Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1913-05-03
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fCa.ifornla nodifles IT'S attnuce to
wards the MikaIOs subjects iAG
EgroWing irri alien Gf the tayauc5e
lBay &c, . yord restraint
! Commercial Leaders Warn
/ Not o2ly viii the. conm@rcia! lead
eTs Of Japan refuse t. CXsi5it 81 tho
! Panama Pacific Exposition in San
5tIsncisCo, out, irrespective CT the
! goyc.nnent attitude. an embargo
viii be placed b. them on ell Cali
flrnia ports, should The antialiea land
bill be passed, according 10 ali an
EcCrcentent made in Tokyo today.
/ California Passes Webb Bill
! After bitter debate, in which the
Democratic members Of the state SEN
ate led in warning advice to the ma
| jority TO proceed with caution in what
ever might be done in the matter OF
antialien legislation, the Webb anti
alien land bill, somewhat. amended,
#as passed this morning Saturday
al quarter to one o'clock.
The final rollcall, when the opposi-
ttiGn TO the measure had been flatten-
ed ont by the pounding of the major
! ity, showed thirty.siX for the bill to
| two opposed.
BY vote of twenty-five to thirteen,
the California senate today adopted an
providing that aliens not eligible to
citizenship may lease. lands in the
state for period of three years.
Bryan in Conference.
i A long executive conference of Sec
rotary Bryan with Governor Johnson,
[ Acknowledgement Webb and Senator
! Boynton, administration leader, pre-
coded the action of the senate.
BOSS rule in America has ended"
| This declaration, coming direct from
President Woodrow Wilson and voiced
as warning to the machine leaders
| Of New Jersey, who are fighting his
| plans for jury reform, struck reSpon-
sive chord throughout that state to-
day. Plans for jury reform were for
INFLATED by the president when he
was governor of New Jersey and his
mission now is to lock horns with
/ former Senator Smith and other ma
chine leaders, who say they will con-
troll the special session of the legis-
lature next week and intend to hold
back the reform measure and submit
it to referendum vote.
A redhot verbal assault, directed at
Representative Mann of Illinois and
Representative Fordney of Michigan,
was voiced in the house during the
tariff debate today by Representative
! Thomas of Kentucky.
Fordney was characterized as the
hairless wonder from Michigan" Re-
ferring to Mann, Thomas said:
II just want to tell that hewhisker-
ed gentleman from Illinois that these
are dog days, when we are shearing
sheep, and would advise him to go
and get shaved. ! will bet he has cost
| the government ten million dollars
since he has been rafting around
! here"
Mann, white With rage, was on his
feet instantly
"The gentleman from Kentucky"
retorted Mann, addressed himself TO
the hair on my face. He says | am
bewhiskered. l am, but l am not be-
| whiskeyed.'
The house, which had been laugh
| ing, was silenced by Mann's quip.
Blood-curdling stories of brutal mur-
ders of Americans in Mexico were told
at Galveston today by fourteen Ameri-
cans and Englishmen, who have just
arrived on the steamer Beryl Nine
| women and six men made up the pal
| ty several of the women having left
| the bodies of their murdered husbands
eli Mexican soil.
Sentiment against Americans in
Mexico, the refugees declared, is worse
under the Huerta regime than under
the Madero government. Hundreds of
other refugees, il was stated, were at
Iampico and other ports, unable to
escape.
Most of the American refugees at
Tampico, it was said, are penniless.
chihuahua City, in the State OF Chi
huahua, Mexico, is facing capture by
a big insurgent army. according TO re-
ports received here today. Three
thousand federals are rushing from
the South to the defense OF the city.
President Wilson was warmly wei
coined on his arrival at Jersey City
! yesterday evening to campaign on be-
! half Of the Jury Reform Bill, soon TO
be fought out in the state legislature.
! Tho president threw himself into the
fiaht On behalf of The bill and Strnn.