The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1891-03-12
LATEST FOREIGN NEWS.
Hawaiian Gable Bill Killed.


By the British steamship Elton,
which arrived from San Francisco
yesterday, we have received papers
OF February 28th and March 1st,for
which we are indebted to Captain
Newcomb.
The U. S. Flagship Charleston,
Admiral Brown, arrived over on
the 9th, nine days from Honolulu,
and would proceed to Mare Island
to receive her armament, which had
arrived from the East.
The President has appointed
Henry w. Blair, of New Hamp-
shire, to be Minister to China. It
is stated that MIR. B. opposed the
Chinese Exclusion Acts of Con-
gress, while a member of that body.
TORONTO, February 27.-In eight
elections for the Dominion Parlia-
ment yesterday the Minlsterialists
returned a majority of the candl-
dates.
In Congress, February 9th, the
House took up the Shipping or
Subsidy bill, and voted down it's
own bill, but finally adopted the
Senate bill by small majority of
twenty. The following is an alb
stract of the measure as passed:
The Shipping bill as passed by
the House is radically different
from the Senate measure. It mere
ly authorizes the Postmaster Gen
eral to enter into such contract
for not less than five nor more than
ten years, with American citizens,
for carrying mails on American
steamers between United States
ports and foreign ports, Canada ex-
cepted, as will subserve and pro:
mote the postal and commercial in
terests of the United States; mail
service to be equitably distributed
among the Atlantic, Mexican Gulf
and Pacific Coast ports. Vessels
contracted with must be of Ameri-
can build and Differed by Ameri.
can citizens"
February 29th.- In the House
the motion to ask the Senate for a
conference on the Shipping bill as
amended by the House last night
was agreed to. 1t now goes to a
conference committee.
The Empress Frederick had ar
rived in London. Regarding her
visit to London, the Chronicle has
the following:
"The visit of the Empress Fred
erick to Paris, instead of producing
the good results that had been
hoped for, has merely served to in
tensify the enmity between France
and Germany. The French artists
whom the Empress at first per-
suaded to agree to exhibit their
pictures at Berlin have retreated
in the face of the angry protests of
the Parisians, and the French Gov
eminent has been IN state of
nervous anxiety lest the imperial
visitor should be mobbed before
she leaves. This incident should
end the attempts to preserve the
peace in Europe. When two ma
tions hate each other as the French
and Germans do, it is best for them
to fight it out once for all, and the
sooner the better. 1t is unpleasant
to lance a boil, but better that than
to have it slowly poison the whole
system"
Emphatic Against the Gable.
sHitt reported the Diplomatic and
Consular bill with recommendation
that all the Senate amendments be
agreed to except that for the Ha-
waiian cable. McCreary vigorous
ly opposed the cable proposition.
The recommendations were con-
Cured in--ayes 222, noes none
the roll being called in order to
emphasize the opposition of the
House to the Hawaiian cable pro-
position.
Mckinley called up a bill provid-
ing that nothing in the existing
tariff laws be construed as affecting
the treaty with HAWAII, which
passed without opposition.