Hawaii Holomua, Volume III, Number 91, 19 April 1894 Edition 02 — From Our Exchanges. [ARTICLE]

From Our Exchanges.

The governraeut of Sau Doraingo has engagod Prof. J. Laur enee Laughlin, professor of economics m the uuiversity of Chicago, to go down there and straighten out its finaucies. I Please observe that San Doraingo in its extremity sought the assist%nce of one of these “theoretical professors," instead of one of the “pratical statesiuen” who run the United States goverumeut. A decision has been rendered by the mixed cominission to weieh was referred the elaim of the South America steamship ' company against the United States, overruling the demurrer deposed by the United States counsel to a elaim of ?"28ō,000 damages on aeeounl of a seizure of tho Itata. This decision virtually leaves nothing further for determination but the amount of damages tbe Uuited States must pay for the seizure of the vessel. Onr poor pres dent! He is “gettiiij; it” right and left. The head of the uaiional farmers’ allianee at Topeka the other day declared: “There never was a more deterrained. obstinate, iuerciless autocrat on a despot’s throne than he who now rules 1 with an iron hand »t Washington." Paste that in yoor scrapbook, for when your gmndson l reads history 50 years from now he’ll find it interesting. Ex-Pres : dent Harrison bas written tbat he wjll not preside at tho political and eeonomie congress to be held in conjunction with tha midwinter exposition at San Francisco, neither will he address the congress on the tariff question. In eiplanation of his rofusnl the ex-presi-dent says that outside of his engi«gement to lecture at the Leta»>d >tt«nford . unĪT«r9Īt3r h»>

will not appear in publie at any time during his visit to California. A syndicate of Mexican and , Amenean capitalists fcas been , organized to construct a pan- i American telegraph line to extend aiong the Pacific coast from Victoria. British Columbia, to Santiago, Ohili, passing through the Un te l States, Meiieo, the Cen- i tral American states and the . Pacific coast couatries of South America. i It was boldiy annor.nced by officers of the sngar trust after the House swept away all duties on sngar that they esj>eoteJ to be able to “inAnenee ' the Senate to undo the act. Thev are now at work, and reports from Washington are to the eflect that a more . powerful or nnscrupulous Iobbv never invaded the eapital. At ; the same time the sugar trust shares are being worked up and down in Wall street in a series of gambling manipnlations on re- : ports from Washington as to the progress of the “inAuenee” busi- ■ ness. Tbis ought to be suffioient to keej> the Senate in liue with the Hou»©, if the unscrnpulous extortions of the trust under the protection of a dutv on refinod 8iigar are not sufficient. There is rauch speculatiou in commerci;tl as well as political ! circles over what the Senate will do with the sugar duties. The , latest reports have been that the Ananee committee wouhl restore ; a duty on the raw produet out of ! consideration for the Lonisiana planters, as well as to j>ut back ; some of the duty ou eoal and iron i ore. But a correspondent of one 1 of the Boston comraercial papers has it from a republican senator that his side of the chamber will uot help vote back tlie t ix on the i “poor ‘man’s sngar”—particular1 v after the republican MoKiuley hiw had removed it and a demo- I : cratic House liad goue farther in the same direction by freeing the refined pr >duct aml removing the bountv. This will very hkely nrove to be the attitude of the rej>ulican senators, and in that case the sugar duties are doomed. | President Cleveland is arbitrator to decide a boundary dispute betweeu Brazil and tbe Argentine Republic, and now has before him the cases of both sides in the form of printed evidence, maps and arguments, Josiah Quincy is assocaite counsel for the Argentine Republic, and has been engaged in prej>aring tbe papers ou that side cf the dispute for some ' months. The territory whieh ’ both couutries elaim is know as the Misiones, and is situated in the upper part of the basin of the La Plate; between tbe smaller 1 rivers, Uruguay and Yguazu. In 1750, Sj>aiu aud Portugal agreed upon a bouudary line betweeu | their respctive possessions iu ‘ Soutli America, one part of whieh rau alougthecourse of thePepiiy, and the dispute now between Brazil aud the Argentine is whieh of the two modern rivers. Urogoay or l*guazu, was former!y called : “Pepirv.” President Harrison , was asked to act as arbitrator in this matter. and accepted the i Jutv, leaving it, however, for i Cleveland to perform. Tue amount of the labor involv©d in reading over the sever,il printed volumes of matter in the case is considerable, but the president has a vear to do it in. * President Dole ot IheHawaiian provisional government dc*es President CIeveland a decided service in repodiating the action of Damou and the committee wliieh obtained tha peaceful sarren ler of the Q ieen. Dole does not deny that the Queen referred ihe case between herself and the men who i demanded her snrrender to the United States government for arbitration, and made that referenoe a condition of j render withont resistance: nor does he deny that Damon and his associates accepted her snrrenaer ■ on this condition, and so far beeame parties to this arbitration. What he doesdeny isthatDaraon • and his assooiates acted in this • matter by anthority of the pro - 1 visional government. Why not ? Damon was .18 mueh a part of ■ | the provisioual governmont as > Dole or anv one. and had the ■ i same aothority to sj>eak for it, • '■ >ind, H* he «iys bimself. did speak