Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1913-05-12

81 the aEairs OF j0rtl1n,s Ofiicr. tusiay
submitted their report 70 Jiie rsisa.
ture.
A radical amendment 10 the Demo
cratic tarin bill Was proposed 10 the
house majority Lead. Ss.@ ataliHe
Underwood, today - 10 Siii-
MONS ol North Care 81
the senate finance q. 5 ~
ported that Presidea' proves
the plan =
The amendment proposed ..>,uld giyS
Secretary OF the Treasury AicAdcO
authority 10 proclaim fixeu standards
oil value for the assessme; Of duties.
foreign markets. Such .andards
would be in force on l. ,.2ss notice
and could ne be chang without 20
Gays motto importers.
Substant.rN auctions Of tariff
rates, WithoU, Stroyfr" Any Ameri-
can industry. and recip~o>tt slat Will
enlarge foreign markets q 2leri2aa
products, is the policy around which
insurgent Democratic opposition 10
the Wilson Underwood Tariff Bill is
solidifying in the senate. The policy
will have the support of such men as
Ransdell and Boynton OF louisa
ShafIoth of Colorado, Newlands az.
Fittman of Nevada and Walsh of Mo-.
tana and it is believed a number
other senators will throw their IN
fiuenee in favor of the plan.
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Southern Chihuahua, is in the hands
of Constitutionalists troops, the Fed
eral garrison OF 1900 having evacu-
ated. B. F. Leonard, master me-
chanic of the mine at Parral, has
brought the news to FL Paso Of the
capture of the town, on a motor
cycle He rode from Chihuahua City,
meeting a half dozen insurreeto
bands, including that of Villa. All
were mobolizing to cut off the Fed
erals, retreat.
To probe for treasure amongst
the bones of long-buried ships down
in the deep off Block Island and
other marine graveyards off the New
England Coact, the famous smuggling
oNLOO1ICl DOlIlSl, Ilslo just put Odl VII
der Captain Abraham l.. Russell, a IA
nous skipper and deep sea diver. The
Bonita was siezed by the United
States government, following a spec
tacular affair, in 1906 when she
sneaked thirty-three Chinese to a
landing near Marble Head.
One man was killed and five in
jured today in Paris by the explosion
of an engine in an excavation next
door to the home O. American Am
bassador Herrick, i'll the Rue Fran
co.'s Premier. Herrick's house was
not seriously damaged.
The illness of Henry G. Flagler,
the railroad magnate, is causing
much alarm to his friends at Palm
Beach today. The magnate is grow
ing weaker daily and his business
associates have been summoned to
his bedside.
"Chuck" Connors, the King of the
Bowery, is dead in New York. He
succombed to heart disease today in
the Hudson Street Hospital Chuck"
was famed also as the Mayor of Chi
natown," and his slang expressions
were widely quoted. He was sixty-one
years old.
Seventeen persons for whom sub
poenas have been issued to testify
before the grand jury investigating
white slave traffic in Los Angeles,
have disappeared, according to De-
tectiye Fred Borden, who is in charge
of systematic search for them,
launched today.
To prevent the crippling of parcel
post, the house today passed an en-
Urgency resolution appropriating
$600,000 for hire of additional clerks.
Taking his wife and a three-year-
old daughter as passengers, Frank
Champion, Long Beach aviator, made
a twenty-minute flight at Long Beach
today in Martinique hydroplane,
starting out through the surf near the
harbor entrance and gliding over the
breakers, alighting afterwards in
front of the bath house A thousand
persons watched the daring exhibit
ton.
Mrs. Chapman and the baby had
never flown in an aeroplane before.
Vincent Astor, the young multi
millionaire, was host today to Vice
President Marshall and several I'm
tied States senator's The party sail
ed up the Hudson as far as West
Point for the annual inspection of
the military post.