubted
whether-when the time comes to scale
down the bill and to drop out as many
projects as possible to make money for
other projects, backed by political con-
derations-Honolulu will not be for
gotten entirely. If an appropriation
for site is secured it will be quite
surprise to those working in behalf of
the Honolulu project.
Chairman Driscoll, of Elections Com
mittee No. 3, has the report in the con-
test between Curtis Iaukea and Dele
gate Kalanianaole all "signed up but
it has not been presented yet to the
House. The committee has been giving
most of it's attention to an election
contest from Texas and accordingly the
Hawaiian contest has received almost
no attention, because of its compare
tive lack of Importance.
THE SEGREGATION BILL.
Representative Cole, of Ohio, chair
man of the subcommittee which has the
segregation bill in charge, is proving to
be its most enthusiastic supporter. The
real trouble with the situation, from
the Hawaiian standpoint, is that all
the enthusiasm is with the opposition.
Most of those for the bill are for it in
a half hearted way and that sort of
support never accomplishes anything
in Congress.
A leading member of the committee
said today that he was satisfied the
Speaker had decided to keep hands off
the committee and allow it to come
out of there with a favorable report,
provided it can command majority
vote Representative Serene f. Payne,
chairman of Ways and Means says he
is still opposed but there are indica-
tions that he is not as aggressive about
it as he formerly was. There are rea-
sons for believing that Col. "Pete'
Hepburn worked quite as effectively
with Mr.. Payne as he did with Mr..
Cannon. Had it not been for Col. Hep
burn the bill probably would have died
in committee pigeon-hole. The peo
pie of Hawaii owe Col Hepburn great
deal for the earnestness with which he
has worked for this legislation. 1t is
very rare indeed that he puts his
shoulder to the wheel as vigorously for
any House measure as he has been do
ing for the Hawaiian segregation bill.
But it seems that about all Col. Hep
burn or anybody else can do with the
House is to remove the aggressive OPP
position. Members are very sceptical
about the principle of putting some of
the money in the Treasury away in a
separate bin, as Chairman Hamilton
recently expressed it. They admit that
the extremities of the Hawaiian gov
eminent are great and that there is as
good excuse as could be imagined for
passing such a bill now. But there is
reaction of feeling towards the in
sular governments, just at present,
growing out of the popular dissatisfac-
tion with the Philippines and Hawaii
and Porto Rico suffer on that account.
UNEASY POLITICIANS.
Great uneasiness exists in Congress,
including both branches, over men s
chances of reelection. This does not
include Democrats, as a rule, because
Democrats now IL Senate and House
practically all come from the South and
there is no indication of an overturn-
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