The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1888-12-18
OUR SAN FRANCISCO LETTER
Per 5. S. Rio de JaneirO,'' San Fran
cisco, December 8, 1883.
From our Special Correspo pdent9
The Sugar Market.

its prices by Is cents from the figures
quoted by last mail. The California
Refinery has, however, made no change.
The market for raws remains the same
as last quoted, both buyers and sellers
playing waiting game.
1t has been decided to erect another
sugar beet factory at Salinas in Monterey
County. At jacksonville there will be
several soWings made of the beet seed, 80
that two or three crops can be gathered,
thus keeping the factory IN operation for
about six months of the year with cor
responding increase in the output.
a Heavy Sugar Seizure.
In my last letter, the arrival Of the
steamer Westmeath was recorded with
heavy cargo of raw sugar for the Amer
lean Refinery. This was the first Impor-
tation here from Java, and the cargo,
which consisted of $3.50 long tons, was
valued at $400, 900. A check for $144, 900
was paid into the Custom House on ac-
count of duties on December 4th, and the
steamer began to discharge her cargo
into the American Refinery warehouse
later. On December 9TH, Collector
Hager, acting upon information received
from Appraiser Beck, seized both the
warehouse and the steamer Westmeath
with all the sugar contained in both. It
is claimed that the amount of duty paid
is less by fully $4,000 than what was
really due and that an attempt had been
made, by understanding the grade OF
the sugar, to defraud the revenue of that
amount. The sugar in warehouse re-
mains in charge OF Custom House Off
GERS The Westmeath has been ordered
into the streamand is also in charge of the
Customs Department. with sealed matches.
Samples of the sugar will be sent to
Washington and there tested by the de-
partment OF the Secretary OF the Treas
ury, and it will be several weeks at least
before any settlement can be arrived at
the sugar is mean time losing in quality.
This is the most important seizure ever
made at the port of San Francisco, and
it is creating intense excitement owing
to the fact that well-known persons are
implicated in the attempt to defraud the
revenue. The business OF the trust here
will suffer severely, as the American Re-
finery is without supplies If the charge
be proven it is believed that the whole
cargo will be confscated, and the law
also provides for the imposition of a
heavy penalty. The case is somewhat
analogous to that of q cargo OF Hawaiian
sugar shipped some years ago to New
York by Hackfeld & Co., but in the latter
case the charges were not proven.
The Political Situation.
1t is now SAID that Blaine viii lease q
house in Washington after January 1st,
and devote his time to literary work re-
Iating to American political history.
Morrow is endeavoring TO investigate
the evasion of the Chinese Restriction
Act by the influx Of Chinese from British
Columbia. He also proposes to intro
duce bill requiring that every China
months of the passage of the Act, be Of
fcially registered and given a certificate
by which he may be identified. An alb !
sence of the certificate will send the |
Chinaman out of the country.
Representative Vandever of Los An |
geles has introduced bill in the House |
asking the consent of Congress to a di-
vision of the State of California into two |
States to be known as North and South |
California.
There is talk of an extra session of the
Fifty-frst Congress to enable the Re-
publicans to organize. Their majority
is so small that, in case OF death or acct
dent, the majority might be reversed.
A bill has been introduced to estab-
Iish a national archaeological labora-
tory at Washington for the study and in
vestigatiOn of the nature and cause of
and infectious diseases, the |
to be under the supervision
Of the Surgeon General of the Marine
Hospital with two directors, one of
whom shall be skilled in human and the
other in animal diseases.
The report of the Secretary of the
Treasury shows the revenues f.the Gov
ernment, for the fiscal year ending June
30, 1888, to have been 1915, 266 ,074.76.
Ordinary expenses amounted to $780,
}53, 800 81, leaving surplus of $119, 612,-
1869. The accumulated surplus on
10Th was $96 Az, $3.50, and
he estimated surplus up to June 80,
surplus, on the latter date, of $171 &c.
D54.O9 which could be used for the pur-
,hase of bonds.
The Trouble With Hayti.
In the case of the seizure of the Ameri-
an steamer Haytian Republic, Secre-
airy Bayard declares the seizure illegal
md states that an American man-of-war
viii be sent to Port-au-Prince to demand |
he steamers release. Secretary Bayard
Mr.. Preston, the Haytian re-
preventative at Washington, who has
,een instructed by his Government to
efer the case of the HaytIan Republic to
he Government of the United States,
hat the validity of the seizure and the
of the steamer Haytian
Republic cannot be admitted
Secretary of the Navy Whitney later
ssued orders directing that the United
states steamers Galena, Richmond and
Tantic, now at the Brooklyn Navy Yard,
'e made ready for sea at once. Rear
admiral Gherardi will command the
quadron and as soon as ready win pro-
eed to Hayti. He will be instructed to
AXE no part in the troubles going on
here between the followers of General |
.egitime and those from the northern
ections of that island, but will content
himself with seeing that American inter
SITS are protected and that no ports are
lockaded to American vessels. The
eneral impression is that demand for