The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1894-03-26

NEW YORK, March 17.-Cuban CEN
trifugal, SO degrees, 80 cents; granu-
lated, unchanged.
The Western Refinery Company
has advanced prices / cent all around,
granulated now being quoted at 81
cents.
Sugar Tariff and the Treaty.
There is every indication that the
Senate will not pass that part of the
Senate tariff bill which calls for the
abolition of the Hawaiian Reciprocity
Treaty. A dispatch from Washington
dated the 18th says: 1.-The Senate
amendment to the Wilson bill requir-
ing the President to give notice of alb
rogating the treaty between this coun-
try and Hawaii relating to commerce
will be stricken out before the bill
passes the Senate. Enough Demo-
cratic Senators have promised uncOn-
ditionally to vote against it TO make
this almost certain. Senator Perkins
has been working since the bill was
made public TO show how unwise 1t
would be to give up the advantages
which our trade enjoys with Hawaii.
He has proof that British Columbia
stands ready the moment it gets the
opportunity to enter into a treaty with
Hawaii, which will divert the entire
Hawaiian trade from San Francisco to
Vancouver. Such an event would be
a severe blow to California, and Sem
tor Perkins has received numerous
kilograms urging him to fight the
abrogative clause to the bitter end.
Minister Thurston has strongly eX-
pressed himself to the effect that the
abrogating of the treaty would work
great injury to the industries of his
country, II il were not fact that
other countries were willing to pick
up the plum which the Democrats
desire to throw away. Senator PEI
kins has received assurances from
Senators Kyle and Pefftr (Pops.) and
Senators Morgan, German and Roach
that they will vote against the amend
ment without fail. Others who have
not vet committed themselves but will
he apt to oppose it are Senators Hill,
Murphy, Allen, and White of Cali,
fornia.
A dispatch from Washington dated
the 18th says:
n twithstanding the statement of
Senator Vest tonight as to the effect
of the Wilson bill on the reciprocity
treaties now IN force between this
country and others, it appears that
such treaties will have To be abrogated
by means of some additional legisla-
ton or by the President That does
not apply, however, to the treaty with
Hawaii, which.is of "a different nature
from the rest. 1t was because the
Senate knew that the power lay with
Congress to ahrogate this treaty that
the provisions touching Hawaii were
included in the Senate bill. 1t may
be that the treaties with the other
countries can only be disposed of after
the lapse OF II certain stipulated time.
This being so. the fact stares Congress
in the face that 40 matter what duty
may be placed on sugar by this act, az
long rs the reciprocity treaties now i'm
existence are not abrogated sugar will
continue Go come i'm free OF duty from
Cuba, from Germany, from Brazil
San Domingo, British possessions and
all the other sugar producing couO-
tries which entered into treaties unier
the reciprocity provisions Of the Me
l<inley law. So long as those treaties
are in existence, therefore. no duty
placed upon sugar hy general law viii
prevent the free importation of sugar.
~ the W llSpn OH becomes law, TINS
means that sugar brought to this
country will all come from Germany, /
which will practically control the +
market, for the reason that th re is an /
export bounty given by Germans of /
three-uuarters of one cent. German /
sugar would thus have nearly three
quarters of a cent advantage over
4 American producers when their prod /
uct had been laid down i'm New York. /
Such il Democratic reciprocity. lndi-
cations point to n spirited debate in .
the Senate over the clause providing .
for the abroyation Of the Hawaiian
treaty. A number of Senators on the
Democratic sde will object TO the
clause, aud it ia believed the Repuhli
rams are almost solid i'm their opposi
ton. Already objection is heard, not
only because the termination Of the
treaty would deprive this country of
valuable prcrDgatives in the islands,
but because uf the fact hat the action
would I've serious blow
tu the sugar planters of the islands
whuse business, IL is contended, Is
dependent absolutely upon maintain
ine free commercial Intercourse with
the United States the clause was
Inserted as q Cuuce s-ion tn the sugar
interest in this country whose friends
n the Senate will exert an influence
.u have IL retained.
Pearl HarTrpr Tfeaft