The Hawaiian gazette., 1916-01-28
Commissioner General Of Inlmi-
grationi Coming TO Honolulu
With AK, Says Report
DEMOCRATS ARE AG0G
OVER LATEST RUMoRS
Friendship Of President For Head
Of Hawaii Bureau Kept Him
In Office

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r. Z, halsey, inspector in charge Of
the immigration station Of the United
States in Honolulu, may be an Office.
holder no longer after the middle Of
February, IL the report that was eur
rent in many circles of Inc city yester.
day is substantiated by Time which
proves or. disproves so many rumors.
Mr.. Halsey himself, when asked If he
had heard the report Of his Approaching
official demise, said that IL was all pews
to him, and that he hoped Il was not
so. Indeed, he was, he added, inclined
to doubt Il, as he had been on tho main
land last August, and if there had been
any intention of removing him and
filling the post he holds with good
Democrat, he believes that he would
have heard something Of. il at that time.
Commissioner General Coming
The report, however, persisted des-
pite the statement from the man most
affected thereby, and embraced the
statement that Commissioner General Of
immigration Anthony Caminetti is ex-
pected to visit Hawaii some time next
month in the dual guise Of official ex.
eeutioner for Mr.. Halsey, and crowner
of the man who is to take the vacancy
thereby created.
The report, which was most cireum-
stantial, even went to the leng h of
saying that the successor has been
picked out by the powers that be in
the Democratic party, that he is
California man, and aspoliticAl and per-
sonal friend of the commissioner gen.
eral. Only in the matter Of names
was the Old Dame Rumor silent, he
yOnd avering that there are several
names which have been mentioned in
the past which might I'll the .descrip-
tion given above, for Mr.. Caminetti
has many friends political and personal.
President Is His Friend .5G
The removal of Mr.. Halsey. should
it prove to be n fact, would cause much
surprise among the politically Wise ones
Of Honolulu, for Mr.. HalseS, In addi.
tion to minding his own business well,
rs reported to be a Princeton man. who
knew the President when Mr.. Wilson
was head of the university and who
has kept in touch with the Nations
chief executive during the years of his
rise to power. S.st,E %taa IT.
At the time Of the Bourbon national
victory on the mainland, when the 10.
cal Democrats were looking about for
possible plums of political hue, ths
talk yeered to the collectorship Of the
port and by natural inference to the
post held by Mr.. Halsey. Mr.. Stack.
able was collector Of the port, but is
no longer. Mr.. Halsey was inspector in
charge of the immigration station, and
still is. ..mM Er
Warned Of a. r..,
In short, the politicians of Hawaii
were warned off by those who knew
the situation, from attacking Halsey,
because, of that Relationship with
HPrexyo of Princeton, in the DAYS
before the college president 3 became
President of the Nation. LIZ a,. ~,
At that time the names of several
Honolulans were mentioned as possible
candidates for the immigration office,
COL Charles j. Mccarthy, now terri
torial treasurer, being among them. But
Mccarthy, 1t is sal :, did not want that
job--under all the eircumstanees--and
devoted his attention to other things.
Bertram G. Rivenburgh was also men
TONED but he too had something else
in view at that time, and refused to
take the suggestion seriously. So the
matter rested until just recently.
With AK and Baton
OF late, however, there have been
reports and rumors buzing about Homo
lulu, concerning themselves with the
occupant of the immigration station s
executive chair, but none OF them of
sufficient Importance to warrant repeat
ing. Now comes the statement that
Commissioner General Caminetti il com.
ing next month, swinging the exeeu-
toner's ak in one hand while in the
other he carried the baton Of Office
which he will confer upon his own
man. But it may all prove a rumor
as baseless as others of a similar
character--and then again IL may not.