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The Oceanic ComPauy's chartered steamer
Suez, Captain Dodd, arrived yesterday afternoon
with dates 70 the 81 instant. The following are
the principal news items:
Belmont reported back the resolution calling
for information regarding - much OF the Ha-
waiian treaty Is relates TO Sandwich Island
sugar. Adopted.
Morrill,, from the Committee on Finance. re-
ported favorsblv the Joint resolution 10 provide
for terminating the Hawaiian reciprocity treaty.
NEw YORK, February 26th.-The Herald
says: Sugar can be raised in the Sandwich
Islands and sold at a fair profit II san Francisco
while paying proper duty to the Government.
No prudent planter failed IN the days before the
treaty. Congress cannot afford to 90 home
without doing something to relieve the taxpay-
ers, and one Of the measures it can most easily
pass Is to give notice to the Sandwich Islands
that it proposes to turn into the Treasury for the
relief Of American taxpayers the duties which for
too many years II has allowed to be distributed
among a handful Of Hawaiian planters.
The S. T. Merchant of March ID says that
- after all the furious denunciation of interested
parties, in the sugar refining business, in Con-
gress, and throughout the newspapers, the Ha-
waiian Treaty remains intact and the resolution
to abrogate 1t lies buried under a pile of other
business IN a Senate committee. We can hardly
understand, however, how 1t came to pass that
the last to which the last resolution
for abrogatiou was referred finally came to re-
iDll Unanimously III L 4bNol. IL llCIt were
known TO be 4 number of friends of the treaty in
that committee. 1t is probable, however, that
knowing it would go from them to the Commit
tee on Foreign Affairs, and their action on the
strategical Importance of the Islands to the
United States would make it necessary to defend
the treaty on commercial grounds, they waived
their right to make a minority report.
Mr.. Baldwin informs us that Mr.. Dimond
received a telegram dated March Sd, at Wash
ington ut ) pm, in which it says that the
Senate, by a majority of one, had passed the
amended Tariff bill. 1t had then to 90 before
the House and would have to be acted on that
night. as Congress adjourned the same evening.
The Assembly Committee at Sacramento on
Federal Relations has reported to the House in
favor of Browns Assembly concurrent resolution
relative to the abrogatiOn of the Hawaiian Reel
procity Treaty. The Committee had shelved
the resolution for n month and were stimulated
by the recommendation of the Congressional
Committee n few days ago, for the termination
of said treaty. The unexpected action of the
House Committee will undoubtedly create quite
an excitement in sugar circles in San Francisco
and will have a magnetic influence upon the
sugar lobbyists. The resolutions, which have
not as yet been published, were as follows
WHEREAS. The objects for which the Hawaiian
Treaty, of Reciprocity, which went into effect in
September, 1876, have not been attained, but on
the contrary, after nearly seven years of expert
ence with said Treaty, the people of the United
States and more particularly of the Pacific slope,
have found the same to be detrimental to their
interests whereas, it has proven to be of no
to the people of California or to the
Federal Government, as it prevents open COM