The Hawaiian gazette., 1907-03-08
HARD WORK
FOR HAWAII
(Mail Special to the Advertiser.l

"Sshouse tehuer W cost SSlo,uVU, az
already announced by cable in Homo.
| lulu. The authorization was made on
the omnibus lighthouse bill, which the
conferees have. just agreed upon. 1t
was one of the nice victories of the
session for Hawaii and was due in con.
siderable part to the hard work done
with the conferees by Delegate Kalani.
anaole, Mr.. Mcclellan and others.
The item has been put on appropria-
ton bills annually for several years.
1t has often passed the Senfte. Mr..
Perkins, of California, has been the
champion of the amendment at that
end of the Capitol, but it always went
out in conference. 1t was Senator Per.
kins who had the item put on the
omnibus lighthouse bill this year and
it was supposed the amendment would
meet the same fate as several other
like amendments have. But stirring
appeals were made to the House con-
ferees who agreed to let the item stand.
While the authorization assures the
construction of the tender an appropria-
tion will first be necessary. That, how
ever, is an easy matter and there is
little doubt that an appropriation will
be voted before the close of this ses-
sion. The people of Honolulu and of
Hawaii, Notwithstanding this action,
should not expect the completed ship
too soon. 1t will probably take one
year, and perhaps longer, to prepare
the plans for the ship, advertise for
construction bids and to secure the com
pleted ship. The Government proceeds
very slowly in such matters but the
important thing is that the lighthouse
tender is assured.
The cable from the Territorial Legis-
lature, directing that invitations to
visit Hawaii this summer be extended
to members of Congress has been re-
ceived here by the Delegate. He and
Mr.. Mcclellan and Judge Hatch forth
with proceeded to invite many to make
the trip and have already quite list
of acceptances. They hope to have a
much larger list Lefore the adjourn
ment of Congress. There is little doubt
that large party of law-givers will
visit the islands during the summer
under the conditions made possible by
the legislature.
BLUFFING JAPAN.
Have we been trying to bluff Mr.. Jap
and compel him to accept with smile
and assurances of complete satisfaction
the exclusion of his fellow countrymen
by the passport system? That is what
few people are saying in Washing
ton. They are making emphatic in
timations that Secretary Root has been
giving out statements from his depart
ment about the joy in Toxic because
of the rider on the immigration bill
when Toxic was boiling over with rage,
rather than rejoicing about it.
One thing is certain. The Japanese
embassy privately, but none the less
forcibly, repudiates practically the
entire output of the State Department
about the satisfaction of their gov
eminent with the recent exclusion legis-
lation by Congress. 1t repudiates also
the statements that communications
with Japan showed the authorities
there in entire accord with what the
President and Congress were doing.
Probably little time will be neces-
sary to develop all the facts. A the
ory is growing here that the President
and Secretary Root, knowing that Japan
is in position which makes it abb
solutely impossible for that govern
ment to show warlike resentment be-
cause of financial impoverishment, un-
dertook to play the game with strong
hand-to give Japan pill and at the
same time assure her that it was not
a bitter pill but a sweet pill. Am
bassador Aoki called on Secretary Root
a few days ago and the official YER
sion of their meeting was that 1T had
been very pleasant affair. There
has been another version, emanating
from the embassy but not traceable
to any person there, that it was any
thing but a pleasant meeting, that the
Ambassador protested against the ac-
counts of the State Department about
international affairs.
The administration is anxious to quiet
the agitation over Japanese affairs and
it is to this end that the misrepre-
sentation, if any there has been, was
made. 1t undoubtedly had the effect
in this country of quoting the hostile
press for the time being, although stray
accounts have been printed of Incl
dents that indicated everything was
not as pleasant as it might have been.
The effectual enforcement of the
passport provision depends entirely up
on the Japanese government, which can
issue passports to San Francisco, if
it so wishes. The holders of those pass.
ports must be admitted TO all parts
of the mainland