The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1889-02-08
OUR SAN FRANCISCO LETTER.
San Francisco, January 20, per 5. 5.
Australia.

(From our Special CORES ondentl
Sugar.
On the evening of the 22d inst. the
United States Senate adopted the
Finance Committees Tariff bill by
strict party vote of thlrty-two to
thirty. The section relating to a
sugar bounty had already passed,
going to vote on the 18th inst, when
the Republicans, except Quay of
Pennsylvania, voted in favor of it,
and the Democrats, except Payne of
Ohio, voted against it. The most
radical change in the entire bill was
the provision for a bounty on cane,
beet and sorghum sugar grown in
the United States. There was some
talk of including maple sugar as
we'll The Democrats to a man fav-
ored the reduction of the tariff on
sugar but strongly opposed the
scheme to give domestic products
any compromising bounty. The bill
is not likely to pass the House. The
bounty provided for is one cent
pound.
A despatch from Philadelphia says
that Claus Spreckels has purchased
the entire Philippine Island crop
this year to be refined in the San
Francisco and Philadelphia refner-
les. The despatch has been con
CO. II TNbo Cb1vOyooo,o+C 70 Con E,,op
cisco are expected to be very heavy.
Mr.. Spreckels has been in New
York lately inspecting the machin-
cry which is to go into the Philadel-
phia refinery. He has already de
cided to double the capacity of the
refinery and has let contracts looking
to that end He has also let con-
tract for the erection of a barrel fac
tory capable of turning out 10000
barrels daily. The ten story sugar
house is expected to be in readiness
for work by June.
The electric sugar swindle has
dropped completely out of sight. a
Philadelphia reporter who inter
viewed Spreckels about it and asked
him why he did not go into Friends
company received the following re-
ply: {" asked Friends agent one
question that settled him. He could
not tell me what became Of the dirt
that was extracted from the raw
sugar. That decided me not to go
in" Mr.. Spreckels is expected il
San Francisco shortly.
Acting Secretary of the Treasury
Thompson has approved the action
of the acting Appraiser Of Customs
at New York in removing Abraham
G. Remnen, Robert E. Bovine, Rod
ney Smith, FL. E. Bardwell and w
Davis of the Appraisers service !;
Isaac W. Cole, Peter Twombley and
| Nicholas J. Flocken of the Samplers,
| division .. and William G. Spencer,
Clerk and Verifer of class / of that
Office. These removals are in con-
nection with the investigation of the
sugar frauds and others are expected
to go. The men had the practice Of
not sampling correctly, they giving
every advantage to the importers.
! There has been movement before
! the Senate, represented by Charles
| G.. de Garmendia of New York City
and Oscar F. Bacot of Cuba on be-
half of the sugar planters Of the lat
ter place looking to a provision IN
the Tariff Bill to make Cuban sugar
free. Several leading Senators have
| been interviewed on the subject, and
! it has been learned from them that
there was a great disposition to
make sugar free as far as Cuba was
concerned, but the sentiment Of other
Senators in the West was SO strongly
in favor of bounty on the beet
sugar production that the furtherest
concession they would make in favor
of Cuban sugars was to take off so
per cent. of the present duty on
sugar and giving a bounty of one
cent a pound on beet sugar pro-
duced in the United States as a com
promise
Prices are lower still, and the indi-
cations are that there will be an
other drop. Granulated is quoted at
! 6s cents, other whites at g cents,
confectioners A at 81 cents, extra G
at 81 cents, and golden @ at 45 cents.
| General American News.
President Cleveland is making an
unenviable reputation by his abuse
of the pardon power. Following his
release of Harper, the Fidelity Bank
rogue, and some dozen polygamous
Mormons comes the communication of
the sentence of James d. Fish, form
erIy President of the Marine Ma
tional Bank. of New York, who was
convicted in April, 1886, of misap-
plying the funds of the bank, and
sentenced June q. 1885, to ten years
Imprisonment in the State Prison at
Auburn, New York, upon the first
count of the indictment, with the
statement that Judgment for like
punishment will be entered upon
conviction had under ten other
counts of the indictment. Cleveland
advances the advanced age of Fish,
and the length of his petition as rea-
sons for releasing him. Fish viii be
freed May 18th next.
The Grand Opera House at st.
Paul has been destroyed by fire.
The loss is 100000. Fire also de
stroyed the Grand Opera House at
Duluth, causing q loss of 100000.
The Northern Pacific Railroad has
a scheme by which it can obtain a
route through Canada. The pro
posed lines run from Gaspe Bay to
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