The Hawaiian gazette., 1908-12-01

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why thought the Palace Square site
was the best, he told me l needn't say
anything about that as he had been
here and knew the situation. He dwelt
on the policy of the department in locat-
ing public buildings about the civic
centers of cities. This had become
settled policy, he said. -
No Light on Consideration.
Some one asked what other consider
alton was offered by Mr.. Irwin, if any
in the exchange.
al do not care to answer that, re-
piled Mr.. Cooper. cit it comes at all
it should come from the Secretary
l.. Tenney Peck asked if when it was
said that building about civic centers
was the policy of the department, Sec
rotary Winthrop meant that that was
Beekman Winthrop's policy or policy
that had been considered and decided
on by Secretary Cortelyou. Mr.. Cooper
said he did not know anything about
that; he merely knew what Mr.. Win
throp said.
Government Asked No Money.
w. r. Castle asked if it had been
brought to Secretary Winthrop's atten.
ton that citizens had contributed some
thing like $4,000 in order to comply
with the requirements of the United
States under the Taylor contract for a
Federal building site. Mr.. Cooper re-
piled that Secretary Winthrop had said
that that was a matter with which the
Department had no concern. 1t had
not solicited the money in any way, and
if it was contributed it was to meet the
requirements of the Taylor contract for
the land.
George Davies asked if the require
ment of the approval of Congress to
this exchange would delay the building
of the building Mr. Cooper said that
Secretary Winthrop said it would not.
How the Site Was Accepted.
j. R. Gait asked if Taylor had really
accepted the site. In response to this
the offer of the Henry Waterhouse Trust
Company to Taylor, and his acceptance
of it, together with Secretary Cortel-
you's approval of it were read by w. r.
! Castle. In all these everything was
predicated on the use of the land as a
site for Federal building. Taylor S
, report to the Treasury Department was
also read, in which he gave the Mahuka
site as his first choice and the Bishop
site as his second choice. In this letter
he states that Governor Carter had as
sured him that while he had favored
another site, the Mahuka site would be
satisfactory to him and to the com
munity.
The Roof Garden Meeting.
L. T. Peck said that he thought if
some of the circumstances of the Young
Roof Garden meeting were recalled it
would throw light ON the subject. Mr..
| Taylor, who had been an Assistant Sec
rotary of the Treasury, and had selected
locations for over three hundred Fed
eral buildings, had been here for some
time before the Young Roof Garden
meeting was held, looking into the mat
ter of a site. He had called the meet
ing, asking all in anywise interested
in the matter to be present. At that
meeting Governor George r. Carter was
of the first to speak. He then advocat-
ed site nearer the waterfront. He said
that he had very strong opinions on the
! subject, but he assured Mr.. Taylor that
, though there might be diversity of
opinion, when a vote had been taken
and a decision reached, all would ac-
quiesce in the Judgment of the majority.
That, speaking Tor himself, he you'd,
and that Mr.. Taylor would find the en-
tire community solidlv behind whatever
| site was adopted.
81 want to impress on this meeting
, that we are not here to discuss the rela-
tive merits of these sites,' said Mr..
| Peck. "But it is because we were in
vited by a representative of the Treas
| ury Department to meet and express our
views as to site, as means of deter
mining where the Federal building
should be located. The site was select
ed in accordance with the views ex-
pressed at that meeting. The selection
was approved by the Secretary of the
Treasury. My protest is against this
method of going against the public SEN
timent of the community"
Committee Suggested.
f. D. Tenney said that the matter
was one of importance, and that any
resolution on the subject should be
carefully considered, and, therefore, he
moved that the whole matter be re-
ferred to a committee of five to be ap-
pointed by the chair to report later.
The Bottomley Resolution.
A. w. T. Bottomley presented a
resolution, the adoption of which he
moved as an amendment to Mr.. Ten
ney's motion. This resolution is pre-.
scented elsewhere in this article.
Chairman Cooke said that the only
objection he had to the resolution was
that it was practically the same as
was to be presented at the Merchants
Association meeting, and he felt that
the Chamber of Commerce was com
petent to draft it's own resolutions.
F. NJ. Swanzy said that he objected
to some of the language in the resolu-
tion. They ought to avoid all hysteri.
cal expressions. The expression use.
cret transfer he thought unnecessary.
For himself, he thought it quite pos.
sible that the business community
would NOT be greatly harmed if the
federal building were located at Palace
Square. There might be possibilities of
city ornamentation there not possible
elsewhere. But those were not the
questions.
Against Gum Shoe Methods.
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