The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1905-01-28
PRATT'S
NOMINATION
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eraI has been asked and received. ad-
| vising the Department to proceed or
the basis of the recent decision rather
than TO wait till after the case in ques-
ton has been decided by a higher
court.
| Heretofore the duty on canned pine
s-pples mas been one cent pound
Plus So per cent ad valorem. sufficient
to protect the Hawaiian packers from
| competition from Singapore and the
| West Indies. except in the cheaper
| grades of goods. Under this interpre-
tation of the law canned pineapples
| have been rated as fruit preserved.
| Under the decision of the court, can
ned pineapple will be admitted under
the same rate as pineapple preserved in
its own juice without any added sugar.
| The rate on that article is only % per
| cent ad yalOrem, without any specific
duty on the weight of the goods. The
value Of Singapore pinea ppIe at the
point of shipment is very low and ac-
cordingly the duty will be but little to
Singapore packers, and therefore at
fords but little protection to the Ha-
NaIian packers. The difference Will
be about &C cents a case.
TARIFF REVISION.
Since the last Hawaiian mail left
here, over a week ago there has been
another tremendous furry over tariff
revision. The President renewed his
fight with unusual energy, declaring
his intention to call an extra session
of Congress for tariff revision. A day
or two later he made it plain that his
chief object in calling an extra ses-
sion would be to secure railroad rate
legislation and that tariff legislation
was a secondary consideration with
him. There appeared more and more
uncertainty as to what was the real
intention. In his confidential state
ments to his friends in Congress the
President said he was going to cali
the extra session along in the fall par
ticuIarly for railroad rate legislation
but that he was strongly of the opin-
ion that once he got Congress in town
he could bring them around to legis-
late on the tariff also.
Back of it all, however, is the con-
viction among the best informed peo-
L
been to spur Congress to enact some
railroad rate legislation at this session,
1t looks now as though Congress were
going to make that kind of an effort.
If the effort is made and succeeds
there is a strong improbability of any
extra session whatever. The Presi-
dent will hardly call Congress together
for tariff revision. Speaker Cannon
and his Iieutenants have made a pow
erful counter demonstration in which
they showed by a careful canvass that
the sentiment of the House is over /
against tariff revision.
In any event sugar, the chief article |
OF Hawaiian interest affected by the
tariff, will not be touched. That is
what Senator Lodge. of Massachusetts,, !
assured me a few days ago. He was
saying that it would be easier now to
review or readjust the tariff quickly, !
because of some schedules Congress
would not or could not touch. Most
Of the time in 1894 and again in 1897
In framing the tariff laws said the
Senator, was occupied on the sugar
bIesome articles we had to deal with. |
In any readjustment of the tariff now,
that would be entirely eliminated. We
are pledged not to change the duty on
sugar by the terms of our treaty with
Cuba
PHILIPPINE DUTIES.
The Senator also remarked upon his