The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1912-02-24

to Manila to exhibit themselves to
the public.
Two objections were raised, first
that the people were to be exhibited
and second that they were not de.
Gently dressed.
The Governor General promptly dis
posed of the first objection by explain
ing that the Christians had come
with the things they brought to Ma
Mia to exhibit and sell and that they
had not come as exhibits themselves.
At to the second objection the Gov
ernor General disposed of it by order
ing the clothing of any of the what
might be taken as a standard of ma
tive decency.
Quartermaster's Reform.
MANILA, January 2S.-Major Gene
raj j. Franklin Bell, division command
err, has approved the recommendation
of Colonel I. w. Littell, chief quarter
master of the Philippines Division,
that the offices of the War Transport
Quartermaster and Depot QuartermGs-
ter be consolidated. The work Of both
will then be administered by one office,
to be known as the Office of the De.
pot Quartermaster The consolida-
ton will be made on July ], 1912
Colonel Littells plan of consolida
ton will greatly reduce paper work
and correspondence, requiring only
one set of records Shipment of sup
plies will be expedited and the trans
action of public business simplitied
Division officials estimate that a finan
cial saving of P75,OOO a year will re
suit from the consolidation, the re
duction in pay for clerical forces alone
amounting to approximately P2O,OOC
per annum.
Commerce and Police.
MANILA, January 27--The annua
report of Secretary Charles B. Elliott
department of commerce and police
was received from the bureau of print
ing yesterday, containing a report o
the work for the fiscal year endini
June 80, 1911, for the bureau of cons
tabuary, public works, navigation
pests, coasts and geodetic survey, ant
labor, and the offices of the consulting
architect and supervising railway eN
pert, together with the general super
vision of all corporations other thai
building and loan associations, banks
and trust companies, which are unde
his executive control
Secretary Elliott authorized and Lie
ersed 100 new corporations to do bus
ness in the Philippines, during tn
fiscal year, of which number thrice
were foreign and ninety-siX domestic
The total number of corporations dc
ing business was foreign 22i, and dc
nestle, 377, of which ninety-seve
were nonstock, and twenty-four rel
gious corporations.
With the marked improvement /
, the efficiency of line officers in tn
constabulary during recent year,
there has been no compensa
Z ing increase in the standard of pa,
Secretary Elliott therefore recon
mends that the pay of captains be az
, vanced from P3,4OO to P3,600 per al
mum, that of first lieutenants be esta
9 lished at P2,4OO during their first tw
t years, and at the expiration of thi
e time increased to P2,SO0, the grade
, third lieutenant to be abolished
Public Works shakeup.
MANILA, January 25.-DirectC
4 Warwick Greene, of the bureau of pu
: lie works, announced yesterday thi
a he has approved a general shakeup
:. the personal property division an
r. Nozaleda lumber yard of the burea
, i'm order to secure a more efficient al
5 economical administration of these II
g portant branches of his bureau.
AS a result of the investigation
S stituted by the auditor at the reque
t of Director Greene, the fact has be-
Il" learned that several Of the proper
+ division employees have been very car
e less and inefficient in their work al
l. accountability
9 Because Of this ineficiency dism