The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, September 9, 1898, Page 3

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 9, 1898. REPRESENTATIVES OF UNCLE SAM AMONG NATIVES Voyage of Commissioners on a Little Steamer to Neigh- boring | slands. Hitt of Illinois Speaks Loving Words of Patriotism That Soothe the Hawaiian Breast. e Epectal Correspondence of The Cal), * BY ALICE RIX. WAILUKU, Island of Maui, Aug. 21. The Claudine, trim and tidv little is- | land steamer, sailed out of Honolulu harbor on the afternoon of August the 20th, bearing to Hawail’s other islands the august body of United States Com- missioners, head, trunk, hide, horns, hoof and tail. One learns after a bit of a while to know all these apart, but at first, with thirteen to choose from, I vow it was hard to tell a Senator from his Secre- tary, the great man from the small. An air of importance is so monstrous catching. When I saw the—er—under —gentlemen of the official party at din- ner I took them all for dukes. But this, mind you, was at the hotel, on dry land, where a man’s legs do not inter- fere with his pretensions. The wilted dignity of great personages at sea is what mere men make merry over on shore. No one came to speedl the Commis- sion on its way. This official tour of inspection about the istands, the result of which their future government might be said to hang, awoke not the slightest Interest in Honolulu. The Commi, s have not, truth to tell, been foilowed about at any time by gaping crowds. No committee of re- ception waited on their coming. No delegation escorted them to the Ha- waiian Hotel. They came humbly r hired hacks and intro- themselves to the hotel register. nd the ri-public reception ten- d them by Mr. Harold M. Sewall, ex-Minister to the United States, noth- ing brilliant has been done for them socially. This reception brilllant enough. g on the shabby heels of the An- m Ball, it was even dazzling. > who took advantage of the gen- rd of invitation published in the )apers were not of a sort to rest which went on nce to the ex-United Men and wo- agreeable secur- rarefied social at- enough in th which board, being In truth interested In what the United States Commissioners had having moreover friends of my own at breakfast dear, innocent, succulent lit- tle squabs, delicious island coffee and rare pink pol served in calabashes worth thelr weight—pol filled—for pol- ish and for age. And having tarried by thelr flesh pots and a full hour after- ward on their lanai, where roses, which bloom no more on Oahu since the com- to say rather than how they ate, and | Wailuku who were going to have for | FEpT s | ing of the little black beetle from the loyalty of every old native woman in that Courthouse and the fidelity of her little island pony tied outside be- neath its trees were of such moment to himself as well as to the great Repub- lic that he loved, that the warm, easy, acquliescent Hawaiian nature yielded to_him where he stood. Had America asked for Hawall through the mouth of Hitt I feel con- vinced she would have sent her islands wrapped In leaves of Ti, a free gift of the heart to the Greater Republic. GROWING STAMPEDE FROM DAWSON CITY Down-River Boats Laden With Per- sons Eager to Return to the States. BY SAM W. WALL. DAWSON CITY, Aug. 14.—The Alaska Exploration Company’'s boat Linda ar- rived up the river on Thursday bringing some fifty passengers and immediately returned down to bring up a barge that was stuck on a bar, or to bring up the freight left aboard of the barge. The barge is in the Yukon flats. Mr. Liebes of the company, direct from San Fran- cisco, and Mr. Fulda, local manager, came up on the Linda, and the three big warehouses being built on the water front are being hurried to completion. The N. A. T. Company’'s boat P. B. Weare, steamed down the river on the 11th, taking the following named passan- gers bcund out: A. T. Mitchell, C. R. Craighead, C. H. Mur- hy, Gus Beanlenn, James naid, John ohn, P, W. Reld, D. L. Bush, W. M. Ohearn, >, H. Reed, H. J. Williams, W. D. Dennisen, . P. Whek, John McCann, H. Bullurd, R. N. ibson, L. Nelson, Thomas Hope, J. W. Smith, H. Clark, D. Colman, S. D. Robinson, W. Robinson, C. Rasmusson, Paul Mizony, J. Sinclair, Willlam Simpson, D. L. Weaver, G. A. Webster, L. M. Taggart, Thomas Hamil- ton, James Gallagher, W. H. Briggs, M. Bran- negan, Willlam Bartrum, C. C. Preacott, L. Lemonstrouse, Ganzague Cote, J. J. Kearnan, J. Byrne, J. C. Pickett, W. M. Brunsell, F. B. ‘Wright, John Mason, T. K. Warrick, J. K. Camp! , R. McDonald, C. Goldstein, Frank Gurdici, Charles Ketchum, C. M. Leavitt, C. SET AN EXAMPLE FOR THE NATIVES Chinese Present Views to Commissioners. THEIR IDEA OF NEW LAWS WANT ALL KINDS OF PRIVI- LEGES IN HAWAIL Celestial Merchants and Planters Desire to Xeep on Importing Their Fellow Coun- trymen. BY HORACE WRIGHT. Special Correspondence of The Call. HONOLULU, Aug. 31.