Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1912-12-21
CONFERENCE OF GOVERNORS DECIDESPARTY MUST
BEREHABLITATED BEFORE Being REORGANIzED

work OF reorganization shall be boss
ed by the very men who disrupted TIN
party and made certain the turnin'
over Of the Government and Cnngres
>to the Democrats.
Washington Topics.
Uproar among the House Democrats
ever the fact that Majority Leader
homo Of Thomas Fortune Ryan. OF
New York, a dinner attended by for.
mer Senator Aldrich, Senator Bailey
and numerous big financiers, has not
yet subsidized. ~ ss.-,S - / 49,
Informal conferences = among pro.
pFessipe Democrats of the House still
are being held over it, and the con.
test over the places on the Ways and
Means Committee which will be va
cant after March is getting sharper.
Criticism of Mr.. Underwood continues.
Efforts will be made to take from the
Ways and Means Committee the pow
er to name the committees.
Mr.. Underwood, thus far has made
DO comment on the dinner. His friends
are saying he often has been guest
at the Ryan home, and thai lie al
tended the dinner simply as he would
have attended any other social events
ALI records for selling Red Cross
Christmas seals went by the board
when Miss Alys Meyer, daughter of
the Secretary OF the Navy. and Mrs.
Wolcott TMckerman deposited the pro-
ceeds OF their joint sales. The two
Sold $500 of these small emblenls of
good will in two hours at the Ameri.
lan Security and Trust Company The
record previously was held by Miss
Descha Allen, daughter of Major Hen
fy Il. Allen, and. Miss Ruth Anderson,
who sell seals at the PaIais Royal
Tor sales outside OF The stations 4
lively competition Is also going OH,
with Miss Ruth Britain leading Miss
Britain in two days has; sold $40
worth. ~ ~1} r
Wayne Whipple, the Philadelphia
historian, is doomed to disappoint-
mem in his hope to have adopted his
design for new flag of the United
States based on the plan used when
America was in its infancy. Officials
, of the quartermaster's branch OF the
war department declared that while
there had been some correspondence
over Whipple's design after President
TAFT referred ii to the department.. it
had now gone the way of 100 or more
others. That means that the design
has either been returned to Mr.. Whip
pie or buried SO deep in the obscurfty
of the department files that it cannot
be resurrected. 1t would require an
act of congress to change the present
stars and stripes. but congress un,
! deaEtedly will never hear officially of
the Whipple plan. @, ...s1s.... !. r
Colonel Schoield OF the quarter
masters department said today:
'N0ld Glory is the most beautiful uag
Tin the world, and why should we seek
to change it despite all the talk at
! various times that it ought to be diff
/ ferent and despite all these designs
submitted to the department"
California ranks frs; among the
states west Of the Mississippi river In
the value of its mineral production,
according to the United StSates geo
logical survey. In former years Cali.
| fornia's claim to distinction as a min.
eral producer rested on its output OF
! gold, in which, in fact, il held first
place in 1911, although in recent years
it has usually fallen behind Colorado
! in the production of gold The pre-
| miership of gold in the state has, how.
ever, been succeeded by petroleum,
the value Of which in California eX.
ceeds that of gold by 81 per cent and
| gives thes,ate first place among the
states in the production of crude OIL
California leads also in the production
of asphalt, of platinum, and of quick.
silver and enjoys a monopoly in the
production of borax and magnes.te. II
is second in the production of tung.
stem ores, third in the production OF
copper and stands we'll up among the
states in the production of a number
of less important minerals.
The total value of the mineral pro
duction of California in 'l9l1was 500.
517.5G6. compared with $S6.72l ,069 in
1910.
The chief mineral product of Ari
iona is copper, in the mining OF
which, according TO the United States
geological survey, the new state
ranks first among the United States
1t ranks sixth. in the production oil
silver and seventh in the production
of gold. These three metals consti
tute 9S per cent of the total produc,
ton of the state. which amounted ia
| $43, 1892 in 1910. and $44,104, 731 in
1911. The value Of the copper prod
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