Honolulu Republican, Volume IV, Number 495, 12 January 1902 — TREASURY DEPARTMENT’S LATEST CIRCULAR [ARTICLE]

TREASURY DEPARTMENT’S LATEST CIRCULAR

FOREIGN AMBASSADORS PLAINT German and English Diplomats Say That Shipping Masters Entice Sailors Away from Their Vessels. —Must Arrest Deserters. - Following th approval of Collector ! of Cuctoms Stackable’s ruling, by the treasury department, that deserters of foreign vessels are to be considered as alien immigrants, come? another ruling by the treasury department by which it is asked that local authorities co-operate to effect the return of the men to their vessels and in that connection the Secretary calls attention to that section of the Revised Statutes which makes it incumbent on state and county officers, as well as those of municipalities, to arrest deserting sa.’ors from ships f foreign nation# and ietain ’:-i until their vessel is p»ady to go *o #- a This last circular of the Secretary from the Treasury Department was bi-'uih: about • • - :n?;a;nt< ma a: th- state department by- German and English Ambassadors a regard to the desertions of sailors of those nationalities a - Pa. . t rwts ■ from Portland to Honolulu. The i piemat# say that the men ar** inJu- ed to desert by siiputng ma#"- r# to ship .* other w - - t.. - w-r - r.g a Hardship on the f rz- vessel left without a crew