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The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1905-08-14

For sale by
THE HAWAIIAN GAZETTE CO.
"a Ltd,
Honolulu, T. H.
Price $500, postage prepaid.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1905-08-14
THE FUNDAMENTAL LAW
OF HAWAII CONTAINS:

I. The first Constitution OF Kane
hameha III, 1910. including the pre-
yiously issued Bill Of Rights.
2. The first laws Of Hawaii, enacted
under Kamehameha III, 1833-1842).
published together in 1912.
3. The law creating and principles
guiding the Land Commission.
/ 4. The second Constitution Of Ka-
.mehameha III, 1852.
S. The Constitution of Kamehameha
", 1864
6. The Constitution Of Kalakaua,
1887.
Z. The Proclamation and orders incl
dent to the establishment Of the Privo-
sional Government, 1888.
+, 8. The Constitution of the Republic
Of Hawaii, 1894.
9. The treaty annexing Hawaii TO
the United States, 1897.
10. The Resolution Of the Hawaiian
Senate ratifying the annexation treaty,
1897.
IL. The Joint Resolution of Congress
annexing Hawaii. 1898.
H. The documents and procedure In.
cident to the transfer Of the sovereign.
ty and possession Of Hawaii to the
United States. 1898; and the executive
orders Of President Mckinley, relating
to the government Of Hawaii, issued
during the transition period between
the date OF annexation and the pas
sage Of the Organic Act. 1s9s-190o.
IL. The Act Of Congress organizing
Hawaii iato a Territory, 1900.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1905-08-14

with merry heart for little rest.
We can It entirely understand how it
all came about, in reading Mr.. Trent IS
letter to the Supervisors, for there is
marked discrepancy in the way; but
Mr.. johnson, we dare to assert, has
received no emolument from it ALL
There is always harmony between Grim
inal and crime. 1t is comfort to
know we haveshad better roads of late
and Punchbowl kept tidy.
A. NJ. P.
P. S.-'Sam Johnson" has always
impressed US as a happy go-lucky.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1905-08-14

The vast Salton Sea in the desert
part OF Southern California is believed
to have connected with Underwater.
Barracuda, sea-perch and other salt
water fish are being caught in it.
The National tribune., 1905-10-05
PRIVATE PENSION BILLS.

The country has rung with the clam
ors of newspapers over the pension bills
in Congress, and there have been stories
columns long sent abroad about zone
pension every two minutes" etc, until
the people are convinced. at least some
of them, that the main business of Con-
gross is that of grinding through pen
sion bills to practically anybody who
may ask for them. 1t comes with a
statement to read the report Of the
Commissioner of Pensions for the year
1905, and find that, after all, there were
but 1.501 special pension bills passed
by the last session of Congress, and that
the whole of these aggregated pensions
to the amount of $425,040. OF these
but 1873 were original allowances, the
remainder. 1872, having been increases
to those already receiving pensions
This reduces the actual increase of the
pension expenditures to $222,084.
Therefore, all these columns of vocifer-
alton in the newspapers of the country
were over bagatelle, the net sum of
which was only s222.Os4. 1t seems in
credible that so small a mouse should
come out of the tremendous mountain
erected by the newspaper correspond
ents. The record for the previous years
is about the same.
In 1904 there were 1854 special acts,
with an aggregate annual value of
$515,993. but being mainly increases
the net annual value was but $274,576.
In 1903 there were 1861 special acts
passed. the aggregate annual value of
which was $2S4,364, with the net value
but s155.922.
In 1902 there were Lila special acts,
with an aggregate annual value of
s316,6S0 and net value of s1S2,S25.
In 1901 there were TOT special acts,
with an aggregate annual value of
s196.176 and net annual value Of
$120,192.
AS there are 3Ss Congressional Dis
tricts in the United States, the average
was not four special bills to each MEM
Der of the House of Representatives
When we stop to think that each Rep
resentative has about 100000 constitu-
ents, four seems surprisingly small
ratio for the number Of veterans whose
increasing age and disabilities demand
special relief from Congress.
The greater part Of the bills last year
were for badly-wounded and broken
down men whose condition has Of late
years become much worse. This is in
Dictated by the figures given below:
The National tribune., 1905-10-05
WASHINGTON THURSDAY,