—The Chinese have set an example to the Hawalians | in the matter of placing their wishes | in regard to Congressional legislation | for the newly acquired territory of | Hawall before President McKinley's Commissioners. On Monday last Chinese Consular Agent Goo Kim Ful appeared before the Commissioners with a memorial signed by 180 of the leading Chinese residents. The character of the legis- the passage money, and in the event of desertion the immigration company to confiscate the money. As yet no laborers have come in under this new agreement. The companies hope by exacting the monetary bond to lessen the desertiops, and another way will be to recruit la- borers from new districts men who have never been to the islands before. This will necessitate the companies going to the northern districts for men. The cry from all the plantations is that they are short of labor, and two new plantations have just been started which will call for & large number of laborers. With regard to the {ll-treatment of la- borers by lunas something certainly should be done to protect these people, as they come here with the guarantee from the employer that they will have the full and equal protection of the laws of the Hawalian Islands, and nowhere can it be found on tue statutes that the laborers have to be kicked and cuffed around by a lot of ignorant lunas. In conversation with some wealthy land owners from the districts referred to, I ascertained that the desertions were still increasing in number, es- peclally among the Japanese, who guletly but forcibly resisted the man- ates of their Consul, claiming that he had no jurisdiction over them, now that the countrv belonged the United States, their contracts were illegal-and void and consequently they could work for whomsoever they pleased. CALISTOGA HAS A NEW PETRIFIED FOREST Important Discovery Made by Miss Honoria Tucmey, a Santa Rosa Teacher. SANTA ROSA, Sept. 8.—Considerable interest has been developed here in the re- cent discovery of a new petrified forest in the nelghborhood of Calistoga and some distance from the forest which has for years been recognized as one of the prin- cipal patural attractions of this county. The find was made yesterday by Mi Honoria P. Tuomey, a well-known teacher of this city, who, with her brother, wan exploring a hitherto unknown section of the Calistoga hills, and the result is like- 1y to prove of great value to the owners of the preperty upon which the wonderful mosphere, ch to lose such | s these. And as | so were they | like ‘“‘charmed | than earth,” | hiftingly by hundreds.of littie{ lanterns strung like jewels | g soft colored lights on the —for the shaded | vns of Waikiki creep down into the | Japane: in the trees, S out gleaming on the jewels, silks and | tulles of women, caressing soft bared heads and sweet uncovered shoulders, fearlessly given to the gentle Hawai- fan night. Within, the goodly throng | bent upon the hand Agent of the United S of the Special es—for at last | Mr. Sewall’'s new title is out of the »f- ficial bag—and that of his wife, and | those of Senator and Mrs. Cullom of | lllinois (and. Washington) and their | daughter, Mr Ridgway, an—I) really do not know where—and then stood glittering in lovely frocks and | exceedingly well tailored garments un- | der the electric lights, or wandered out beneath the trees, where all shapes were gracious In caressing half shadows, and the band playe rious accompaniment to the cha voice of the surf. { And, although a littie person in pink | tuile shrugs a dear, disdainful shoulder with a love of a dimple in it, to the right of me, and remarks to some | Philadelphia’_shoulder straps, in fond attendance, that she hates these polit- ical love feasts I, in al inno- cence, find it a very fit ely ec- tacle, and, since after the Annexaticn Ball, I had not given Honolulu credit | for them, I am glad to have seen a few | of her frocks and manners before | shaking the dust of these Hawalian Is- | lands from my .hunllng fee:. A0 . . e | So, as I say, nobody came to see the Commission off. The band fumed as | usual on the pier and the native boys | dived and ducked for dimes and nickels in the green waters about the ship. But they were not the dimes and nic! els of the United States Commissioner: which