The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1892-03-31
AMERICAN LETTER.
SAN Francisco, Mar. 10, 1892.
wAsnNGroN NOTES.


ritory more favors than were ever be-
fore accorded n candidate for State
hood 1t provides that New Mexico
shall be given four sections of land
in each township instead of the usual
two for school purposes. Ten per-
cent instead of five of the proceeds
OF the sale OF public lands is given,
and the Government donates 100000
acres of public land to aid in the
construction of public buildings and
The establishment of elecmosynary
institutions. The bill will doubtless
pass both houses without trouble.
The committee is at work on SINH
lar bill for Arizona.
1t is said at the White House and
State Department that there is no
foundation for the report that Minis
ter Egan will be transferred from
Chile to Brazil.
There are a number of changes
proposed IN the diplomatic and con-
sular service, and in the former there
have been number of consultations
by which saving is made in eX-
pendtures. This is chiefly done by
the consolidation of adjacent coun-
tries in South America, such as
Peru, Ecuador, Bolivia and Colon
bia.
The Behring Sea controversy still
remains unsettled, although it is be-
lieved that the trouble will be amc-
ably settled at no distant day. No
response has yet been received from
Lord Salisbury to the Presidents
note of the Sth inst, on the renew
ing of the Bchring Sea modus vivendi.
Senator sherman says in regard to
the controversy:
at may be unpleasant and ungra-
cious for Great Britain TO resisS by
her ships and sailors the reckless
acts of few of her subjects for
whose conduct Lord Salisbury dis
claims all responsibility, but we are
under no such restraint and are able
to prevent such poaching on rights
that we purchased of Russia and
which Russia and the United States
have openly asserted and enjoyed
100 years.
at is now claimed that by the law
of nations our title is not good that
the seals born and bred on our soil
may be slaughtered in the high seas
when, by the laws of their nature,
they are taking their annual pilgrim
age. We are willing for the sake of
peace TO submit this question to arbi-
tration. We only ask that the seals
may not be destroyed by pelagic
/ fishing while the arbitrators are sit
/ ting.
1--WE would gladly share with
Great Britain the expense and trou
bic of maintaining the status quo
pending arbitration, and will faith
fully and honorabIy abide by its re-
suit. But it is asking too much for
| us ut the same time to allow irres-
ponsible, unfriendly neighbors to
destroy the very subject matter of
/ the controversy, especially when we
/ have at our command the means to
/ prevent it. [ do sincerely hope and
trust the executive authorities of
the two countries will find some way
to bridge this diplomatic difficulty"
McMiIIin had his say in regard to
wool and sugar in the House last
week. He said in regard to WOOL
''Ihe whole matter may be sum
med up in the fact that after twenty
five years of experiment with the
high rates of duty on wool, the re-
suit has been reduction of one.half
in the number of sheep in the States
east OF the Mississippi and Missouri
rivers and reduction of about one
half in the prices of wool. Nor
have the results been encouraging to
wool manufacturers They have
been restricted as to the quality of
the wool they could afford to buy by
reason Of the tariff
Touching on sugar, McMillin said !:
"The authors of the bill take much
credit to themselves for having placed
sugar on the free list. They did, it
is true, place some and most of the
grades of sugar on the free list, but
the finer grades are still taxed heavi-
ly for the benefit of the manufac-
turer, and he is left with more pro-
lection by that bill than by the rates
imposed in the Mills bill. True,
fifty odd million dollars were taken
off the sugar tax, but this was no
free will Offering, for the same mea-
sure provided for the payment of
twelve millions TO the producers of
sugars ms bounties.
WORLDS FAIR.
A despatch from London of March
18th says the Worlds Fair was a
matter of considerable attention this
week. The last meeting OF the
ladies' committee in London was not
altogether satisfactory, as the Princess
Christian and Lady Salisbury both
waXed warm over the question OF a
Government grant. The Queen offers
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