been offered high official positions by
his fellow citizens. He was elected
Governor of Pennsylvania in 1886. and
made an admirable Chief Executive. No
man in Pennsylvania has given higher
or stronger demonstrations of his per-
sonal worth than Gen. Jas. A. Beaver.
Comrade John Stewart, Of Chambers
burg, the nominee for Judge Of the SUI
preme Court, was one Of the sterling,
faithful soldiers who made Pennsyl-
vania's military reputation illustrious.
Against these men the Democrats
and fusionists have nominated candi-
dates who were never in the army. and
whose record is blank and silent as to
any other acts of service to the public
or self-sacrifice for the common good.
We have no doubt whatever as to
which way the Pennsylvania veterans
will cast their ballots. They are too
seasoned and experienced in political
warfare to be misled by the noise and
clamor of guerrillas and bush whackers
on the TANKS and rear.
They will take their places as of yore
with the main column, under the tried
and approved leaders selected by the
Republican Convention.
The National tribune., 1905-10-05

The report Of Commissioner Warner
as to the criminal side of the Pension
Bureaus operations for the year ended
June 80, 1905, Is most gratifying con-
trast to his predecessor, Evans's, whose
continual lamentations were over the
viciousness of pensioners and pension
attorneys and the daily and nightly
struggles which his flawless integrity
had to make with them. Commissioner
Warner reports that he had only 1856
cases for prosecution last year. He
differs from Commissioner Evans also
I'm the fact that of these 1876 new cases
indictments were actually found in 1854,
and Of these 113 resulted in conviction,
with "a sentences imposed. Commits
sioner Evans filled the papers with a
great many reports Of cases for prose-
cution Of which nothing more was ever
heard. Commissioner Warner says:
"Of 113 convictions secured only Ia
persons are believed to have had any
military or naval service, showing that
the offenders against the pension laws
are not often found among the old de-
tenders Of the Government"
The small amount involved in these
offenses Is also surprising. The sum
total OF cash recovered through crimi-
nal and civil suits was only 1921.
The National tribune., 1905-10-05

The program adopted by the Zemst-
vos presided overaby Prince Dolgorouki
contemplates bringing the Government
| of Russia up TO the plane occupied by
the most advanced European Govern
n,ents 1t is As follows:
Complete responsibility in the eyes of
the law for all private individuals and
officials alike.
Recognition Of complete equality in
| the personal rights of all citizens Of the
Empire
Equality of the rights of peasants
with those of other classes of society
Liberation of the village populations
from administrative guardianship.
1nviolability Of person and domicile.
Guarantees of the freedom of con-
science, faith, speech, meeting and asso-
citation, and of the press.
Abolition of the passport system.
Formation of a National Assembly
which shall participate in legislation,
institute a regular budgetary system.
and have control over the legality Of
the acts of higher and the lower admin
istration.
The attainment of this ideal form of
Government cannot be hoped for in any
brief period of years, and probably the
representatives Of the Zemstvos do not
expect it. 1t has taken every people
who have secured less complete de-
mocracy than here outlined at least
many decades to secure it, 1t took CEN
turtles in England to develop a real Par
| lament, and then another century more
to give that Parliament the power that
it now possesses. 1t took France over a
| century to educate the people into a
republican form of Government, and
those of Italy and Austro-H Hungary are
yet for from being developed up to that
point. The Russians, who are centur-
les behind the rest of Europe in mat
tiers Of education, must take much
longer.
One rather unexpected feature Of the
lines as completely as the French at
| tempted to do at the beginning of their
revolution. 1t wants everything on the
basis of universal suffrage, with all men
standing equal at the ballot-box and not
separated by the strong, clearly-marked
class-lines now drawn in Russia That
is, the peasant class must have the
same voting weight, man for man. as
the manufacturers, the merchants, the
professional men and the nobility. This
is probably something that will not be
secured at the outset and possibly
never.
The National tribune., 1905-10-05

A Renaissance of an old-time trag-
edy which Swallowed the last years of
the illustrious Gen. Grant by the loss
of his fortune comes in the report that
Gus banking firm, of Grant & Ward, had
Gus banking firm of Grant & Ward had
brought suit against the estate of his
first wife to recover $4,000 put in her
hands prior to the suspension of the
firm. 1t seems that Ward tried to lay
up something for the rainy day which
he saw at hand by putting this sum in
the name of his wife, out of reach of
his creditors. Mrs. Ward died during
Wards imprisonment. and the money
went to her heirs, which Ward is now
trying TO recover, since the 20-year per-
lod which the laws of New York pre-
scribe for a bankrupt have ended.
The National tribune., 1905-10-05


