The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1890-05-31
OUR SAN FRANCISCO LETTER.
Per S. s. Australia. San Francisco,
May :3, 1890.
(From Our Special Correspondent.)
Sugar and Trade.

New York, May %, Cuban cen.
SO deg, So cents; granu-
lated 6 cents.
The California Refinery has adj
vanced prices ! cent a pound since
the last report, graduated being
quoted at 81 cents. This is the
first change locally which has been
made since the American Refinery
was closed. The market has q
strong feeling in sympathy with
the Eastern market.
The Supreme Court has not yet
handed down it's decision in the
American Sugar Refinery case. It
has been in the hands of the type
writer's for some time and the cause
of the delay is not known.
Imports of all merchandise at
San Francisco from Hawaii during
April were valnated at $1,313, 305.
The imports of sugar have been
uncommonly large this month, and
in expectation of the decision of the
Supreme Court, not all of the sugar
consigned to the American Refinery
has been shipped to Louisiana.
D. G. Camarinos who has recent
ly imported large quantities of
green fruit from Hawaii and the
Colonies, reports that the expert
ment has been wholly successful.
The green vegetables from Hawaii
found a ready sale.
Free Sugar.
The House of Representatives by
| vote on the 21st inst, passed the
Mckinley Tariff bill by 164 yeas to
142 nays. The provision for free
sugar was retained. It was strict
party vote, many Republicans who
had opposed particular items of the
schedule in committee, voting for
the measure as whole. The Dem
ocrats opposed the bill as party
and thus placed themselves upon
record as against treaty revision,
although Speaker Carlisle made an
attempt to save appearances by
moving resolution that the bill be
recommitteed to the Ways and
Means committee with instructions
to report substitute to the House,
which would reduce the burdens of
taxation on the people. Of course,
this. resolution was defeated and
the bill passed it's final stages as
above stated.
It is generally recognized that
free sugar will have an injurious
effect upon Hawaiian plantation In
terests, and very general complaint
is made that the Republican major
ity should have taken pleasure In
confscating 100000 California
capital invested in the Hawaiian
sugar industry, according to the
speech of Congressman Cannon of
Illinois, for the reason that this
money was invested in good faith
by American citizens under the
guarantee of treaty originally ne
gotlated and renewed by the Re-
publican party. :There is nearer
S3O,O0O,0OO of American capital in
vested in the Hawaiian Islands
sugar business than $5,000,OOO, all
of which will be seriously crippled
if the free sugar schedule passes
the Senate" said a gentleman hav-
ing an intimate knowledge of the
subject. 'But there is no reason to
suppose that the United States
Senate will sanction virtual repu-
diation of solemn treaty obligations
for no other reason than because it
would injure American citizens.
The Senate is conservative body,
and will consider the probable effect
of the abolition of the sugar duty
and virtual abrogation of the Ha-
waiian treaty without notice to the
other high contracting party, and
without consideration of the impor-
tant vested interests created by the
treaty and in American hands"
The bill now goes to the Senate
when adesperate fight will be
made on the sugar schedule by the
sugar men. The Eastern refners
have made common issue with the
California beet sugar men, the cane
producers of Louisiana and the
sorghum producers of the west.
They think that the Senate may be
induced to adopt some such sche
dule as proposed by McKenna. II
not, the refiners say that their bus
mess will be ruined by the impor-
tation of foreign sugars.
A motion has been made in Par
lament to invite the United States
to sugar convention in view OF
the proposed changes in the tariff.
Personal Mention.
| Captain George FL. Douglass has
not yet recovered from the effects
/ of his accident about three weeks
ago. He was delirious for three
days and imagined himself COM
handing a vessel, issuing orders
with unceasing regularity.
Mate James Rennie of the
steamer Zealandia, was presented
with q testimonial by the passen-
gers, on the arrival of the vessel in
port.