The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1890-07-01
OUR SAN FRANCISCO LETTER
Per S. S. Australia. San Francisco,
June go, 1890.
tFrOm Our Special Correspondent

(From Our Special Correspondent
Sugar and Trade.
New YORK, June 20.-Cuban
centrifugal SO degrees 51c. granu-
lated &c.
The local market while firm has
not undergone any change since
the last report per the City of
Picking. 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 compete
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, insuficiency 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. 1t 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. 1t will have a
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 a
few days
In the sugar schedule 2 cents per
pound bounty is extended to maple
sugar. No bounty will be given
for less than 500 pounds of sugar
per year. The persons who apply
for or receive bounty and not en-
titled thereto shall pay fine not
exceeding $4,000, or be imprisoned
for q period not exceeding five
years, or both. Sugar between ID
and l6, Dutch standard, shall pay a
duty of $40 cents per pound in
stead of being free, as provided for
by the House bill. Sugar above 16,
Dutch standard, Clio cents per
pound instead of 4-10 of cent.
A private letter from Secretary
Blaine to ex-Mayor Cony of Angus
ia, Name, says: You are in error
in supposing that am opposed to
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 tariff
bill sugar is placed on the free list
we give to certain countries free
market for S95, 600, 900 of their pro-
ducts, while they are not asked to
open their markets to the free adj
mission of a single dollar of Ameri-
can products We ought to have
in exchange for free sugar from GER
tain countries a free market for
breadstuffs and provisions, besides
various fabrics from all parts of our
country. In short, we ought to
secure in return for free sugar,
market for $50, 1000, 900 or s7O,OOO,-
900 worth of our own products. 1t
will not require a reciprocity
treaty to secure this great boon.
The tariff bill can contain all the
necessary conditions. Legislative
power is able to secure the desired
end.
Within the last twenty years,
we have given the countries south
of us free admission for nearly
100000, 900 worth of their products
without receiving any advantage
in exchange. If sugar be now made
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