The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1894-02-06
Sugar.

lated, O6 cents.
A dispatch from Washington, date,
the 23d, details the fate of the suga
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 mel
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
liamentaFy 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 affirmatively, and
then by an overwhelming vote, in
which Republicans Joined with radi-
cal Democrats against the sugar men
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
coal will result in strengthening the
movement developed on the Demo-
cratic side to recommit the bill. If
the iron men are defeated, and espe-
cially if the income tax be placed
upon the bill as q 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 a direct vote
there is no question about its pass
ing.n
"The pending amendment when
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.
.sThe confusion entailed by these
two ia congruous amendments had
first to- be Strengthened out.
Dingley claimed that the Warner |
was utterly inconsistent |
with the Robertson amendment, and /
should be considered as a substitute.
a. ID hi
that the effect of the |
Warner amendment was simply to |
place refined sugar on the free list, |
leaving so much of his amendment as |
a duty on sugar below 10, |
Dutch standard, unaffected.
" A vote was finally taken on the |
Warner amendment as a substitute, !
md il was carried-151 to 49,"
Royal TrappiHes at the Fair.
III Queen Liliuokalani is restored, /
he Will find that the royal trappings
# her throne room have disappeared.
she will find that the throne and its
are gone; that the
oval bedchamber is dismantled; that
he private and semi-public posses
ions OF the dead King Kalakaua are
lot o. the ISLANDS; that his own per-
onal effects and valuable keepsakes
ave been taken away, and that al
most every insignia of royalty has
,one from the island Kingdom. They
re all in the Hawaiian Village at the
Exposition as loans from the Pro-
Tisional Government The news of
heir arrival nere on the MOuowai was
.ept secret that none on the Islands
night know it until IS late rs pos
ible.
These possessions are, of course, in
and will be constantly
guarded during the Fair. The throne
3 an elaborate affair, golden chairs
overed with crimson and shaded by
J canopy of yellow, the royal color.
made of almost priceless feathers.
The queens bed is there, and will be
arranged as if in the eX-royal house of
he islands Some OF the costly gifts
made to the dead King are in the col
ection. One is "A mammoth smoking
,ipe of meerschaum, with ornaments
Il solid gold. 1t cost something mors.
han $1,000. The dead kings royal
weighted with bullion, is in
he village. His royal robes of tapa
10th may be seen, and all around are
scattered costly fabrics and tokens of a
,aroaric king.
The liberality of the Provisional
it is said, is not to end
here, and there is reasonable eX-
Dectstion that the crown itself will
pc here on the next steamer. The
cushions upon which it rests have
been given already and the rest is ex-
oected. In addition to the royaI
irappIngs the village has two OF the
3ronze cannon which figured in the
ate revolution. 1t has some of the
c-fr
! miniature fortress
Among the freight on the last
teamer were a number of ancient
Telics taken from the islands. Around
ach has been woven a romantic aud
traDgely interesting story. There is
ne sled upon which the Goddess of
fire rides 20 her dreadful home in the