Show I IS PLEASED WITH HAWAII I 1 Secretary Straus of the department of commerce com-merce anti labor who has Just returned from an 11 Is much with extended trip to Hawaii pleased y what he saw and heard In the Island and believes t his visit Is likely to lead to practical results Secretary Straus is u firm believer In tho Idea that the vast interests intrusted to his safekeeping 4 safekeep-ing can not be entirely administered from t his desk In Washington and this conviction led i to the detet initiation to hake a personal Inspection Inspec-tion of the workings of the department away from + t S1 the capital and to become personally acquainted t i r with the various olllclals having supervision Accordingly Ac-cordingly ho planned a trip along the Canadian a border lo Vancouver and thence south through i r Seattle and Portland to San Francisco with Honolulu Hono-lulu as the ultimate destination find it Is from hit this trip that he bus just returned While in Hawaii Secretary Straus was waited upon by a delegation of Japanese editors representing the four Japanese newspapers Honolulu who called to ascertain his views regarding Japanese matters in tho territory ii ter-ritory and as to his policy with reference to Japanese Immigration particularly particu-larly If ho believed that the preponderance of Japanese In Hawaii was Inimical k In-imical to the future welfare of tho Islands In reply the secretary said A An Ideal condition for the future welfare of these Islands would bo that there should not bo too great a preponderance of any one race but that an cqulllbilum be maintained I would Impress upon you and upon each e of the several I races here to havo a care not to exploit these islands and f their resources for the benefit of tho country from which they came but to act In the spirit of tho government under which they live of loyalty to the Interests of the islands which afford such happy and Ideal homes for them and their children j There Is an apparent need of greater shipping facilities for the Islands A deputation of merchants and planters who waited on Secretary Straus bowing how the coast wise shipping laws worked a hardship to the Islands ytr in that they penalized the carrying of passengers and freight between the terrItory and the mainland of tho United States In other than American j bottoms and owing to the Infrequency with which vessels of that description a tt descrip-tion stop at Honolulu largo quantities of fruit rotted on tho wharves while a awaiting shipment The same lack of transportation facilities acted as a peculiar hardship upon residents of the territory who were often obliged r s as a result of Illness or pressing financial matters to leave for tlo United States on a vessel of foreign registry and thereby Incur the fine of 20G f which our navigation laws Impose M Secretary Straus promised to do nil ho could to remedy this Injustice and this will bo ono of tho matters which ho will endeavor to bring to the q attention of congress this winter and obtain relief for tho Islands ll r |