Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1912-12-03

cheyenne, hlSnt rev. AuSlIH Do"llhSr
bishop of Des Moines, and Rev. Ed
ward J. Hanna, auxiliary bishop of
San Francisco.
Democrats throughout the country
are apparently opposed to w. J. Bryan
as a member OF President-elect Will
sons cabinet, according to the flood
of letters in the hands of Wilson here
today, protesting, Bryan's appoint
ment
:. The Vienna Reichpost publishes a.
special dispatch stating that Russia is
concentrating great army of half a
million men near the frontier, in Pol
iSh fortreSses. l..
That the heirs of John T. Brush,
president of the New York National
baseball team, may sell the Giants, is
the report current in New York. Ed
ward T.. Upton, president of Fasig-
Upton Company, horse breeders, Is
said to have opened negotiations for
the purchase of the club. = ...>
Constitutionality of the newspaper
publicity" section of the 1912 postal
appropriation act was up for argn-
ment today, before the supreme court.
When Speaker Clark of the house
of representatives and Senator Bacon,
temporary presiding officer of the SEN
ate, sounded their gayels promptly at
noon today it marked the beginn@g OF
the end of the Sixty-second Congress.
Immediately after converting the SEN
ate adjourned out of respect to the
memory / of Vice-president Sherman
and Senator's Rayner of Maryland and
Hepburn of Idaho, who died during
the recess. i, ILL.,: -. ~
The retiring members in the House
are: Uncle Joe" Cannon Of Illinois,
T. Rodenburg of Illinois, n. B. This
tlewood of Illinois, aNicholas Long
worth of Ohio, John, Dalzell of Penn
sylvania, Dean Crumpacker of Indiana,
William B. Mckinley of Illinois, E. j.
Hill of Connecticut, C. A. galloway
of New Hampshire, George w. Prince
of Illinois, II. o. Young of Michigan,
]. @. Tilson of Connecticut, F. D. Cur
rier of New Hampshire, w. B. Wilson
of Pennsylvania, Congressman j..
Lamb of Virginia was the only prom
inent Democrat defeated.
Among the retiring senator's are
Henry E. Burnham of New Hamp-
shire, w. Murray Crane of Massachu-
sets, Simon Guggenheim Of Colorado,
J. Jonathan Bourne of Oregon, Norris
Brown of Nebraska, Joseph, M. Dixon
of Montana H. A, Richardson of Della
ware, Robert J. Gamble of South Da-
kota, Shelby M. CulIom of Illinois,
Frank O.. Briggs of New Jersey, JOS
eph w. Bailey of Texas, M. ]. Fowler
of Louisiana, Thomas S. Paynter OF
Kentucky, and Clarence W. Watson of
West Virginia. ..
Col Geo. W. Goethals, chief engi-'
neer of the Panama Canal and its prin-
eipal builder, will be made full gen
eral in the army with rank CORE
spending to that now held by Admiral
George Dewey in the navy, if Repre-
sentative Mann of Illinois. minority
leader in the House, can bring it about
in the coming session of Congress. The
promotion would be for life and not
subject Col. Goethals to retirement
for any cause
A fire broke out this afternoon in
the office of J. d. Williams & Co. the
leading moving picture and theatrical
firm of Australia, and six girls were
injured in jumping from the windows
of the second floor: Thousands of
1es IF ctr in tho h1jl1inO
were destroyed.
The supreme court today in an opin-
ion announced by Justice Day held
that the Union Pacific Railway Com
pany, by the acquisition of stock in the
Southern Pacific, had effected a COM
bination in violation of the antitrust
law
William w. Morrow, judge of the
United States circuit court at San
Francisco, today announced that he
will retire from the bench i'll July, on
the day when he attains the age of
seventy years:
The crisis in the Saionji cabinet to-
day reached it's extreme stage when
Lieut.. Gen. Baron Yusaku Uyehara
rendered his resignation as the min
lister of war. Baron Uyehara was a
caller early in the morning at the
palace and he. personally handed his
resignation to His Imperial Majesty,
the Emperor of Japan. The crisis was
brought to its present stage over the
plan of Strengthening the Chosen, or
Korea, division of the Japanese army.
Premier Saionji opposed the plan Wig
orously on the ground that the Japan
csc financial condition is such that
thpro Should hp allowed NO eYtr9 on