The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-01-30

jectiyss yet produced At me Wal.
House Offices. But Senator Hale Is !
psaQlleeTi hand ar having his way ana
= Ae can carry Congress along with
I HIN some u the reforms the Senator
proposes in thu Navy may be put ur
70 tle President in a form thar he ga
! not Hghtiy put aside. The Senator IA
1 oeen Interested in the Navy for fartv
years IS regarded as the best authority
p Navy matters at the Cantor ana
does not like TO have the President
| cross his pathway.
ne situation has all the elements for
a Inc old quarrel before the session ie
/ over II Is doubted whether senator
HAZE expects that there can be r,nrb
general legislation for the relief az +ha
oeploraole and disorganized conS5tfonS
prevailing in the Navy at the present
lltIle. But he Is determined that thAre
snalI be enough of an investigation so
taat sensible men can get some aut7or-
ilatlTe idea Of what those conditions
are and 50 that ultimately there can
Dc some legislation. It would not be
surprising if Senator Hale Joined the
issue before the session is over. hovv-
ever. BY putting some little riders upon
the Naval Appropriation bill. He Is
very clever at that sort Of work and
Inc senate is very likely to back him.
he not only has charge Of the NAVY
appropriation bin IN the Senate but is
one OF thu conferees on the bill an
nually- There is no man at the Cant
toi, 50 much feared in conference as
the Maine Senator. He would come
pretty near 10 having his own way
ABOUT some minor paragraph that
money should be available for the
maintenance Of ships Of the Navy. only
when command is exercised by officers
Of the line. DistastefuI as this might
be 10 the President he would have 70
vetoe the entire Navy appropriation
OH If he wanted to kill the offensive
riders
As matter Of fact the same trorble
is likely TO arise before the NAVY an
preparation bill IS out OF COMMITTEES
For the department. has no money with
which TO put the Hospital Ship Relief
into commission, A deficiency estimate
has already been forwarded to Com
gress and the money must be voted
before DIR. Stokes can sail far with
-A.S7 AA&tS AE0c 'IId3 crew. "A 4lfIII3TIGn
may be placed upon that appropriation
so that the President would have to
veto the entire deficiency bill if he
wanted to keep DIR. Stokes in com
mand
Meanwhile the Navy is sailing on
its way toward the Pacific. on the
other side Of which ocean is Japan, the
nation Europe is exporting as our
prospective foe. There has been a re-
vival Of hostile talk and flood of
newspaper dispatches which can tend
only to increase the friction between
the two countries. They started over
representations that the United States |
was wearied of the delays of Japan |
in coming to terms about the restric- |
ton Of coolie immigration to our |
shores ana had offended the Mikado |
by demanding that certain verbal |
agreement about this immigration |
should bs- reduced to writing.
This proved TO be a fa1Iaey and the |
President has stated to callers that on |
the contrary. negotiations are progress
sing in very friendly and satisfactory |
manner. The chief impeachment is the |
hostile talk the Pacific Coast states |
are constantly making and the ag-
yressive attitude that the Pacific Coast |
Senator's and members of Congress as
sumo. There is also other trouble in |
he dispatches Of the Paris newspa- |
Ders, that seemed TO have had some |
'emarka bic inspiration about the pros /
poets of war between Japan and the |
United States. Certain Of the Paris /
are generally credited with /
being susceptible in certain causes |
when the consideration is large enough. /
It appears to have been 10 somebody's /
interest. in any event. to encourage /
var talk in the Paris newspapers. t
There is said to be another reason for
t in the unfriendiiness of Buneau Va
lila, once of Panama, for the Presi-
lent. He is said to have relations with |
Iome Partisan journals, to whom he is
understood to have been offering his
riews about the prospects OF hostiIities
N the Pacific. On the other hand Am
,assador Jusserand is said to have
made some movement from Washing
on by which this output Of wartaik
rom the Partisan newspapers has been
curtailed so that they are
low printing more amiable articles
bout the relations between the United
states and Japan.
However. the big fleet is already
ound the big eastern bulge of South
America and it will not be many more
weeks before it viii be in the Pacific
nd within comparatively short steam
ng time Of Honolulu and Manila.
ERNEST 6. WALKER.
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