same, according to rumor, are | handled with economy, and so have no part or place in this chronicle of Com- missional happenings by land or sea. The Claudine slipped out into the| «stream to the strains of “Oh, Say, Can You See?”’ which since Annexation winds up and starts off everything here in a musical way and I found, bésides myself, no woman on board, but seve- ral members of the local press, and otherwise a representative native Ha- | walian politician, Colonel John Rich- ardson, whose mission it would be to round up natives at the various towns where the Commissioners proposed to speak; a few Chinese and an itinerant merchant from Korea, who wore long, loose flowing silken garments and car- ried his cue in a meat safe fastened, heaven knows how, to the top of his narrow, handsome head. He was al- most the only thing that happened of interest on the way to Lahaina, where | we touched, or rather, swung anchor | in the offing at about midnight, and where every one got up to look over the side and see the big, awkward, heavy freight boats plow back and ‘forth from ship to the rough landing in the primitive fashion of early island days. And then on again into the boisterous channel, which romps be- tween the islands and spends its sav- age fun on all who go down into it in ships. Three times 'round went our gallant ship, And three times 'round went she, And every time around she stood upon her keel and she lay her down to rest on port and then on starboard side, and then rose proudly on a wave and then sank shuddering in its trough and leaped and plunged and dipped and rocked and hula-hulaed her way along the side of Maul. JZarly morning brgught us to Kahu- luf harbor—if a roudh bottom and such landing as may be made frum little boats up slippery rotting steps hanging to the side of a narrow wharf may still deserve the name. Here the Comunis- sion was to be taken by train to Wai- luku and breakfasted by a native gen- tleman and Judge called Kaalua and after would address a gathering of Hawaiians in the Courthouse of the town. I declined the honor of being the only woman at Judge Kaalua’s hospitable here and there | whiffed it awesomely and for the first | NATIVES COMING “A Crush of All Sorts of RIgs and Traps Was at the Door.” TO WAILUKU COURTHOUSE TO HEAR THE COMMISSIONERS SPEAK. Japan, climb and swing in the light Maui winds, and then driven to the head of the beautiful Eau Valley, where I was seized with a great longing to fly Hawalian politics and United States Commissioners for a plunge into its sweet green deeps, and then back into the town to find that I was still early enough at the Courthouse to see the Commissioners arrive, all garlanded with leis of brilllant blossoms like prize cattle at a county fair. A crush of all sorts of rigs and traps was at the door and tied beneath the trees were droves of the sturdy little island horses, whose riders were, for the most part, old native women who had come mile upon mile through the beautiful, simple, uncritical country where woman rides a man’s saddle and rides it man ‘fashion in her holoku. They took their places with the rest, a gtrange company of troubled faces, dark, full-blooded natives and half and quarter whites come to listen to the haole, Commissioners, who will explain why America has taken their country from them. The place was crowded. Men stood four and five rows deep outside the windows and doors. Senator Cullom spoke. He rose to the introduction of Judge Kaalua—who was also his interpreter— his lean, keen American face with that fatal likeness to Abraham Lincoln which took this man into politics and, like the name of a great father de- scended to a little son, has been both his help and hinderance there—rising with singularly silly effect cut of his lef of yellow flowers. He looked like an eagle In chains. He spoke like a man who has nothing in particular to say. He told his “friends and fellow citi- zens” all about what happened on the Tth of July—as if they did not know that much for themselves, the poor, bewildered dears!