The acute question between the Hun
garians and the Emperor of Austria is
that of the language Of the words of
command in the army. The Hungarians
insist that in the contingent from that
Kingdom in the Imperial army the or
ders shall be given in the Magyar Ian
guage. This the Emperor has fatty re-
fused to agree to, and the Hungarians
have as determinedIy demanded OF
course, there are innumerable causes
Of discontentment of the ruling Magyar
element in Hungary with the admins
tration of the Imperial Government by
the ruling German caste in the Empire
but the language question is for the
moment the principal one to the front
The Emperor insists that German shall
be used in orders, and he points out
that If all the troops in the Imperial
army had to be spoken to in their own
languages it would make endless con-
fusion, as there are no less than Is dis
tinct languages spoken in the Empire
and it would be impossible to have Off
GERS who could speak all these tongues
The real reason goes still deeper. The
Germans have the ascendency in Aus
tro-Hungary, and not merely the words
of command in the army but all
through the Empire, except in Hun
gary, the court proceedings and all the
official records are in German. In Hun
gary, alone, they are in Magyar The
Bohemians, who are the leaders among
the Slavs, have for years been angrily
insisting that as the great majority of
the people in their ancient Kingdom
speak Bohemian, the court proceedings
and official records should be in that
tongue. Apart from their natural
pride in their speech and their desire
to have one language for the whole
country the Germans, who own the
greater part Of the property and do
most of the business in Bohemia, feel
that their interests would be endan-
gered IL Bohemian should be made the
official language in that little Kingdom
The Germans claim to have suffered
much from the adoption of the Magyar
as the official language of Hungary
and III the Bohemians succeed in their
demand it will make no end of trou-
BILE and loss for the Germans residing
In other Slavic provinces, since each Of
them will be encouraged to insist upon
having Its language made the official
speech The question of language, they
say. involves that of the Imperial Gov
eminent being able to manage it's af-
fairs throughout the Nation, which IT
could not do IL each part of the coun-
try is allowed to have it's own particu-
| lar language.
The National tribune., 1905-10-05

The statistics of coffee and tea drink
ing are quite interesting. The Ameri-
can people consume the immese amount
of 1913 pounds of coffee per capita
per annum. being exceeded in this only
by Holland. The Dutch drink 14.39
pounds per head a year, while the
British only use II of a pound per per
son. on the other hand the British
drink 6.03 pounds of tea per head pei
annum. where our people use but .3S
pounds. The Dutch are also large con-
sumers of tea, drinking 1.45 pounds
and lead the world in the consumption
of cacao. consuming 4.36 pounds pei
annum per head. where we take but &c
of pound. The Germans are but mod
crate users of coffee. taking but $50
pounds per annum and but .12 pounds
of tea and 81 pounds of cacao.
The National tribune., 1905-10-05

The War Veterans Club, of Phila-
delphia, has unanimously decided to in
dorse the regular Republican ticket of
State and County nominations, and 1t
is believed that it will secure practi-
cally the vote Of every veteran in Phil
adelphia. The resolution. which was
adopted without a dissenting voice.
reads as follows:
Whereas the Republican Party
through the tinstrumentality of a COM
mittee Of 81 loyal Republicans have
placed in nomination for Sheriff DR..
Joseph s. Neff; for Coroner, Thomas
pugan; for City Commissioner, Howard
A. Chase. and our comrade. Villa m
BE it resolved, That the War Veter-
ans Club cordially indorse the ticket as
nominated by the Republican Party,
and that the President Of the Club be
authorized to appoint a campaign COM
n.ittee to assist In the election Of the
entire Republican State and County
ticket"
AT it's recent election the following
officers were chosen: William HI. Red
hefer for President; William ]. Wray
for Recording Secretary: III. J. John for
Corresponding Secretary. and H. O.
Roberts for Treasurer.
The National tribune., 1905-10-05
PERSONAL.

