The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-04-23
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ment from Honolulu that someone now
employed in the Department of JUS
tice' is slated for the job, by an ar
rangement made by President Roose-
welt before the close Of his admins
tration, the fact remains that no one
in the department will confirm such
statements. It is suspected that AS
sistant Attorney General Afford w.
Cooley, the cousin of President Roose-
welt, may be the man. He used to be
Civil Service Commissioner, and was
then advanced to@a position in the De-
partment Of Justice. which he resign
ed because of ill-health But a few
weeks before the close of his own adj
ministration, 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 Kalanianaole 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
a while. Some of the Hawaiian folks
here believe that it is in the cards for
Henry E. Cooper to have the judge
ship, and that Senator Clark of Wyo-
ming, the chairman of the Senate
Committee on Judiciary, is gong to
help him to 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 a matter of some conjecture here
Senator Clark is also a mason of the
thirty-third degree.
Col. Sans Investments.
Colonel Sam Parker has returned
from Cuba and hiea away to New
York. It 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, it is stated that the Colonel did
not purchase Cuban property, and
came back after he had had a thor
oughly good time. His friends say,
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
be reported to the Senate Tuesday or
Wednesday, but apparently there is
nothing in the wind that is likely to
be detrimental to the Hawaiian sugar
planters. Democratic Senators 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 ruction
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 that
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 to
| the White House. where before Presi-
| dent Taft the terms of the pact We're
confirmed, and thereupon the beet
| nd ma fa CTR roCf.
| ed in their agitation.
The Pineapple Duties.
| There has been a great struggle over
| the duties on pineapples, in which Ha-
wall is keenly interested. but the pros
| poets of an increased duty are stead
| lily waning. AS already stated in These
/ letters, the rates reported to the House
| in the Payne bill were more satisfac
| tory to Hawaiian growers of pineap
| pies than the present rates in the
| Dingley law But the importers Of
| pineapples and the Gamers in BaIti
more, New York and Chicago have
come to the city in numbers protest
| ing. The Gamers want a supply o1
| pineapples at the lowest possible cost
with which to run their canneries a
| seasons or the year When otherwise
| these canneries would be idle.
In the House, Chairman Payne sub
| mitted committee amendment, which
| carried, increasing the rate to IS {
| thousand, or eight cents a cubic foot
| and restored the old provision for es
| timatfng the apples by the cubic foot
| Representative Mann of Chicago ques
tiored Mr.. Payne about the matter
or, rather, tried to question him, and
indeed. did bring out the concession
that the cubic-foot rate was not al
| equivalent rate, but, all the same, Mr.
Payne's committee amendments wen
through with a whoop.
Exactly what the Finance Commute
is doing with the rates on pineapple
is not known but Mr.. George B. Ne
| Clellan, who has been working on TIL
case very hard, has been informed tina
the rates to be reported by the Financ
Committee will be substantially tn
rates now existing in the Dingley Law
In otherwords the importers and the car
neries in Baltimore. New York. and Chi
cage, are to have the call. The exper
before the Finance Committee, unfol
tunately appears to have been prejt
diced In favor of the importers, wherea
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