The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1894-02-06
Sugar.

lated, O6 cents.
A dispatch from Washington, dated
the sd, details the fate of the sugar
bounty and tariff.
On the 22d the sugar debate opened.
Bowers, of California, spoke for the
retention of the bounty.
The final defeat of the sugar men
came on the oath, as shown by the fol-
lowing dispatch:
"The House, today, determined
upon abolition OF the duty upon re-
fined sugar, passed upon just before
the House adjourned last night. The
! way out of the confusion which eX-
listed upon the effect of the amend
ment adopted last night was found,
after two hours discussion of the par
! liamentary situation, by submitting
! the question to the House as to
| whether the Warner amendment,
| placing refined sugar on the free list,
! should be considered as a substitute
! for the Robertson amendment. This
was decided atfirmatively, and
! then by an overwhelming vote, in
which Republicans Joined with radi-
| and several members of the Ways and
| Means Committee, the substitute was
! adopted. The Committee of the Whole
has abolished the bounty and placed
| all sugar, both raw and refined, upon
the free list"
"The general impression is that the
! defeat of the sugar men and those in
terested in retaining the duty upon
/ in or u z ha
movement developed on the Demo-
cratic side to rec0mmit the bill. If
! the iron men are defeated, and espe-
cially if the income tax be placed
upon the bill as a rider later in the
week, another strong faction on the
| Democratic side will be added to this
movement. Republicans will all vote
! for the motion to recommit, and with
! the Democrats who do not care to vote
! against the bill outright, but who are
not satisfied with it in its present
! form, they may be able to muster a
majority to send it back to the COM
mittee. This is now admitted on all
sides to be the chief danger to the bill.
If it could be brought to direct vote
there is no question about its pass
| ing"
the House went into committee of the
whole to discuss the tariff bill was
that of Robertson, imposing duty on
raw sugar and increasing the duty on
refined, as amended by Warner, plac-
ing both raw and refined on the free
list.
1.-THE confusion entaiIed by these
two III congruOus amendments had
20 hy, aiCrb
Dingley claimed that the Warner
amendment was utterly inconsistent
with the Robertson amendment, and
should be considered as substitute.
Robertson took issue with him,
maintaining that the effect of the
Warner amendment was simply to
place refined sugar on the free list,
leaving so much of his amendment as
imposed a duty on sugar below IS,
Dutch standard, unaffected.
GA vote was finally taken on the
Warner amendment as a substitute,
and it was carried-I51 to So"
Royal Trappines at the Fair.
If Queen Liliuokalani is restored,
she Will find that the royal trappings
of her throne-room have disappeared.
She will find that the throne and its
appurtenances are gone; that the
royal bedchamber is dismantled; that
the private and semi-public posses
sions of the dead King Kalakaua are
not Oh the islanGs; that his own per-
sonal effects and valuable keepsakes
have been taken away, and that al
most every insignia of royalty has
gone from the island kingdom. They
are all in the Hawaiian Village at the
Exposition as loans from the Pro-
visiOnal Government. The news of
their arrival here on the Monowai was
kept secret that none on the islands
might know il until as late as pos
sible.
These possessions are, of course, in
valuable, and will be constantly
guarded during the Fair. The throne
is an elaborate affair, golden chairs
covered with crimson and shaded by
a canopy of yellow, the royal color.
On either side is a kahili
made of almost priceless feathers.
The queens bed is there, and will be
arranged as if in the eX-royal house of |
the islands. Some of the costly gifts
made to the dead King are in the col
lection. One is mammoth smoking
pipe of meerschaum, with ornaments |
of solid gold. 1t cost something more I
than $1,000. The dead kings royal
uniform, weighted with bullion, is in
the village. His royal robes of tapa 1
cloth may be seen, and all around are /
scattered costly fabrics and tokens of a 4
barbaric king.
The liberality of the Provisional |
Government, it is said, is not to end .
here, and there is reasonable eX-
pectation that the crown itself will /
be here on the next steamer. The |
cushions upon which it rests have /
been given already and the rest is ex- |
pected. In addition to the royal |
trappings the village has two of the |
bronze cannon which figured in the .
late revolution. 1t has some of the /
breastworks then used, and will build /
a miniature fortress.
Among the freight on the last /
steamer were a number of ancient |
relies taken from the islands. Around |
each has been woven a romantic and |