The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1890-04-08
OUR SAN FRANCISCO LETTER
Per s. s. Australia, San Francisco,
March 90. 1890.
(From Our Special Correspondent.)
Sugar Matters.

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The local market has not changed
since the last report by the steamship
Belgic, nor have there been any
further developments in the Refinery
case in courts. The old patrons Of
Havemeyers & Elder to whom the
Spreckels will not sell sugar, are
getting some supplies from the
Louisiana refneries and raw Ha
waiian sugar is still going overland
by rail. There has been some talk
of shipping one or more cargoes tc
New York by clipper around Cape
Horn, but thus far nothing has been
done in this direction.
Regarding the Eastern market the
New York Shipping List says: The
refusal of refners last week to buy
cane sugar or bid any advance upon
the prices previously paid, together
with the knowledge that large pur-
chases of beet had been made for
this country in Europe, checked the
active speculation that was in pro-
gress in Cuba and caused holders to
modify their views sufficiently to adj
NIT of business. The consequence
has been that buyers have stopped
buying beet and turned their atten-
ton once more to cane products.
Buyers have not, however, shown
much anxiety to increase their sup
plies, and, buying to fair extent,
have again withdrawn. So far as
the position of supplies is concerned
there has been no important change,
but the markets both here and
abroad have lost the strong bullish
temper that characterized them last
week and there has been more dis,
position to sell. There has been alb
soluteIy nothing doing in beet, al
though offered at lbs. I'd. cost and
freight for prompt shipment, buyers
being unwilling to make counter
bids, and the result of this apathy is
reflected in the easier tendency OF
GQ0 LOuuOu LudIh6U.
Sugar Tariff.
There will be more trouble in
Congress in adjusting the sugar
schedule in the Mckinley bill SO as
to suit all parties than over all the
rest of the measures. The discus
sion seems to have only fairly COM
menced even in the Ways and Means
Committee where the bill now is and
Mckinley begins to realize that it
were better for him if he never had
been born. On one side the people
of Illinois, Wisconsin, Michigan and
others are demanding free sugar,
while those of Louisiana, California,
Kansas and Nebraska want the duty
retained.
Perhaps the most important fact
which has developed during the
week is the assurance of how Blaine
stands on the question. A despatch
from New York dated the 9th says:
Elk Governor Ames of Massachusetts,
has just returned from Cuba. He
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 special meeting Cd
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 if 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 capt.
taists, and seems destined under reason
able and proper encouragement to be OF
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 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
well suited to the culture OF sugar-beets
and the development Of the beet-sugar
industry now promises to be rapid and
important; it is
Resolved, That the Chamber of Com
MERGE 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:
! 1t would practically coniscate 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.
2. 1t would seriously injure an impor-
tant agricultural interest and force
farmers nOu enoaoad in hoat.cuoar ,.1l-