Hawaii holomua = Progress. [volume] (Honolulu) 1893-1895, 1894-04-19

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I 4 syndicate OF Mexican and
American capitalists has been
organized to construct a pan
American telegraph line to extend
along the Pacific coast from Vic
toria, British Columbia, to San
tiago. Chill. passing through the
United States, Mexico, the Cen
trial American states and the
Pacific coast countries Of South
America.
1t was boldly announced By
officers of the sugar trust after
the House swept away all duties
on sugar that they expected to be
able to influence" the Senate to
undo the act. They are now at
work, and reports from Washing
ton are to the effect that q more
powerful or inscriptions lobby
never invaded the capital. At
the same time the sugar trust
shares are being worked up and
down in Wall street in series of
gambling manipulations on re-
ports from Washington as to the
progress of the influence bust
ness. This ought to be sufficient
to keep the Senate in line with
the House, if the Inscriptions
extortions of the trust under the
protection of a duty on refined
sugar are not sufficient.
There is much speculation in
commercial is well as political
circles over what the Senate will
do with the sugar duties. The
latest reports have been that the
finance committee would restore
duty on the raw product out of
consideration for the Louisiana
planters, as we'll as to put back
some of the duty OH coal and iron
ore. But correspondent of one
of the Boston commercial papers
has it from a republican senator
that his side of the chamber will
not help vote back the tax on the
poor man s sugar particular
" after the republican Mckinley
law had removed it and demo-
cratic House had gone farther in
the same direction by freeing the
refined product and removing the
bounty. This will very likely
prove to be the attitude of the
republican senators, and in that
case the sugar duties are doomed.
President Cleveland is arb itra-
tor to decide a boundary dispute
between Brazil and the Argentine
Republic, and now has before
him the cases of both sides in the
form of printed evidence, maps
and arguments, Josiah Quincy is
associate counsel for the Argen-
tine Republic, and has been en-
gagged in preparing the papers on
that side CT the dispute for some
months. The territory which
both countries claim is know as
the Misiones, and is situated in
the upper part of the basin of the
La Plate; between the smaller
rivers, Uruguay and Yguazu. In
1850, Spain and Portugal agreed
upon a boundary line between
their respective possessions in
South America, one part of which
ran along the course of the Pepiry
and the dispute now between
Brazil and the Argentine is which
of the two modern rivers, Uruguay
or Yguazu, was formerly called
"Pepiry." President Harrison
was asked to act as arbitrator III
this matter, and accepted the
duty, leaving it, however, fol
Cleveland to perform. The
amount of the labor involved in
reading over the several printed
volumes of matter in the case Is
considerable. but the president
has year to do it in.
President Dole OF the Hawaiian
provisional government does Pre-
sident Cleveland decided SERVES
in repudiating the action Q
Damon and the committee which
obtained the peaceful surrendel
of the Queen. Dole does not den,
that the Queen referred the case
between herself aud the men who
, demanded her surrender to the
United States government fol
arbitration. and made that re-