The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1915-05-04
SENATOR WARREN r..
SEES HAWAII AS
(. AN old SOLDIER
Intends TO Find Out Things
With His Own Eyes While
Visiting
U. S. ARMY SHOULD
HAVE 10000 MEN
These Islands and the Panama
Canal Should Be Adequate
ly Protected H.

Senator Francis Emroy Warren will
be seventy.one years old next month.
"And do you know" he said yester.
day, "until was past forty hadn 7
voted for presidential electorf ..,
"You see know something about
territorial vassalage myself. have
been mayor of territorial city, gov
ernor Of a territory and I've held the
territorial pursestrings" - .s>n
The senator was mayor of Cheyenne
and resigned to become territorial gov
ernor of Wyoming. Later he was ter.
ritorial treasurer for three terms and
when Wyoming Was admitted to- state
hood in 1889, was elected the first gov.
ernor of the state, but resigned the
same year to become United States SEN
ator. He is a member of the Senate
committee on military affairs, Of which,
when the Senate was Republican, he
formerly was chairman. y. . ...' .
Game Here "on the Jump 80
"When the invitation came to visit
this territory l accepted IL on the
jump" he continued "Some Of my
friends told mel shouldn't have done
SO. you II be putting yourself under
obligations to those people,, they told
me, and when they ask things of
you, as Of course they will, you'll find
yourself in an embarrassing position. ,
f'Not at all, l told them. Every
thing Hawaii has ever asked for that
l thought she ought to have, I've
voted for. What more could do under
any eircumstancesf'
And then the Senator made a tact
full reference to the iniquity of the sea
men, bill, as it touched Hawaii, with
soothing assurance that such things
as that would all be smoothed out
when the Republicans were returned to
control and, since Hawaii unfortunately
had no senator Of her own, he should
like to be considered as much the Sem
ator from Hawaii as was humanity pos
sible
All Of which would seem to indicate
that, even If the gentleman from Wyom-
ing did start d little late in national
politics, he has lost no time since then
In putting his opportunities to advant,
age.
Reorganization Of the Army
A member of the senate committee
on military affairs is fair game when
you maroon him on an Island with of,
ieers to right of him, officers to left
of him, and army posts before and
after. b, Senator Warren knows it, but
he Is fully able TO protect himself He
talked to The Advertiser yesterday for
three quarters of an hour on the reor.
ganization Of the army, the political
difficulties of the problem, the Spats
letween Secretary Garrison of the War
Department and the different commit.
teemen, the lessons of the war, the
strategical position of the United
States, the work of the war college
and then refused to release it for pub
LEGATION.
An officer came up and bore him
away. "Good bye" he Said "This
LAS been very interesting converse,
tion, You haven't got anything, but
that's all right" Neither, it is a safe
wager, did that officer. W.
On one point, however, the Senator
is explicit, 81 believe,'' he said,
"the army ought to be bigger. We
Ought. to have loo, 900 men. A large
standing army as armies .re measured
in Europe, we don't want II would
BANKRUPT us. Germany navs a ma i,r
general about what we pay a first lieu,
tenant, and the nr;vata soldiers "nt
phout a fifth, what we give our men
Moreover, our geographical position
is such that we dor, 4 need to he in the
state of instant prepa redness necessary
among nationsl surrounded nv Jealous
enemies. ~ -.
Need Machinery for Army
1--WE do need however, the machinery
for forming an army in times of danger,