The Hawaiian gazette., 1918-03-01

ffst secure a passport. No reasons are
gwen ,por arc any explanations vouch-
Stfed. Questions are not encouraged
No passport, no ticket This is the
rule; take il OF leave It,
The, Advertiser = correspondent Mt
Washington has tried to get some i'm
formation on the ruling that win throw
light upon IL, but beyond the fact that
he has secured confirmation of it he
can get, nothing. George Mex. MeClcl.
Ian the Washington representative of
the chamber Of commerce, meets with
q like lack Of success.
This more or less secret rule went
into effect some time ago. Word reach
ed The Advertiser of this or that trav.
cher to Hawaii having been delayed
because Of the ,neeessity of securing n
passport, but 1T was taken for granted
that this was only through some bone.
head steamship clerk, or some bureau
clerk ut Washington who had not been
told that Hawaii was in the Union. 1t
was not until yesterday that definite
word came that the ruling is official
and being enforced throughout the east.
Not Reached. West
Perhaps the strangest thing about 1t
all IL that tho ruling has not reached
the West, or had not up until ten DAYS
ago. The latest, steamers have brought
people to Hawaii from the East who
had TO get passports and people from
the West who were told that passports
WIRE not necessary.
:, Ernest G. Walker, The Advertiser 3
Washington correspondent, under date
of'Tebruary ~ writes about it as fol-
lowSi
Zone of the most mysterious meas
pres of recent years with reference to
Hawaii is the imposition of a passport
regulation for all passengers from the
maiHlaRd. Apparently no written in
struetions for it were issued from the
state department. but the instructions
nevertheless are in force and the fact
that these seem to be unwritten makes
II more difficult to have them revoked.
Indeed. TO ScaSuAl fhqtiifers state de-
partment officials are quite apt to re-
piysthere are no passport requirements.
But one planning to journey, or
voyage to Honolulu. who attempts to
purchase steamship ticket learns
very positively that he can not travel
thither without u passport. He must
FURNISH photograph and birth certi-
fcate, although the latter requirement
IL often being waived. Reasons for
putting such a regulation into effect are
not ,f0tthc oming.
MeuiellAn u Isafled
{ i'aeOrGe Mex. Mcclellan, represent.
ing the Honolulu Chamber of Commerce,
has been probing the stntus but with
NJ nan tafo NJ III
chief Of the passport bureau Of the
state department, is verv uneommuni-
catiye to put the ease mildly and Coun-
Eellor Polk does not furnish much light.
A similar regulationris in force against
Porto Rico but the instructions there
are written. However, one taking
sea voyage from New York to New
Orleans need not have a passport.
1.-The law that warrants the pass
port system to Hawaii is not altogether
clear except that it is war time and the
government has very broad powers
from various acts of congress which.
under such extgencies are literally con.
strued.
"SOme of the best known residents
of Hawaii are now sojourning on the
mainlandJ among them tx Gov. Frenr,
v no anpaTo ntlv nuSt bavo a. ,o.,,,,,,,.
TO get hack homo prohohlr, n"Ioaoto
Kalanianaole. nov under.tnoJ 80 hd e"' ~,
his wav TO Wasbington vii boUo ="
ACQUIRE a passport befnre he con ~
turn to the Islands ,,
Examples
The supgestion tbo, ror,o. c,,,.
crnor Frear NAV have 70 secure n maze.
part to return home or that the npIo.
gate will have. to stay in WASHINGTON
until he can produce the proof that he
Is an American citizen. il NOT ot all
fur fetched. At the present time
HDnOlula merchant is in New York
waiting for his nat ization papers
t1y reach him from Honolulu. in order
that he may buy u ticket. He cabled
for these papers last week and his
wife sought District Attorney Huber
~ great )alarm with the cable, wanting !
10 know what il all meant
Moses Clegg, the recently installed
Of the Oueen's Hosni+oI
was delayed in New York for twelve
lays while he secured the proof for