The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1890-03-11
OUR SAN FRANCISCO LETTER.
San Francisco, February %, 1890. PEI
S. S. Australia.


San Francisco, February 20, 1890. Per
S. S. Australia.
(From Our Special Correspondent
Sugar Matters.
New York quotations of Cuban
centrifugal February 2Sth are Sc
degrees, 5.62s; granulated SIG.
The local market is for the present
in the complete control of the Cali
fornia Sugar Refinery the Amer
lean refinery having been closed on
the oath. Prices have been ad-
vanced one-quarter cent on granu-
lated and trife more on yellow
grades. A great cutlery is made
against Spreckels particularly by
the Chronicle which has fought
them for years, on account of their
refusal to sell sugar to several lead
ing grocers who hitherto have
bought their supplies of the Amer
lean company. There is some talk
of bringing sugar overland from the
East in consequence.
The sugar story in nutshell is a
brief one: Judge Wallace on Feb
ruary 18th appointed Patrick Reddy
as receiver of the American Sugar
Refinery. Havermeyers 4 Elder
closed down on the 24th first enjoin-
ing Reddy from taking any hand in
the matter. The Supreme Court is
to hear this matter on Monday
March Sd. Havemeyer & Elder
claim that they cannot work
as long as the refinery is
nominally in the receivers hands.
Reddy will not take the response
bility of running the refinery and so
it is closed. The firm however will
continue to take the sugar con-
tracted for in the islands, if all
accounts are correct.
Spreckels has the market we'll in
hand. Granulated has advanced
only / cent since the American re-
fnery closed, in spite of all the out
cry. Spreckels however will not sell
to firms like Tillman & Bendell who
have fought the California refinery
for years thus adopting the same
tactics which the Trust employed in
the East, to freeze out the outside
concerns. The old American com
pany patrons are thinking of buying
back East. By the closing down
about 500 men were thrown out of
work.
The Chronicle>/is making a hot
anti-Spreckels fight as might natur-
ally be expected. There is talk that
Spreckels may buy the American in
case it is condemned and sold.
A dispatch from Washington,
dated the 21st says: The majority of
the Ways and Means Committee are
constructing the Tariff bill with
view of making a reduction of
$20,000,O00 in the revenue. The
sugar question is not yet settled, the
desire being to take off all the duty,
and in Difference to the demands of
the sugar men, that they shall con
tinue to be protected, it is likely that
a thirty per cent reduction is all that
will be made. Claus Spreckels was
before the committee yesterday and
made an argument in ia yor of the
cultivation of sugar and the main
tenance of the tariff on the product.
Advices from New York, under
date of the 21st, says: 1t is stated
that plans are being formulated to
re-organize the Sugar Trust under
the laws of this State and retire
$50,000,000 of certificates. It is as
serted the trust has $11,000,000 cash
and raw sugar and property valued
at 81 100000. The estimated earn
ings are S10,000,000.
Hawaii Invited.
King Kalakaua has been formally
invited to send a delegate to the Pan
American Congress, in accordance
with the recommendation of Presi-
dent Harrison in his message This
is an acknowledgment that Hawaii
is one of the American system of ma
ton.
Sewan RenOminated.
President Harrison has nominated
Harold M. Sewall to be Consul
General at Apia. Harold M. Sewall
is a Democrat and was first APP
pointed to the Apia consul general:
ship by President Cleveland to sue
coed Berthold Greenebaum of this
city, whose display of backbone on
dealing with the Germans did not
please Secretary Bayard. Sewall
soon showed that he had even more
grit than Greenebaum, and while the
Samoan trouble was at its height he
was recalled by Bayard It was
generally understood after the Ber-
lin conference that Sewall would be
sent back to Apia after the Senate
had taken action on the treaty. His
warmest supporter and admirer was
Secretary Blaine, who recognized
the value of his services to the
country and promised him that he
should have the place if his in