The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1909-10-08
By Ernest G. walker.

(Mail Special to the Advertiser.)
WASHINGTON, September 90. =
With so much piping hot stuff occur.
ring daily out on the presidential route,
Washington has had no opportunity to
recover from the activities of the sum.
mer capital at Beverly, and has been
constantly slipping away into obscur-
ity. Cabinet officials have been drop
ping back here for a few days but not
to make any long sojourns. Some of
them came to town to make ready be-
fore fastening away to the western
circuit with the big chief. Secretary
of State Knox spent few days here
this week but he will soon be away
for the Pacific Coast.
When he gets down to Ell Paso with
the President there are likely to be
some understandings with President
Diaz and the other Mexican officials
about a few questions of international
import. In the intervals between for
NAL friendly conversation the two
Presidents will have opportunity to al.
lude to questions of state. The United
States and Mexico are virtually exer.
cising a joint control now over the
tempestuous Central American Repub-
lies. There villa be presidential con.
versations at Ell Paso and Ciudad
Juarez likely to further the strictness
of that joint control and to assure fur
Their peace of those little bantam re.
publics. Secretary Knox is handling
that question and will be a party to
the international conversations there
on. But enormous sums of American
capital are now invested in Mexico
n mil &c all Ion do
and other property. The Mexicans in.
sist that citizens of the United States
must obey the local laws, which the
Americans have never been any too
enthusiastic about doing. That spirit
of antagonism to the Mexican authori-
ties has been responsible for much ill
feeling and for frequent clashes that
the State Department has been
called upon to adjudicate
Good Result Expected.
The big meeting at Ell Paso should
result in a better understanding about
the treatment of those Americans who
invest their money south of the Rio
| Grande and also of those Americans
who get into fights with the Mexicans.
President Diaz welcomes the invasion
of capital from the United States as it
is doing wonders in the development
of Mexico. He is disposed to cooper.
| ate with the authorities at Washington
within every reasonable bounds to
facilitate the operations of Americans
in Mexico. The time was never more
opportune than the present for the
meeting between the two Presidents
which has been talked of for almost a
generation.
Secretary of War Busy.
Secretary of War Dickinson, who has
been absent from Washington for
nearly two months has not yet return
ed but he promptly got into communi-
cation with the President in the West
and at Chicago found the chance to
discuss departmental business, as near.
ly all his cabinet colleagues had been
able to do at Beverly. He will be one
of the early arrivals in Washington and
will spend much of the autumn here.
Secretary of the Navy Meyer, who
remained near the President most of
August and September, is deferring his
return to Washington till about Octo.
Der l. He was go beSet at Hamilton
with visitors from Boston and other
points, that he started away for
week s automobile trip through the
White Mountains.
Attorney General Wickersham. who
went again to Beverly at the last min
ute to advise with the President about
legal aspects of interior department
questions that Secretary Ballinger had
brought up and about law aspects of