Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1912-08-23

The most part composed Of a D"Vy Of
merry and pretty maids, members of
the Ferris Hartman Company, were
the object Of much interest 10 soy.
eral hundred IIOnOlulanS who gath
cred at Alakea wharf this morning
and awaited the arrival of the Pacific
Mail liner China from San Francisco.
THE chorus girlies made the trip
one long to be remembered" insisted
one officer in the China.
"Wednesday evening the China eX-
perienced a blow that for several
hours sent. mountains of green water
swirling over the decks and inundat-
ing a number of cabins on the lower
Cecks.
= During the height Of the storm, the
theatrical company was holding forth
in the saloon, and despite the bowling
of the gale and the surging seas. the
lads and lassies kept the fun and
merriment agoing, and few passengers
among the one hundred and fifty tray
elers in the cabin really knew that
the elements We're attempting TO do
their worst.
One act from the opera Pinafore
was SUNG u6Sp1lS the uOISG d1lU
motion created by the storm.
The China is to remain here until
ten O'Clock tomorrow morning when
the voyage TO Japan ports and Hong
kong will he resumed. The vessel
brought s. cabin and II second class
passengers for. Honolulu. The through
list includes 50 cabin, 3 second class
and 1876 Asiatic steerage passengers,
The Honolulu cargo amounts to
$50 tons. The local postal officials
+ received 253 sacks of later mail from
the mainland.
On board the China and under
strong guard during the stay of the
liner at this port are 4S Ideported ASH
atics. Thirty are Chinese. who have
heen gathered up by the FederaI an
Ger being Japanese.
Several tranSPacific travellers in
the China and proceeding to the Far
East are taking out their autOmo-
biles.
A small percentage of the. passen
gers are listed as missionaries.
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Seaman's Bill Said to Be Pernicious.
3. The attention of the shipping world
is invited to the most perhicious piece
OF legislation which is now pending
in Congress, namely, the so-caIled
Seamen's Bill. This bill is of, inter.
est to all shipowners throughout the
world whose vessels trade at u. s.
! ports and effectively nullifies about
a score of treaties with foreign gov
ernments regarding the status of sea
men at American ports, remarks
Shipping illustrated, the leading ship
ping journal of the United States.
There is not the slightest chance that
this bill could reach the Senate be-
fore March next year. Therefore it
behooves shipowners to take up the
matter in earnest and begin a syste-
matte campaign against law which
would give de facto to seamen the
right to detain ships by demanding
half their wages at every port of call
in the United States.
The intolerable conditions which
this bill would create would affect
foreign owners even more than Amer
leans, and il is not unreasonable to
suggest that, perhaps, diplomatic in
tervention might succeed where the
arguments of American owners have
failed. AS a matter of fact, the dele
gates of the Seamen's Union which
appeared before the committee of
Congress on behalf of the bill. laid
emphasis upon 1.-The hardships which
the measure would entail on foreign
ships, thereby hoping to secure the
endorsement of the narrow minded ell
ement which still thinks that what is
irksome to the foreigner benefits the
American owner.
The bin is obtensibly framed to
abolish the "involuntary servitude i'm
posed upon Seamen in the merchant
marine of the United States while in
foreign ports, and the involuntary
servitude imposed upon the seamen
of the merchant marine of foreign
countries while in ports of the Unit
ed States, to prevent unskilled man
ming of American vessels, to encour-
age the training of boys in the Amer
lean merchant marine, for the further
protection of life at sea. and to amend
the laws relative to seamen"
1t deals with the manning of Amer
lean vessels, hours of labor, etc. and
provides further that seamen of any
mand half the wages due them at any
port of call in the United States. This
latter provision is in direct violation
of treaty stipulations with foreign
countries, and, to quote the language
of the minority report. lis it TO b" eX-
pected that any self-respcCting nation
will submit to such laws, passed with
out notice to them and without even
the decency and the courtesy Of first
taking up the question through urdi-
nary diplomatic channels?"
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HonoIulans Will See Niagara.
Honolulans will be afforded an 0p-
portunity of viewing Niagara. Not
great waterfall. but a fine, new and
commOdiouS ocean going liner will i've
brought to the gateway of the ri'Y
with the completion OF the CanadiaN-