The Durham daily globe. (Durham, N.C.) 1889-1894, 1893-11-28
The Sugar Bounty on and Whisky
Is Up.
More About Secretary Gresham's Deal
with Lii.
HE HAD HIS sTENoGRAPHER HID
A Cosby Bunch of Business from the
Capital About What Will BE
Next session.

Gays tue utultCl III iiINHNS ~ N~N
have scored a victory for the sugar
bounty. The full democratic member
ship Of the ways and means committee
decided to reduce the duty Of cent
a pound on refined sugar and place
no duty on the raw material and then to
abolish the sugar bounty gradually.
There has been a demand that all Of the
sugar bounty be abolished at a fell swoop,
but the committee has determined that
those who invested in machinery and
fixtures for prodcing beets and manufac
turing sugar were entitled to fair treat
ment and the bounty will be e~xtinguished
to 10 per cent annual installments. Thus
ten year will be required to extinguish
the entire 2 cents per pound Of bounty.
A report was in circulation to day in
congressional circles, and which came
from the department of state, that must
put Secretary Walter @. Gresham to
blush. For two or three days there have
been dark and no mysterious hints drop
ped at the state department about an
other trump card" which the admins
tration has to play in the Hawaiian game.
1t has been said that "the next publica.
ton will knock out the provisional gov
eminent" etc, and many who have
heard the limitations supposed that
there was some secret testimony of great
power to be sprung upon the public.
To-day the cat popped out of the bag.
1t seems that a few days ago Secretary
Gresham called upon the Hawaiian
minister, Mr.. Thurston, or had him call
at the state department. The call which
ever official it came, was on the part of
the secretary of state ostensibly for social
purposes only, the two officials having
for some months been upon what were
supposed to be most cordial personal re-
~latiOns. During the course of the lengthy
conversation, as the report has it, Secre
tary Gresham brought up the question Of
virtue and chastity of Hawaii's depOsed
queen. 1t is now we'll known that this
has bee me a leading issue with Presi-
dent Clcvelands's administration. Min.
lister Thurstou is said to have answered
Secretary Grcsham's questions frankly,
prcsuming, of course, that he was speak
ing in his personal and not his official
capacity.
After the call Secretary Gresham is
quoted as having observed that the ad-
ministration had secured "a c~Ompromis-
ing admission from Minister Thurston"
and that it might he given to the public
This is the "other trump card" about
which deeply dark hints have been
thrown out. 1t is stated now that the
secretary of state caused a stenographer
TO be placed behind a fire screen in the
room where Minister ThurstOn and him
self were.engaging in social conversation,
and that the entire talk was carefully
taken down and has been written out
ready for publication. The damaging
admission" vas to the effect that Minis,
ter ThurstOn and his wife, or some other
female member of bis family, had at
some time called at Queen Liliuokalapis
palace or residence socially. This ad.
mission is presumed by the administra.
ton 10 negative the statement that the
queen is not a chas,e woman, and this
admission" may be published in iulih-
cation of The policy OF President Cleyc
llnd'> administration toward Hawaii
1t Is not probable that the United
States navy will be Increased by the
present congress. The house committee
on naval affairs expects soon TO begin
work on the naval bill, and according 10
a reported remark of the chairman of
the committee, Mr. Cummings, Of New
York, the question as to whether con-
gress would authorize the construction
of new ships would depend much upon
the recommendations of the president
and the secretary of The navy He ex-
pressed The opinion that congress would
not feel in the mood to appropriate
money for more ST fps until il was dem
onstraltd whether The cruisers already
built would tiCat or sink. This sounds
very much ike a slur upon the proceed
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