The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1894-01-29
From our San Francisco CorresponGe9r
January 20.

lated, a. cents.
The Western Sugar Refinery has de.
cided to ship about $4,000 tons of raw
Hawaiian this season around the Horn
to New York, where it will DE re-
fined. The reason for this is that the
railroad company will not reduce its
rates on refined sugar to Missouri
River points from So cents per 10C
pounds, and at this rate the Western
Company cannot compete with East
ern refineries to such points. For
some years this trade has been con-
trolled from San Francisco. The rate
on the raw sugar to New York will be
$2.75 per ton
A delegation of Louisiana planters
has gore to Washington to protest
against any interference with the
bounty. If Congress will not listen
to them on this point, they want a
compromising duty, in which case Ha-
waiian planters will be benefited.
SAN FRANCISCO NEWS.
The appraisers of the estate of the
late Senator Stanford have filed their
900. This does not include the rail-
road stock, the big vine ranch or Palo
Alto. There is a row over the stocks,
as Huntington refuses to surrender
them on the ground that they were
Jointly held by himself and the late
Senator. Mrs. Stanford will sue for
the recovery of the stocks, which are
worth S3,O00,O00.
The Midwinter Fair is fast approach
l.
with great ceremony on January 9th.
Should there be good weather it il ex-
pected there will be 10000 people in
attendance. The Fair is a wonderful
creation when IL is realized the
adverse circumstances under which il
has been brought to its present status.
The Chinese Six Companies have
issued an order TO the Chinese labor
ers in the city to register. They were
not told to register under the old law
before, and this comes as a surprise to
those acquainted with the facts. Far
from being told to register before,
they were told not to register, but the
companies have changed their minds.
AMERICAN NEWS.
The lower House of Congress is
now holly engaged in the DEBATE on
the tariff DILL and the country is get
ting a liberal education therefrOm.
The sensation of the discussion thus
far was the speech of Burke Cochran,
the noted Tammany orator. The
effort. while it was not very logical
was brilliant and aroused great deal
of enthusiasm among Democrats.
Some Of the back5iiders on the tariff
question were brought back into the
fold by Cockran's effort and the bill
was thereby given "A good start. The
House is making very slow progress
and it looks as though the work of
passing the bill even in an amended
form will be very tedious. There is
to oe n big row over the proposed
gradual Withdrawal of the sugar
bounty. A delegation of prominent
Democrats from Louisiana is now
laboring with the Ways and Means
Committee to have the protection
plan carried out. One of the big
fights has been to put steel rails on
the free list, but on the final vote on
the amendment, the Democrats were
defeated. 1t is also proposed in the
bill to place an advalorem duty on
still wines, which If il is adopted will
destroy an industry in California
alone, in which S60,O00,OO is invest
ed, to say nothing of the other wine
making States. No one has yet ven
tured to predict when the bill will go
to the Senate.
The inceme tax proposition is rails
ing a storm of protest from all over
the country and it is not confined TO
the Republicans.
Secretary Carlisle has taken matters
in his own hands on the bond ques-
ton, and advertised for $50, 0OO, 900 in
5per cent. bonds to be bid for Feb. lst
1t is probable the House will endeavor
To stop him, and il is said the knights |
of Labor will try to eDjoin him. There !
Is NO other way to keep up the reserve |
of gold.
The financial situation appears to be !
improving all over the country, and !
ii is now evident that the turn in the |
tide has been reached. Manufactures |
are starting up, and giving employ |
ment to thousands who have beeu |
idle all summer, thus relieving in a |
gradual way the distress. 1t is conf |
IDENTIFY predicted that 1894 will be |
much better in business way than |
was expected three months ago.
Geo. w. Chiids, the great philan-
thropist, is seriously i'll, and may not |
recover.
A collision between two trains in |
fog in New Jersey, resulted in the /
death of nine and the injury of thirty
seven persons.
The Pacific Coast has for the past |
week oeen swept Dy terrl1c storms,
which have caused great loss by |
floods. The damage to railroads was
quite general in the northwest.
Ex-President Harrison will soon |
start for California to begin his course |
of law lectures before the students of |
Stanford University.
A sleeping coach on the NewsYork |
and Florida train was struck by a |
locomotive in South Carolina, and |
twenty-five persons Were Instantly |
Killed. Nearly everyone on the train |
was injured.
In an attempt to re>cue the crew |
OF o wrecked steamer in n id-ocean |
during a heavy storm, six brave sail |
Ors OF the steamer Amsterdam, bound