The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-06-11
SECRETARY AND
HIS PROGRAM
What Local Citizens Want
Mr.. Garfield to See
While Here.

Secretary Garfield is to be taken
around Oahu and to Hawaii and Maui
and possibly Kauai to see for, himself
the conditions on the plantations, the
way in which the land laws of the
Territory are being worked out and
administered, the types of laborers
employed throughout the Territory
and the immigration needs of the
country. He will also be shown the
schools of the Territory, the good, in
different and bad ones, just as they
are run across during his trip.
The Secretary of the Interior will
spend twelve days in Hawaii and they
will be as busy days as he ever spent
anywhere, if the plans of the commit
tee preparing for his coming are
adopted by him after his arrival here
This committee was chosen yesterday
at a meeting of representative citizens
called by the Acting Governor and
consists of the Acting Governor, A. L.
C. Atkinson, Justice BaIlou, Judge H.
E. Cooper and L. A. Thurston. Those
who gathered in the Governors office
yesterday, in response to his invita-
tions, were L. T. Peck, G. R. Carter,
a.
Perry, A. F. Judd, Paul Isenberg, E.
r. Stackable, S. NJ. Ballou, J. p.
Cooke, A. L. c. Atkinson, ]. F. Nor
gan, H. E. Cooper, F. L. Waldron. DR..
L. E. Cofer, w. H. Babbitt, Major
Dunning, Captain Rees and Captain
Orwell.
The plans as tentatively arranged
by the committee of five are to take
the visiting secretary where he can
see for himself what the statistics
mean that are being prepared for his
coming. He is expected to arrive here
on Tuesday next, the 18th. He will
remain in Oahu until Friday, making
a tour of the island, visiting the va
rious plantations and industries. This
will take until Friday the 18th, when
the party will sail for Hawaii, SPEND
ing until the 23rd there. Sailing from
Napoopoo on the 23rd the party will
spend two days on Maui, returning to
Honolulu on the 18th. From the 25th
to the 2Sth the Secretary will either
stay here or go over to Kauai.
The plan of course is subject to the
approval of the Secretary, but it is
one that will give him the most COM
prehensive idea possible to be gained
in twelve days of the existing situa-
ton here along the lines indicated in
the cablegram received from Governor
Frear.
In Honolulu the various government
institutions will be visited, including
the Federal and Territorial experiment
stations, while the Aquarium and the
Bishop Museum are also on the list
of places that should be visited. The
working out of the plans of the Board
of Health will also be gone into for
the Secretary's benefit.
1t will also depend on the Secretary
as to who will accompany him on the
various trips throughout the group, as
those in the party will be practically
his guests, although paying their ex-
penses out of their own pockets. There
is no fund available from the Terrific
rial treasury to pay for any of the
expenses of the visit.
The use of the Mauna Kea by the
party is dependent on the agreement
of the postoffice officials here to agree
to a change in the schedule of that
vessel. If the schedule cannot be
changed, other arrangements for
transportation will have to be made.