The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1893-03-30


hard at work preparing a tariff bill,
which the club will submit to Score.
tary Carlisle for the approval of the
administration and submission to
Congress when it assemblies.
"The bill will be in harmony with
the Chicago PLATFORM" said Ander-
son. Duties will be fixed on reve-
nue. basis only, but we will try to
arrange them so that no industry
will be crippled"
Anderson said that he could not
give any details of the bill at this
time.
VIII Write Book.
INDIANAPOLIS, March 16.-Ex-P resi-
dent Harrison has written to friend
that he will return to this city to day.
He proposes to begin the preparations
of his book at once, and has made
arrangement with Frank Tibbott, for
four years his private stenographer,
to continue with him in that capacity
for the next three or four months.
The ex President will be busy arrapg
ing data for his work on the tariff.
and the entire book will be dictated
to his stenographer and then copied
on typewriter and revised.
Collector for San Francisco.
WASHINGTON, March 17.-"John II.
Wise for Collector of Customs at San
Francisco" This is the only appoint
ment that has been positively de-
cided upon as yet by the California
delegation. The delegation is united
upon Wise, and no doubt is expressed
as to his appointment.
The New York's Trial.
WASHINGTON, March IL The bat
le-ship New York is to be given a
preliminary trial by the builders on
the 21st inst. She will be taken out
to sea for three or four days and put
through series of tests to ascertain
the working of her engines, to enable
the contractors to remedy and defects
discovered.
Naval Review.
WASHINGTON, March 1S.-The fol-
lowing general order in connection
with the naval review next May has
been issued by Admiral Gherardi:
The organization Of the feet will
be as follows: Rear-Admiral Cher
ardi, commander in chief; Rear
Admiral A. E. X. Benhan, command
ing first squadron; and Rear-Admiral
John Ct. Walker, commanding second
squadron. The Philadelphia will be
the flagship and the Gushing the
dispatch boat. The first squadron
will be composed of the Newark, the
flagship, the Atlanta, San Francisco,
Bancroft. Bennington and Baltimore.
The second squadron will have the
Chicago as flagship, with the York
town, Charleston, Vesuvius, Concord
and Maintonomah.
Work of Revenge.
ROME, March Yesterdays at
tempt to blow up the Ancini Mattel
Palace, occupied by United States
Minister Potter, was followed to-day
by like attempt at the Palazzo Alti-
eri, headquarters of the Guards
Nobili, military organization and
Pope's bodyguard at all great religi-
Gus functions. A dynamite bomb,
encased in plaster of Paris with
burning fuse, was discovered by
passing boy, who stamped out the
fuse with his Feet and notified the
police. 1t is believed these outrages
are the work of anarchists in revenge
for the arrest of several of their num-
Der.
Smallpox In British Columbia.
VICTORIA, B. c., March 16.-Three
smallpox patients on the North Pa,
cific steamship Tacoma were landed
at Albert Head last evening and
placed in ward. Later all the Chi
nese passengers on the boat were
landed and quarters provided for
them. Three cases developed on
March 4, and it is thought no more
cases will develop.
For the Worlds Fair.
TACOMA, March 19.-The Northern
Pacific steamship Tacoma arrived
here from the Orient this evening
with a valuable cargo, including
many exhibits for the Worlds Fair
On the next steamer 100 Chinese
actors and actresses, for the Worlds
Fair, will come.
A Manifesto Issued.
LONDON, March 16-The unionists'
manifesto has been issued over the
of the Duke of Abercorn,
the Marquis of Londonderry, Earl
Erne, Lord Arthur Hill, Colonel
Saunderson, the Mayors of Belfast
and Londonderry and others. The
manifesto announces the formation
OF an Ulster Defense League, ''not
merely to continue the struggle for
union, but to prepare to meet any
contingency"
The signers call upon all unionists
to qualify at once as members of the
league. The two necessary gualifca-
tons for every successful applicant
are that he be full grown man and
that he pledge himself to be faithful
to the cause of union. Those en-
rolled as members will send delegates
to Belfast to form a central assembly
of 600 members, which will elect
council OF sixty. The last
words Of the manifesto are: &" Be
patient, enroll and combine"
New Party.
WASHINGTON, March 16.-A hint of
Cleveland's policy of building up a
new party is given. Following the
selection of Judge Gresham for his
Cabinet, it is said he is going to ap-
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