The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1869-03-06

NtNiAaN'sANNs IaR- 1--lut EEINtt las passed. 4
bin giving elect TO certain foreign treaty sIipuIa-
lions. The bill authorizes the President To employ
military fore" when necessary 20 guard alleged
criminals who have been claimed under the Extra
di;ion law.
The Senate bill extending The operation Of the
provisions oi tie Coolic Trade Law 20 Japan was
passed by the Senate.
WASHINGTON. Feb. 3-The discussion in regard
90 Postal Iclvgraphs. before tine House Committee
ON IosioAce and Post roads. closed to-day.
The Committee stand Eve in favor Of recon-
mendinS the passage OF the Postal Telegraph Bill.
and four against
The bill will be reported ON Tuesday next hut
its passage At the present session Is extremely
doubtful.
The proposed United States Protectoratc scheme
for san Domingo and IIayti Is under consideration
in the state Department.
Parties who are largely interested in the matter
anticipate" that the convention will be concluded be-
fore Secretary Sewarls retirement. providing for a
ProtccioraJc over the Islands named, similar 10 the
one defeated in the House.
On motion of Boutwell,, the constitutional
amendment called up.
The joint resolution was then ordered engrossed
and read a third time, when the resolution passed
by the necessary two-thirds vote-l50 TO 42-the
Speaker voting in the affirmative.
The amendment proposed is as follows:
Article L~blanSl-Section ]. The right of any
citizen of the United States TO vote shall not be
denied or abridged by the United States or any
State by reason of race, color or previous condi-
ton of slavery OF any citizen or any class of citizens.
Sec. ,. The Congress shall have power to en-
aoANtf - AIlAbHs iAtt ltAAS4tAitu. iHt litN4 SlDlt> Al
this Article. Passed as above and sent TO the
Senate.
The Suffrage constitutional amendment came up
again in the Senate to-day for consideration. 1t
reads as follows:
mo discrimination shall be made by the United
States among citizens of the United States in the
exercise of the elective franchise, or the right to
hold office IN any State, on account of race, or
color, property, nativity. education or creed"
The amendment as amended was then passed by
a vote of 10 ayes to If noes. The amendment now
goes TO the House for concurrence.
Cuban News.
HAVANA. Feb. 9.-The political disturbance con-
tinues. Cigars have advanced in consequence.
The police are searching houses and arresting
revoiutionistS. Volunteer recruiting for the sup
port of the Government is brisk.
February l0-A letter dated Havana, February
2d, states that an early compromise is expected
between the bclligerents. The Captain General
has already sent Il basis for amicable agreement to
Spain. QueSada appears to be the only revOlu-
tiOuary chief determined to oppose the compromise.
HAVANA. Feb. 9-The Government is organizing
a new battalion of volunteers as a post garrison.
Regulars have been sent to Cienfuegos. The
strongest fortress of Havana is garrisoned by regu-
lars and volunteers, who are citizens of Havana.
South America.
From Valparaiso we hear of destructive fires at
tended with great loss of property. Several per-
sons are missing, though as yet it is impossible TO
tell whether any life has been lost. In Peru
troubles are increasing between Congress and the
Cabinet and the Treasury is in a bad condition.
\ line of telegraph will be opened shortly be-
tween Panama and Lima by a Peruvian company.
The latter has received S6O0,0 600 from the Govern
ment to assist the enterprise.
Plenipotentiaries from Chile, Bolivia and Peru
are to be sent to Washington to arrange peace with
Spain.
LONDON. Feb. 5-The Great Powers who partici-
pated in the Paris Conference have granted a brief
time to Greece TO decide as to whether she will
agree to the protocol or not. King George has re-
turned TO Athens. He is engaged in forming a
rev Ministry. The whole difficulty is owing to
thu hostility of the Crooks tn thn IOufprpnPp The
retiring Premier has been the recipient of an Ova-
ton.
The statement of the London Standard and Man.
chester and Liverpool papers. that the next Ad-
ministratiOn will not get so good terms as the
Observation-Disclosures treaty offers, is met by some
Senators with the remark that the next Admins
tratIon could hardly get worse terms. and will
probably require better before closing the matter.
LONDON, Feb. 6-The New Ministry movement
in Greece is 4 failure. Bulgaris, the former Pre-
mice. is recalled. The King is firm in his adherence
to the protocol.
MADRID. Feb. 6.-The draft of a new Constitu-
ton will be presented to the Cortes. 1t will pro-
vide for the abolition of slavery in the Spanish do
miniOns.
LONDON. Feb. 6.-The London Times denounces
the Clarendon-Johnson treaty. and says that if the
United States Government hesitates to ratify. Eng
land will not chafe. The Times declares that it is
desirable that the whole treaty should be revised
and recast. As it is now. every claim will go to a
foreign umpire for final decision.
MADRID. Feb. Tt is said that Prince Ferdinand
has consented to become Il candidate for the throne.
PARIS, Feb. THE late Queen Isabella has
issued another manifesto. denouncing the Revolu-
tionists in Spain. and asserting her rights to the
throne.
PARIS. Feb. THE Great Powers have granted
the Greek Government eight days more in which
to make a final decision in regard to the proposals
of the Conference.
animous i'll their adherence to the Conference.
Various Items.
st. Louis claims a population of 26l 900.
y set of false teeth were attached in Kentucky
by 4 sheriff for taxes.
Archbishop Manning, of Westminster Eng, is to
be made a Cardinal.
At New Haven recently. a poor family were dis
covered making a dinner on boiled dog.
An English paper speaks of New York as a
I" station on the notorious Erie railway"
The Fenians claim 500 circles and 100000 MEM
bers in the United States.
San Francisco has eight daily papers and a dozen
weeklies.
The vote of California indicates a population of
nearly 100000.
The Central Pacific railroad snow sheds extend
% miles.
Some one has erected a monument over the re-
mains of Aaron Burr.
Machinery has been invented in Massachusetts by
which il is expected to accomplish the whole pro-
cess of tanning in ten hours.
y great many people in this country are like a
portion OF the French-fOnd of putting down the
old Bourbon element.
Body snatchcrs infest the St. Louis cemeteries,
and GO corpscs, Inferred since the first of November
are now missing.
The first advertisement was inserted in n London
newspaper in 1913, and Parliamentary reporting
had its origin in 16il.
The first advertiser was n London haberdasher
named Hetvcy, who died in 1872, abundantly rich
from the profits of his new discovery.
y fast boy on skates skated from Buffalo, Iowa.
TO Davenport. "A distance of ten miles, the other
day, in 80 minutes.
Opium eating has become very general in Maine.
This is the result, it is argued, of the prOhibitory
liquor law.
George Francis Train says that England is the
only place where God and the devil are harncssed
into Il double team TO run church and State.