The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1890-06-17
LATE FOREIGN NEWS.
Four Days Later From San Francisco
Dates tn June 4.

ne uSaEh -. ~ Saslic, Naptalh
Underwood, arrived yesterday
morning, IL. days from San Fran.
cisco, bringing dates to June 4th.
From the Chronicle of that date, we
clip the following:
The Tariff Bill.
WASHINGTON, June 3.-The sub
committee of the Senate Finance
Committee continued the consider
alton of the Tariff bill o.day. The
wool schedule was passed and the
sugar schedule was laid over for |
the present, it being deemed best to |
await the return Of Morrill, and
Sherman before taking up any SUBJ
ject of such Importance.
Two New York fur dealers. re-
presenting, they said, 100 houses
engaged in the preparation OF furs
and the manufacture of fur goods,
were given hearing. They asked
that the duties on furs and fur
goods in the House bill be increased,
on account of the competition Of
cheap foreign labor.
The subcommittee also passed
over without action, the tobacco,
wines and age schedules, which,
with sugar, occupy twenty pages OF
the printed bill.
Anti.Tarif Move.
PHILADELPHIA, June s. A bust
ness mems meeting for the purpose
of protesting against the passage Of
the Mckinley Tariff Bill was held
in this city this afternoon. Alex
ander K. Mcclure presided. Mr..
Springer made the opening speech,
combining himself to the wooden
schedule and its effects upon car.
pets and other wooden goods in
dustries of this city. The closing
address was delivered by Breckin-
ridge.
Tonight there was mass meet
ing at Textile Hall. 1t was gotten
up under the auspices of the Tariff
Reform Club, the members of which
consist mostly of workingmen in
mills, who are opposed to the pro-
| posed increase of duty on imported
woods. Springer, Breckenridge, Nc
Adoo and Bynum were the princi
pal speakers. Resolutions were
passed denounclng the Mckinley
bill.
Newfoundland.
| In the House of Commons Under
Secretary Sir James Ferguson said
that the Government had every
reason to believe that the alarmis
reports concerning the situation o
affairs in Newfoundland were in
correct, and that he felt sure thai
the officers in both the English ant
French service could be depended
on to preserve a concliatory atti
tude.
From Halifax there comes re
port that a regiment of the line ant
about to sail from England TO
Newfoundland in view of antici
pated trouble, and that two tor
pedO boats were expected from
England this month. The squa
dron has already been REINFORCED
and more vessels are expected.
Bismarck.
The Emperor of Germany is re
ported to have informed Bismarcl
that if he does not stop his pres
utterances the result will be seri
Gus. 1t is hardly probable tina
the Emperor has put the case quit
SO abruptly, but even if he ha
there will nobody be very sorry, il
! view of the absolute dictatorship O
the press which Bismarck himsel
maintained while in power. Dur
ing his CHARACTERISTIC the expires
sion of an honest opinion by Ger
man newspaper ranked very littl,
lower than high treason, unless by
chance that opinion was laudatory
of Bismarck and his administrator
in which case it was all right.
Oregon Election.
Unofficial returns from every
county in the State give Hermann
| (R) for Congress a majority o.
S,977 over Miller (D); Pennoyel
3D. for Governor 1856 majority
over Thompson (R)
The whole Republican State
ticket, except the Governor, ha
about 5000 majority and the Re
publicans will have about sixty-tw,
members of the Legislature out o
ninety.
Behring Sea.
LONDON, June 3.-The Times de
clares that the order to dispatch al
American cruiser to Behring Sc;
smacks too much of the first Napo
leon in dealing with weak states
men, and if the order is executed
British men-of-war must follow
" We can only imagine" the Time.
continues, that pressure from
Instantaneous induced Blaine t.
withdraw from his apparent desire
for diplomatic settlement. w,
believe that England will agree tt
close time for seals in the Oper
sea, but such arrange nents must be
international and cannot be i'm
posed upon the world by American
gunboats at the bidding of Blaine.
New YORK, Sugar Market, June
3.-Sugar-Raw is firm; sales o.