The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-01-04
FOR DUTY ON SUGAR,
Senator Perkins Secures the
Passage Of His Res
0luti0n.
rs OPPOSED BY BERRY.
important Recommendations to
Be Made to the Finance
Committee.
GROWERS FAVOR THE PLAN.
An Interesting Memorial From Pro.
ducerS of California, Utah, Kan.
Sas and Nebraska.

WASHINGTON, D. c., Jan. Ex-senator
Perkins is in receipt of a lengthy memo
rial from California, Utah, Nebraska and
Kansas sugar-growers in favor Of addi
tional duty on sugar.
In the Senate to-day he urged the adop-
ton OF resolution declaring it to be the
sense of that body that among the amend
ments to the tariff bill TO be reported by
the Finance Committee there should be
one for the better protection of domestic
sugar producers.
Berry of Arkansas objected that the pas
sage OF this resolution might commit the
Senate n favor of a duty on sugar. The
resolution was finally adopted, not as an
expression of the Senate, but as a mere
suggestion to the Finance Committee.
Senator Perkins will propose to the COM
mlttee and to the Senate that the follow
ing provisions be adopted:
That from and after the passage of this
act until August 1, 1898, there shall be
levied, collected and paid on all sugars,
tank bottoms, syrups OF cane juice or of
beet juice, melada, concentrated melada,
concrete and concentrated molasses, test
ing by the poiariscope not above 80 deg,
LILO cents per pounds and for every degree
and fraction of degree above 50 deg, as
shown by polariscope not above &c. 200.1
cent per pound additional.
All sugars testing by polariscope not
less than 80 but less than 81 deg. by polar
iscope shall pay duty of one and thirty
hundredths of one cent per pound, and IN
addition thereto e-hundredths of one
cent on each degree or fraction thereof, as
shown by polariscope above 80 deg.
All sugars testing 81 deg and above by
polariscope shall pay duty Of one and
tifty-one hundredths of one cent per pound,
and in addition thereto four-hundredths
of one cent per pound for each degree or
fraction of degree above 81 deg, as shown
by polariscope.
Provided that upon all sugars above
No Is Dutch standard in color and upon
al sugars which have been discolored,
there shall be levied, collected and paid q
duty OF one-eighth of one cent per pound
additional, and all sugars, tank bottoms,
syrups Of cane juice, or of beet Juice,
melada concentrated melada concrete or
concentrated mOlasses, which are i'm
ported from OF are the product of any
country which at the time the same are
exported therefrom applies, directly or in
directly, bounty on the export thereof,
shall pay duty of one-tenth of one cent
per pound in addition to foregoing rates
Provided, that the importer of the
sugar produced in foreign country the
Government of which grants such direct
or indirect bounties may be relieved from
this additional duty under such regula-
tons as the Secretary of the Treasury may
prescribe, in case said importer produces
a certificate 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 which it was
produced, and that no direct bounty has
been or shall be paid.
Provided further, that nothing herein
contained shall be so construed as to abro-
gate or in any manner impair or affect the
provisions of the treaty of commercial
reciprocity concluded between the United
States and the King of the Hawaiian
Islands OF 30th day of January, 1875, or
provisions OF any act of Congress hereto
fore passed for the execution of the same,
THAT there shall be levied. collected
and paid on molasses testing above 40 de-
grees and not above 6degrees polariscope,
duty of cents per gallon; if testing
above 56 degrees polariscope, duty of 4
cents per gallon. Sugar candy and all con-
fectionery made wholly or in part of sugar
and on sugar after being refined, when
tlnctured, colored or in any way adulter-
ated, IS per cent ad valorem; gluclose or
grape sugar, 10 per cent; saceharine, % per
cent I'd YalOrem -