The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1890-05-30
LATE FOREIGN NEWS


inc Cnarieston Brings Dates to the
S1st The Sugar Tarin war,,ka
Look In Europe Other Interestin.
Matters.
by the arrival of the u. s. S. Char
lesion from San Francisco. later
news was received, of which the fol-
lowing is summary:
The TariH Bill.
On May Goth the House of Repre-
sentatives went into COMMITTEES on
the tariff bill. McKenna of Cali
fornla moved an amendment, which
he said made the existing duty on
sugar about 80 per cent. It retained
the dividing line at Ii instead of 16.
and secured to the refiners of the
States the refining of sugar be-
tween Ii and Is, which the pending
bill alphabetically sent to foreign
retners. As contrasted with the
Mills bill, the amendment was q re-
duction, as contrasted with the pres
emit bill it was not case of lower
ing or increasing rates, but of
change of policy. The pending bill
in all particulars except the sugar
schedule was brave and strong;
strong because it was brave. In
the sugar schedule it was timid,
time-serving and weak; weak be-
cause it was time-serving and timid.
Cannon of Illinois opposed the
amendment. He was in favor of re-
moving the revenue leech from the
protective system and placing sugar
on the free list. He denounced the
reciprocity treaty with the Sandwich
Islands, and declared that few men
in California control the production
OF sugar in that country. Put sugar
on the free list and goodbye to
5000, 900 to four men of California
who owned sugar plantations on the
Sandwich Islands.
Price of Louisiana favored the
amendment and opposed the bill as
being injurious to the interests of
colored laborer of the South.
Morrow of California supported
the McKenna amendment on the
ground that it YVES the only legiti-
mate method of protection, and for
the further reason that the revenue
of 100000 derived from sugar
was necessary to meet the obliga-
tions of the Government.
Mckinley closed the discussion
and McKenna's amendment was re-
jected by lis to 134, McKenna, Nor
row, O'Neill (Pa.), Harmer, De
Haven, Bartine, Vandever, Brossey,
Kerr (Ia.), Coleman and Reyburn,
Republicans, voting in the affifna.
tive.
DR.. Hyde and II. L. Stevenson.
On arrival in San Francisco May
18th, DR.. G. M. Hyde was interviewed
by an Examiner reporter as follows:
"Stevenson's letter answers ITSELF"
said DR.. Hyde. ''He admits the truth
of my statements in the letter to DR..
Hyde concerning Father Damien,
and goes On to excuse the priests
acts. That they are true cannot be
gainsaid, as everybody in Honolulu
knows. I would not now recall my
letter if I could, although I do not
think DR.. Bragg was discreet in max:
ing public the contents of a private
missive. Personal animosity was not
the sentiment that impelled Steven
son to write about me. He visited
me often, and / found him q very
pleasant man, between whom and
myself the most friendly feelings
have hitherto existed. He is some
what of crank, however, and his
defense of Damien originated in 6
desire to take up the Catholic side O
the cause, not because he was inter
ested in the matter, but simply be
cause he was crank and wanted tx
have something to say"
European Affairs.
King Leopold of Belgium is afrait
of war and asks England for pro
lection.
All the powers except France hav'
concluded commercial treaties will
Turkey upon the basis of fixet
tariff.
A dispatch from Constantinopl
May 18th says: The Porte ha
not yet replied to Russia
claim for the payment o
the arrears of the war indemnity
Russian ambassadors in an urgen
note to the Porte demand the pay
ment of arrears from the loan
Otherwise, they add, Russia will re
serve the right to take further meas
ures.
Emperor William in q speecl
May 14th said st shall not allow m.
provinces here in the east to b
touched. Those attacking them vii
find that my strengthens that OF
rock" As Russia is the only posi-
BILE frontier assailant of East Ger
many, his words, especially in vie,
Of their following his first aggret
sive declaration afe now interprete
in Berlin, az in st. Petersburg, q
aimed against Russia. Within th
official circle at Berlin the Empe
ror's deliverance caused no SURPRISE
in view Of the adyices from Paril
pointing to closer relation betwee
the French and Russian foreig
Offices.
Miscellaneous.
Henry M. Stanley is engaged to b
married to Miss Dorothy Tenant.
i Karl Hoff, the noted painter,
dead.
/ George Francis Train arrived ,