The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1894-05-11
The Tariff Question Still One Of
Great Importance.
HAWAIIAN MATTERS ARE QUIEsCENT
General Coxey is Arrested-A New Mo-
netary Plan-Lord Roseberry Advo-
Gates ReyoIution-The Strikers ON
the Great Northern System Win.

NEW YORK, May 3.-Cuban CEN
trifugal, So degrees, $50 cents; gran
nlated, ! cents.
The San Francisco market Is quite
active and receipts from Hawaii con-
tinue large. Prices have declined !
cent, with graduated at So cents.
A dispatch from Washington dated
May Cd says: ''The members of the
Senate Finance Committee, who have
been laboring to arrange the details
of the tariff bill so as to make it ac-
ceptable to all the Democratic Sena-
tors, have completed their work, and
expect to report their amendments to
the Senate within the nextforty- EIGHT
hours. While there will be number
of minor changes made at the instance
of various individuals, the chief trou-
BILE has been to fix the sugar schedule
upon satisfactory basis, and to re-
tain the income tax in less drastic
form than that adopted by the House.
Senator Jones of Arkansas has been.
the moving spirit in this work.
Through him it is learned that the
new sugar schedule will provide for a
duty of 40 per cent al valorem. to-
gether with a specific duty of of
cent per pound on sugars testing six
teen and above, Dutch standard. The
sugar schedule, as adopted by the
House, provided for specific duties.
This was satisfactory to the sugar
planters, but not to the refiners. The
new schedule is satisfactory to the
refiners, and substantially so TO the
planters. THESE latter would like to
have the ad valorem duty placed at 45
per cent, though they prefer specific
duties. 1t is altogether probable that
the schedule which will be reported
will lie the one adopted by the Senate.
It is likely that, in Difference to the
interests of the planters, discri mi
mating duty of Il of per cent. will be
imposed on sugars from countries
which pay an export bounty, such as
Germany and others. The new sugar
schedule will probably go into effect
January 1st. This will give the boun-
ty provided by the Mckinley law to
the crop of this year. 1t is understood
that both President Cleveland and
Secretary Carlisle favor this date.
Tue British Columbia Sugar Re
finery at Vancouver, B. c., has closed
down. The management claims that
for a long time it has been hard work
to pay expenses, owing to the impor
tation of cheap Chinese sugar into the
province.
Senator Higgins, of Delaware, in
the course of his argument on the
Tariff bill on the Goth of April, re
ferred at some length to Hawaiian
matters. He argued that the passage
of the Tariff bill would seriously en-
danger the interests of the United
States in connection with its right to
the exclusive occupancy of Pearl River
harbor in the Hawaiian Islands. He
proceeded to discuss at length the SUBJ
ieet of the annexation of the islands,
remarking that he had thought Sc
riously of offering a resolution request
ing the President to send back TO the
Senate for consideration AND ratifica-
ton the trea Y of annexation. $50
far as we can judge from his message"
said Higgins, 1.-the President With
drew the treaty without ever con-
sidering the problem of annexation of
the islands. He rejected the treaty
because he claims it had been OBJ
tanned wrongly. In all his facts and
all his conclusions, after careful per
usal of the testimony, / believe the
President is wrong; but, clothed as
he is, as the Chief Executive of the
nation, with enormous power over
this question, he seems to have taken
his course on these narrow grounds"
Higgins paid an eloquent tribute to
President Dole and the Provisional
Government.