The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1909-05-25
WOODRUFF AND
THE POSTMASTER

respondence with officials at Pearl
Harbor over the dredging work" said
Admiral Hollyday, but It has been
on account of no particular troubles
or difficulties, but over matters that
would naturally arise in the admins
tration of affairs in connection with
-ucn a project. The work has been
going ahead splendidly; the Hawaiian
Dredging Company has been handling
its end of the project with excellent
dispatch. There is no ground what
ever for legitimate criticism.
There is no warrant for saying that
the dredging company has been allow
ed seventy cents yard FIR work
where 1t should have been paid but
eleven cents a yard. AS a matter of
feet, we feel that we are getting the
work done at pretty reasonable
price. 1t is costing us about seventy
cents yard for work like that which
would cost the Army $1.25 yard.
Now as to the bonds. The company
has met our requirements to our en-
tire satisfaction, and, indeed, has done
more than we required them to do.
The entire project, as perhaps you
know, calls for an expenditure of over
So 100000. Congress first appropriated
100000 towards this work and the
company executed a bond for that
amount Then Congress at its last
session voted 100000 more. We, of
course, required bond fer that
amount. but the Hawaiian company
Informed us that, instead of executing
bond for these sums as they were
appropriated by Congress, it would
furnish bond for the entire sum IF
over SO 900 ,O00."
NICK Harrison of Honolulu is spend
ing a couple of days here. He is on
his way to Europe. Mr.. F. T. P. Wa
trrhouse, who has been in Mexico and
Cuba looking into the rubber and fiber
industries, has been here for few
days comforting with experts in the
Department of Agriculture.
Mrs. George B. Mcclellan has been
suddenly called to San Diego, Cal, by
the grave illness of her mother.
The Congressional Party.
The first instalment of invitations to
members of Congress, to visit Hawaii
as guests of the Territory, thus far
sent out by Mr. Mcclellan, on behalf
of Mr.. Kalanianaole, is as follows:
Invitations have been extended to
the Interior Department, and to Sem
ators Depew, Flint, Gallinger, PEN
rose. Burton, McCumber, Smoot, Cur
tbs and Hepburn.
In the House invitations have been
sent to Chairman Foss of the Com
mittee on Naval Affairs, Chairman
Tawney of the Appropriations Com
mittee, Chairman Bartholdt of the
Committee on Public Buildings, Chair
man Miller of the Committee on
Claims, Chairman Reeder of the Com
mittee on Irrigation, to James r.
Mann, who will probably succeed Col
onel Hepburn as Chairman of the
Committee on Interstate Commerce.
Invitations have been extended also to
Congressman Loudenslager Butler,
Macon, Roberts, Loud, Bates, Thomas.
Dawson, Olcott, Ellis, Padgett, Gregg,
Hobson and Kitchin, of the Commit
tee on Naval Affairs.
Other Congressman invited include
Walter r. Smith of the Appropria-
tions Committee, James McLachlan of
the Rivers and Harbors Committee,
w. A. Rodenberg of the Public Build
ings Committee, Jas. T. Lloyd and
William C. Houston of the Territories
committee, Wllnam Il. Humphrey or
the Merchant Marine Committee, +.
w. Cushman of Ways and Means Com
mittee, and r. F. Broussard of the
Ways and Means Committee, and A.
J. Borchfeld.
On account of the absence of many
members from the city, replies are
coming in rather slowly Mr.. McClel-
Ian reports that there will be no diff
Guilty whatever in securing such a
party as the fund and steamer facili-
ties admit of taking. The difficulty
will be in securing certain committee
men who handle important Hawaiian
legislation, but whose previous en-
gagements will take them to Europe
or elsewhere.
1t is expected that the party will
sail from San Francisco July 22, and
will leave Honolulu on the return trip
August 81
The San Francisco Chamber of Com
merce has asked to have the party as
their guests for day or two before
they sail for Honolulu.