Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1890-10-10
MAPLE SUGAR BOUNTY,
LETTERS FROM GEN. CIRCUIT AND
SECRETARY RUSK.
A Better Showing for the Sugar Makers
Than at First appeared-Farmers
Making the Best Sugar and the
Most of it viii Derive tho
Greatest Benefit.
To the Editor of the Free Press

To the Editor of the Free Press
referring to the recent statement in the
FREE Press condensed from the Boston
journal relative to the maple sugar bounty
as finally left by the tariff bill, and for the
information of those interested, many of
whom have already asked numerous ques
tions concerning its provisions, allow me to
say in correction Of the Journals statement
that the bill does not give one and one half
cents bounty to sugar of any grade nor is
any sugar required to test % per cent by the
polarscope to be entitled to bounty, nor did
the House GN the limit at 2JO pounas. These
are all errors as well as the statement at
tributed to the writer that the 500 pound
limit would reduce the number of farmers
who would be entitled TO the benefits of the
bounty at least one half - II is true, that
the few friends of the maple sugar bounty
did not like this provision They wanted
it reduced oue-half at least, but found the
committee uualt arable on the ground that
500 pounds still left a large number of
person, for the Government to deal
with thereby making the distribution of
bounty at that limit even quite expensive.
II also seemed to be the general opinion
that the commissioner Of internal revenue
who is authorized to make all needful rules
and regulations for carrying the bounty pro
visions into effect, would allow small pre-
ducers to combine their product and thus
be entitled to the bounty. So upon the
whole this feature was thought not to be
so bad after all
1t will be remembered that as the bill
passed the House no provision was made for
maple sugar The Senate extended the
bounty to maple but to he entitled to it
on any kind of sugar 500 pounds must be
produced.
The Senate also fixed July /, 1891, when
Il he bounty was to take effect and left the
polariscope test at 50 degrees, just where
the House fixed it originally When the
bill got bacl, from .he Senate, the House non
concurred in all the senate amendments in
order to get the matter into conference
without delay The conference commit
tee agreed to leave tho limit at
900 pounds and also agreed to July 1891, as
the time when the bounty was to 60 into
effect, but at the same time changed tue
poIarscope test so that between 50 and 90
degrees the bounty should ue cents per
pound and in order to get cents it must
90 above 30. The friends of the maple had
asked the committee to fix time so that
the maple product should share the bounty
with other sugars of next year but the
change in the poarisCope test com
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