—and how very good it was for them to belong to America instead of to themselves, and that he thought their country was a beautiful country, and that he was gratified, he might say pleasantly surprised, to find such intelligent, industrious and worthy persons abiding in it. His Interpreter followed him phrase for phrase and doubtless lent his ut- terance something from the gracious speech of Hawall. for the native audi- ence bowed in their appreciation of his parting compl!ments and sat expectant of the next. And the next was Repreientative Hitt, that member of the Commissicn- ers’ party who is believed to have brought its brains beneath his decent white hair. He met his Hawallans with the open arms. He took them to him as friends and brothers. He gathered them with that warm per- sonal magnetism of the speaker which needs no interpreter to make its mes. sage clear. And when he closed wit! “I am from Illinois and I am proud of {t! I love my native State with all my heart and I am glad to serve her with all my strength! But first and best I love my country, the great Re- public to which my native State be- longs. So let it be with you, Ha- walians! Love the country that is your birthplace. It is the most beauti- ful country I ever saw. But feel for it as I feel for my native State! Give your first and best devotion to your great Republic!” When he said this he made the appeal to that higher pa- triotlsm 8o personally persuasive—as if H. Fisher, L. E. Tiffany, Fred McCloud, W. L. Foley, E. A. Bessey, J. J. Bigelow, L. E. Chestnut, tulz, H. P. White, L. R. Cole, W. E. , J. N. Johnston, C. C. Heig- heus, G. A. Irwin, James Adams, Peter Roblin, I H. Miller, T. 'W. Willlams, Robert J. Mc Ginnis, E. C. Price, W. J. Park, F. H. Lewls W. R Cuthbertson, F. E. Thayer, Dr. A. A. Deekens, A. A. Travis, Mrs. E. Hirshberger, H. J. Sheafe, J. Robert Mead, C. G. Beauleinn, 8. C. Gifford, W. J. Hopkins, V. Pringle, James A. McDonald, David West, D. Damtree, H. Dowding, H. McNaughton, C. 8. Lewls, A. Averett,’ R. E. Chestnut, Noragar, John Curtis, James Narbett, C. C. Jewell, P. Philias, John Darrell, W. C. Mogs, C. H. Davi J. A. Shelladay, K. G. Pike, S. P, McCord, Theo. Brenning, H. McMillan, 1. T. Migony an wite, P. Mu‘nlgh’f A. R. McGiil, H. A. Miller, E. H. Hanson, Malone, K. 'S iood,” B. W, A. Ledmik, Balley, Sam Jones, J. J. 5. Alex' Van, R. R. George, Small, F. J. Leeds, F. F.. Kimble, Bill Covert, F. Hankley, James Hoyt, H. Oberstella, A. A. Braymet, Frank Ohler, W. B. Wet McGuire, B. J. Carolan, W. H. Mor- Smolek, G. W. Key, C.'Jacobson, G. Johneon, H. Schroeder, 5. Shelkier, J. M. B J. McDonald, A. Carston, Alex Smith, F. Lent, R. Trainor, A. Hose, F. Jackson, N. Reck, E, Newberg, H. Sorenson, A. McIntosh, C. E. Meler, John Tyler, A. Servias, W. A Murray, C. Cook, F. Cramor, W. R. Jamison, Thomas Spratt, J. W. Young, J. Parker, P. R. Pratt, G. A. Misner, T. F. Meagher, Son HIill. T'he same company’s new boat, John Cudahy, salled the following day. The rates asked by this company are a little lower than those of the Alaska Com- mercial Company, which accounts for the reater number of passengers on these oats. This is an evidence that all that sall from Dawson are not returning Klon- dikers laden with gold. They are, in- stead, most of them, stampeders back to the land of low prices, richer only in ex- perience. The John Cudahy’s passengers were: J. J. Esies, R. B. Wood, H. B. Goldfinch, J. 3 'Swan, George B. Bpencer and wife, W. Zebreska, Mrs. C. F. Leidley, I H. Goldstein and wife, Harold Fogg, George L. Palmer, J. W. B. G Schrade, oyd, G. A. McDowell, F. E. Thayer, Sheafe, A. A. Travis, A. A. Decker, J. B. Lynch, W. H. Gregory, Gus Oison, C.'Campbell, e E. Blucher, G, B, Larose, A. E. King, Charles Holtz, H, B. Musens, J. H. Barnes, 1. A, Pe- terson, George Brahdle, M. Roushan, John Warren, G. W. Frey, A. Folstat, H. Dunn, H. Harmon, J. H. Miller, R. Litfle, F. Bur- gert, G. C. Westerburg, John Smith, R. J. Ratclifte, G. R. England, O. Erickson, S. M. Dawson, R. Creed, E. Pecard, A. Pecard, P. Gillahan, R. C. RKrische, L. Krusche, J. R. Clark, 4. Stern, /8 toni Rofautn, Osear W. Anderson, Charies Mason, E. Glvins, G. Cameron, H. Willinbrock, G. M. Jones, N. A. Kerr. D L. Parkley, ff. Reberman,’ AL J Rhodes, D. Gardner, M. Goldstein, W. A. Wi son, W. L. Fotherer, Wesley A. Wilson, L. Burns, C. Fonthank, J. A. Smith, S. Gardn C. . Alex Erwin, Ola Strong, R. Peterson, A. Ritz, S. H. Gibson, M. Shanus, Fred Miiton, Willlam Towe, Edward Gallagher, A. Jorgan, D. P. McDougall, George W. Sweet, Sims, J. M. Galvin, F. 8. Campbell, J. H. Donnebers, Napoleon Dulios, C. H. By Showfeld, 3 Roberts, 7. M. Sloper,’ C. Donaldson, Robert Foran, W. H. Hoft, G. Etapleton, J. G. McKay, D. P. Ash, J. well, J. 1. Hoar, E. Ganchet, M. Connors, R. P. Daniels, E. J. Eide, E Hanson, H. M. Hendrickson, J. A. Rines, O. M. Strand, R. Laing, Charles Espmer, W. 8. Elliott, J. C. Nichols, J. L. Hill, N. F. Harrison, Guy Blackwood, C. H. Dennis, R. E. Fletcher, J. Bourguls, J. M. Nye, J. D, McMahoon, W. Ex- meler, P. Christlanson, C. Rasmussen. F. E. Wells, A. A. Liske, J. Merrill, R. G. Claypool The stampede out is wing in size daily, and the anxlety of those who are left behind, who want to join it and can’t for lack of funds, is growing with equal pace. Death of Sergeant Fletcher. = HONOLULU, Aug. 31.