The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1890-06-28
OUR SAN FRANCISCO LETTER.

OUR SAN FRANCISCO LETTER.
Per s. s. Australia. San Francisco,
juno 30. 1890.
(From Our Special Correspondent.)
sugar and Trade.
NEW York, June 20.-Cuban
centrifugal 96 degrees SIC. granu-
lated CSC.
The local market while firm has
not undergone any change since
the last report per the City Of
Peking. Stocks of raw are large
and the demand for all grades is
good. The Eastern market shows
great strength prices being adj
vanced in spite of strong competi.
ton.
A notice of motion for a new
trial in the sugar case entitled
Havemeyers ct al. VS.. the Superior
Court has been filed in the Supreme
Court by William NJ. Pierson OF
counsel for the respondent. The
grounds of the motion are irregu-
larity in the proceedings, abuse of
discretion by the Court, accident
and surprise, insufdciency of the
evidence to justify the decision,
that the decision was against law,
and errors in law occurring at the
trial.
The new refinery at Green Point,
N. Y, built on the site of the one
burned three years ago, was open
ed on the 9th, the same day OF the
re-opening of the American Rein
cry in this city. The Green Point
Refinery is first class every respect
and has capacity for 5000 bar
rels daily, which can be doubled at
small expense. For the present
it will make only 1000 barrels
daily. The Trust has now two re-
fneries idle-one at Boston and
one at Portland. It was rumored
that the one at Boston would be
re.opened. The decision in the
Fall River Refinery case has been
expected daily for some time, but
is still in allegiance. It will have q
direct bearing on the validity OF
the Sugar Trust as originally
organized, but the parties to the
contract have taken measures to
protect their property in any event
The Kansas Sugar Association
met in Hutchinson recently. The
attendance was quite large, and
the meeting was Of Importance to
sugar-growers. Secretary Mohler
of the State Board of Agriculture
State Inspector of Sugar Kellogg
and Prof. Wiley, of the Depart
ment of Agriculture, were in atten'
dance and numerous papers were
read.
Sugar Tariff.
The Senate Finance Committee
has reported back the Mckinley
Tariff Bill with many amendments
and the consideration of the mea
sure will begin in the course of q
few days.
In the sugar schedule 2 cents pei
pound bounty is extended to maple
sugar. No bounty will be giver
for less than 500 pounds of sugar
per year. The persons who apply
for or receive a bounty and not en-
titled thereto shall pay a fine moi
exceeding $4,000, or be imprisoned
for o period not exceeding five
years, or both. Sugar between 1;
and Is, Dutch standard, shall pay {
duty Of $40 cents per pound in
stead of being free, as provided fol
by the House bill. Sugar above Is
Dutch standard, CLIO cents PEI
pound instead of 40 of q cent.
A private letter from Secretary
Blaine to ex-Mayor Cony of Angus
ia, Name, says: You are in erro'
in supposing that I am opposed t,
sugar being admitted free of duty
My objection is not to free sugar
but to the proposed method of max
ing it free. If in the pending TART
bill sugar is placed on the free lis
we give to certain countries q fire.
market for $95, 000, 900 of their pro
ducts. while they are not asked t.
open their markets to the free ad
mission of q single dollar of Ameri
can products. We ought to hav
in exchange for free sugar from Ger
tain countries q free market TO
breadstufs and provisions, beside
various fabrics from all parts Of GU
country. In short, we ought t
secure in return for free sugar
market for $50, 600, 900 or $40, 900
600 worth of our own products. ]
will not require a reciprocit
treaty to secure this great boor
The tariff bill can contain all th
necessary conditions. Legislativ
power is able to secure the desire
end.
Within the last twenty year,
we have given the countries sout
of US free admission for nearl
$50, 100000 worth of their product
without receiviok any advantag