The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1896-01-21
THE SUGAR INDUSTRY.
Bill introduced in the United State:
Senate.
The Amendment TO the Tariff Bill Of
fered by Senator Perkins of
California.

w WASHINGTON ID. c., Jan. -
Senator Perkins is in receipt of a
lengthy memorial from California,
Utah, Nebraska and Kansas sugar
growers in favor of additional duty on
sugar.
In the Senate today he urged the
adoption of a resolution declaring it
TO be the sense of that BODY that
among the amendments TO the tariff
bill to be reported by the finance COM
mittee there should be one for the
better protection of domestic sugar
producers.
Berry OF Arkansas objected that the
passage of this resolution might COM
nit the Senate in favor of duty on
sugar. The resolution was finally
adopted, not as an expression OF the
Senate, but as a mere suggestion TO
the finance com mittee.
Senator Perkins will propose to the
committee and to the Senate that the
following provisions be adopted;
THAT from and after the passage of
this act until August l, 1898, there
shall be levied, collected and paid on
all sugars, tank bottoms, syrups of
cane Juice or of beet juice, meIaua,
concentrated melada, concrete and
concentrated mOlasses, testing by the
polariscope not above so deg, /. 10
cents per pounds and for every degree
and fraction of degree above so deg,
as shown by polariscope not above w.
200 cents per pound additional.
g A n TESTING
not less than 80 but less than 81 deg.
by polariscope shall pay duty of one
and thirty hundredths of one cent per
pound, and an addition thereto three
hundredths of one cent on each degree
or fraction thereof, as shown by polar
iecope above go deg.
"AlI sugars testing 81 deg. ana
above by pOlariscope shall pay duty
of one and fifty-one huDdredths OF one
cent per pound, and in addition there
to four hundredths of one cent per
pound for each degree or fraction OF
degree above 81 deg, as SHOWN by
polariscOpe.
g Provided that upon all sugars
above No. Is Dutch standard IN color
and upon all sugars which nave oeen
discoIOred, there shall be LEVIED, col
Iected and paid a duty OF one-elghth
of one cent per pound additional,
%
of cane Juice, or of beet juice, melada
concentrated melada concrete or con-
centrated molasses, which are import
ed from or are the product of any
country which at the time the same
are exported therefrom applies, direct
ly or Indirectly, bounty on the export
thereof, shall pay duty OF one-tentn
of one cent per pound In addltlon 10
foregoing rates.
he in0nnrfQF
sugar produced in foreign country
the Government of which grants such
direct or indirect bounties may be re
Geved from this additional duty I'M
der such regulation as the Secretary
of the Treasury may prescribe, IN case
said importer produces certlncate OF
said Government that no indirect
bounty has been received upon SAID
sugar in excess of the tax collected
upon the beet or cane from when II
was produced, and that no ulrect
bounty has been or shall be paid.
'sProvided further, that nothing
herein contained shall be construed as
to abrogate or In any manner impair
or affect the provision of the treaty oil
commercial reciprocity concluded oe-
tween the United States and the hlng
of the Hawaiian Islands of the Both
day of January, 1875, or Provisions OF
any act OF congress heEetoioio P"0ee"
for the execution of the same.
I.That there shall be levied, collect
ed and paid on molasses testing above
40 degrees and not above 56 degrees
polariscope, duty of 2 cents per gal
lon; if testing above So degrees polar
iscope, duty of 4 cents per gallon
Sugar candy aud all confectionery
Ii AIDE wholly or in part OF sugar ano
on sugar after being refined, wneI
tinctured, colored or In any way auu,
terated, So per cent ad valorem; glu-
close or grape sugar, Is per cent; sac
charine, 25 per cent ad valorem."