—Ormond Flet- cher, sergeant ead‘ BC&TDE-!%}" E, Second R t, Unite es olunteer En- Birgore dled at the Military Hoanital lagt N. B. At- ;xenl o& rheug:u'evx::., ,g‘;“!';m n n sco. ur years County Surveyor at Portland, Or. 7 lation they favor is comprised within the following prayer: That in all matters pertaining to the | ownership of property and In all nersonal rights they shall enjoy the same priv- Leges as the citizens or subjects of the most favored natlon, and as they have hitherto enjoyed the same under the laws of the Hawallan Government. That all Chinese wno have become nat- uralized under the laws of Hawali, and all chuaren born in Hawall of parents In whole or in part Chinese, be eligible to become citizens of tne United States of America on taking an oath of allegiance to_the United Btates of America. That they be permitted the right of transit to and from all other parts of the United States. That in the laws and reg- ulations affecting the immigration of Chi- nese laborers special provision be made for the importations from time to time by the owners of rice plantations of a limited number of Chinese laborers to work such plantations. That the Chinese be permitted to bring into this country their children {n China for the purposes of education and employment, and to send them to China for education or business training for a limited number of years, and also to bring in women of good char- acter. That the Chinese merchants be permit- tea to import clerks for thelr business es tablishments. That in the matters of tax- ation and licensing and in the pursuft of their occupations, whether professional, mercantile or industrial, no discrimina- tion be made against them, and that they be accorded the same privileges as are given to other residents in the commu- nity. That the system of penal labor con- tracts be abolished. It is felt on all hands that this Chi- nese problem is one of the most diffi- cult that the Commissioners will have to face, for it will be practically im- poseible to induce the Congress of the United States to belleve that conditions exist here which would justify the en- actment of special laws for this newly acquired island domain. It is painfully amusing to learn that annexation came too quickly for our planters to avail themselves of Minis- ter Cooper’s act, rushed through on the dying day of Hawali's last Legislature, permitting the immigration of an un- limited number of Chinese, of whom it is now admitted, nearly 10,000 were hoped for. While on this topic it may be interesting to refer to the report of Wray Taylor, inspector and secretary of the Board of Immigration, a report which the Government has been _at much pains to prevent publication. The following passages are taken from it: From all the plantations from Lau'?a. hoehoe to Hilo desertions have taken place, and there is no doubt that in Olaa and Kona a large number of the desert- ers could be found were a systematic search to be made. In considering this %llxeuuon as_a whole there is no doubt that the coffee districts are a great at- traction for laburers‘ both free and con- tract. The work is lighter than on sugar lantations and the wages higher. The a month in Olaa. apanese are paid Q\fite a number of Chinese are beginning to gat into this district. One way to stop desertions might be a combination of the sugar and coffee planters, but it would have to be a thorough one to have any effect. Soon after my return from this trip I had a long talk with Mr. Inouye of the Kumamoto Immigration Company, who stated that the desertions of Japan- ese brought here by his company had been a loss to them of about , and de- sertions were still being reported. He was very mxlotu, as were the other com- panies in the business, to have an_end put to this wholesale desertion. Since April 1 of this year I understand the Japanese Government allows the immi- ‘ation companies to exact a monetary find from each laborér before leavin, | Japan sufficient to cover the amount of petrifactions are situated. Outcroppings of such gigantic size have been discovered that it seems more than likely that the new forest may prove a dxm%erous rival for its older neighbor in the feelings of the sight-seeing public. It is believed that the many mammoth trees shown to be there will be uncovered at once and the property developed as one of the attractions of this section. FILIPINOS