The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1907-10-25
CHAMbERLA|N'S
NEW POSITION

(Mail Special 10 the AdVertlseF'l
WASHINGTON, D. c., October H.
Internal Revenue Commissioner Johi
G. Capers said today he had not ye'
taken up the matter of a successor Il
Collector Roy H. Chamberlain at Ho
nolulu. 81 know that Mr.. Chamber
lain has strongly recommended the ap-
pointment of his deputy, Walter F,
Drake said Mr.. Capers. ''He told me
that Drake was a capable man and
well qualified in every particular TO
assume the office. y
As Commissioner Capers has been
away on a ten days vacation, he has
had no opportunity to consider the ap-
pointment. The absence of President
Roosevelt from Washington assures con-
siderable delay in closing the case. CT
course, the President will have the final
word about the appointment, but the
papers will hardly be forwarded to him
in the South for action. Mr.. Capers
extended Mr.. Chamberlain s leave sew
eral times in the hope that meanwhile
Mrs. Chamberlain health would i'm
prove so that the family could return
TO Honolulu.
Mr.. Chamberlain has already gone
west on a mission connected with the
Department of Commerce and Labor.
1t is understood that he has been ap-
pointed special agent. He regretted
very much that he could not 60 back
10 Honolulu and continue to live among
people who were very congenial to him.
This sentiment was shared by Mrs.
Chamberlain and also by the boys. The
latter are now attending the District
of Columbia schools.
THE TERRITORIAL LOAN.
Treasurer Campbell has completed
the necessary arrangements for the is
sue of approximately s3O0,OOO territori-
al bonds. 1t is understood the seeuri-
ties have already reached New York or
are about to reach there. He has kept
in touch with Cashier Peck, of the
First National Bank, which institution
is to take over the bonds. Mr.. Peck
has been to Richmond, Va, attending
the convention of Episeopalians.
The Attorney General, Mr.. Bona
parte, has rendered two opinions of
late about the shipment of coal for the
navy in foreign vessels from one Amer
lean port to another American port,
which preclude any possibility of diff
Guilty when similar shipments, now on
the seas, reach Honolulu. Mr.. Bona
parte holds that such shipments are
not in violation of the coastwise laws,
as has been claimed, and in another
opinion holds that light and port dues
can not be collected on such shipments
TO the extent of a dollar per ton on
the cargo. The Attorney Generals at
titude is far from satisfactory to ship
ping interests here but the opinions
which he has handed down will be the
last word on the subject till Congress
changes the law of 1904, by which
a discretion is placed in the Presi-
dents hand with reference to the
shipment of army and navy supplies.
THE DEPORTED PEOPLE.
Commissioner General Sargent has re-
eeived from Immigrant Inspector r. C.
Brown, stationed at Honolulu, the
formal papers deporting % Spaniards
and 10 Portuguese who were brought
over by the Territorial immigration
Committee. These papers were prompt
ly approved by the Commissioner Cen
eral including provisions for the trans
portation of the immigrants, afflicted
with traeht ma, back to Funchal and
Malaga.
Former Governor Carter's annual re-
port. which reached the Interior De-
partment a few weeks ago, having been
submitted shortly before Mr.. Carter
stepped out of office, has been put into
type at the Government Printing Office
1t will probably be made public with
in a few weeks.
PEARL HARBOR.
George B. Mcclellan has taken the
Matter of extensively improving Pearl
Harbor 10 Secretary of the Navy Met
calf but is able to secure no satisfae-
tory assurance as to whether the Secre-
tary's attitude will be favorable. Navy
officers will recommend an estimate for