Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1913-05-28
OVERNIGHT
FEDERAL
WIRELESS
To the Advertiser

Democratic members OF. the senai
finance committee this afternoon star
ed framing amendments to the Under
wood tariff bill They will work da
and night hoping to present it to th
senate within three weeks.
Keefe's Report
The report on Hawaiian labor COZ
EDITIONS, made by Commissioner Genel
lal of immigration Keefe last year, a
legged to have been suppressed by FOL
|mer Secretary of Commerce and Il
Dor Nagel, which the house last wee
ordered to be printed as public doc
ument on request of Representative
Parker, has made its appearance.
Keefe declares that labor condi
tons in Hawaii are very bad" wage
should be increased, employees house
should be bettered and company store
put under management. About one
half Of the Filipino laborers importe
by the planters are infected wit
hookworm and worse diseases. Man
of them are continually in Jail.
Many declared they were brought t
the islands under misstatements as t
conditions and wish to return but ca
not earn enough money for passage t
Manila. japanese were bringing i
women at the rate of sixty to ninet
per ship.
The publication of the report a
this time is designed to weaken tn
cause of the. Hawaiian planters in tn
fight against the free sugar clause O
the Underwood bill.
War more. serious than the Balkan
Turkish struggle and which menace
the peace of Europe as that conflic
never did, is feared as the result o
schemes which today have PRACTICAL,
disintegrated the alliance between
Bulgaria, Servia and Greece.
Servia's demands on Bulgaria for
rectification of their agreement OF
territorial matters is regarded as prac
tically an ultimatum and, while Their,
is no fighting today, Bulgaria an,
Greece are maintaining what really il
a state of war about Salonika
kilograms from Vienna state tina
eighty Thousand Bulgarians, ready an,
eager for more fighting. are masse,
about Sofia and it Is regarded as Ger
tain that the Bulgarian cabinet vii
reject the demands of Servia for ces
sion Of territory won by Bulgarian
arms.
The Mir, an inspired Sofia and it il
regarded as certain that the Bulgarian
cabinet will reject the demands o
Servia for cession of territory won b,
Bulgarian arms
The Mir, an inspired Sofia newspa
per-, declares fatty that Servian de
mands constitute an ultfmatunn which
Bulgaria cannot grant.
Theodore Roosevelt took the stan,
at Markuetta, Mich,s today in. Judg,
Richard Flannigan's court as his owl
witness in his suit for $4,000 punitive
damages against George A. Newett,
newspaper editor, who accused tn,
former president of lying and ours
ing in, most disgusting way furthe
declaring that The gets drunk too, an,
that not infrequently."
. vi = & E
Roosevelt said: Il have never drum
cocktail or highbaH IN my life.
never drank whisky or brandy excep
under the advice of a physician. / d.
not like the taste of either. | do no
smoke or drink, for | dislike both.
do not drink red wines The onl
wines / ever drink are white wines
Madeira, champagne or. occasionally
a glass of sherry. At home l oftel
drink wine glass or two of Madeir
and ! often drink tall glass of whit,
wine and poland water At public din
ners / sometimes drink glass O
champagne, perhaps two. On an aver
age this means that l drink champaign
about once month"
Captain Peter Johnson, who 70
some years has safely piloted the Mat
son Navigation Company's liner VII
helmina, will retire from command O
the vessel to become master OF tn,
new Matson liner Matsonan, whicl
will shortly go into commission. Al
the Wilhelmina was nearing Sal
francisco from Honolulu last nigilt
dinner was given by the passenger
and Captain Johnson was presented