Morning journal and courier., 1880-07-19
THE NATIONAL CAPITAL.

The Fraudulent Celebration of Sugnr-Re-
 port of Acting Secretary of the Treasury
 French.
 WASHINGTON, July 18.-Acting Secretary
 of the Treasury French says in regard to the report of the commission upon fraudulent
 coloration of sugar, that it Shows that the
 fraudulent coloration of sugar has been long
 practiced and has been long known to the
 authorities of the principal countries of Flu rope especially France, England ard Bel gium It is acknowledged by sugar makers, both in the West Indies and Demerara, and can be proved in any court of justice. The report will soon be made public, and it is be- lieved that honest importers will be fully sat- isfed with what the department is doing for their protection against dishonest importers. Importers who mean to profit by these frauds give false impressions as to the course of the department. They say, 'sWe have set up new standard in the use of the polari- scope instead of the Dutch standard of co1or," and they urge importers to test in the courts the right of the department to use the polariscope in the classification of sugars. ''In fact we do not, " the report says, "class- fly sugars by the polariscope, but we do use the polariscope to detect fraudulent cobra ton and to find the true color by which to classify it. Whatever importers may con- tend. suppose the right to use the polaris cope for that purpose cannot be properly involved in any case. Sugar is to be classi- fed by it's color according to the Dutch standard. If the true color be in any way disguised the true color is to be ascertained. That 1t has been so disguised may be shown Ixr,@ of 1,, kl1a o1f hot ao1 bring matter, as charcoal has been added to it, or as in the Baltimore case, that by some trick some coloring matter has been fraudu- lently introduced in the process of manufac- ture for the purpose of diseoloration. The fact that sugar has thus been artifeially col ored, or that it's true color has been disguised, may be shown by experts in sugar making, who may testify, as in the Baltimore case that sugar cannot be fairly made by any known process testing ninety-three per cent. or more in saccharine strength and be below No ' in color by the Dutch standard, or it may be shown by chemical analysis, which shall disclose the eoloring ingredients The saccharine strength may be shown by expert skill either by taste, smell, or sight, or by the polariscope, or by chemical anaIy- sis. The only ground of protest IS that the sugar is classified above it's true color to the injury of the importer. Whether the examl- ner ascertains the true color by the polari- scope by analysis, by sight, or smell, or taste, or by guess, without any examination, IS of no consequence to the importer, provided the sugar is rightly classified. If it be not rightly classified he has the right to complain and have the error corrected, however sclen- tifc and careful the examination may have been. If now that fraudulent coloration is clearly known, importers persist in attempt ing to pass the fraudulent sugars below their grade the department will not be satisfied with merely collecting the duties, but will seize the sugars for forfeiture"
 Gnrfield's Letter-A Platform by Itself WASHINGTON, July 16.-General Tyner, first assistant postmaster general, in letter to the agent of the National Associated Press dated from Jordan, Alum Springs, Va, July 18th, referring to General Garfeld's letter of acceptance, says: 'I do not hesitate to say that it is admirable and complete. He has said enough about what was settled by the late war to show that in the event of his elec- ton he will use the executive power to maln- tain the rights of the voter and the suprem- acy of the general government, and yet he says it in such a way as to indicate that it all springs from sense of duty, and not from 8 desire to appeal to sectional passions. The letter is courageous. It does not evade any | thing worthy of discussion. His treatment of the perplexing question of civil service, about which there is such variety of opin- ion, and of the dangerous subject of Chinese immigration, shows that he not only weighs them in the balance of statesman mind, but that he would not dodge them because they challenge differences of views in his own par ty. That is the evidence of moral courage. If the party had no other platform 1t could safely go to the country with his letter."