Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1912-12-05
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In the senate today Senator Pristow
i introduced re- solutions for the infti2-
tive and recall OF Judicial officers.
The subcommittee on commerce
heard representatives OF capital and
labor on the proposed seamen's IN
voluntary SeTVitaGo bill.
The court of impc 2camert began
taking testimony in tie trial q: Judge
Archibald.
The chairman Of the. jolt c0EInlis-
| sion appointed 20 iuvesti. rate foreign
II rchase of American tobacco, an
! noGpced that the comnissio1 Woulu
Ecct Thursday.
In the house today the annual re,
port OF the secretary of the treasury
Was read. -. -. .---.
/ Chairman Padgett, of the naval af-
fiirs committee, introduced a bill to
| CO... fer the title OF admiral OH COM
mSnders-in-chief of Atlantic and Paci-
&c battleship fleets
The New York delegation in caucus
decided to oppose the Burnet immigra-
ton bill prescribing the literacy test
/ 20: immigrants.
1 Tie Crago bill to pension Spanish
war veterans, widows and children
| passed.
| Repres entative Sulzer introduced a
Eill for the relocation of the New York
| city pier State line in Hudson River.
The peace plenipotentiaries repres-
erting Turkey, Bulgaria, Servia and
Montenegro will begin their work in
London on Friday of this week The
aImistic, signed at eight o'clock last
evening in the village of Baghtche,
| took the revised form drafted by Dr.
S. Daneff 1t contains the following
fconditions: Ef.s .......,
Il. The helligerent armies shall re-
main in the position they at present
occupy. ..:..t. 4 ~.--. -..'.
80. The besieged forts shall not be
| revictualed. -. s
20. The revictualing Of the BG1gar-
ian army in the field shall be carried
out by way of the Black Sea and
Adrianople,. commencing ten days aft
or the signing of the. armistice.
II. The negotiations for peace shall
begin in London; December &c."
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Russia has retorted to the rafting
Of the German sword in the Balkan
war tangle She has declared that
She will not permit a repetition of Gle
methods used when Austria occupied
! Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Should Greece persist in her refusal
to adhere to the armistiee signed yes
terday it would necessarily throw Bull.
garia more closely into the embrace
Of Servia and give fresh encourage
ment to the Seryian resistance to- the
European powers, who are practically
ur animous in condemning the Servian
demands.
Intervention by Roumania, it is De
lieved would inevitably compel Russia
to take drastic action on behalf of the
Slavs in the Balkans.
Announcing that the country is in
danger of a panic as long as the pres
ent banking and currency system re-
mains unchanged, and urging the
adoption of system affording greater
protection. Franklin MacVeaSh. secre-
tGry of the treasury, made his annual
report to congress today.
The present System not only will
rot prevent panic. but when a certain
point is reached will make it inevit-
able" declares Secretary MacVeagh.
The locking up of large sums in the
treasury vaults, he asserted, is both
unscientific and unreasonable.
Prince Taro Katsura, one OF Japan's
foremost statesman, will be called
upon by His .Iajesty the Emperor to
succeed Premier Marquis Kinmochi
Saionji, whose entire cabinet resigned
in a body today. The designations
were handed over to the Emperor by
the retiring premier. who personally
calle>- again today at the palace.
Charles Sumner Bird, who was the
defeated Progressive candidate, for
Governor of Massachu. etts at the re-
cent election, in an address at the Pro-
Sress banquet, last night. quoted Theo-
dore Roos evelt as saying that he
would not again be candidate for
the Presidency
Announcement was o.I,cialIy made
today of the appointment of John F..
Trask, secretary and manager OF the
Penn. ylvania Academy Of Fine Arts.
= the post of chief Of the fine arts
department of the Panama Interna.
tional Exposition.
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