The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1906-04-02

The Beef Packers Case Decision.--The AIgeciras
Conference .-Gsrmans Advise Emigrants to
Avoid New York---The Statehood Bill

! the Department of Justice to secure
an appeal from the decision of Judge
Humphrey this point will be kept to
| the front 1t could not be decided at
| the conference today whether an ap-
| peal from the decision would lie, but
| that question will be gone over very
| carefully, and if in the opinion of the
| law officers of the Government, a
| foundation for an appeal can be made,
! it viii be taken
| Attorney General Moody declined to
| discuss the merits of Judge Hum
| phreys decision. 1t was, he said, of
very great Importance, not only as af-
fecting this particular case, but as
! laying down a principle which. if sus-
| tanned must have a very serious eff
! feet upon all future prosecutions by
| the Government for violation of the
antitrust and Interstate Commerce
/ laws. 1t is possible the Government
| has a right of appeal under existing
| laws, but in any event a bill is now
| before Congress which provides a rem
edy in such cases. 1t provides that in
| all criminal prosecutions the United
| States shall have the same right of re-
view by writ of error that is given to
| the defendant, including the right to a
! that the act shall take effect from and
| after it's passage and shall apply to all
| cases pending. This BILL which has
been favorab bly, reported by the House
| Judiciary Committee. embodies the
recommended tons made by Attorney
| General Moody in his last annual re-
| port to Congress,
ENORMOUS EMIGRATION.
BERLIN, March 22.-Unusually large
| numbers of Jewish and Russian emf
grants to the United States and South
America are expected to leave Ger
many after Easter and an influential
committee has been formed here with
F; the object OF directing the emigration
to the best places So far the
] United States is concerned, the COM
mittee will publish advertisements
throughout Russia, advising emigrants
to avoid New York and all Eastern
states and committees will be formed
| at Galveston, New Orleans, Baltimore
and other Southern seaports which, CO.
operating with committees in the in
terror. will direct emigrants to places
where they can work at their trades.
The committee here has been Informed
that many Jews who are well to do
are preparing TIC go to the United
States.
ANTI-CIGARETTE. LAW.
LINCOLN, Neb., March 22.-The Ne
braska Supreme Court today gave a
decision on Nebraska's anti-cigarette
law, which was tested in the courts by
a young man arrested on a charge of
rolling a cigarette. The effect of the
decision is to sustain the law in gen.
eraI concerning the sale and manufac- |
ture of cigarettes but the rolling of
cigarettes by individuals for their own
use is not called manufacturing" A
few fines have been paid and SEN
fences served under that part of the |
law which is now declared unconstitu- |
tional.
STATEHOOD CONFERENCE.
WASHINGTON, March 22.-By vote |
of 175 to 1856 the House adopted the |
Statehood rule and the Speaker APP
pointed Hamilton of Michigan, Brick |
of Indiana and Moon of Tennessee
conferees. The previous question, |
bringing up the rule for debate, had |
been carried by vote of III to 40.
HIGH-PRICED ORCHID.
LONDON, March % "A record price
local auction room, for prize orchid |
from a collection of H T. Pitt |
AUSTRIA'S PROPOSITION.
BERLIN, March 22.-Russia's in |
structions to Count Cassini, her chief
delegate to the Moroccan Conference,
have affected the German Government
most unfavorably, and came almost as
a challenge at the moment that a set
Element of the question in dispute at
Algeciras seemed certain. 1t is not
improbable that the attitude of both
the French and German delegates viii
be influenced thereby.
Dispatches from Algeciras today in
dictate an unyielding disposition on
either side over the question whether |
the French and Spanish inspectors of
police shall cooperate in each harbor
or consist of four exclusively French
and four exclusively Spanish in
spectors.
ALGECIRAS, Spain, March %. p.
m.-Owing to the slight indisposition
of the head of the German delega-
ton Herr Won Radowitz who is con-