The funeral of the late Gen. Daniel
w. Benham, at Tiffin, o., Sept. II, was
great public event. He was born in
Seneca County near Tiffin in 1897, and
grew up in that neighborhood. He was
a clerk in an express office. and by
ability was promoted until he held the
office of cashier in the Cincinnati office,
from which he enlisted in the 9Th Ohio.
At the conclusion of his four months
service he received an appointment in
the 18th L. s., in which he rose to be
q Captain at the conclusion of the war.
He remained in the Regular Army, and
was promoted to Colonel July z, 1897,
and retired in 1898, receiving promo
ton to Brigadier-General in 1904. He
received brevet of Captain for MUIR
freesboro and Major for the Atlanta
Campaign. He went to Cuba with Gen.
Shafter as Colonel commanding the 7th
L. S. Upon his retirement he returned
to Tiffin. where he had a large circle
Of lifelong friends, who were delighted
to have him with them again. He be-
longed to the Colonial War Veterans.
Loyal Legion, Army of the Cumberland,
Grand Army of the Republic, Masons,
Army and Navy Union. Order of Sharp
shooters and United Spanish War Vet
Grams. He anticipated his death and
made every preparation for 1t, selecting
the spot for his grave, the clothes in
which he was to be buried and the
bands that were to play at the funeral.
He leaves two sons and one daughter.
The remains were brought to Washing
ton and inferred at Arlington.
The Mecklenburg On. CO. Daughters
of the Confederacy are collecting money
to appropriately mark the birthplace OF
Andrew Jackson, near Waxhaw, Union
County, n. c. There has been much
dispute about Jackson's birthplace. but
the Daughters think they have secured
indisputable evidence.
The venerable Gen. John Macarthur,
who commanded a division in the Army
of the Tennessee SO long and so ably,
has been very i'll at his home i'm Chi
cago, but letter from him now says
that he IL convalescing slowly. He re-
ceived a stroke of paralysis two years
ago. and has since been wheeled around
in an easy-chair. He writes to his old
Adjutant-General, Judge Wales w.
Wood, Belvidere. ILL.,, that he will be
70 years old in November, and cannot
expect to hear many more roll-calls.
The National tribune., 1905-10-05
FOREIGN RECRUITS.

Editor National Tribune: In q book
entitled Civil History Of the Govern
ment Of the Confederate States" by
J. L: nj. Curry, page 152, occurs these
words: Agents were dispatched to
Europe to entice by bounties. as many
men as possible to enter the Union
| army. According to official statistics
furnished by the Federal Secretary OF
War. more than 10000 foreigners
| came over and were enrolled against
the South"
How far is the above true?-A. S.
Lake, Shenandoah. Iowa.
This is one of the choice fictions
| which th., Southerners cling to and
| cherish. There is the least possible
| basis for it. OF course, during the war
all things. in a way, happened. and
| there may have been occasional parties
who sought recruits in Europe to fill up
companies and get themselves commits
sions. This, however, had to be done
in the quietest way, because the Euro
pean Governments were all careful Of
their neutrality. and did not allow any
| recruiting for foreign countries. This
was particularly true Of Great Britain
| which sided strongly with the South
and while it winked at shipping SAIL
crate pirates, was very vigilant in pre-
venting any recruiting for the Union
army. A man who would attempt to
enlist men in any part of Great Britain
had to do it with the utmost secrecy,
because he ran great risk of arrest and
| imprisonment The same was true of
German Governments, which exercised
a paternal supervision Of their subjects,
and would not, If it could help, allow
| them to be taken abroad to serve in
| foreign armies in war time. Anybody
can see the truth of this who reflects
| at all upon the situation at that time.
An examination Of the muster-rolls
| shows that three-fourths of the 2,000,-
600 who served in the Union army were
| native Americans. OF the 100000 of
foreign birth 175,00O were from Ger
many; 10000 from Ireland; $4,000
from England; $4,000 from Brit
ish America, and from other coun-
| tries. $4,000. This, again, requires
some explanation to prevent it's being
| misleading In the two decades i'm
mediately before the war there had
been a large emigration Of families
from Germany, Ireland, England and
British America. These brought with
them hundreds of thousands Of chill
dren, who grew up in this country, and
though they were born abroad became
as thoroughly American as if they were
| born here. A boy who gave his birth
place as Germany or Ireland may have
been brought to this country as an in
| FAINT or child Of very young years, and
he was to all intents and purposes as
| much an American as If ne had been
born in Ohio or Michigan. Considered
in rational light, fully 95 per cent of
those who served in the Union army
were out-and- out Americans
The National tribune., 1905-10-05
Total ....... ssS.441 ss4.76:

