The Hawaiian gazette., 1907-06-25
MR.. PROSSER
HOME AGAIN

| the transport trook. sunday, and wa
greeted with the information on land
ing that the wallach case, which he Il
to try, was set for this morning at IL
o 'clock.
"The first earthquake occurred in
the night" " says Prosser. "It was dis
tinct and no mistaking. 1t almost
shook me out of bed. The second one
was about 10 o'clock in the morning
There was no mistaking that either
You could feel the house rising and
falling, and cracking in q thousand
places. But it doesn't feaze those San
Franciscans. Within ten minutes l was
assured it wasn't an earthquake, but
an explosion of the Santa Clara powder
works.
"One of the stories 1 heard in con-
nection with this earthquake was that
real estate broker was just closing
the sale of house at Palo Alto to an
easterner when the earthquake oc-
CURED. OF course there was no hope
Of getting the mans money if the
impression remained on his mind that
it was an earthquake. The broker was
equal to the occasion. 'That must have
been an explosion of the powder works, ,
he said, and went at once to the tele-
phone. He pretended to call up some
one and as if repeating what he heard
over the phone said, Explosion of the
Santa Clara powder works, ehi Don It
know how many hurt, but feared it
is great many. That's too bad; any
thing can do' Sending physicians
and nurses there, ehf Rumor that
thirty-six were killed. Isn't it awful''
and a lot more like that, and, on the
strength of the impression he created,
he completed the deal. can't vouch
for the story but it sounds just like
they talk in San Francisco.
"In Washington I had talk with
Assistant Attorney General Hoyt about
the cases now before the Supreme Court
in which the Territory is interested
There are several of them, among them
the case involving the taxation of the
franchise of the Rapid Transit Rail
way. Assistant Attorney General Hoyt
said that he thought the Territory had
pursued a very niggardly policy in
the past in regard to appeals, with
disadvantage to it's own interests. His
theory in erect is, that if a case is
important enough to appeal, it is i'm
portant enough to spend the necessary
money to have it properly presented.
His idea is either that we ought to
hire capable attorneys in Washington
to properly present the matter, or else
send some one from Hawaii to do it.
His idea was that the latter was pre-
ferable. In a case from the Terri
tory before the Supreme Court he said,
we don't need to bother about pre-
senting the law. The Justices of the
Supreme Court know all the law there
is. But what is needed is some one
to present the facts as they have arisen
out of local conditions; someone who
can tell them story of the case, why
it arose at all. Hoyt said that if we
had had some one to present the La
hainaluna case in this way the Terri
tory would have won it. The Laha-
inaluna case was decided the day be-
fore I got to Washington.
81 expected to be admitted to prac-
tice before the Supreme Court, but the
court adjourned the day before l got
there, for two weeks, and 1 had left
,efore that. made arrangements with
Mr.. Hoyt to look out for all the eases
n which we are interested until we
IAN make arrangements for their pre-
,entation.
81 had a splendid trip. The spring
us from the time we landed
n San Francisco until we left. There
vas only one day on which / did not
wear my overcoat. When / first got
o the Coast i made coaching trip
through northern California. / was
here in the season when God paints
lis own colors in the vegetation and
appearance of that region. We went
asst by way of New Orleans and then
Up to the jamestown Exposition, and
and TO New York. We
anne back by way of Niagara Falls
md the Denver and Rio Grande Rail
way / saw the Royal Gorge as it is
seen not more than once in
thousand years. Just as we passed
nut of it the full moon, big.orbed, rose
light out of the Gorge. 1t was
wonderful sight.
"While in San Francisco awaiting
ny steamer I argued the ease Of the
United States against Merriam In the
fnited states Court Of Appeals. There
as been no decision yet, We had n
most enjoyable trip"