The weekly Thibodaux sentinel and journal of the 8th Senatorial District. [volume] (Thibodaux, Lna. [i.e. La.]) 1875-1898, 1890-06-28
Yours, etc,
j. Il. EUSTIS.
UNITED STATES SENATE.

18th, instant. had already been before the
Senate Finance committee, e~ndeavoring to
have some alterations made in the tariff on
sugar. | send YOU a copy of the bill report
ed yesterday to the senate. You Will OBJ
serve that the appropriation is made Il con
tinuing one, thai is for 10 Years, or until
1905. The question as 10 whom the bounty
should be paid in the cases which
you mention, was discussed in the commit
tee, and it was held that it should be paid
not to those who make the cane or syrup.
but to those who convert the cane or syrup
into sugar: that the bounty viii operate
like the present tariff, the effect of which is
to increase the price of sugar, and sugar
cane and syrup. If there We're no tariff on
sugar the price would also fall. If the taris
is raised the price of sugar advances. ana
so with the cane and syrup, and the amount
to be paid for them by the manufacturer
will correspond to the price of the manu-
featured article in the market more when
sugar is high, less when it is low. In other
words the market price Of sugar Will deter
mine the price of cane and syrup. just MS
the market price of all manufactured goods
determines the price of the raw material
from which they are made.
The committee was induced to put the
tariff on sugars Nos. - and Is, and to allow
"A bounty on all ugars that did not test be
low 50 degrees. | sought to have it lowered
to 10, and still nope that we may procure Il
bounty for those sugars that test 70 degrees.
/ had Il conversation with the members of
the Finance committee to-day, and read
your letter to them, but they insisted that
the trade would be self regulative, and that
Lic growers Ca cane, anu producers OF SN-
rup will not suffer under the arrangement
in the bill us it stands for the reasons | have
given that any advance in the price of sugar
will in proportion advance the price of cane
and syrup, ana that it would not be safe for
the Government to pay Il bounty TO any eX-
cept those who actually manufacture the
cane and syrup into sugar. / will confer
with the committee again, and do all Team
to have the matter made plain and to ar
range it so that the producer of the cane and
syrup may get the benefit of the bounty
directly. Having the bill before you would
be receive any suggestions and amendments.
The Finance committee of the Senate
have, | think, very unfairly Disseminated
our delegation here, every member of it,
will do all in his power to uphold our in
terestS so seriously threatened in every res
pect.
1t must be very evident now, that the
Democratic party has always been the friend
of our political, as well as our material in
tereStS.
Faithfully Yours,
X. l.. GIBSON.
Messrs. kNOBIOCH and @
SCHEDULE E.-SUGAR.
That until July the first, nineteen hundred
ard five there shah be paid from any moneys
in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated.
under the provisions of section three thou
sand six hundred and eighty nine of the Re
ing no less than eighty degrees by the polar
Use spe, from beets, sorghum, or sugar cane
grown within the United States, or from, ma
pic sap produced rifhin the United States, a bounty
OF two cents per pound, under such rules
anu re guiatiOnS as the Commissioner Of In
ternal revenue, with the approval of the
Secretary of the Treasury, shall prescribe.
The producer of said sugar to DO entitled
TO said bounty shall nave first filed prior to
Je"rHry the trst Of eaeh gear with the Commits