Los Angeles daily herald., 1890-01-07
SILK AND SUGAR.
nearing Before the Tariff Com.
mlttee ON Thea ndualrles.

i
mlttee ON These industries.
WASHINGTON, January 6.-The ire
gentleman to appear before the Way
and Means Committee this morning Wal
+. w. Cheney, President of the Silk As
soclation OF America. He said the Sen
ate Dill was acceptable to him. Brittor
Richards, Secretary of the same associa
tlon, advocated the imposition of com
pound duty on silk. He said about hal
the silk consumed in this country was O
American manufacture. The great OBJ
stacle which the American manufacturer
had to contend against was under-vaIua
ton. He did not think that any duty
would be laid on raw silk high enough tC
protect the silk-growers of this country
without Gripping silk manufacture.
| Philip Walker, chief of the silk bureau
OF the Department of Agriculture, sub
mitted specimens of cocoons and sill
produced from them, raised in the
United States. He dwelt upon the i'm.
| portance of building up the silk industry
in the United States. The Department
of Agriculture had purchased a good
many cocoons from the Landed Sill
Culture Society, which had collected
them in California.
Joseph Newman, of San Francisco, ia.
vored the imposition of a duty on raw
silk.a
John Dymond, President of the Sugar
Planters Association, read memorial,
asking for protection sufficient to enable
the United States to produce it's own
sugar. Dymond said free sugar from
the Sandwich islands did not affect the
price OF sugar in this country. and was
not, therefore, detriment to the sugar
industry of the United States.
Ex-Governor Yarmouth, of Louisiana,
spoke at some length. He said during the
political campaign in his State, he had
been met at various points by Repre-
sentative 80 and 80, from Pennsylvania
and Ohio and Michigan, in favor of re-
duction of so per cent. on the tariff on
sugar. In face of these speeches he had
not been as successful as he would wish,
in converting his Democratic friends.
Yarmouth thought the effect of bounty
after years experiment would be the
destruction of the sugar industry. eff
you want friends in Louisiana. said he,
"you must not touch the sugar tariff
We cannot stand reduction of half a
cent pound. 1t would be ruinous to
the industry, and without sugar the
City of New Orleans would be depopu.
lated" II the committee could guarantee
to the planters that a succeeding Con-
gress would not disturb it, he would be
glad to accept bounty of two cents a
pound on the sugar he raised. He
wanted, however, to stand on the same
ground as other protected industries.
Governor Gear remarked: "You
don't stand on the same ground with
them; you don't produce anything like
enough to supply the demands Of the
country"
Yarmouth replied: "We bid fair to,
if we are given the encouragement ex-
tended to other industries. What we
want is to be let alone"
Representative Peters, of Kansas, id
he was interested in silk, eugar and salt.
He asked protection for his silk-raising
constituents by q suitable duty on raw
silk. He cited statistics showing the
Kansas sugar producs from sorghum
cane, and how it WAS increasing under
the protective tariff.
Mr.. Peters doesn't think much of a
bounty. He says it is departure from
the tariff policy with which the people
are familiar; it's imposition would invite
the constant agitation of the question, to
the detriment of the industry. Kansas
needs additional capital to put up sor-
ghum sugar mills, but that capital can
not be obtained under bounty. Wit
ness, however, argued strongly in favor
CT the retention of the duty, and turning
his remarks into political vein, said
there was feeling of unrest among the
farmers of his State, which if not allayed
might result in making Kansas, with it's
80 900 Republican majority, Demo
cratic State.
Henry I. Oxnart, of Grand Island, Ne.
breska, made an argument in favor of
protection to the beet-sugar industry,
predicting that with the retention of the
present duty, the root would within
twenty years outstrip sugar-cane and
sorghum in the production of sugar.
The reduction OF the duty would kill the
industry.
Prof. Wiley, of the Agricultural De-
partment, did not anticipate very high
results from Kansas sorghum, as a 10
per cent article like sorghum could not
compete with IA per cent article like
the beet. Sorghum, however, made ex
cellent alcohol, and he thought Kansas
stood in it's own light in preventing the
people from making alcohol.
In secret session, Chairman KcKinley
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