TO CONFER WITH THE PRESIDENT Three Agents of Aguinaldo on the Way From iongkxong to This Country. LONDON, Sept. 8—A cable dispatch from Hongkong dated September 6, re- celved In London yesterday, announces that a committee of three Filipinos, ap- Poln!ed by Aguinaldo, has left Hongkong n order to confer with President Mc- Kinley upon the future of the Philippine Islands. WILFORD WOODRUFF BURIED. Outpouring of Saints at the Mormon President’s Funeral. SALT LAKE, Sept. 8—The funeral of President Woodruff of the Mormon Church took place to-day in the taberna- cle. The pallbearers were Orin W. Snow, Milton W. Snow, W. 8. Woodruff, James Woodruff, George Scholes and W. W. Beattie, all grandsons of the deceased. The procession from the tabernacle to the cemetery included Utah National Guards, cilr, county and State officials and educational and church socletles of the city. —_—— IMPOSSIBLE TO CONVICT. Five Men Arrested at Colorado Springs Turned Loose. COLORADO SPRINGS, Sept. 8—The five men arrested after the fight between armed bodies of men representing the two factions of the Silver Republican party for possession of the ofem house have been released by order of the District At- torney, there being no evidence to show that any one of them fired the shot which killed Charles E. Harris of Denver. Anna Rose Chosen Queen. HONOLULU, Aug. 31.—By the last malil from the coast a special committee wrote to parties in Honolulu stating that it had been decided to offer the prominent posi- tion of carnival queen to a native lady. The lady to act in this capacity was left to the people here. The committee state that the carni promoters will pay all the expenses of their queen. A special committee will meet her in San Francisco and escort her to Topeka, Kans.,, where she will be the guest of honor of the city throughout the carnival. Miss Anna Rose of Hilo, Hawali, has been selected and will leave on an early date for the scene of the carnival. i B Muster of Hawailian Guardsmen. HONOLULU, Aug. 31.—Colonel Fisher has promulgated the ordcr withdrawing Companies E and F from active service with the end of the month. Thelr officers will be directed to turn over to the quar- termaster’s department all the quarter- master’s stores in their possession. These two companies have been guarding the Executive bulldlng for the past five years. There will probably be a muster in the Hawalian troops in the near future. Lieutenant Graves, who arrived on the Arizona, is to act the mustering in officer of the native Hawalian troops. COMMISSIONERS INVESTIGATING HAWAIIAN ISLES Morgan Says His Mission Is in the Interests of the Natives. Many Rumors Concerning Discord in the Board, but the Fact Remains That Business Is Booming. Spectal Correspondence of The Call. BY HORACE WRIGHT. HONOLULU, Aug. 31.—Within seven days the Commissioners to recommend legislation for the Hawaiian Islands have visited two of our larger islands, Hawall and Maui, seen the volcano, glanced at a few plantations. and schoolhouses, hobnobbed with native | Hawallans, behaved very politely and | friendly to their campagnon de voyage, | Queen Liliuokalani, and delivered many | speeches, notable perhaps for the gen- | eral kindly disposition and for the lacki of information on the very points the’| people desired to know to obtain an| inkling of the probable form of future | government. Senator Morgan, much | to the surprise of many who vainly im- | agine that he detests the Hawallan as | much as any other dark skinned race, | is credited rightfully or wrengfully | with the following noble and natriotic | remarks in council: “Our mission here | is not in the interest of the Repub-| lican, Democratic or Populist parties; | it is simply in the interest of the Ha- walian people, their welfare and their country.” Most certainly the Commis- sioners themselves cannot be blamed if | the Hawailan people do not respond to | their invitation and go before them and | tell them of their wishes, for they have | been very frank and cordi.l in those invitations, and to-day commence a | series of open sessions for the recep- tion of delegations or individuals hav- ing thoughts to utter. The speeches made by them on their rapid tour of inspection have, like those of the inveterate campaign speaker, considerable sameness. The Commissioners will be enter- tained by the executive at dinner this | evening, and to-morrow an official visit | will be paid by them to Pearl Harbor. | Happily, Mr. Sewall has enabled me | to set at rest an unpleasant rumor to | the effect that the Hawalian section of | the Government had expressed