Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1913-06-26

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awaiting the sailing of the Honolulu
steamer, and expect to return next
spring"
While reports that Bulgaria and
Servia have agreed TO accept Russia's
offer of arbitration in their territorial
disputes have not been officially con-
firmed, it is believed today that
prospects of peace inhthe Balkans are
brighter. Belgrade dispatches say
that the new SeTyiana cabinet is
strongly peaceful, and Sofia says that
bulgaria, is willing to submit the dis
pute to- arbitration. Russian pres
sure is believed to be responsible for
the change.
/ Bertram C. Rivenhurgh, aceompan-
led by his wife. and son. sailed last
evening on the LurIine for Honolulu.
Rivenburglf has been in Washington
for many months in, the interest OF
Gilbert J. sWaller, q leading candidate
for the goyernorship..
Suffering from ptpmaine poison
ing, VIM A. Pinkerton, the noted de-
tective, is i'll at Omaha.
An adequate American navy means
fleet second only to that of Great
Britain and inadequacy is an invita-
ton to war, is the opinion of Admiral
Dewey, leading navSl officer of the
United States. 1t
81 believe is. the duty of each
generation to pay its own insurance
and not to rest its burdens on the
generations that come after. The in
surance for peace today is a navy
strong enough to. compel TT says the
Admiral, in an article written for the
nayy-day program at Newport on July
2 and just made public.
The Sonora Mexican rebel troops
have taken the towns of 0rtez and
Santa Rosa, according to dispatches
from Hermosillo. The federals UNI
der General Ojeda are reported in full
retreat toward Guaymas.
With parting denunciation of At
torney General McReynolds, that
bristled with charges, John l.. Nc,
Nab concluded his labors as United
States district attorney for the north
ern district and prepared to retire to
private life,
McNab's statement was a bitter
one. He said: mo one in California
will be for an instant deceived by the
lame and puerile. defense of the at
torney general to the president. He
says ] should have wired to remind
Linn, while had already three times
warned him that postponement would
be obtained by political influence at
Washington, that our witnesses were
being subpoenaed and that one of the
defendants was jailed for attempting
to corrupt the witness. / told him re-
peatedly that any continuance would
leave this office under the stigma. of
corruption n -: =. ..-.-
The attorney general knew all this,
hut cared not a whit whether this Of
flee was charged with corruption or
not, so long as his rich and influential
friends were satisfied. .-.< -
zone of two things is true: either
Attorney General McReynolds with
held from the president the repeated
messages of warning that corruption
and Influence were destroying the
cases and that postponenent was fa-
tai, or Washington is neither sensi-|
tive nor responsive to the charge of
corruption in its public servants"
That President Wilson does not in
tend to hear charges against his adj
yisers was startlingly demonstrated
yesterday in the announcement that
Clayton Harrington, special agent Of
the department of justice, has been
from office by the presi-
Gent. Harrington had taken UP with
he President the circumstances sur
rounding the Diggs- Caminetti case
and the facts in tho matter as he had
learned them while assisting the
United States district attorney in
working up 5the cases and securing
the evidence upon which the indict-
ments were found. Harrington ask
ed the president not to accept Nc!
Nab's resignation but to remove At |
torney General MeReynolds from of |
flee as the one culpable. The presi- |
Ion