Show VISIT OF A C3NGRSSMAN I l Representative Packer of Pennsylvania Pennsyl-vania in the City Congressman Horace B Packer of V Wellsboro Pji representing the Sixteenth Six-teenth Pennsylvania dlstrlct In < Con I press arrived last cvcnlnpr from Honolulu I Hono-lulu where ho has been on a pleasure trip and rcprlsloicd sil the KTriulsford V Mr Packer stated that he wau delighted delight-ed with the Hawaiian Islands and that under the American occupation they were making remarkable progress The natives arc becoming reconciled V to the change he said and hove settled set-tled down under the new regime The climate Is I very fine and there is a I marked Industrial activity in evidence there What they need In the Islands Is a cable and this Is sure to come bccauno one must be laid to Manila from San Francisco and Honolulu In right on the way I know the basin between Honolulu and thc American V continent Is very deep and cable laying will in consequence be attended with difficulties hut It will be laid all the same The matter will be brought tip at the t coming session of Congress Mr Packer said that thc Nicaraguan V canal 1 would occupy much Congressional Congres-sional attention nt the coming session and It was his belief that the scheme would go through all right It is a much better route than the Panama I one saving considerable distance over the latter and through a much more healthy country Then the ship subsidy sub-sidy plan must be given considerable attention Mr Packer stated his belief be-lief that Speaker Henderson would he reelected as there does not seem to be any opposition to him Mr Pucker will remain over < < today to sep the town as this is his first visit to Salt Lake |