The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1888-02-19
How the Matter is Viewed at
Washington.
THE CHANCES FOR STATEHOOD.
The Prominence of the Sugar Oues-
tiOn q General Crucery-Eptdemic
of Grave Ro5oeries.
WAsHISGToN, February 13. 1883.

Blaine's declination of the Presi-
Dental nomination has been and is the
talk of the city. Some of the obscure
statesmen, who are Just beginning life
at the National Capital, appear to be-
lieve that the Plumed knight meant
just what he said, and are discussing
the chances of Sherman, Gresham,
Allison, Sheridan and other prominent
Republican leaders. The old stagers,
however, simply laugh at the letter,
and say that the man from Maine is
playing a foxy game, and that at the
proper time, he will show his hand.
The letter, it is believed. was written
with view of seeing just what effect it
would have upon the Republican press
of the country. There is not Repub-
lican in either branch of Congress who
takes the least stock in the Plumed
Knights epistle. They look upon it as
"a trick. One of the best things said
about the letter was uttered by Judge
Seney, prominent Democratic mem
Der from Ohio.
THAT letter." said he to THE HERALD
correspondent, sis a very ingenious
document. Read it between the lines,
and it says: Please don't present my
name to the convention. but nominate
me when the enemy amt looking
In other words, James g. is after the
nomination, and he will get it too, his
letter to the contrary notwithstand
ing"
Nobody's voice is heard louder in the
land than that of the hustler from the
far West seeking admission for his Ter
ritory into the Union of States. Every
Territory in the Union wants to be ad
mitted, and the four stretching along
the Canadian border line are particu
Iarly lively. The next election is close
at hand, and whatever bill Congress
passes will simply be an enabling act
for the future admission of the Terri
tories. AS Mr.. Springer, the great
father for the Territories says, an en-
abling act simply encourages, it does
not enable. 1.-The people of Utah."
said Mr.. Springer, Ibid not wait for
Congress to pass an enabling act. They
enabled themselves, and without any
action on the part of Congress, they
have held their Territorial Convention,
adopted State Constitution. and now
demand admission to the Union as
State. All this they have done at their
own expense, and they had a perfect
right to do it. Only if they had waited
for Congress to pass an enabling act,
they would have had all their expenses
paid out of the United States Treasury"
The log-rolling process is going on, and
each Territory is seeking to be put int
the scale as balance weight to the ad-
mission of some other Territory. The
fact that the House is Democratic and
the Senate Republican, makes it proba-
BILE that this process will be successful
as to all, If success attends any of
them. The Republican Senate would
not be ready to pass bill for the crea-
ton Of new State that promised to be
Democratic without the perfect assur-
ance of an offset, and the only practical
assurance is the grouping together in
one bill of all the Territories proposed
to be admitted as States. This plan has
been adopted. and the bill which Mr..
Springer's committee will soon report
to the House will provide for the al
mission of several Territories. possibly
the whole four-Dakota. Montana.
Washington, and New Mexico. OF
these four Montana and New Mexico
would be reasonably certain to be Dem
ocratic States; Washington too. might
turn out that way. There is little hope
for the Republican party in the rising
Territories which are budding into
Statehood.
A gentleman who has give the dues-
ton of the organization of the Sugar
Trust good deal of study, says that
there will be an advance of cents a
pound upon refined sugars. and the
cost to the consumer in maintaining it
for one year will be at least $50, 600 900;
in other words, with production of
3 .00U 100000 pounds. an advance of 2
cents per pound means profit to the
sugar refiner of $60,0O0 600 over and
above the price of refined sugars ruling
last year. This Sugar Trusts not quite
satisfied with ruling the price OF re-
fined sugars, but go a step or two
further; it proposes to burn the candle
at both ends; that is, it can and has
advanced the price oh refiEed sugar,
a1d it can and has reduced the buying
and selling price of raw sugar. Car
goes of raw sugar recently arriving in
atlantic por s, especially at the port of
New York. have found no sale except
reduction amounting to an average
rate of nearly or quite cent per pound.
The refners. therefore, control the
market for refined sugars as we'll as the
market for raw sugar. You will be
as:onished when tell you that the en-
tire plant of cane sugar Iefineries in
this country can be duplicated for con-
siderably less than $4,000. 600. The
capital of the Sugar Trust is $50, GOO 900.
md the stock is selling to-day at IS
cents on the dollar. If the price of re-
fined sugars and the control of the
market for raw sugars can be ma D.
tanned IS now, the Trust can make at
least $50 600 900 within the next six