The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1893-05-12


turers in California if it is put into
effect. The plan is to suspend the
sugar bounty without waiting for con-
gressional action. 1t has been pointed
out to the president, it is said, that
this action can he taken by an order
from the secretary of the treasury to
his subordinates to draw no more war
rants and make no payments or ac-
count of sugar bounties.
To Block Cholera.
NEW YORK, May 3.-The new i'm
migration law which went into effect
today will make many changes In the
system at Ellis Island. The law pro-
yides for the inspection of immigrants
at the places of embarkation and ar
rival and while it is evidently supe-
rior to the former method OF handling
steerage passengers, it's workings will,
IL is believed, cause some trouble at
first. Emigrants leaving the other
side will be entered in blocks of thirty
on the inspectors sheets, which will
he Tailed here OF their arrival. On
these sheets are twenty questions call
ing for information as to the emf
grants life and condition. When the
vessels arrive at United States ports
the steerage passengers will have to
be gathered in files of thirty, CORE
spending to their order on the blanks,
and Will again DC required 30 answer
,he questions which were put to them
'yhen they embarked.
NDr. Senner, commissioner of immi-
sation at Ellis Island, said today that
Ellis wonId probably cause a great
deal of trouble and additional expense
to get in good running order, but that
it was an excellent system. "The
medical inspection of these emil
grants" said DIR. Senner, twill prove
an efficient check to cholera, and
although / speak from a layman's
standpoint, think there will be none
of the infection in this country during
the coming summer"
The steamship companies are little
afraid of the law, as they fear immi-
grants who don't answer questions
truthfully on the other side will be
thrown on their hands here, causing
the expense of taking them back to
the other side. DIR. Jenkins, health
officer of the port, said today that he
will have a conference with the steam
ship people on Friday to arrange plans
for additioual safety. AT the meeting
he will present to the steamship Off
cfals the regulations which the quar-
antine authorities have decided to en-
force, and he will also state to them
the methods by which they will be
carried out
New Steamer Line. y
Official announcement Is made that
the Canadian Pacific will at once es-
tablish n through Australian line from
Vancouver, calling at Honolulu and
Auckland en- route.
The action is regarded by the Sou
thern Pacific as simply the carrying
out of the policy of the Dominion
government, which has been to carry
travellers from England to the Austria
liam colonies without transferring
them from under the British flag.
The officials at Fourth and Towns
end streets scout the idea that the
passenger rate between this city and
Portland had anything to do with the
placing of steamships on the line, as
claimed by the Canadian Pacific, Tor
such action has long been contem-
plated, as is shown by the reports of
the railroad to the Canadian parlia-
ment. The Southern Pacific also says
that the rate given the Canadian Pa
cific was low and n fair one, and as TO
a boycott being declared, the rate Is
the same as that given the Northern
Pacific.
The Oceanic Steamship Company
will be the chief direct sufferer by the
new Australian line to Vancouver.
From Nav to October 1st il has been
the custom of this line to bring by
Zach steamer from 200 to 300 passen-
oars To this city. The last steamer in
Iroupht a still larger number, indl-
catin1 that the Worlds Fair travel |
froT,, fhe colonies had set In and that |
IL was going to be very heavy. Now
IL is thought the new line OF the
Cauadia Pacific Will the oulK OF |
this traffic for two reaSSns: First, the |
weIl-known clanishnesS OF the aver
ape pIobe-trotter Will cause MN 10 |
seIecf a line run by his own country
mon. and, secondly, the fare VIII be |
reduced by the new route. |
- ia avnected that this will be made a |
very nopuIar summer route to Europe, |
no the passage by the Suez canal is
very unpleasant during the not
-,
The Canadian company will have
the Miowera and another similar yes
sci i'm the service Both are vessels
like the Monowai. Round trip passen-
ger rates have already been reduced 10
1850.
Not Working Veil.
a Washington dispatch says: Album.
liant reason for the abandonment OF
the policy of reciprocity under The
bill exists in complaints
by the state department re-
parding the evasions of the Spanish
9fficials in Cuba. The Spanish gov
eminent was forced into the treaty by
the diplomacy of Blaine, because OF
the fear that If Cuba sugar growers
were deprived of theire harket IN the
United States thrc n reciprocity ar
rangements with other sugar growing
countries they would revolt against
spain. o,-o
he treaty so unpopular that it will
ali to the ground of its own weight,
and baS supposed an excise tax nearly
ssg dot osr re@ goyern% my Ias viii viii
.,taaf stronoly against the tax |