to him | a desire that the transports, when re- turning from Manila, should not call at | Honolulu. The mere existence of such | a rumor, earnestly canvassed by the | citizens and referred to by the local | press, indicates the dread the conserva- | tive element has of an undesirable in- | flux of immigrants, for which we are | totally unprepared. The exaggerated advertising the country has very un- | wisely had through the annexaflon“ campaign threatens to do much harm | and wrong to many well intentioned men anxious to seek their fortunes in a | new country, which unfortuna‘ ly af-| fords no scope for their ambitions, un- less they bring enough money to live | upon or to invest discreetly. So seri- | ous are the conditions that the Land | Agent of the Government has been | constrained to issue a formal circular | explanatory of existing conditions and | concluding with some sound advice to intending immigrants in search of ]and1 for location, as follows: | But_if you wish to come after fully | considering the matter, and can bring | experience and energy, with enough capi- | fal to nisure you against any danger of | want, and enable you to study the situ- | | | ation on the ground before making a | final decision, it is safe to say that you | that | caused a momentary reserve. will be welcome, and what has been a | kindly country to others may prove S0 to you. The booming of sugar stocks and the formation of several new plantations of large dimensions have apparently ne- cessitated the formation of a stock ex- change, which formally opens for busi- ness to-morrow, and only awaits cable connection to place itself in direct com- munication with the stock boards ot the mainland. The initial price of a seat at the board, limited to twelve, is $1000. At last, after much discussion and dissension, the native Hawailans are beginning to see the wisdom and neces- sity of listening to the reauest of the Commissioners for information as to their views in connection with the fu- ture government of this country. They are now busily organizing their socle- ties and conventions and preparing me- morials setting forth their views. ‘While the party lines between annexa- tionists and anti-annexationists, Gov- ernment employes and the ‘‘cuts,” are as bitterly drawn as ever, there will be a unison of ideas in their petitions, which, as previously foreshadowed by The C€all, will contain requests for a form of government with a franchise and equal rights in all respects for the Hawalian as for the white resident. The whites rather welcome this divi- sion into strong parties of the native Hawalians, for they appreciate the fact with universal suffrage in the hands of a united Hawalian party the Hawailans would invariably hold the preponderating influence at the elec- tions. It is whispered that politics is already beginning to show its presence in the commission, and that irate words have been exchanged at the council board between the advocates of the District of Columbia form of govern- ment and those favoring the territorial, but as all connected with the commis- slon are pledged to inviolable secrecy it is somewhat surprising that such statements, with a considerable quan- tity of other information, important if true, should be allowed to le.k out. Some people even go so far as to de- fine the position of each Commissioner and to intimate that the Commission- ers are only wasting their time here, as their minds were made up before they left the Golden Gate. Be this at it may, a fairy tale is current of um- brage taken bv the Commissioners at the lack of respect paid to them by the members of the Hawailan Government in not dul- honoring them by meeting them on their return from their brief trip to the other islands. As they had Cabinet Ministers with them, surely they might have excused their brother Commissioner and the other Ministers from going down to the steamer. A question of etiquette of precedence, it is said, also arose between our chief executive and Senator Cullom, the chairman of the commission, which All these little disagreeablenesses naturally pro- ceed from the evaporation of energy and disintegration of the moral forces after the only partially exploded en- thusiasm of annexation; or perhaps from that tired feeling of satiety. TROOPS WILL NOT REACH MANILA Arrivals at Honolulu to Be Held There. MERRIAM HAS SUCH ORDERS THREE TRANSPORT LOADS NOW ON THE ISLANDS. In the Vicinity of Hawali’s Capital There Is Some Trouble in Find- ing Accommodations for All the Volunteers. Correspondence of The Call. HONOLULU, Aug. 3L.