The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1892-01-20

going aboard the United States
cruiser Yorktown. This action on the
part of Egan, it is said, was taken
with the tacit approval Of the present
Chilean Government. There seems to
be no doubt that the rest of the refu-
gees will leave the legation at an
early date under similar conditions.
The Government has been taking
the dispositions of the officers and
crew of the Baltimore at Mare Island.
The testimony shows that the killing
OF the Baltimore's sailors was brutal
murder, and that they were assaulted,
beaten and stabbed by policemen and
soldiers.
Reciprocity.
A Washington dispatch of January
Z, says that in view of the provision
in the reciprocity section of the tariff
law, making it the duty of the Presi-
dent after January !, 1892, to suspend
by proclamation the free admission
of sugars, molasses, coffees, teas and
hides against "such countries pro-
ducing these articles as after that
date maintain duties on American
agricultural and other products which
he shall deem unequal and unreason-
able,n the President has submitted to
the AttOrney-General the question
whether the law authorized him to
issue a proclamation fixing a future
day when the duties imposed by vir-
tue of the proclamation take effect.
The Acknowledgement has given
the opinion that duties must attach
and be collected on and after the date
of the proclamation, and that future
day cannot be named by the Presi-
dent.
Owing to this decision Secretary
Blaine to-day sent notes to the diplO-
| matte representatives of AustrO-Hun-
gary, Columbia, Hayti, Nicaragua,
Honduras, Spain for the Philippine
islands and Venezuela, informing
| them that on the 18th of March the
President would issue proclamation,
unless in the meantime some salts
factory reciprocity arrangements
had been made with the countries
named suspending the provisions of
the tariff law relating to free intro
duction into the United States of
sugars, molasses, coffee, tea and hides.
The notice to Spain, however, only
applies to the Philippine islands. Ne
gotiatiOns with France and some
stages as, in the opinion of the Presi-
dent, warrant the Secretary of States
Withholding notice to them of pro-
clamation affecting their products.
The Temps says that the Govern
ment is on the eve of concluding a
convention with the United States
for the partial application of mini
mum tariff. This agreement, the
Temps says, differs from those pend
ing between France and some other
European powers in requiring that it
be submitted to Parliament for ratifi-
cation. The new convention, the
Temps adds, secures a continuance on
the American free list of a number of
French products, including skins,
sugars and molasses.
The paper further says that Presi-
dent Harrison intended, on January
1st, to enforce against these products
duties applicable to imports from
countries that refused to concede to
the United States reciprocal advan-
tages. To secure the unbroken enjoy
ment of the exemptions from pay
ment of those duties, NJ. Ribot, Min
lister of Foreign Affairs, negotiated
the convention referred to, by the
terms of which the United States gets
a minimum tariff on products enter
ing France, the export value of which
amounts to $4,000, 900 francs annually,
and which equal in value the French
products exempted from duty by the
United States.
Foreign News.
Yellow fever and small poX are cpl
demic at Santos, Rio de JaneirO and
other Brazilian ports and there has
been q fearful loss of life at many
places.
The Russian monthly European
| Messenger contains alarming accounts
of the famine in Russia. The Mes
senger compares the present famine
in Russia with that in Ireland in
1916, and contrasts the measures
adopted by the two governments to
| alleviate the distress of the people.
st. Petersburg advices say the Gar
! displayed extreme anger upon learn
ing of the adulteration of the food in
tended for the starving peasants. Ii
| is reported the principal municipal
authorities are to be dismissed in con-
sequence of these disclosures. Three
| agents at Odessa have been arrested
for having sold aduiterated grain.
Tewfik Pasha, Khedive of Egypt,
died at Cairo Oh the 18th. Death was
caused by influenza, but there are
rumors of poisoning. The new Khe-
dive is said to be entirely under the
domination of England.
France has demanded the anneXa-
ton of the oasis of TOuat, on the Mo
rocco boundary and has sent an eXpe-
! ditiOn to enforce the demand.
The grip is very prevalent in Eu-
rope as well as America. 1t is re-
ported as worse than ever before in
England.
De Maupassant, the French author,
has been declared insane He re-
Gently began q novel which he hoped
would be his master work.
Carmen SYLVIA as the Queen OF
ROumania is best known, is insane
and is reported at DEATHS door. She is
disappointed that she could not have
her plan of marrying the heir APP
parent to her maid of honor carried
out.
The Duke of Marlborough has pub
lished a review article on Americans,
in which he says some very nice
things of this country.
1t is rumored that reconciliation
| between Bismark and William is
soon to be effected.
All the Americans in China are
reported as leaving the country foI
their personal safety.
There have lately been several Skin
mishes in the plateau of Pamir be-
tween the tribesmen, who are sup
| posed to be aided by Russia and the
| British forces. A struggle for the