The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1906-08-03

lthe situation h. | told how ih
missionaries hnd come to Hawaii an
brought civilization with them, how W
had our own little government an
the disbursing Of our own rcyenus
which nj n single stroke had been cu
"a one.third by the United States
After left the fight was taken up b,
Representative Ro1cnberg and the np
preparation made.
~ also called on the committee tc
I explain the need Of lighthouse in th'
Z Honolulu harbor. The committee wal
| in favor Of the one on Makapuu Point
but not the other and ! had to do q
lot Of talking and running around to
get the vote through. Representatives
Mann and Collins, my personal friends,
made this possible in spite Of opposi.
tion.
THOUGHT WE WERE GRATING.
ar had been told that the War De.
partment meant to turn down the rec.
concentrations to secure fortifcation
sites here because they thought that
the people here were trying to get more
for their lands than they were worth,
but explained that the Federal gov
ernment had already taken much OF
our best agricultural lands and that the
sites they had picked out were valua-
BILE and worth all that had been asked.
81 had five minute talk with the
committee and secured the passage of
the 100000 appropriation. At first it
was desired to put this in with the
vote for the Philippines, but / was
afraid that Secretary of War Taft
would spend it all there if this were
done, so had it voted separately"
EXTRA SESSION GRAFT BARRED.
The Delegate said that he hesitated
about recommending the appropriation
for legislative expense here because of
the extra session graft, but he hoped
that the people here had outgrown that.
The Advertiser had said that he was
in favor of the extra session, but when
the bill was passed and it was seen
that there was no extra session money
the Advertiser had changed its tune.
The Advertiser took comfort out of the
idea that there was no vote for the
translation of the legislative papers,
but it was wrong. The vote included
the cost of translations.
HILO HAS BETTER SHOW
For the Honolulu Federal building
site there had been a vote of $l50,0OO.
The site at Hilo cost nothing, but hav-
ing the site already Ililo stood the
chance of having its building first.
The delegate then told of how he
had surrendered his seat to Represen-
tative Dalzell and the impression this
had made on the other Congressman.
CHANGED LAND LAWS.
He was asked if in the event of his
reelection he would advocate bill
whereby the right would be taken away
from the Territorial authorities to al
low a landholder to exchange land on
one island for land on another.
Speaking politically, he said that he
would, but he had no hope of ever
getting such bill passed.
PRAISED THE DELEGATE.
w. o. Smith, one of the trustees of
the Kamehameha schools, was the last
speaker. He spoke at length of the
great respect in which the delegate was
held in Washington as gentleman and
n legislator. He said that he could |
appreciate the desire of the Hawai- |
ians to be represented by Hawaiian,
and promised that as long as they put
up one of themselves as competent as
Kuhio he would vote with them for
him. But he would not vote for an
incompetent Hawaiian, nor an incom-
petent white man.
He regretted to see so many Ha-
waiians following the Home Rule par
ty, a party which would never be able
to accomplish anything at Washing
ton, where they had no use for third
party, |