The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-04-28
nhF ohhICANs AFRAID 1T WILL
TAKE TIME To PASS A TARIFF
BILL.
FIRST OF AUGUST FIXED
BY SOME AS THE DATE WHEN THE
ACT MAY GO INTO
EFFECT.
VERY INDEPENDENT.
No Delay for Delays Sake Contemp-
lated, but There Will BE
Thorough Consideration.

WASHINGTON, April 27.-The DEM
ocratic members of the senate finance
committee followed up their determi-
natlon yesterday not to allow the tar
III Dill to be reported direct to the
senate, with the announcement that
they would expect to be given oppor-
tunity for thorough examination of
all the schedules of the bill, as amend
ed, before 1t is reported to the senate.
Ihey have already employed one ex-
pert and will employ others to take up
the bill in their behalf as soon as it
is presented to them. They expect
to be able to examine to the bill suf-
nclently to permit it to go to the sem
! ate in about two weeks time after they
receive 1t. There has been some talk
among the Democratic senators of
granting hearings by the full commit
tee, but this proposition does not ap-
pear to have met with general favor
The Democratic members of the COM
mittee fear that insistence upon this
course would be construed into a de-
termination to delay the bill, which
they insist is no part Of their pro-
gramme
The decision of the Democratic mem
| bers may have the effect of causing a
postponement of the presentation of
the bill beyond Thursday. Some of the
Republican committeeman now say
that they may not conclude their work
before Monday morning as there are
still various matters which are not
definitely decided. and which it be-
comes absolutely necessary to fix be-
fore going into the full committee. They
| are still working with the hope Of pre-
senting the bill Thursday, but are less
hopeful than formerly.
The Republicans think they discover
in the present attitude of their Demo-
cratic colleagues a disposition to delay
the passage Of the bill, which they had
not previously counted upon, and are
making their preparations for a long
siege in the senate as we'll as in COM
mittee. Some Of them express the fear
that the bill will not become a law be-
fore the 1st of August
Lorin A. Thurston, eX-minister from
Hawaii, and at present a special COM
missioner from that country, has sub
mitted to the finance committee of the
| senate a statement Of reasons why the
Hawaiian reciprocity treaty ought not
to be abrogated by the tariff bill, and
why it should not, on it's merits, be
abrOgated at all Elaborate statistics
are given to show the advantages of
the treaty to the Pacific coast and the
country in general. Mr.. ThurstOn sum-
marizes the benefits to losses which
have accrued to the United States by
virtue of the treaty as follows:
Remission by Hawaii Of duties on American
products, $21 000, 600.
Profits made by American citizens from
freights, commissions ship building insur-
M
1885,
Existing property acquired by American
citizens, $43, 731 544; gross accrued financial
benefits, $116 9S2, $40 Against this there must
be offset the duties RENTED by the United
States, amounting to $55 1896, PAL. Net financial
benefits which have accrued to the United
States and its citizens by virtue of the treaty
SCI 0S3, 699
Mr.. Thurston sums up under the head of
Results if the treaty is abrogated" as fol-
lows:
Hawaii will levy duty on all United States
products which are free under the treaty
Hawaii will probably enter into reciprocal
commercial relations with other countries
which are commercial rivals of the United
States, which will largely divert Hawaiian
trade and the profits arising therefrom to
those countries.
The same causes which have practically
driven American shipping out of the trade Of
it from the Hawaiian trade.
The political control, for which American
statesmen have been striving for sixty years
and have 50 successfully accomplished, VIII
be abandoned at stroke, and America will
be RELOCATED from the dominant position
which it now holds to the position which it oc-
cupled IN 1S42, when England and France
alternately bull!ed and took possession Of the
islands, and claimed equal and even superior
right to the United States.
Instead Of the United States remaining the
practical suzerain power over Hawaii as il
now is by the voluntary act Of the United
States. Hawaii VIII be turned loose to become
the prey Of the first great power which
n ont hnrs IN 4
will have placed itself upon an equality with
England, France and Japan, to thereafter
engage in scramble for the control of
Hawaii under the disadvantages of a SELF
inflicted handicap.