Honolulu Republican, Volume IV, Number 494, 11 January 1902 — WASHINGTON IS WAITING FOR GEORGE DAVIS [ARTICLE]

WASHINGTON IS WAITING FOR GEORGE DAVIS

Will Apply for Deposition of Associate Justice A. Perry. STRORG CHARGES AGAIRST JUJ6E Incompetenc? and Violation of Constitution of the United States.

Bills Permitting Appeals from Supreme Courts of Hawaii and Pn, ippines to the United States Court of Appeals and Supreme Cou't Not to be Passed this Session. •

, Sssi ial f'osREj>j'i»M»*:>i i.) WAS HINGTON D. C D. People interested in Hawaiian nu ters uere are on the lookout for e Judge George A. Davis, who is po ed from San Francisco to be on b way here to apply for the deposits of Judge Antonio Perry. Judge J>.iv charges Perry, according to an inte 'lew ;a San Francisco, with t

petency ann violation of the Ooustitut tion of the United Slates, ju certain criminal cases, particularly that oi ’< one Osaki, a Japanese, who was p ;t on trial without indictment. In this connection, bills hav. b* en introduced in Congress looking to the ( tarrying of cases from the Supreme Courts of Hawaii and the Philippine to the United States Court of Appeali and Supreme Court. If these bills at this session, which is hardly r* • garded as probable, much of the irrei gularity that has been complained of. i both in Hawaii and the Philippines, win be subject to rectification by the highest authority. Sooner or I.iter is conceded (he insular courts will h • subject to review by the Fnited States Supreme Court Put manv thins* must be untangled in Philippine af fairs, especially, before matters of Jurisdiction will be considered Pearl Harbor Sites. Rear Admiral R. B R-adford. Ch -f of the Bureau of Equipment. has the following to say regarding the Con demnation of a site for a naval nation at Peafl ’ Harbor: ■ What the Government desired was a site on thu east side of the eutrani and on the south side of Pearl liar bo*, on what is known as the Bishop estate. The site originally fixed u p,, n covered an area of S00 acres The estate fixed the value at 1300 an acre, which the United States considered exhorb.’tant. The condemnation proceedings were then Instituted, under the Jaws of the Hawaiian Islands providing for the condemnation of lands for Government purposes, "If the reports of the finding of the jury In the condemnation proceedings be true, and of this I have no ofTb ,al knowledge as yet. the United States will purchase from the Bishop estate a tract of *»00 acres, which, at $75 an acre, the price reported to be fixed 1 ■ the jury - would make the purchase price bnt 145.000. We have an ap propriation of $150,000 and this would leave a residue of $105,000 to be exbended for damages and alt other ex penses. The damages that would of a necessity have to be paid, would be ■ no*e in cases where a company had leased a part of the ground, and had it ready for sugar cane cultivation. Reparation would be demanded for such fmorovemenrs.

“Again, the United States Government would have to meet the claims of certain people to whom the Government of Hawaii had sold re.-ta n fishing rights, and these would in aH probability bare to be adjusted. In order to free the land Included in the prospective naval station site, from all incumberances. - ' WAI TKR E. CI*ARK

Runaway Averted. Alexander Isenbe-g's tram, attached to a surrrv in wh*cjj m— |senb«rg was seated, becam- frieht»ned at a passing car and atterartrd to run away on Fort stre t vesv-rdav aft-r--noon. The aniroa’« w=re ccntrollrd before damage was done.