The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1906-01-22

Harvard medical School.
DIR. Brinckerhoff is a tall, slender
young man, who does not look his years.
He is modest in the extreme of diff
dence, and especially 10th to have his
achievements known outside the circle
of his medical friends.
THE PHILIPPINE BILL.
There have been unexpected develop
ments in the House over the Philippine
tariff bill. Insurgent Republicans have
organized a revolt against it and the
joint statehood bill, which causes
Uncle Joe' Cannon to pause and con-
slider. The revolt is not so much
against the Philippine tariff as against
the two-statehood bill, but the Republi-
can opponents of both have combined.
There is said to be about 20 Repubh-
cans who would like to defeat she
Philippine tariff. The plan is to join
the Democrats in voting an amend
ment upon the bill to abolish the sugar
differential, which, it is reasoned,
would defeat the measure, just as the
Cuban reciprocity bill was defeated a
few years ago. The initial fight on
statehood was to have been made to-
day, when the plan was, on the Speak
er s part, to have rule offered for the
consideration of the statehood bill byt
which amendments would be impossible. !
However, realizing the Importance OF |
the revolt and that the House organiza- |
tion would be overturned, Speaker Can
non decided to delay consideration of |
the statehood bill and it is probable |
now that it will not be taken up for a /
week and till after the Philippine bill |
has been disposed of. Meanwhile Mr.. |
Cannon is cracking the whip over the
Ioa e a1a.4
to forcing them into line and, because
of the large Republican ma jority in the |
House, he is likely to succeed. He and
his Heutenants are predicting todayl
that the Philippine bill will surely pass
and that if the amendment to abolish
the sugar differential is carried it win |
not seriously embarrass him, as, when
the bill comes back from the Senate
without that amendment, he can force
the Democrats to straight vote on the
and they will not dare to vote
against it.
RAILWAY RATE BILL.
Apparently little or no progress is
being made towards framing a railway ,
rate bill. The Senate Committee on
Interstate Commerce is doing nothing.
Its meetings are being held only onceI
a week and then there is sometimes less
than a quorum of members present.
The House Committee is doing a little
work and it has been charged that the
opposition is playing waiting game.
That is the situation on the surface.
As a matter of fact considerable is be-
ng accomplished, but it may not be al
ogether in the direction advocates of
good stiff bill would wish. There
lave been numerous conferences in an s
fo :; louiS1a%ior, / :
These conferences are very secret but :
re continuing every few days. Sena-
ors of different factions are meeting
ogether. They are also meeting with @
Attorney General Moody and with i
PRESIDENT Roosevelt Several experts 4
n railroad matters are here. 1t is un-
erstood that Maxwell Evarts has been
sked to help draw railroad bill. o
The stoutest opponents of rate regul s
ltion have yielded to provision that Il
hall bestow rate making power 1,pon .
n Interstate Commerce Commission.
hat was the first step of Importance.
he next step of Importance was a coI- d
ession by the President, in that he D
to abandon his demand for q
over to fix a minimum rate. 1t can :
ow be stated authoritatively that the ;"
Ill as it finally passes the Senate, plsoi p
1t nnaily passes congress, Will con- W
lin nothing about a minimum rate. h
ecause of some confusion among she !,
resident s friends-after he had made "
us concession in the interest of party u
to what he would md til
ould not favor, the railroad interes1s fiji
a belief that there would
: a serious split in the ranks of the cl
resident S supporters. T.
So well are the efforts to "arrange' be
bill proceeding that it is now declared tn
2 Senators best competent to judge in
at there will be no fight over the mi
aasure at that end of the Capitol 4 hi
al remains TO be done and some seri- ca
S bitches may occur. But the spir.t an
compromise was never stronger or ex
th sides of the question and, in spite in
the apparent inactivity, men, who re
joy the confidence of the administra- fo
IN. say the situation is hopeful. 1t Iii
e Senate can ''arrange' a bill, The be
is that it may be rapidly no
shed through both houses but Ihat M
Il not happen, if at all, before some tn
ne next February and it may be even ro
er. ERNEST G.. WALKER. ar