The Hawaiian gazette., 1913-01-07
File Formal Protest With Senate
Committee Against Frear's
disappointment.
TO GO BEFORE THE HOUSE
Friend of Wilson Is Here Quietly
Sizing Up Situation for
a Report.
lFrom Saturday Advertiscr)

Delegate Kuhio, through his attorney
W. A. Kinney, has filed a protest
against the senate s confirmation of the
reappointment of Governor Frea: with
Senator Poindexter, chairman of the
senate committee on Pacific Islands and
Porto Rico. and has received the as
surance of the Progressive that no i'm.
mediate on will he taken in the
Governors case, one way or the other.
Senator owen. the Democratic leader in
the committee, as previously reported
in The Advertiser, has agreed to pre-
vent confirmation if possible.
A dispatch sent Dy the Washington
correspondent of the StarBulletin yes
terday to his paper quotes Kuhio as
authority for the statement that no pro-
test has b en- filed by him, which is
correct as far as it goes, as the protest
has not been fled by Kuhio but by Mr..
Kinney. in his capacity as attorney for
the Delegate. Mr.. Kinney is not in
Washington MS a Democrat, but as an
attorney, ready to take up the fight
against the Governor where he left off
prior to the Fisher investigation.
Congressional Investigation.
1t is the KuhioKinney plan to let
matters rest for the time being with
the filing of the protest and what anti
Frear lobbying can be done quietly, I'M
til the fling of Secretary Fishers re-
port. As this report is certain to be in
favor of the Governor and against
the Delegate, so far as the latter s
"charges' 90, the next step of the
Delegate and his Democratic attorney
will be to endeavor to have the Fisher
recommendations set aside as biased,
unfair and founded upon insufficient
knowledge and to press for congress
sional investigation into affairs Hawai-
ian by committee from the house,
One of the objects of this step will
be to prevent senate confirmation at this
session and to impress upon Mr.. Will
son the "fact" that there is something
extremely wrong in Hawaii, but so skill
fully concealed that even the Fisher
probe failed to reach it. There is some
element of fear that Secretary Fisher IS
report will be such that it might lead
to Mr.. Wilson actually carrying out the
desires of President Taft, in the matter
of the Governorship, and himself nomi-
mating Governor Frear to succeed him
sell This chance the Kuhio Kinney
combine do not wish to take.
Kinney Against Link.
In the meanwhile, while Mr.. Kinney
is not taking any part in the question
of the Democratic rivalry for the Gov
ernorship, it is not thought that his
presence in Washington is likely to
help L. L. McCandless any. Advices re.
ceived by this paper from the Capitol
state that whatever influence Mr.. Kin
ney as a Democrat brings to bear will
not be for the Democratic candidate
against Kuhio in the recent elections,
although Kuhio, himself, before leaving
Honolulu for Washington, expressed n
preference for McCandless over all 9TH
er Democratic aspirants for Governor
Frear's shoes.
Wilson'S Friend Here.
That the President-elect is giving
some consideration to the local situa-
ton is made plain from the presence in
Hawaii of Isidore Jacob of San Fran
cisco, personal friend of Mr.. Wilson
and a close friend of Chairman Nc
Combs of the Democratic national com.
mittee, who is making a two-fold in
vestigation. One of the objects of his
visit is to look into the possibilities for
establishing another large pineapple
plantation and cannery, with Califor-
MAN and Hawaiian capital. Another OBJ
iect is to size things up politically in
a quiet way in order that some frsthand
information regarding the local situa.
ton may get TO the President-elect and
TO the national committee chairman.
Mr.. Jacob, who is registered at the
Alexander Young, is of such Democratic
prominence that he has been named ms
a member Of the Inauguration Com.
mittee - 10 make all the arrangements
for the inauguration of the Democratic
President on March 4. He has al.
lowed little news Of his mission 10 Ha.
wall TO leak ont, but a few here know
that what he ~ and hears will 90 ~,
rect 20 those who are TO name the next
Governor OF Hawaii.