From the above statement it appears
that on June 80. 1905, the pension roll
contained the names Of 684.6O8 sur
vivors OF the war Of the rebellion as
against 690,792 June 80, 1904.
The number Of pensioners who died
during the year ending June 80. 1905
was 1888, Of whom 30,324 were our
comrades of the civil war.
Since our last National Encampment
no legislation of a general character
affecting pensions has been enacted.
Pursuant to the instructions Of the
last National Encampment. unanimous
ly adopted, your Committee met at
Washington, d. c., early in February,
1905. and in connection with the late
Commander-in-Chi Gen. Blackmar,
urged upon Congress the enactment of
the Service Pension Bill then pending.
viz: Senate Bill No. 3.458 and House
Bill No. 10.024, but without success.
The certainty OF a deficit in the rev.
enues at the end of the fiscal year and
the fact that Congress, being in short
session. was pressed for time, operated
The National tribune., 1905-10-05

Georgia is furnishing some instances
of the survival of the old semi-civilized
conditions preceding the war. At Way
cross, David Murray, a prominent cit
iZen, was assassinated as he sat at the
supper-table by an enemy shooting
through the window. Murray himself
does not seem to have been blameless.
Is he was under Indictment for having
connection with a recent assassina ton.
In Bryan County w. E Simms a rather
prominent citizen, and as used to be
the case in the South with prominent
citizens, a bully. has committed so
many murders and other outrages that
ne has become an outlaw, and the civil
authorities are trying to punish him.
He had recently the audacity, while the
Coroners jury was preparing a verdict
Of murder against him. to stride into
the room, snatch the verdict from the
Coroner's hands, tear it up and threat
en- to Kill any man hereafter who at
tempted TO Join i'm similar proceed
ing against him. He has consequently
induced reign OF terror in the coun-
try. Such occurrences as these were
rather frequent in the South before the
war. when the bully and desperate car
r1ed things with a much higher hand
than they were allowed to i'm the bet.
ter-settled regions of the North. Since
the war conditions have been rapid,
improving in the South, and the reign
OF the bully has not been so conspicu.
Gus. 1t seems that the Sheriff of Bryan
County has been so inundated by this
outlaw that he has asked the Govern.
ment for troops to restore order, and
probably Mr.. Simms's career will be
cut short by the State taking up the
matter The Improvement In this re.
spect liz the South has been brough,
about in this way by the State author
tiles being held to sharper account be-
lore public opinion for the preservation
Of law and order.
The National tribune., 1905-10-05

Even a dyspeptic man may be
tempted to smile by the statement Civ
en- out in Montreal by John F. Gaynor
of the notorious firm of Gaynor &
Greene. that 1--WE are now ready to
face justice in the United States We
are not afraid to face the courts of the
United States" There is no telling how
many hundreds of thousands of dol
lars Messrs. Gaynor and Greene have
spent in Canada in trying to beat the
extradition proceedings and avoid COM
ing 10 the United States to be tried. Oh
course. they were not afraid to face the
courts i'm the United States. They were
philanthropists who wanted to enricl
the Canadian lawyers and make some
fun for the American lawyers
The National tribune., 1905-10-05
Certificates Applications

An analysis of the above shows a
much more liberal construction, inter-
probation and application of the pension
laws than at one time prevailed.
OF the 182,207 certificates issued dur
ing the year ending June Goth, 1905,
1926 were under the so-called Age
Order Of April 13, 1904.
OF the 1895 only 12,436 were Or
iginals, the other 34.549 being for in
crease.
Total number of certificates issued
under said Age Order from it's date,
April IS, 1904, to June 80, 1905, 65,-
612, large proportion Of the same be-
ing for increase only.
The amount disbursed for pensions
during the year 1905 was the sum of
$141, 142, S61.33, leaving a small bal
ance of the appropriation therefor to
be returned to the Treasury.
For information we herewith submit
statement of the whole number of
pensioners of all wars upon the rolls at
the close Of the years June 80, 1904 and
1905, respectively:
The National tribune., 1905-10-05
Total

This shows that the largest number
of all-467, or nearly one-third the to-
tal-had their previous pensions raised
to $50 a month, and the next largest
number-394, or about one-fourth the
whole-had their pensions raised to $24
a month. Undoubtedly every one of
these were cases of great merit, in
which the pensioner is suffering from
incurable disabilities, which grow
worse every year and for which the
small sum he receives is a fearfully in
adequate compensation.
The National tribune., 1905-10-05

A gleam of hope comes that the Aus
Hungarian Empire is not to be dis
membered, but that a way will be found
in which the two halves of the mon
archy may get along together amicably
The Hunsarians have expressed such a
wish. anu it is taken as an olive branch
to the Germans.