The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1909-08-24
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cFrom Saturdays Advertiser,


Five of the Congressman who were
invited by Secretary Mcclellan to be
members of the party that is to visit
Hawaii this month and who had no
tilted him of their acceptance of his
invitation have been compelled to with
draw. A letter received yesterday aft.
ernoon from Mr.. Mcclellan by Score.
tary Mott.Smith conveyed the inform
alton that Senator Hepburn and Rep
resentatives Foss, Olcott, Bates and
Green had notified him that, on ac-
count of the lateness of adjournment
of the session, they would be unable to
make the trip to the islands.
Representative Howell, chairman of
the Committee on immigration, has
been invited by Mr.. Mcclellan to join
the party and has accepted. He will
be a valuable addition, from the point
of view of Hawaii, as the immigration
Committee has much to do with affairs
Hawaiian.
Other Congressman will be asked by
Secretary Mcclellan to make the trip,
in place of those who have been OBJ.
liged to withdraw. but the secretary
wrote that he would not ask any more
until the new committees were an
nounced, which he thought would be
within a few days from the time the
letter was written.
A sort of Who's Who among the
Congressman who will arrive here Au-
gust 80 has been complied by Chief
Clerk Matheson, and gives interesting
details concerning the visitors.
Representative A. ]. Barchfeld is
from Pittsburg, Pennsylvania. He is a
physician, a graduate of the Jefferson
Medical College of Philadelphia, and
is President of the board of directors
of the South Side Hospital. He was
delegate to the Peace Congress at
Brussels. He is Republican and a
member of the Manufactures, Alec
lie Liquor Traffic, and Patents commit
| tees
Representative Richard Bartholdt
comes from ST. Louis, Missouri, and is
the editor of the st. Louis Tribune. He
was born in Germany Representative
| Bartholdt is President of the Inter
parliamentary Union for the Promo
tion of international Arbitration. Ii
| Congress he is chairman of the Pub
lie Grounds and Buildings Committed
of the House.
Senator ]. Bourne Jr., of Portland
Oregon, is a lawyer, graduate OF
Harvard, but is principally interested
in mining and cotton manufacturing
He left Harvard in 1874 to go to sea
| His vessel was wrecked on the For
musan coast and he was rescued an(
taken to Oregon, where he has remain
ed. He is a Republican and is a mem
Der of the Senate Committees on Coas
| Defense; Public Health and Nationa
Quarantine; Railroads; Post Offices ans
Post Roads; Fisheries, of which las
committee he is chairman; Committee
on Expenditures in the Department o
| Justice.
Representative A. F. Dawson is
resident of Preston, Iowa. He is al
ex.newspaper man. having been cit,
editor of the Clinton Daily Herald
Later he was secretary to Senator Al
lison. He began his newspaper work n
the age of fourteen. Mr.. Dawson i
Republican, and is member of tn
following committees Naval Affairs
Pacific Railroads, and Reform in Civil
Service.
Representative William II. Ellis, o
Pendleton, Oregon, IL both lawyer AM
farmer He Is a graduate of the low
Agricultural College and Of the low
state University. lie has done all sort
Of things, including teaching school
working on u newspaper, pracilcinl
law and serving az mayor of Hamburg
Iowa, He was Judge Of the sixth cir
cult Of Oregon az one time, lie Is
Republican and "a member Of the Naya
Affairs aud Irrigation Of Arid Land
Committees,
Representative A. W, Gregg Is
Democrat from the Solid South, CON
Ing from Palestine, TeSab 10 10
lawyer and graduate NJ kings Col
lego, Bristol, Tennessee, lie, als0, IL
member NJ lhf Naya Afairs commit
toe
! representative William q, Houston