The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1890-04-05

says he has learned from the Amer
lean Consul at Havana that Blaine
favored free trade between the
United States, Cuba and Mexico, the
United States to keep the duty on
sugar on all the world, except the |
islands included in the treaty and |
Hawaii.
The San Francisco Chamber of
Commerce held a special meeting on
the oath inst. at which Capt. Will
liam L. Merry offered the following
resolutions, which were carried
unanimously:
Whereas, The existing tariff on sugar
is favorable to the development of the
beet-sugar industry OF this country, and
particularly SO of this coast, in which in
dustry large sums of money have been
already invested, and there is reason to
believe ii the present protection is con-
tinued, will within a few years become
one of the largest if not the leading in
dustry of California; and
Whereas, Beet-sugar production is now
attracting special attention ON the part OF
agriculturists, manufacturers and capl-
talists, and seems destined under reason
vast value to the people OF this country
generally, in giving remunerative EN-,
ployment to both labor and capital and
in supplying the needs of the country
with a domestic commodity which is now
principally obtained from foreign coun-
tries and is the product of cheap foreign
labor; and
Whereas, 1t appears from experiments
already made that the soil and climate Of
the Pacific Coast States are particularly
we'll suited to the culture of sugar-beets,
and the development o. the beet-sugar
industry now promises to be rapid and
important; it is
Resolved, That the Chamber of Com
merce views with serious alarm the pro-
position 70 reduce the import duty on
foreign sugar, and respectfully but earn
estly protests against the reduction re-
commended by the Ways and Means
Committee of the House of Representa-
tives, for the following reasons:
l. 1t would practically confiscate the
| capital now invested in beet-sugar manu-
| facture in the United States and prove
| an insurmountable obstacle to further
development of this branch of industry.
g. It would seriously injure an impor
| tant agricultural interest and force
farmers now engaged in beet-sugar cul-
| ture to abandon this branch Of agricul-
ture and render the outlay of time and
money given to it of no practical value
in this State.
| Resolved, That while we believe no
reduction should be made in the duty on
sugar at this time, we urge our repre-
sentatives in Senate and House of Rep
resentatives at Washington to resist by
| all honorable means, under any circum-
stances, reduction exceeding 25 per
cent of the present duty, believing that
reduction will cripple, and that a greater
reduction than 25 per cent will destroy
the industry on this coast.
Resolved, That as we deemed it very
| important that the action of this Cham
Der should be known to our Pacific Coast
delegation in Congress at the earliest
| possible date, Geographic copy of these
| resolutions be forwarded at once, signed
| by the President and Secretary OF this
| Chamber.
Mataa fa's Reward.
A neat piece of work was turned
out at the Mare Island navy-yard re-
Gently. It is a whale-boat, built
under the direction of Foreman
Boatbuilder Vice, and will be sent to
the Samoan Islands on the next
Australian steamer. The boat is in
tended as a present from the United
States Government to King Mataafa
for his kindness to American officers
and sailors at the time of the wreck
of the Trenton and Vandalia at Sa-
moa in March of last year. The boat
is 30 feet long, and the castings are
of the finest kind of bronze metal.
The material in the boat is of white
oak, and it is planked with half-inch
Alaska cedar. It has steel center
board S feet long. The drawings of
the boat were made by Draughtsman
Anderson of the Construction De-
partment, and no expense was
spared to make it handsome and
serviceable craft.
Aroused About Leprosy.
Hardly a week passes now but
what a leper is discovered in San
Francisco. Early this week China
man who had the disease unusually
bad for a new patient was found at
the corner of Jackson and Stockton
streets and was sent to the pest
house. The Board of Health has
decided to ask the government to
cede a site on Angel Island in the
bay, for a leper hospital but it is
doubtful if it will be granted as
there is military post with nine
companies of infantry on another
part of the island. Nevertheless the
situation is becoming 50 serious that
the necessity of having a more iso-
lated and better adapted place than
the pest-house is being recognized
by all the people.
San Francisco News.
The creditors of the defunc bank
of Belloc & Go. have been holding
meetings almost daily. The experts
report shows that the liabilities of
the concern are $4S5,6O1 and the
actual assets $131 ,466. A settlement
is being negotiated on the basis of
twenty-five cents on the dollar.
On the Oath fire started in Scott
& McCord's hay barn al and 243
Steuart street, on the water front,
and spread to Somers & Healey's hay
and grain establishment, L. Ohlen's
cooperage shop, and several tene-
ments and saloons. The total loss
was about $4,000 with small insur-
ance.
Charles E. Clarke, burglar and
ex-convict, has been identified as the