The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1890-09-19
The Tariff Bill Passes the
Senate.
Freq SQgar from October
|, 1890.
Conditional Reciprocity from
July 1. 1891.
Notes and Comments.
SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. l2th

the latest details OF tarln legislation.
The Senate since then applied itself
diligently to discussing and amend
ing the Bill, most of the changes
reported by the finance committee
being ratified. The Sugar schedule
was the most stoutly contested, at
least score of amendments, more
or less important, being moved and
rejected. 1t was agreed to admit
machinery for the manufacture of
beet sugar free up to the lst July
next, but motion for similar con-
cesslon to sorghum and cane sugar
machinery was rejected. Senator
Aldrich's reciprocity section was
added on the 9Th, and the bill read
third time. The bill as amended
was passed on the 10th by party
vote of 40 to 90. 1t now goes be-
fore conference committee Of both
| Houses to be chosen from the Fin
ance Committees and there Is reason
to believe an agreement on the basis
of reciprocity will be reached
Blaines reciprocity idea has taken
hold of the popular mind, and it is
certain to be carried much further
in the not distant future, Indeed
the high protectionists are trying to
deceive themselves into the belief
that modified reciprocity goes on all
tours with protective policy, but q
careful reading of Senator Aldrich's
| nil
capable of reasoning that 1t is a
virtual surrender of the principle of
protection as expounded by Repub-
lican orators and embodied in the
Republican platform last president
ial campaign. The home market
was everything, the foreign market
nothing; even Hawaiian reciprocity
was denounced as fragrant viola
ton of the all-saving home market
doctrine of protection. Mckinley
justified his tariff bill by the argu-
ment that it was needed to COM
plete and round up the policy of
protection, which would never be
perfected until the United States
produced all it consumed and con-
sumed all it produced. Blaine was
eloquent two years ago in the same
strain; but now he declares that it
would be a poor ambition that
should limit American trade and en-
terprise 10 the home market, and
his followers thereupon fall into line
: III the Senate and insert principle
in the tariff bill which logically an
initiates the doctrine of extra pro-
lection upon which it was formula
ted by Mckinley. Furthermore,
,, the plea that the foreigner pays the
, duty, which Republicans, from
Blaine to the San Francisco "Chron-
icle" preached, is now officially
abandoned by their party.
You have already printed Senator
Aldrich's amendment, no doubt
; The new section incorporated in the
Tariff bill by the Senate on motion
: of Aldrich is very crude piece Of
Legislation, and can hardly be expect
ed to work smoothly if only for the
enormous arbitrary taxing powers il
, confers upon the President, and tht
door it opens to jobbery upon early
, and exclusive information of execu
, tive intention. But it fixes the duty
on raw sugar, after proclamation
up to No. Is Dutch Standard, Al
$l4 per ton; and on all grades be-
tween ID and 16 Dutch standard a,
, $27.50 per ton. Between IL anC
: 20 standards the duty is to bt
|. $3.50 per ton, if the sugar thu
1 product of countries which do mo-
: reciprocate in sufficiently liberia
g spirit, in the opinion Of the Presi
t dent. A good deal, therefore, will
depend upon the temperament anC
mental and moral equilibrium Of the
President from and after the Is
!. day of July, 1891. Meanwhile sugaI
+ will be free up to No. 16 Dutcl
i standard from October l, 1890
s until July j, 1891, as the bill nov
/, stands, Senator Sherman having
n restored the House free schedule b,
n motion in the Senate, although h
C was chairman of the Finance Com
mittee which reported an amend
ment fixing the free grade limit a
|, No. 10. The bounty on America
e sugar, maple sugar included, ha
il been retained. A motion TO give
/. bounty OF l cent per pound on suga
II manufactured from imported molas
= ses was rejected by the Senate.
. The announcement on the arriya
d OF the Australia, that Colon'
l. Spreckels had consolidated the Ha
ku and Paia plantations with III
Hawaiian Commercial was well =,
celyed, and stock In the latter ad
n yaneed rapidly 10 $40. The sloel
~ however, declined 10 $40 on III
l0lh, and the tariff news on III
/, I'M caused another drop 10 $40,
~ sold n $40 a's yesterday
tbs beet sugar campaign has b.
" gun NJ Walsonyille Tbs pulal
10 Valley railroad has been oomplplel
~ spd glll greatly fspilllalel tho delllpl
Of AugaT hupl4 al Tho fAulOlk Al