The Hawaiian gazette., 1917-03-02
APPO|NTMENTSARE
HELD UP by hot
Fight in SENATE
Kemp, Heen and MacAdam Sure
Of Confirmation Even II
Delayed
By ERNEST O. WALKER
(Mail Special TO The Adyertiserl

waiian nominations for Office are pend.
ing before the senate, but are not In d
] way OF Immediate confirmation. Even
the nominations of Samuel b. Kemp, Of
Honolulu, to be second judge of the
circuit court of the first circuit Of Ha..
wall, and of William IL. Heeh, of Homo,
lulu, to be third judge in the same
court, which were forwarded to the sen.
ate yesterday by President Wilson,
have not yet appeared in the CongTes.
sional Record, although they were made
public yesterday at the White House
offices, when the messenger was des.
patched to the Capitol.
Similarly, the nomination of ID. Hast.
ings MacAdam, Of this city, TO be post.
master at Honolulu, rests in the com.
mittee on postofiices and postroads,
where II has been favorably reported.
There is a possibility that MacAdam
may not be confirmed by the end of this
session, and the same is true of the two
judges. The trouble is all over the
nomination of DIR. Cary Grayson, the
FTesident's special physician, to be
rear,admiral. Republican senators and
some Democrats have been fighting
that nomination to finish, and conse.
! quently there has resulted deadlock
on executive business before the senate.
Probably at the very last moment,
when the defeat Of the Grayson nom:
ination has become apparent, there may
be confirmation of some other nomina-
tons But If this does not come about,
the President can easily rcnominate the
three officials in question, and undoubt
edly would do so.
MacAdam Some Hero aE#'..
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS MacAdam is
quite hero among the Hawaiian con.
ltingent here. Robert w. Breckons,
who still tarries in the city, likes Mac
Adams very much, and counts him as
an old bridge partner. They have
played much at the National Press
Club. KuhiO is also friend of Mac
Adam and will do what he can to make
the new postmaster feel at home when
! the latter takes up his duties at Homo
/ lulu n. - .'.i -
| 1t is limited here that suggestions for
official selections for the Territory of
Hawaii have frequently come from un.
official Hawaiian people in Washington
of late. There are rumors how cable.
grams have been despatched to Hawaii
IN more than one instance during the
winter, intimating that the recipient
would do well to, cable an application
for particular Office. This is said TO
have been the case with Judge Heen.
Kuhio had a visit the other day from
d woman journalist, who was undertake
| ing to write about the Islands and
other territory belonging to tho United
States outside the mainland One of
her questions was: Chow do you like
| America Mr. Delepatef1'
Dry Measure Dead
| The bill for prohibition in Hawaii,
now before the house, seems to be dead.
| IL is on the calendar to be reached
on call of committees and from present
appearances cannot be taken up in that
fashion because such calls are only on
Ecalendar Wednesdays, However other
i parliamentary expedients may be un.
dertaken for getting the bill TO vote.
The house is expected to approve pro-
hibition for the District of Columbia
at this session. It is easy now to pass
| prohibition bills of almost any char
aeter in either the senate or the house.
All that is needed is to get the given
4 measure 10 roll call.
1 There is like uncertainty about har
Dor appropriations for Hawaii. The
house bill is pending before the sen
ate, but Senator Kenyon and others
| promise to fight it to finish, although
they will accept a lump sum aPprOpria'
ton, such as was voted two years ago,
with the understanding that its dis
tribution shall be arranged by engineer
officers of the army. If such com
promise is struck, the allotmcnts for
Hawaii will be only for projects now
under way and the amounts will depend
upon the engineer officers.
After Entertainers
William Murray has been designated
as postmaster at Eva, Hawaii. Robert
Breckons and Delegate KuhiO have been
actively and aggressively LATTER" Ger
tain of the alleged Hawaiian entertain.
ers in Washington. They protested
against Hawaiian performers at local
picture theater, holding that the rag
i time was spurious and the supposed
Hawaiians not Hawaiians at all. The
matter was eventually brought before
the police court authorities and the
i alleged Hawaiians took down their
sign. The manager claiming to be a
native Hawaiian, gave a name, spelled
with an OPP and said he lived on
Fifth Street in Honolulu. Mr.. Brock.
ons pointed out that the spelling and
the residence at the address given were
both spurious. -
! Delegate Kuhio has a large allotment
of public documents, some of which Mr.,
Breckons says would be interesting to
people of Hawaii. Accordingly at Mr..
Breekons suggestion many of these
, documents are being franked to people
in the Islands.
I, Apparently all the Hawaiians here
now will remain to the end of the SEES.
sion of congress and the Inauguration.
Mr. BreekOns believes there will be an
extra session of congress, an opinion
shared by many people here, How.
ever, probably the compelling cause for
an extra session would be an actual
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