The Hawaiian gazette., 1908-12-11

After a spirited debate in which the
Flag and Constitution, the principles
of Protection, the Organic Act, Patriot
ism, Promotion and Pride were discuss
ed at length, the. Chamber of Commerce
yesterday'in close vote decided to re-
new their request to Congress for a
applied to passenger traffic between Ha-
waiian and other American ports. The
debate was one of the best ever held
in the Chamber, the speakers for and
against the suspension of the laws al
ternating in the presentation of facts,
figures and arguments. E. d. Tenney
led the minority and w. r. Castle the
majority in the discussion. 1t was evil
dent from the thoroughness with which
the various speakers dealt with the
question that great deal of thought
had been given to it during the past
few days.
The meeting was n large one, quite
as well attended and as representative
as that which dealt recently with the
site exchange proposal, j. p. Cooke,
acting president, presided, the others
present being c. II. Atherton, +. @.
Atherton, Arthur Berg, L. "A. Berndt,
A. w. t. Bottomley, W. E. Brown, w.
r. Castle, c. M. Cooke, II. Focke, t. ].
King F. ]. Lowrey, w. T. Lucas, F. w.
Macfarlane, ]. A. McCandless, w. H.
McInerny, F. B. McStosker, I. H. Pc.
trie, NJ. Phillips, F. A. schaefer, Jared
e. Smith, E. l. Spalding F. NJ. Swanzy,
j. r. Gait, A. Gartley, j. +. Hackfeld,
j. A. Kennedy, f. D. Tenney, F. l..
Waldron, II. NJ. Won Holt g. p. Wilder,
II. P. Wood A. A. Young, F. r. Stack
able, A. z. Knudsen, ]. II. Mackenzie,
J. W. Waldron, Norman Watkins, w.
". Hall, II. F. Wichman, R. W. Single
and Rudolph Spreekels, the latter Civ
ing his moral support to the majority.
The debate on the proposal to recall
the lack of support to the bill before
Congress suspending the operation of
the Coastwise Law and to reaffirm that
support was opened by the statement
of the chair as to the special object
of the meeting, which had been
called at the request of large number
of the members to reopen the discussion
of the matter. In his remarks the chair
referred to the Presidents message
and to the cablegrams received relative
TO the recent actions of the commercial
bodies from Governor Frear and Dele.
gate Kalanianaole.
+. NJ owanZy asked TO be enlighten.
ed as to the scope of the bill which the
Chamber had heretofore endorsed the
minutes of the meeting of March IL
being read; also the text of the bill in.
trodueed by the Delegate. which had
passed the House and was ready for ac-
ton on the part of the Senate.
Leave 1t to Frear.
w. r. Castle, who stated that he did
not think the regular parliamentary
rule about reconsideration having To
be moved by some one who had voted
IN favor of any action applied in this
ease, asked to be allowed to present a
motion to reconsider the action taken
at the previous meeting, at which the
support to the suspension of the coast.
wise laws had been withdrawn. The
chair, however, ruled his motion out of
order. Then, after one or two other
members had spoken in explanation of
the status of the bill in Congress, Mr..
Castle presented the following motion
which was seconded by d. +. Dilling'
ham;
Whereas, BY the Presidents mes
sage TO Congress, just made public, Il
is evident that the application OF the