The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1909-04-23
BRECKONS AND
HIS GOOD LUCK



tire " slated for the sob. hN mn ar.
mnHemsnt made by President Roosc
Welt before the close " hls admins.
trntion. the fact remains that no one
IN the department viii confirm such
statements II IL suspected that A..
sistant Attorney General Afford w
Cooley, tho cousin Of President Roose.
welt. may be the man. lie used TO BE-
Civil Service Commissioner. and was
then advanced TO a position In the De
psrtment Of Justice. which he resign
ed because OF ill.health But a few
weeks before the close Of his own adj
minlstration. President Roosevelt re-
appointed Mr.. Cooley The white
House disavows any knowledge OF an
arrangement by which anybody at the
Department OF Justice is to have the
Hawaiian judgeship.
Cooper Looming Up.
Delegate Kalanlaraole says he has
no information either about the Judge
ship or about the case OF Mr. Brock
ons. Some time ago Senator Warren
told him that the President was GO
ing TO let the Breckons matter rest for
while. Some OF the Hawaiian folks
here believe that Il is In the cards for
Henry f. Cooper to have the Judge
ship, and that Senator Clark of wyo-
ming, the chairman of the Senate
Committee on judiciary. is going to
help him 20 the nomination. Whether
there is anything in the fact that Mr..
| Cooper is a freemason of high degree,
which will help him to the nomination,
is n matter of some conjecture here.
| Senator Clark is also mason of tho
thirty-third degree.
Col. Sans Investments.
Colonel Sam Parker has returned
from Cuba and hied away to New
| York. 1t caused some laughter here
among Hawaiians that Colonel Parker
was going to Cuba to make big Invest
ments. They declared that the Colonel
did not have much loose money for
the purchase of sugar estates. In any
event, 1t is stated that the Colonel did
not purchase Cuban property. and
came back after he had had thor
however. that the Colonel has some
spare cash, which he realized from a
recent sale of bonds. and that he could
buy Cuban acres. good for raising
sugar, If he wished.
Hawaii and the Tariff
OF course, the tariff question is very
much to the fore here. and some items
of Hawaiian interest are being follow
ed closely by the Territorial represen-
tatives in town. The Payne bill
which passed the House Friday, Is to
M.
Wednesday. but apparently there is
nothing in the wind that is likely to
be detrimental to the Hawaiian sugar
planters. Democratic Senator's are
talking about a tilt against the exist
ing sugar duties, but nobody believes
that the Democrats have any chance
of success. There has been ructior
about the admission of 100000 tons an.
nually from the Philippines. as pro
vided in the tariff bill passed by the
House. Some of the beet sugar manu-.
facturers wanted to strike out thai
provision, but, as the press dispatches
have already told. Charles Warren OF
Michigan, who made pact with Pres
ident Taft about the matter last sum
mer. was brought on here by the Fl
nance Committee. He was taken Il
| the White House, where before Presi
dent Taft the terms of the pact were
! confirmed, and thereupon the bee
sugar growers and manufacturers rest
ed in their agitation.
The Pineapple Duties.
There has been a great struggle owe
, the duties on pineapples. in which Ea
wall is keenly interested, but the pros
, poets of an increased duty are stead
, lily waning. AS already stated in thes
letters, the rates reported to the Hous
, in the Payne bill were more satisfac
tory to Hawaiian growers of pineap
. pies than the present rates in tn
Dingley law. But the importers O
pineapples and the Gamers in Bait
, more, New York and Chicago hav
come to the city in numbers protest
ing. The Gamers want a supply o
pineapples at the lowest possible cos
with which to run their canneries a
seasons of the year when otherwis
y these canneries would be idle.
In the House, Chairman Payne sui
mitted committee amendment, whic
T carried, increasing the rate to IS
thousand, or eight cents a cubic foo
i and restored the old provision for es
timating the apples by the cubic foo
Representative Mann of Chicago quel
d toned Mr.. Payne about the matte
= or, rather, tried to question him, an,
indeed. did bring out the concessio
that the cubic-foot rate was not a
equivalent rate, but, all the same. NJ
Payne's committee amendments wer
through with whoop,
Exactly what the Finance Commute
is doing with the rates on pineapple
n is not known but Mr.. George B. M
Clellan, who has been working on IL
i case very hard, has been informed TIL;
e the rates to be reported by the Finant
9 Committee will be substantially IL
u rates now existing in the Dingley lay
u In words the importers and the ca
neries in Baltimore, New York, and Oh
cago are to have the call. The expe
# before the Finance Committee, info
J. tunately appears to have been pref
/ diced in favor of the importers, where's
n the expert who advised the Commits
ID ON Ways and Means seems to have bee
/ Ia ne