New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1876-10-10
BY TELE R A P H
WASHINGTON.

WASHINGTON.
The President.
WASHINGTON, October 9.-The President
goes to New York tomorrow. He Will pe
absent from Warrington several days.
9euth Carelina Affairs.
South Carolina Senators Patterson and
Robertson ha1 interviews with the Presl-
dent to-day.
The McPhersen Statue.
Departments will close on the eighteenth
for the unveiling of the statue of McPher-
son.
Claim for Free Entry Of West India
Sugars Under the Hawaiian Treaty.
The Treasury Department has received
and considered sundry appeals from the de-
cisions of the collector of customs at Bos-
ton assessing duty ON sugar imported to
that port subsequent to the act carving
States and the Hawaiian islands providing
for free entry of certain products
of the islands, including sugar. on re-
ciprocity basis. The impOrtati0ns to which
appeals refer are respectively from the
Dominican Republic and from Porto Rico,
and the claim for free entry is based upon
the treaty stipulations which the respective
countries made, from which the importa
ti0ns are made, to the effect that NO higher
or other duty shall be imposed on the pro-
ducts thereof than are or shall be imposed
ON the like articles, the products Of any
other foreign country. The claim of the
appellant is rejected for reasons
First-The privilege of importing free Of
duty certain products Of the Hawa-
iian islands is based upon Q reciprocal
privilege of like character with reference to
certain products of the United States; the
products of either country entitled to the
benefit of such reciprocity being specifically
enumerated. No such enumeration is found
Domingo and Spain, nor is the depart
ment in possession of any information,
official or otherwise. which enables 1t
to determine, in case it should decide to ad.
NIT any particular product of either Of
those countries now dutiable to tree entry,
to what extent, or under what conditions,
and a. to what products of the United
States such privilege would be reciprocal
by them, OF either of them. Hence, there
would b6no reasonable grounds of certainty
that such reciprocity would exist, and the
might be waived without any correspond
Ing benefit to the citizens or government Of
the United States.
Second-The' treaty stipulations upon
which such claim is based may, perhaps, te
construed to make it optional with the re-
spective governments to take steps for tho
establishment of . system of reciprocity
eimilar to that now existing between the
Hawaiian islands and the United States.
ment, be 20 construed as to justify the as
sumption that such system i by operation
of law already established.
Third-The products of the Hawaiian
islands are admitted free, not by virtue Of
the treaty alone, but BY virtue of the act
of Congress. passed expressly for the pur.
pose of carrying into effect and prescribing
the conditions under which only it could
become operative, and nothing is contained
in the act which would justify the depart.
ment in extending the privileges of said
treaty to imp0ftati0ns from any other
country.
Another point made u the appellants il
that under section nine Of the first article oi
the constitution of the United States, the
port of Boston is entitled to all the I'D
vantages and the benefits given by any
regulation of commerce or revenue TO any
port of the United States.
The provision of the constitution referre1
to is as follows:
No preference shall be given b. any regu
fation OF comme:ce or revenue to tho ports
OF 90 State over those of another.
Their point is overruled; the department
waving the constitutional question, II any
be involved, for adjudication by the proper
tribunal, and the appellants must conse
quently be remitted to the legal remedy, 0l
to Congress, for any relief in the premlsel
| to which they may still deem themselve
l entitled.
| Supreme Court.
The Supreme Court met, but adjourned
/ without business. Tomorrow the call Q
the docket will commence, which nov
stands at 77se eases, being IN increase q
over 100 cases since last year. Among th
cases standing over arc war insurance poli
| ciee from tho South.