Show TELEGEAPHIC I Sdwleh Isl ad Sugar New York 13A Washington cor eapondemt interviewed Congreei II1 an Hardy who to = dsy introduced a bill relative tive to Sandwich Islands lugar The alter said There were 800 sugar plantations plan-tations in the Sandwich Islands About 300 belonged to Olaur Bpreekelr and in various ways he controlled mOlt if not all the others He had erected machinery ma-chinery there and cry talizedthe sugar ready for our Jmarket and he imported it free of duty He secured t a great advantage overall other importers who had to pay duty la fact he owns the sugar trade of the Pacific Slope But upon examining the treaty with the Sandwich Islands government I found that its duration was limited and it could not be abrogated until the period of limitation had expired It is a reciprocity reci-procity treaty that isA we have the privilege sendiogour into in-to the Hawaiian ports freeand in return they have theprivilege ofBendingBome of their products including sugar into our ports of entry Tbetraty is a harmless harm-less enough document upon its face but if it was not concocted in the interest of Sprecklei it has been turned wholly to iris advantage I had almost given up the hope of defending New York sugar dealers against that monopoly when some gentlemen from San Francisco whose citizens by the way are not bene fitted by this peculiar kind of free trade informed mo that refined sugars were not imported from San Francisco prior to the treaty and that what wad known in the markets of the Pacific Coast at that time as Sandwich Island sugar was unrefined unre-fined and of low grade Tnis gave mea me-a suggestion and upon examining the statistics I found that about 90 per cent of all sugar imported from the Sandwich Islands since the treaty was of a higher grade than what was then known as Sandwich Island sugar and consequently was liable to duty This billif it becomes law will subject all refined sugars imported from the Hawaiian kingdom to regular duty and the importer of every pound of refined sugar heretofore reported free under the treaty will have to disgorge To the suggestion that in the event of the passage of the bill Spreckels would import his sugar in an unrefined state and prepare it for market mar-ket in this country Hardy replied That he may do but he will then have to lose the benefit of the machinery which he has erected on the island and the cheap labor which he employes there and besides the freightage will be greater If the bill passes 1 do not think the treaty will afterward be very profitable profit-able to the sugar monopoly It is understood that Spreckles has a lobby at work and that every effort sparing neither time or expense will be made to defeat the bill it is believed that it will be buried in committee if possible l |