The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1896-12-31
n DEVOTED TO SUGAR.
.,,os Before the Ways ano
mans Committee
|, arFpFsJs WERE REPRESENTED

Rn!tRts'' wv
cvo,vcrs, Meet Rails
"a reancrs Had ne'es'
.,.,n. presented CONNECT
Jan, December so.-The sugar
the subject OF the hearings
and means committee to-
III, was the most interes ing as
Z. 49, most important schedule so ''r
Bersd ,.,s tho nro ulcers,
sna importers, were brought out
~ a ,r,st The producers wanted
~ p,,,.. all along the linA and the
.r,...d forward on refined ana
-. an raw sugar. The latter
'.r. that importing conntervaiilns
'4.s .,,n,, export bounty country the
du,v should be levied only
, "a ,se refined article Tn imHor'efS'
y Growers, the refnors and the
$40 each given hearings by the
.,,st,e John Farr of New York solon
'.h,,ys of New York and p j. smith
q Jerk, represented The importers
VI. d. Hill Of New Orleans repre-
..,. ,.,e sugar growers, W. J. Nc.
I'M philadslphia the reiiners and
oyoard OF Grand Island. Neb.,
u,rhsrt Mvrick. the beet sugar in
!. Francis Thurber, New York
and ]. II. Syphcr of this city,
sm thomas R. Cutler OF utah ana Il.
ll,eu Of Nebraska also male arEu-
ITS
.,,,re,on. ncc,n.i or 2o.--The thi-d
a the tariff hearings given by the
= and means committee was devoted to
svr,r schedule. Four interests We're
sr,,euted-the importers, cane growers.
4 rslsers and the retiners.
The Importers were heard first, Mr.. John
n d New York opening the argument.
a recommendations as presented by Mr..
arr we're:
rir,t on all sugar testing IS degrees or
n duty Of / cent pound. adding .03
\ cent per degree to 100 degrees. Second.
additional duty Of about one-fourth of
n, q, the differential on all sugars above
Nut .Y,1 a rnlnr "a
10! rfnes from entering refined sugar
lie same duty as raw sugars on the
We test.
ftld, an additional discriminating duty
Ill sugars from bounty paying countries
bib authority TO the president to raise
bres duties on goods from these coun-
hu u the bounties were raised or low.
II
Tbs scheme. the importers estimated,
vuld yield the government a revenue Of
A@N,Oe0 per year, The amount of sugar
gtng duty being about one and onc-half
fllioa TONS the average polariscope test
Ming % degrees. In reply to questions
pom Chairman Dlngley, Mr. Farr declared
We was no under valuation of sugars
Erorted now, but owing to the strict In.
r'.a"Vh VI tiie Jaw ny the customs
lelals' Inc tendency was to pay more
'nah the law called for. Appraisals
aaae on the basis of Estimated S"'"es
Il. anu owner countries where
swh 40 Nv i.,1ihet sdiucs'
'as' Soula you say asked MIR. Ding
10 the statement furnished the com.
.see by Henry A. Brown of Massachu
" mat the invoiccd value of all sugar
INNS Of cent pound under the Londor
n, Ta,,
nj and an,t eo1s'aeieu uiat statement un'
N, war, $500 lueo'eUc' London vaiua'
NJ .t.o.s NV represented. as Germany
si.ss ss'ioeu an the business. Londor
M Tarr was ,,v ,utreiy nominal
New yorL ~ ~ haestioaeu py MI Fayh'
Inc Amcr, ~, we elIecis OF the operation
the hr.,ne 'nSsr teiining company
Nh onIv in on rue importer asserted
lnerican Psr,ni,, s'oni' bargains couin tii'
eunar than s, n,h. eoihpahy buy It's good
~ Ia rndn0 o'.,.r iirils' us influence ha
n The worla ' we price OF sugar through
HI rata ~ w. Nhaer me present dif'eren
snailo,s - ~. ~, Iehlhs OF a cent. the I'M
NNl0 tow VI lne las, year have been 60.
s,sreitlal of fourth cent a poun,
Me With Tho nu s1t. N,i'le sugars TO Cola
NJ Solon H, H. nusal refined.
airman =, humphreys Oh New YORK
h surar w., .ne eolnhlttee appointed b
an "a y,,a eApla'ned the difficult
pha nv "oae'l' ldrlit on sugar and mad
NJ p, sper,lic system
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