The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1912-07-30
HONOLULU CUSTOMS
OFFICE IS LEADER
Classltioations Made Here Have
Brought Millions Into
Uncle Sans Purse.

ports of cntry aud is the model upou
which classihcations for the other Gus.
toms houses are based is again proved
by the cable recently received from
Washington here stating that "smudgc
sticks" are "smudgc sticks and not
Joss sticks,
For many years the llouolslu office
has been calling thcm "smudgo sticks
and assessing a duty of twenty per
,cont valorcm against them but of
iicials at the ports at Now York, san
Francisco and other ports have declor
ed that they were joss sticks" aud as
such have always admitted them free
of duty to be used in religious cere.
monies MS 'ioss sticks,
Recently the oliciUls at the other
ports made an inquiry as TO why the
| Honolulu office required the payment of
the duty and now after thorough in
vestigation ly the officials in NASH.
ingtou an order has been issued re-
curing all ports to collect the duty on
tho "smudge sticks.'' whether they
look like joss sticks or not. The result
| - uHpin'l NWNuil iuE NhN luNui uiiNN
MS within thirty days the order must
he oboyod by the other ports, the oil
cinls of which had disagreed with
Uncle sam = revenue collectors here.
Although the smudgo sticks,
which are manufactured IN Japan look
like altar incense there is big diff.
ference between them and the Joss
sticks - Tho "smudgc sticks are in
Tho farm nf nunlf mat thn siyn az thp
others but they have nm offensive odor
and nrc used to cNtcrminnto mosquitoes
while the ''ioss sticks have frag
rant odor and have no effect ON the
mosquitoes, except that of pleasing
them. No duty has ever been collect
ed on the Joss sticks at any port.
Nine times ms many 'smudgc
sticks are imported into Honolulu AS
of the "ioss sticks but recently there
has been decrease owing to the fact
that there are not 40 many mosquitoes
here now.
Only the Usual Thing.
This dncision sbo,ving tho IIonohln
onicc IN no in tho lcod IL lint tne Inf
est of hundreds of si,nilnr dccision,
rendered since Colloctor % r. stack
,,Llo a,s, hn,,,, NJ ,,,a,t, ho,.n ~ AZ,
time of nnnexniion Anothcr late do
cisio, vns an Jmno a In which r. ,yn,
, stntcd tbot for hross ,v;ro tbc nam
, rnto az % nor cont nd ynlorou viii
, mo cant - mound ia charcoal M nh IN,
| nnrts with Tho cxcontion OF ana nor,
. yhero bc ann, ~ fortv. ff,,o nor coni ~
vnloron ,,ith ana coni a nnund 10 coi
, Ilcctod md ma, horoofter tbo l,tto
!, rnta aons SI,ho,,,L ~ mama a. th,
q nor, T. not men,ioncd II, thc o9,eio1 ro
\ nort II refers 10 thc IJonohnu oi,ico
= ono 80 tho mat camons dcnision
! wos modo somo timo ogo ,vhon th
!, cn.tons conrt ~ ,nnools no,, tIn ,,o,,r
I ror Jnoi, iin,, Oh ,rp,osts rni"d ,bot ~,
: IJoroI,iu neloa ,roy ,,ieto,,, oyor th
j. ,rons,,r,, Jo,,a,,,,,,rt a. so,o W.
y F." sari case !,
q Thia cosc WINS bitterly contested nh
= oo,ornmon, ",,,hor;tins r r",oJ ,hn, 81,
/ charge for the snki imported Shout
/ be by the capacity of the barrel i
r which IL WAS sent and not by th
+ the barrel, The government declare
q that II the capacity Of the barrel wa
d one hundred gallons, duty for tina
@ amount should be collected even
X there were only ten gallons in the bni
i. rel.
v The officials here commended that th
d was not fnir to the man who imporic
n the saki and that duty should be 20
" leeted only for the amount Of sal
n the barrel actually contained.
N when the protests were heard, I'll
contcntion of the Honolulu ollico wa
II upheld nnd orders were Issued TO n
10 the ports That the duty should be 70
n. lected on the amount OF snk only. III
"a was fnr reaching decision as II NJ
.r only apphcd to the sakt but to barre
II containing other imported goods.
h rms decision was Just one becaut
IN even ~ lhe ehriy Jays OF the goveri
m mont III the dhys oi James Madison, "
10 lsrIH whs established ior me pnrpot
70 OF correcting inc any on ontsid