The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-08-21


invited by Secretary Mcclellan to b.
members of the party that is to visi
Hawaii this month and who had no
tilted him of their acceptance Of hi:
invitation have been compelled to with
draw. A letter received yesterday aft
ernoon from Mr.. Mcclellan by seere
tarv MottSmith conveyed the inform
alton that Senator Hepburn and Rep
resentatives Foss, Olcott, Bates aud
Green had notified him that, on ac-
count of the lateness of adjournment
If 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 valuable addition, from the point
of view of Hawaii, as the immigration
Committee has much to do with affairs
Hawaiian.
Other Congressman win 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 viii arrive here Au-
gust so has been complied by Chief
Clerk Matheson, and gives interesting
details concerning the visitors.
Representative A. J. Barchfeld is
from Pittsburg, Pennsylvania. He is a
physician, 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 a Republican and a
member of the Manufactures, Alco-
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
3artholdt is President of the Inter
parliamentary Union for the Promo
ton Of international Arbitration. In
Congress ne is chairman of the Pub
lie Grounds and Buildings Committee
Of the House
Senator J. Bourne Jr., of Portland,
Oregon. is a lawyer, a 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
mosan coast and he was rescued and
taken to Oregon, where he has remain
ed. He is a Republican and is mem
Der of the Senate Committees on Coast
Defense; Public Health and National
Quarantine; Railroads; Post Offices and
Post Roads; Fisheries, of which last
committee he is chairman; Committee
on Expenditures in the Department OF
Justice.
Representative A. F. Dawson is a
resident of Preston, Iowa. He is an
ex-newspaper man. having been city
editor of the Clinton Daily Herald.
Later he was secretary TO Senator Al
Ison. He began his newspaper work ut
the age of fourteen. Mr.. Dawson is
a Republican, and is member of the
following committees: Naval Affairs;
Pacific Railroads, and Reform in Civil
Service.
Representative William R. Ellis, of
- 1ax nd
farmer He is a graduate of the Iowa
Agricultural College and of the Iowa
State University. He has done all sorts
of things, including teaching school,
working on a newspaper, practicing
law and serving as mayor of Hamburg,
Iowa. He was judge of the sixth cir
cult Of Oregon at one time. He is a
! Republican and member of the Naval
Affairs and Irrigation of Arid Lands
Committees.
Representative A. w. Gregg is a
Democrat from the Solid South, com
ing from Palestine, Texas. He is d
lawyer and a graduate of Kings Col
lege, Bristol, Tennessee. He, also, is a
member of the Naval Affairs commit
tee.
Representative William c. Houston,
of Woodbury., Tennessee, is another at
torney, and has been circuit judge in
his state. He is a Democrat, and is
a member of the Territories Commit
tee and the Committee on Revision of
the Laws. He is member of the Dis
eiple Church.
Representative Benjamin G. Hum.
phreys is also a Democrat and comes
from Greenville, Mississippi. He
Is son of Brigadier General Hum
phreys, G. s. A. In his youth he was
a clerk and a commercial traveller. He
served in the Spanish Ameriean wal
as First Lieutenant in the Second Mis-
sissippi Volunteers. He is a membe:
of the Rivers and Harbors Committee
Shelbyville, Missouri. is the home OF
Representative James T. Lloyd, who is
Of course, Democrat. He is a LAWYER
who was once a school teacher. He ],
member of the Committees on Terri
tories and Post Offices and Post Doads
Representative James McLachlar
claims Pasadena as his home. He wa.
born in Scotland, educated in New
York. being a graduate of Hamilton
College, and came west in 1883, He !,
a Republican and is a member of tn,
Rivers and Harbors Committee and o.
the Committee on Expenditures on Pub
lie Buildings. Likewise, he is a LAWYER
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