The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1890-07-26

islands, free from duty, the list of |
articles named In that amendment? |
OF course, we could enact law |
more favorable to Spain than to the |
republics.
Do you know what Spain would |
exchange for free sugar. and can |
you give a list of articles she would
receive? The better way, probably, |
would be 10 make a list in which
she would receive the controlling
one for all these countries"
Blaine's determined stand on the
tariff question, and particularly on
the sugar tariff has led TO an almost
open rupture between him and Nc
kinley, and there is talk of his
leaving the Cabinet and again en-.
tering the Senate from Maine.
Mrs. B. f. Dunning, wife Of the
senior partner of the firm of Dun
ming x O'Connor, of New York,
died on board the steamer Austria
liza on the evening of the 10th inst.
She was taken down with dysentery
soon after leaving Honolulu. Her
body has been sent to New York
for burial. All that medical skill
could do was done for her on the
steamer and the captain and off,
GERS and doctor were thanked by
the husband and friends for their
attentions.
Subsidy Bill Passed.
On the 18th inst. the Senate fin
nally passed the two shipping bills
providing for subsidy to mail
steamers and bounty to all yes.
sells, whether steam or sail, flying
the American flag. The discussion
was opened by Vest who said that
there were was time when the
United States without q dollar of
subsidy and when the country was
undeveloped and had just emerged
from a colonial condition had Crap
pied with Great Britain and came
near wrestling from her control the
ocean-carrying trade. He quoted
from a speech of Daniel Webster
to the effect that the success of the
American merchant marine had
come not from protection or bounty,
but from skill, perseverance and
economy. He showed that former
subsidies had ended in failure and
, scandal, and summed up the whole
question by reading an extract from
q speech from Representative Con-
, nor showing the expenditure of
over S21,000,000 in subsidies be-
) tween 1913 and 1878, and asserting
that S7,0OO,OOO would buy all the
| American steamships then afioat.
, The idea that commerce followed
] the flag Vest said was monster
, fallacy. He alluded to the interpo-
r lation in the British Parliament as
to the Mckinley bill. and said that
as soon as England found that she
/ could dispense with American pro
s ducts she would do so, and yet, he
q said, all that American statesman
t ship aimed at was to put up duties
r against Great Britain. He predict
f ed that subsidies would never bring
y a dollar of foreign commerce to the
t country. They would enrich men
! who got contracts, and there would
: be repetition of the same ole
e scandals that had attended the ex
pendlture of S21, 100000 in subsi
: dies, an expenditure which had lef
Y the country to-day with it's shipping
a absolutely dead.
n The Tonnage bill was passed
i ayes %, noes Is. The only excep
e tons to strict party vote were
r that Payne voted with the Repub
# licans for the bill and Edmunds ano
n Plumb with the Democrats against
q it.
# a vote was then taken on the
d Postal Subsidy bill, and it was
n passed-ayes %, noes 16-Paynt
,, voting aye, Edmunds no and Plumb
e not voting.
is The bill will shortly come up il
: the House.
l. San Francisco News.
: The assessment roll of San Fran
k cisco foots up s235,27S,O13 thil
year.
n J. w. Kerr, the slayer of lror
o molder Coogan, has been admitted
q to bail. Five iron molders hav,
g struck at Huntington's foundry.
l. Four persons, Mrs. George Eber
'e lein, Mrs. Mamie Strabel, Otto Stra
bel and Mrs. Ida Roschman, wer,
% killed at railway crossing in Sa,
): Mateo County, on the 18th inst
; Lyman |. Mowry, the attorney
e and Chinaman claim to have pur
1, chased 100000 acres of land il
l. Mexico, near the Central American
S, line, and they intend to establish
colony of Chinese there.
d. o. Mills, the capitalist intend
to erect ten-story brick buildin:
e at Bush and Montgomery streets
} and will begin it on September Isl
h Eastern American News.
if Seven persons lost their lives b,
Of the burning of the Standard Oi
n Company's works at Louisville Oh
le June Both.
s. A statue of Thomas A. Hend
iS | riolyc yUaS upvailad of TpdiaDopoI;