—General Mer- rlam stated yesterday afternoon that his orders from Washington were to hold everything at Honolulu until he had heard from the Government again. These instructions applied to the Ta- coma and her cargo of live stock, as well as to the Arizona and her troops. Whether the Tacoma will go to Manila or return to San Francisco no man this side of the coast knows. It is not be- lleved here, however, that she will ever reach the Philippines, inasmuch as the terms of peace end the necessity for cavalry animals there. Arrangements are now making to put the troops on the Arizona in camp at the Kapiolani Park in case movements are delayed by coming orders from the ‘War Department. This will mean merely an extension of the present camp to accommodate the recruits. The commissary department at this post is now thoroughly established and can easily stand the additional strain. A few of the Arizona men stopped at the camp last night. General Merriam is a true friend to a cable for Honolulu. Unless all indi- cations fail he will urge upon the Gov- ernment at Washington the immedi- ate, pressing necessity for connecting the islands with the mainland. It will be urged as a military necessity of great moment, especially in view of the movement of all expeditionary forces to this city. There seems a pos- sibility that the cable will follow the troops quickly as a military precau- tion, even if the line is sold after the Philippine question is fully disposed of. Yesterday the Arizona discharged a large quantity of hay, intended for the Tacoma’s live stock at Manila. It will be taken to the Iwilel pasture to-day, Over a hundred tons of supplies for Honolulu were also discharged. It would take about three weeks more to complete the repairs to the Tacoma’s boilers and condenser if work were continued. Orders were received yesterday to stop the work, however, and nothing further will be done until word is recelved by the Scandia, due next Thursday, as to the movements oft the Tacoma and its cargo. Colonel Barber sald yesterday after- noon that he did not know how the 6000 men under General Merriam could be comfortably quartered here. “We have experienced the greatest difficulty in locating the 1700 under me,” said the colonel. “A board of engineer officers has been at work for days endeavoring to locate a suitable site, but as yet have not settled upon a place. And when it comes to arranging a camp for 6000 men—well, I don’t know what can be done.” The steamship Alliance of the John- son-Locke line arrived here on the 27th. She left San Francisco at 4:30 p. m. on the 18th, bringing a mall and five-day later papers. On the Alliance are Companies F, G and H of the First New York, under command of Captain U. A. Ferguson. Chaplain Earl Swartz is on the Alli- ance, also Chief Surgeon Major Davis, who has an order to establish a forty- bed hospital in Honolulu, for which there is a complete outfit on board. The Arizona, the largest vessel on the Pacific, arrived off port about 9 o'clock Saturday night, and came up to the Pacific Mail wharf early Sun- day morning. She made a quick trip of a trifle over six days. She brought the Third Battalion of Eighteenth In- fantry recruits for the First Colorado, First Montana, Tenth Pennsylvania and Third Artillery, in all 1206 men, be- sides General Merriam and a Red Cross corps. General King's first orders to the troops after arrival here was in re- lation to shore leave, which he said would depend on their own good con- duct. Until further orders liberty hours will be from noon to 11 o’'clock, the time to be divided into five watches, a fifth of each company to be on shore at one time. The Arizona will remain here until the Scandia arrives, probably next Thursday. The men of the Arizona were enter- tained at luncheon yesterday by the la- dies of Honolulu. SOLANO’S SCHOOL FUND. Necessitates an Increase in the County’s Tax Levy. SUISUN, Sept. 8.—At a meeting of the Board of Supervisors of Solano County Superintendent Sanborn stated that the minimum amount of the county school fund required for the ensuing year was 25,356, On motion of Supervisor Berg- wall of Vallejo the amount was increased $6000, and the Auditor was instructed to include this amount in his estimate of this year's tax levr The trustees of the Vacaville and Vallejo High schools % sented their estimates of $492% and respectively for the maintenance of those high schools for the ens“mf year. The Auditor was instructed to include these amounts also in his estimate for the tax levy. —_———— A California girl writes about her visit to the Pope in next Sunday’s Call,