The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1911-08-11
MCCLELLAN SENDS
A HOPEFUL NOTE
BELIEVES THAT TWENTY FIVE
ooNoRnssMEN WILL v1sfT
TIE ISLANDS.

The latest news frpm Washington rel.
ativc TO the proposed visit Of congress.
men to Hawaii this fall is that sccre.
iary Mcclellan believes he will be able
10 get twenty-five senators and repre-.
sentaiives together 20 sail from san
Francisco on September ON the Gee.
anic steamship Sierra and return TO the
Coast on the Manchuria, sailing from
here on September 90, giving the con
gressmen just three weeks in the
Islands.
This information comes TO the cham
her Of commerce in letter from Mr..
Mcclellan, but until the chamber hears
further from him nothing will be done
toward planning for their entertain
ment and itinerary around the Islands.
cOastwise Suspension.
At the regular meeting of the trus.
tees of the chamber yesterday, letter
was read from Mr.. Mcclellan relative
TO coastwise suspension. In his letter
he stated that the eoastwise suspension
bill will come up again for considera-
ton in December lie called attention
again to the necessity of the chamber
procuring data to refute the statements
made in the recent article published
by the San Francisco Call.
"A copy of the Call,' he states.
has been sent to every member of
congress, and Congressman Kahn has
notified me that its statements will be
used against us in committee and on
the floor of the house 1t is very i'm
portant that. if possible, we shall be
able to specify considerable number
of important cases where intending pas.
sengers have failed either to secure
passage or a reasonable definite assur-
ance of passage on which they could
base plans for voyage"
International Arbitration.
President Morgan named as the
chamber s committee on international
arbitration, Messrs. W. A. Bowen, r. f.
Lange and G. j. Waller.
The president also named as a nomi-
mating committee to present names of
candidates for office at the annual meet
ing next Wednesday afternoon, w. NJ.
Giffard, chairman; w. r. Castle. and
A. Lewis, Jr. AT that time. it is ex-
pected that Mr.. Morgan will decline
a further term of office as president,
owing to i'll health.
J. L. Fleming, w. c. Parke and w. o.
Smith, were admitted as members.
They Have Box.
Most of the trustees sidestepped the
opportunity to grace box at the opera
house when Prof. David Starr Jordan
makes his address next Tuesday, most
of them stating they viii occupy seats
in the Storage, but advised the presi-
dent, secretary and treasurer to make
use of the conspicuous section offered
TO the chamber.
Getting Away From Commerce.
t. Give Davies offered an objection
to the proposal that the chamber as
sociate itself with other organizations
in planning ways and means for the
public to spend its holidays. Mr..
Davies said that this was matter
which seemed to be getting too far
away from commerce and he thought it
ill-advised for the chamber to say how
the people should spend their holidays
This objection was made when the fol
lowing report was made by b. F. Dill
lingham. chairman of the entertan-
ment committee:
I'm reply to your favor of the 2sth
of June, / beg to report that at a
meeting of the entertainment commit
tee of the Honolulu chamber of com.
merce and the merchants association
the following recommendation was
unanimously agreed to:
"We recommend that the suggestion
of Mr.. w. II. McInernv have the con.
sdeTation of the trustees of the Ho
nolulu chamber of commerce and the
directors of the merchants association
as to whether an active joint commit
tee of those bodies should be appointed
to carry out the object in view, viz
the better celebration of public holiday,
and public entertainments in general