The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1895-03-14


Hon. Late Pence was not in tho talk
ing humOr when 1 laid the Brooklyn
business before him. you would not
think had time TO give to such trifles, &"
Faid he, ''if you could know the de-
mands made Oh me from home to recon
struct all creation and rectify things IN
general Just look at these letters and
see what they ask me to do. Just see
what confidence my constituents and the
western public generally have in my
power to fix things "
1 looked, and among many gems Of
radicalism found this one from San Di
ego, Cal:
MOST HoSoRED RRPREsESTATTvE-Wiu you
Introduce a Bill for the Suppression OF Crime
Breeding in Our Saloons and Public places.
And for the teaching children howe to live TO
be taught in Our public Schools or Practical
life. Yors for God and Home.
They are talking about Hawaii at
tho other end Of this building and max
ing hiRhfalutin predictions that the
American people will be thoroughly
aroused over it," said Champ Clark,
land that shows how little they know
about the beloved people. Not one
American in 90 will bother his head
about Hawaii this year, for they will
have plenty of their own trouble to think
about The farmer, if lie lies awake
nights over anything, will do it think
ing how he Is to get something for his
stuff to pay taxes and interest on mort
cages, and * Tor city laborers my guess
is that where they think once about
Hawaii they will think q thousand
times about how they are going to get
the whercwithal to line their individual
lnsides. No, tho senators need not worry
themselves over what the people will
think about Hawaii. As TO strikes and
labor trOujies-why, the main Thought
that occurs to me Is that despair some
times prevents strikes a. cfToctualiy as
would contentment.
And with this view quite number
Of members coincide. About the tina
this talk vas rife the pooling bill which
had passed the house was Up III tho sen
ate, and expressions were frequent that
the interstate commerce law had opened
tho way beautifully for the United
States tC take charge uf al tire railroads
running through different states. L have
several times heard the OH allegnry so
effectUGlly used Ly Abraham Lincoln
about stephen, Franklin, Roger and
James framing the separate timbcrs of
house quoted TO provo that there was
an understanding from the first about
this bill. cone Ghird OF the railroad
mileage, " said one member, lis in the
hands of receivers, and, according TO the
latest rulings. the federal judges arc TO
assume jurisdiction from hell TO Beer
sheba, with a federal project like Cen
eral Miles ~ each city 70 enforce their !
DEGREES.
Treasury CG'ci..lS Encouraged.
It is pleasure 70 add that the first !
really encouraging remarks come from !
the treasury department, and they are |
all tho more charming because we had |
got in the habit of expecting something |
else from that quarter. They assure us
that receipts are rapidly gaining on ex-
and that, to their certain
knowledge, February will equalize
them. They add that January would I
have done so had not the expenditures
been heaviest, as usual, in that month,
and more than 81, 900, 600 IN Central
Pacific railroad bonds paid besides. The
big interest payments are made in Jan
uary. The officials add that, with the
certainty of increasing receipts, the gold
reserve may be allowed to go as low as
$50, 000, 900 without danger The direct
or of the mint continues to assure US
that the gold supply of the world is in
rapidly, and to each successive
estimate he adds a little. he is now
positive the worlds yield will be at
least $500, 900, 600 this year, and as the
amount used in the arts will not in
crease in proportion the coinage will ex-
coed 500, 600, 900. Let's all hope it is
true. for it would only take six or seven
years of that sort of thing to abate the
gold famine.
Certain Matters.
There was q good deal OF caokling
over the new tariff of the Argentine Re-
public when it reached here, and our
minister there, Hon. William I. Buchan-
IN, rejoiced greatly that the tariff COM
mission had listened favorably to all he
aid and favored the United States. The
committee on agriculture, however, cam
lot find much in it for the farmer. The
Argentines have reduced the tariff on
,ine lumber by n percentage which
would make $3.50, 900 less duty on the
mount exported from the United States
asst year, and crude petroleum and
ew other articles are put on the free
list. The duty ON farm wagons and some
ther implements Of husbandry is re-
luced from 60 per cent to 10 per cent,
nd on canned fruits and vegetables the
eduction is one-half. 1t is to be hoped
hat our farmers will find some comfort
n these items, as they certainly stand
u need of it.
It is foreign to the immediate subject,
Mt worth noting in conclusion, that
lembers elect to the next house are ar
wing in daily increasing numbers, and I
he applications for offices at the dis
osal of that house -outnumber any in
ur previous history. One Of the re-
lected Republicans tells us that he has
eceived nearly 100 applications, though .
O cannot hope to secure more than two
: three places at the best He has had
D applications for the appointment of
ages alone. Few holdovcr mbers