Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1889-01-19
THE SUGAR INDUSTRY.
Full Text of the Amendment Giving q
Bounty to Sugar Producers.


WASHINGTON, January 1sth.-The follow
ing is the text of the amendment to the
Senate tariff bill giving bounty to sugar
producers in this country. which was passed
in the Senate to-day:
Section l. Until April, 1900, there shall be paid
TO the producer of sugar testing not less than
eighty degrees by the polariscope, from beets,
sorghum or sugar cane grown within the United
States, bounty of cent per pound, under such
rules and regulations as the Commissioner of
Internal Revenue, with the approval of the
Secretary OF the Treasury, shall prescribe. The
producer of said sugar to be entitled to said
bounty shall have first fled with the Commits
Si0ner OF Internal Revenue a notice of the place
for producing, with general description of
the machinery and methods to be employed
by him, and with an estimate of the amount of
sugar proposed to be produced in the next en-
suing year, an application for license to so
produce. to be accompanied by bond In PEN
atty, and with sur ties 70 be approved by the
Commissioner of Internal Revenue, condi-
toned that he faithfully observe all rules and
regulations that shall be prescribed for such
shall have been duly licensed. The Com
missioner of Internal Revenue, upon re-
ceiving the application and bond herein
before provided for shall issue to the ap-
beets or sugar-cane grown in the United States,
at the place and with the machinery and by
the methods described in the application,
but said license shall not extend beyond
one year from the date thereof No bounty
shall be paid to any person engaged in refining
sugars imported into the United states, or sugar
produced in the United States upon which the
bounty herein provided for has already been
paid or applied for, nor to any person except
upon sugar produced by such person from sor-
ghum, beets or sugar-cane grown in the United
states. The Commissioner of Internal Revenue,
with the approval of the Secretary of the Treas
ury. shall from time TO time make all needful
rules and regulations for the manufacture of
sugar from sorghum, beets or sugar-cane grown
in the United States, and shall, under the direc-
tion OF the Secretary of the Treasury, exercise
supervision and inspection of the manufacture
thereof. The bounty herein provided for, In
ciuding the expenses incident to the payment
thereof, shall be paid from the duties collected
and paid into the Treasury on sugars imported
into the United States. and sufficient sum for
said purpose is hereby appropriated and shall
be paid annually from the duties so collected
such annual appropriation and payment to con.
tinue until April, ], A. D. 1900, and no longer.
Section2. That any person who shall knowing.
1y refine, or aid in the refining ofsugar imported
into the United States, or upon which the
bounty herein provided for has already been
paid or applied for. at the place described in
the license issued by the Secretary OF the Treas
ury, and any person not entitled to the bounty
herein provided for who shall apply for or re
ceive the same, shall be guilty of misde
meanor. and upon conviction thereof shall pay
fine not exceeding S, coo. or be imprisoned fol
a period not exceeding five years or both, in the
discretion of the Court.