The Red Cloud chief., 1890-01-17
ABOUT KANSAS UCA

Ing OF the sugar Interests hy the Ways
and Means Committee yesterday Prof.
Wiley, u the Agricultural Depart.
mcn'. said he did No, anticipate very
high results from these sorghum eK.
pefimen,s In Kansas ~ a 10 pcr cent.
article like sorghum could not compete
with u IL fer cent. art,cls like beet.
sorghum, however, male an excellent
alcohol, and he thought that Kansas
stssi In Us W light In preventing its
people from making alcohol.
Mr.. Walker. In charge Of the six ~.
p%e'itncnts at the Agricultural Depart.
ment, stated that produced
In the United States were mostly In
Ohio. Indiana. Illinois. Missouri and
Kansas, the latter state furnishing
more til one-fourth Of all the ccccons
produced In this country.
Prof. Stubs, Of Louisiana. scientific
expert. told II his visit last summer Ia
Kansas and Of what he learned regard.
Ing the outlook for sorghum production
In the State. lie confidently expected
the plant In Kansas to stand on a par
with the cane plant Of the south.
: In behalf of the silk and sorghum
sugar interests " Kansas. and par,ic-
ular y Of his district, which produced
the bulk Of the Kansas sugar crop last
year, Judge Peters addressed the com.
mi,tec for nearly three quarters Of An
hour. lie irst told II the successful
silk station nj Peabody. and insisted
that this stimulus had helped the In.
dustrv NJ tina, In his district ovcr 6,0OO
pounds II cocoons were produced last
year. People engaged In raising %
coons simply withou, investment VI
capital added from go to sia5 to their
annual incomes. There was n ready
sale for the ocoons. lie closed his
argument on the silk question by ask.
ing for protection on raw silk and said
that the manufacturers u silk could
take care Of themselves.
Judge J. I r. the, went into the sor-
ghum sugar question and stated that,
including ilrsts and seconds. about
l,SnO.o0 pounds Of sugar had tcen
raised last year In Kansas ~ against
only 80. on pounds In 1857 aud "A little
over @O,Uo pound In is>s; under tho
diffusion process and with modern ma.
c~hinery the prolu I had been more
than doubled In on. year. lie told III
the seven big plants fJr sugar manu-.
facturc In Kansas and tho arrange.
mcnts for the erection Of Others, nd
then, as he grew m ~ aud more ein.
phat'c. 40 charged that tho majority ~
the Ways and Me NJ COMMITTEES wers
thought Ia ie about Ia recommend
legislation which would stran. IN this
healthy infant.
''The industry In In It's infancy yet
said Mr. Peters. at In n healthy In.
fant, however. aud II you don't strange
II or deprive II II the support Il has
heretofore drawn, rom the tariff sootl.-
Ing strip IL will grow into the proper.
tons Of n healthy full-grown q II
you don't put u bounty ON IT,"
Mr.. Mckinley asked: ''What do you
think 81 u lountyy'
Mr.. Peters answered.: II think II IL
. contemplate thing"
In explanation. Mr.. Peters said that
. bounty was q departure from th~ long
settled policy Of tariH, with which t,c
people were familiar; IL wis uniried
and unknown. Tho imposition al a
bounty would invite q constant agita.
ton ~ the aues ion. Ia the dctrim, mt
III tho industry. Kansas nes~iesi nd
ditional capital Ia put up sorgh um
sugar mills. but thA, CAPT al could not
10 obtained under ~ bounty. lIc
spoke from personal experience in that
matter and knew What the feeling ~
capitalists was.
Messrs. Gear and Taync piled the
witness with = series ~ questions with
. view 20 inducing tho admission that
. bounty would hc q better thing "a
the country than Ia maintain the PRES.
ent rate Of sugar duty. The witooss.
however. argued strongly Ia favor III
the retention ~ the duty. lie said that
there was q feeling of unrest among
tho farmers %! his State which. II not
allayei. might result In making Kan.
sas With its 5000 urpuhiicat ma.
Jointly . Democratic state. And
this was not onc-sid~i; the feeling
IcIme ,t~d Missouri aud Tcxss--snd
Was bringing abous political
revolution In tbo>s states. AZ far a
the Kansas IN met wAs ~copc~Ts.d, he
believed that II ~ wAs assured of Z
satisfactory market TOT his sugar cane
he would - satisfied. Tho duty ca
sugas would cur this. Tfses- was q
terri Ia feeling 81 unrest In Kansas,
and with corn selling at 10. " and "a
cents . busasI the people ~ess mad
and sapec'si sonsc legislation 10 relieve
their wants.
In further ~elucIdstion of bis argu-
meni Mr.. Peters spoke % the pSo-iuc.
ton Of beet sugar. lie tod of . NJ,
ghum mill IN bis district, the psoprse.
Tor 81 which had planted cleo scss,
Ia b~ets, from which b. hid rstssi
dIiy TONS. out Of which ~ had msds
Io.Op pounds u sugar. tolasising u
pr cent. This demonstrated. 10 sa,d
that tie tset couid - probably grows
there and the nssst QnAlity u ssxas
made from ~ a The rate NJ 100 pounds
OF sugar IN the txn of ts~<A
Henry r. Olnsnt, of CsAsd ilsad,
Neh.. made an argument ia fzvas n
fTpt~rf on tn the fy@s.t suRAf luduasFV