The Hawaiian gazette., 1894-03-27
The Treaty viii Not Be AbrO-
gated.
THE BRAZILIAN WAR IS ABOUT OVER,
Minister Thurston Is to Be Married-An
Interview With T. II. Davies - The
Unemployed to March to Washington
"A Dyramiter Blows Himself Up.

New YORK, March 17.-Cuban CEN
trifugal, SO degrees, 81 cents; granu-
lated, unchanged.
The Western Refinery Company
has advanced prices ! cent all around,
granulated now being quoted at 81
cents.
Suear 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 10th says: "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 1t to make
this almost certain. Senator Perkins
has been working since The bill was
made public TO show how unwise ii
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 treaty with
Hawaii, which will divert the entire
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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, il it 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 Peffer (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
be apt to oppose it are Senators Hill,
Murphy, Allen, and White of Cali
fornia.
A dispatch from Washington dated
the 18th says:
Notwithstanding 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 different nature
from the rest. 1t was because the
Senate knew that the power lay with
Congress to abrogate 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 a certain stipulated time.
This being so, the fact stares Congress
in the face that, no matter what duty
may be placed on sugar by this act, as
long as the reciprocity treaties now in
existence are not abrogated sugar will
continue to come in free of duty from
Cuba. from Germany, from Brazil,
San Domingo, British possessions and
all the other sugar-produciDg cOun-
tries which entered into treaties under
the reciprocity provisions of the Nc
Kinley law. So long as those treaties
are in existence, therefore, no duty
placed upon sugar Dy general law will
prevent the free importation of sugar.
If the Wilson bill becomes law, this
means that sugar brought to this
country will all come from Germany,
which will practically control the
market, for the reason that tn 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
American producers when their prod
uct had been laid down in New York.
Such is Democratic reciprocity. lndl-
cations point to a spirited debate IN
the Senate over the clause providing
for the abrogation of the Hawaiian
treaty. A number of Senators on the
Democratic side will object to the
clause, and it is believed the Republic
cans are almost solid in their oppOsi-
tion. Already objection is heard, not
only because the termination OF the
treaty would deprive this country of
valuable prerogatives in the islands,
but because of the fact that the action
contemplated would be a serious blow
to the sugar planters of the islands,
whose business, it is contended, is
dependent absolutely upon maintain
ing free commercial intercourse with
the United States. The clause was
inserted as a concession to the sugar
interest in this country, whose friends
in the Senate will exert an influence
to have it retained.
Pearl HarbOr Treaty.
A dispatch from Washington, dated
the 10th says: Ex Senator Edmunds
of Vermont, who is the author of the