The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-04-19
ASK A WARSH|P
To BE SENT
HERE
Commerce TrusteesPass
Some important
Resolutions.

A warship to be stationed at the
port of Honolulu, at least eight bat
tleships and a number of cruisers to
be stationed permanently in the Pa
.cific and fifteen thousand dollars in
coin to be spent in cleaning up the
port of Honolulu as a preventative
measure These are the things that
the trustees of the Chamber of Com
merce determined to ask for at their
special meeting yesterday morning.
The resolution asking for the sta
tioning of a man-of-war at Honolulu
and the request that some Federal
money be spent here, on the repre-
ssentation that it is better to prevent
than to cure, are matters belonging to
the Honolulu chamber alone. The
resolution asking that the main por-
tion of the big fleet be kept in these
waters is a backing up of a similar
request made by the commercial or
ganizations on the Coast.
The resolution asking that an
amount of money be allowed for the
prevention of any epidemic here was
prepared after consultation with DR..
Cofer, president of the. Board of
Health who, will endorse the applica-
tion for funds. 1t was presented by
Jas. F. Morgan and carried after some
little discussion, none hostile. the
resolution was:
whereas, The port of Honolulu, at
ie n
rectly in the path of a large ocean
commerce, and is rapidly becoming the
clearinghouse for transpacific travel,
steamers to and from Oriental, Aus
tralian, Canadian and mainland ports
of the United States touching at Ho-
nofulu with increasing frequency; and
Whereas, The inter-island business
of the Territory centers at Honolulu,
the capital; and
Whereas, Though apparently en-
tirey free from plague and other con-
tagious diseases, it is desirable that
every means should be used to place
the city in the best possible sanitary
condition and keep it SO both on ac-
count of local interests and those of
the Pacific Coast; now, therefore, be it
Resolved, That Honorable Walter
F. Frear, Governor of the Territory
of Hawaii, who is about to visit Wash
ington, be requested to call upon
Surgeon General Wyman. Chief of the
L. s. Quarantine Service, and request
him TO authorize the immediate ex-
penditure of the sum of fifteen thou
sand dollars in effecting a thorough
cleaning up of the port of Honolulu;
and be it further
"Resolved, That Governor Frear be
and is hereby authorized to promise
in the name of the Chamber of Com
merce a contribution from the busi-
ness interests of Honolulu of five
thousand dollars to be used for the
same purpose, the expenditure of the
entire amount to be under the control
of the U. s. Quarantine Service"
ARMY AND NAVY COMMITTEE.
In a formal letter President Morgan
asked the approval of the trustees to
the formation of a new committee toI
deal with matters affecting the expen-
uItures on Oahu for Army and Navy
purposes.
For some time past 1 have been
the appointment of Spe-
la, Committee from the members of
tits Association to be known as the
Army and Navy Committee. and ask
your approval of this course" said Mr..
Morgan.
Il believe that. where there will be |
numerous expenditures for work in !
beth the Army and Navy lines, we |
should have a Special Committee to |
keep in touch with the matters.
Il know that persons at the head of |
these different branches here would /
greatly appreciate the fact that the |
Chamoer of Commerce thinks enough |
of them and their work to have /
Special Committee keeping in touch |
With them.
There are also other matters that
require active work and this can be
better done by regular committee
han by a special one.
"One of the matters that come to my
mind now is the fact that all groc-
cries and supplies for the Army are
imported from San Francisco, when
hese orders could be placed with the
merchants of Honolulu.
Another matter that affects our
trade here is the fact that all trans
)orts. after leaving Manila, pay their
roops previous to reaching Nagasaki
md this money is spent there, when
hink work done by a committee, such
Is l have named, can induce the au-
horities to have the payments to
roOps so made that the money will be
spent here.
I'VE will continue to have larger and
arger appropriations for Notifications
inder the charge of the Army, and
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