The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1910-11-29
HIGH INSULAR
OFFICIALS HERE
Philippine Land Authorities to
Appear at Friar Land
Investigation.
AEON Monday s Advertiser. J

armed with All the papers relating
to the sales and leases of the various
friar lands in the Philippines, a good
part Of the insular government is at
present in this city en- route to Wash
ington. At the head of this official
party is. Capt. Charles H. Sleeper, direc-
tor of the Philippines bureau of lands.
Those with him are the Hon. Dean c.
Worcester, secretary of the interior;
Frank G. Carpenter, the insular exeeu-
tive secretary; Juan Villamor, the at
torney general and Q. w. Rheberg, the
head of the friar lands division of the
land bureau.
This little flying squadron of the
Philippines are all bound for the States
with the same end in view, the investi-
cation of the alleged friar land frauds
which congress is said to be preparing
to take up. As yet no official authorize
tion of the investigation has been made
but a little cablegram that sped to
Manila shortly before the Manchuria
sailed from that port, requesting the
officials named to come direct to Wash
ington, is taken as evidence that such
authorization is sure to be made.
Captain Sleeper was already prepared
for the "trip, having received intimation
that he was to go some time previously
but the others were caught just as they
were preparing for the opening of the
insular legislature. Worcester and Car
penter will both be missed during the
coming session as both play a large
part i'm its work. The party will prob
ably be away two months and maybe
longer.
As director of the bureau of lands,
Captain Sleeper has personally directed
the management of the friar estates
and either conducted OF supervised all
the important sales and leases that have
been made. He wrote a considerable
portion of the official correspondence
on the subject and knows it more thor
oughly than any other official of the
insular government.
Between the records of his office
which he is carrying to Washington and
his extended personal knowledge, he is
capable of making more complete ex-
position of the several questioned trans
actions than anyone else VINO could ap-
pear before whatever tribunal investi-
gates the case. That explains why he
was the first man called when prepare
lions were made to take up the inves-
| tigation. The travellers are to lay be-
| fore the investigating committee the
government Is side of the case.
Worcester left the Islands in the
midst of storm of Filipino protest
| against himself. Several mass meetingt
were called by Filipino societies with
the avowed intention of the roasting
of the secretary of the interior
and one, at least. of these was raided
and broken up. An attempt was made
to get the assembly TO take the matter
up.
The threat that the Philippine as
sembly might go "on strike" and re
fuse to work unless Dean Worcester
was recalled, led to the following verse
published in recent copy of the Ma
Mia Cablenews:
This country now will soon be chow
For Old Demnition g bow-wows;
The statesmen threaten to adjourn
And hold no further pow-wows.
Each solon sage is full of rage
And also injured vanity,
And damns the pagan's patron with
A Christianized profanity.
With gestures due each runs hin
through
With bayonet rhetorical
Or makes him into sausage meat
With bolo metaphorical.
Within the hall the statesmen all
With agonized grimaces VOW
They IL cut their silly noses off
To spite their foolish faces now.
Each swears he II pack his gunny sacl
And to his bosque baybay go
And from the shack viii ne Ter come
back
Till worcester's cake is dough.
Alas, we re stung! Each silver tongu,
Likewise each leathern throat
VIII silent be, so they decree,
Till Worcester IS made the goat.
But we III forgive and try to live
and also sometimes laugh,
If they'll forego their thirty per
Till Worcester gets the gait.
L'envoi.
The sailors shirk and quit their work
| When Gomez tells them to;
But statesmen need not strike to show
How little they can do.