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18th Annual Report, Hawaiian Historical Society, for 
the year 1910. Honolulu, 1911. 
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stance, introduced a bill (S. 4947) into the Senate os January 
27, 1MU, granting the company a franchise and an annual 
subsidy of $200,000 under the name of the “Pacific Cable Com¬ 
pany" for the purpose of constructing and operating sub¬ 
marine rabies from San Francisco to the Hawaiian Islands, 
and thence* to New Zealand tnd Japan/’ The same bill was 
Introduce*i in the House* by Mr. Morrow, of California (H. R. 
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i t war, however, so near the end of the session that the in- 
corporation by special bill was abandoned, and the desired ob¬ 
ject was sought to l>e attained by tacking a “rider to the dip¬ 
lomatic appropriation bill, appropriating the sum of $3,000,000 
payable over a period of 15 years in sums of $200,000 annually, 
to any company with which the President of the United States 
should contract, for lining and maintaining a submarine cable 
between California and the Hawaiian Islands. Genera! Hart¬ 
nell had offered to turn over his Hawaiian franchise to the 
United States Government* if if would undertake to build the 
cable. 
This was the first of a long series of bills introduced into 
Congress upon the subject of a Pacific Cable, ft was passed by 
35 yeas to 22 nays in the Senate, and received strong support 
in the House, but on being brought to a vote on the last day of 
the session was defeated. General Hartwell’s tranchise was 
afterwards extended bv the Hawaiian Government to January 
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i. 1*93. The stormy days of the revolution then came on, and 
nothing further was accomplished. 
In 1*91-2 the U, S; S. Albatross” and “Thetis” were em¬ 
ployed in surveying the route between.: San Francisco and Hono¬ 
lulu. I his survey resulted in the valuable report drawn up by 
Com. Richardson Glover, hydroprapher of the Navy. 
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In May 1*57, the Hawaiian Government had sent an ex¬ 
pedition under Captain John Pafy, to take possession of the 
islands and reefs to the north-west. It happens! that no land¬ 
ing could be made at that time on Keeker Island, a rocky islet 
about 400 miles X. W. of Kauai. 
In XIay 1894 it became evident that this defect m the Ha¬ 
waiian title to Neoker Island had been discovered by the promo- 
tors of the “all British Cable. * A Canadian gentleman connected 
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