The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1912-03-15
HAWAII BILLS
ARE HELD UP
Kau Ditch Waits on Lorimer-
Kona Railroad Bill May
Be Held Up.
BY Ernest q. walker.
(Mail Special to The Advertiser.)

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WASHINGTON, February 29.-Presi
dent Taft was informed here today of
the efforts in Hawaii to patch up peace
between Governor Frear and Delegate
Kuhio. He expressed considerable in
terest and commented about the ihstruc-
ton of Hawaii's six delegates to the
Chicago convention.
At the Capitol, Hawaiian business is
at standstill. John It. McCrosson is
resting on his cars with his Kau bill,
which has passed the house. 1t would
come up before the committee on the
Pacific Islands and Porto Rico but Sen
ator L0rimer, the chairman, is away in
Illinois, in the midst of a hard fight for
Taft delegates and there is no telling
when he will be through. Apparently
the committee will not want to take
hold of this legislation till after SEN
ator Lorimer has returned.
Mr.. MeCrosson would like to get the
Kau bill out of the way, because two
or three other bills, in which he is in.
terested are waiting upon the disposi-
ton of that measure.
Bond Bill Doubtful.
Mrs. +. M. Watson has Joined her
husband here. He is representing the
Kona and Kau Railroad Company in
the efforts to get through bill that
will guarantee its bonds. The outlook
for this bill, as already stated in this
correspondence, is not altogether bright.
Whether the bill will be pushed very
hard at this session is yet to- be de-
termined. a ee};
The house territories committee has
reported favorably the CONFESS bill for
street railway franchise in Hilo. The
period for beginning work was reduced
from two years to one year and other
amendments put in, as recommended by
Governor Frear. There is some objec-
ton to the length of the franchise,
fifty years, but it is said that what
ever objection is made to this may come
in the senate.
Outcome Salutary.
Matters in the house generally are
moving along the investigation lines,
the special committees being at work
on various and sundry things.
Much as can be said against the new
installment of investigations into which
a Democratic house is plunging, the
outcome win be salutary. The objects
are quickly summarized, one of them is
political, as far as Democrats are con-
cerned. The leaders of the house be-
lieve their energies should be centered
more upon direct constructive work.
They want to establish record as a
party, capable in building up good logis-
lation. They think this will have more
effect upon the country in the long run,
than the uncovering of scandal, if sean
dals there be.
1t is quite possible that those voters,
who believe the departments have been
conducted extravagantly, will be more
influenced by corrective legislation
than by the exposure of extravagant ex-
penditures. If so, the reasoning of De-
mocratic leaders is correct. More cam
paign capital can be had by pairing
1 down the appropriation bills and giving
proof of real economy than by diverting
attention to the necessities therefore.
And it may also be true that activities
against the Money Trust will be UNI
wise politically, because they will divert
attention from the tariff ON which the
Democratic leaders think the coming
campaign should be waged.
Economy Gould Come.
And yet there have been years OF
more or less extravagant charges. II
may be well that there should come {
searching investigation along the entir'
line. Even the wild rumors might al
: well be traced down. After all the PEG
pie are more interested in having rea
information as to their government a
Washington than in the schemes of poll
: ticians to advance their own fortunes
: The nine executive departments a
, Washington may be thrown into tur
moil and the work quite completely de
moralized. No one questions that thei
u operations can be conducted NOR
i economically, The statement by Sen
Q ator Aldrieh, of Rhode Island a year o
/ two ago that, if government bushes
:. were transacted as carefully as privat
business there would be saving o
g 5000, 100000 a year, came from an oil
=. head and had lot of truth in it, Men
I. bers of the cabinet and all their chief
and sub-ehiefs may be worn out wit
N the work of the President s econOm
d commission on one side and the les
II friendly inquiries of the Democrats
le house on the other. There may be som
1t temporary loss in efficiency, and we
& in the course of time, il win all prov
Ie beneficial.Y
lie II is a pretty wen established rul'
If that where There is wholesale conden
nation there must be scrutiny, In II