The Hawaiian gazette., 1909-07-16
By Ernest q. Walker.

(Mail Special to the Advertiser.)
WASHINGTON, d. c., June 30
| Mr. A. j. Campbell has as good as com
pleted his work here in preparation for
the bringing of immigrants from Eu-
rope. A few details remain to be ar
ranged. This morning he has been con.
sulting with Secretary Nagel, of the
| Department of Commerce and Labor,
about trying to obtain surgeon of
the Marine Hospital Corps to examine
the immigrants at the port of embark
alton for the purpose of eliminating any
possible undesirables. He has yet to
arrange for the proper letters of identi-
fication and for like papers at the State
Department, but those are largely
| formalities.
The Department of Commerce and
Labor has been cooperating to the
extent of it's authority in furthering
Mr. Campbell's plans. The Secretary
| and the Assistant Secretary, Mr.. Nc.
| AS the enterprise in hand is entirely
| go over the entire question from the
may have delayed Mr.. Campbell here
|
satisfactory, because there is likelihood
| of embarrassing questions being raised
hereafter Secretary Nagel has taken
personal interest in the work, has
talked with the President about it,
and is personally seeing to it that Mr..
| Campbell is afforded every possible
facility. He is also raising every ques.
tion possible, as is y 4 Campbell, that
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ly and any future Oh ,cles anticipated.
Territory of Haw could stand be-
fore the law as state and not as
municipality or corporation, both of
which are forbidden by the terms of
the law from bringing in immigrants.
/ That was referred to the solicitor of
the department, who decided that the
| Territory, as far as the immigration
| law is concerned, must be considered
as a state and its representatives could
do anything in obtaining immigrants
that state could do. AS matter
/ of fact the solicitor has thus far de-
cided every question referred to him
favorably to the Territory. While much
of these precautionary efforts might
seem unnecessary, they are undoubted.
|
to Mr.. Campbell's present trip but
to any future undertakings of SINH
lar kind that the Territory of Hawaii
may enter upon.
The Treasury Department will have
to decide whether surgeon of the
| Marine Hospital Service can examine
the immigrants before their departu
The completion of such details as these
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few days longer, after which he will
proceed to New York. Mr.. George B.
Mcclellan and Judge +. NJ Hatch have
aided him as much as they could in
his errands at the various departments.
The Interior Department, through
whose Territorial bureau Hawaiian bust.
ness is handled, has shown a willing
ness to facilitate Mr.. Campbell's mis-
sion in every particular.
The Territorial bureau is now in
charge of Mr.. w. Bertram Acker, As
sistant Attorney of the Department of
the Interior. This change is pleasing
to many people who have to do with
Hawaiian affairs here, because of Mr..
Acker's familiarity with Hawaiian Off
cial business. He was many years chief
of the Miscellaneous Division of the
| bSpuI llHeHl anu COuSlutTdDlt hawaiian
business was handled there Under the
reorganization of the department cou-
pie of years ago, the Territorial bureau
was enlarged and placed in charge of
the private secretary to the Secretary
of the Interior. That arrangement has
now been discontinued.
Judge George w. Woodruff is con-
| cluding his affairs here in Washington
| and expects to sail on the Mongolia
from San Francisco, July %. All the
| formalities have now been completed
| His commission has been issued and
| signed and with him it is now simply
matter of getting his household and
personal affairs arranged for four
years residence at Honolulu.
The plans are for the Congressional
| party to leave San Francisco, August
"a, but the continued session of Con.
| gress is damaging the prospects some.
what, in that it is hindrance to many
men, who hoped to accept the invita-.
tion to go on the trip. 1t looks now as
though Congress could not adjourn
much before the last day of July, but
much depends upon the length of the
debate over the excise tax
Supervising Architect of the Treas.
ury james Knox Taylor said today it
would be fully year before work
could be begun on the Honolulu public
building. The architects, who have
been named to prepare competitive de-
signs for the building will have till
September 10 next, as has already been
stated, in which to present their work,
but whoever is given the award will
expect several months more to make
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