The daily morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1883-1899, 1897-05-26

] ties ana NHtAtH AHHaNFHh hNffA' 'IH b'iiNNHs
The committee after ran consideration
! reached tho conclusion that tha csacn-
/ ilHls OF a certainty Of revenue and an
adjust uent Of rates that would irstcn
DETERMINATIONS could best b. secured by
/ The adoption Of compound rates. The
committee. therefore ndop.cd the Huggcs-
I ton which Is CONTAINED IN the bll we
Z have reported 10 the senate. Of imposing
specific duty which r. equivalent 10
about 20 per cont Hd "alorcm. with an
additional duty of y per cent al ,nl9-
rom on uil sugars from 81 20 10 degrees
Z with 8i-iuoths Of cent p-r pound addi-
I tional on an sugars above No l5 Dutch
standard Ia color and IN rclacd sugars.
More than 81 per cent n tho sugar
which ls imported into the United States
I has heretofore been imported "a raw
condition and has been refined herr. aud
+ 70 r. expected therefor. 20 hc OF import.
Hnce TINT We should cOnsi Ter carefully
the eject which the -chedHlr proposed
hy the senat" committee would have upon
the industry assume that II will b.
admitted IN nll quarters that this indus
Try is entitled TO fair treatment The
fact that the business a. conducted today
~ '1 comparatively few hands and thnt
n large portion OF Il n tarried on by one
company. while q furnishes a reason for
Z
rates IN order that no undue or unfair
advantage shall be- given TO sugar rev.
err. should not he allowed 20 furnish
re- preteXt on the preparation Of "a tarin
hill constructed unon protective lines for
-" destruction ~ great industry In
other words Il is lrnn3r'rini from every
e~onoroic standpoint that we make Il pos
4ihle that IN" refining Or sugar con he
successfully carried on hero. and that the
'"-inose should rot b. turned over
legislative discrim' nations 10 German re-
liners
n ls therefore. lncttrbaas upon us to
chow thar no protection f. riycn the rc-
hninF interests 10y the prono4sd schedule
on o. condition which s '1ldnp 'nta FOR
ihr continued existence o. tho business
'n 'HH United states ror this purpose
huvo prepared n series OF st1ters7's
whl'h 7 submit for voIr consideration.
showing tho actual Inference between
tho rates imposed nv ,hc schedule upon
raw sugars OF different grades ana re-
hpod
'rho FIRST of these tables to which T Win
call YOUR attention shows the rates i'm
posed mon each Grade ~ sugar testing
above 81 degrees by the house bill aud
tho scnntc bill Il shows further. The
actual dlfferonual on each grade in both
tho house and senate hills This table
shows that tho differcntal between raw
and refined sugars by the senate propo-
sitlon varies from or 20 1910 cents per
100 pounds while the diIerential In the
house bin varies from 70 ~ to i7S5 cents
per lO0 pounds. II win be sear from eV-
animation Of this table thar the dlrer-
entinl between granulatcd sugar and S5
degree centrifugals-thi being hy far
the most Important class OF raw sugars
fF ,Fg.f- a.
Imports OF raw cane-ls aN cents per leo
pounds; on 9i degree centrifugals the dlf-
fercntial is los cents; on - degree Mus
covados the diffcrartill Is il6
In order TO show that the committees
proposition does not give undue advun-
tage 20 beet sugars as compared with
cane sugars the following statement has
been prepared by me 10 SHOW the differ
ontinl between raw and refined beet SUI
r0rs in comparison with the difrerentiaI
OF tho same sugars based on the rates
imposed by existing law;
pINerentIal rates on raw beet sugar.
IS degree analysis, and on German rran-
Uloted:
Present law, refined. iO45o; raw N.5e:
direrential 1895
Senate hill. refined. 1850; raw iH.7S:
difrerential lL797.
Mr.. Aldrich thcn submitted statements
showing the ditrerentlals under the vary
ing values OF sugar and resulted:
Under existing law, German refined re-
ceives SS-l00ths OF n cent per pound ex-
port bounty. The countervaillng duty
here Is but i-l0th OF a cent per pound.
The German refiner, therefore, receive.
net bounty of sS-i0oths OF cent per
pound This enables him to sell his pro-
duct at less price than the American
rehner has to pay for 96 degree centrifu-
gals II Is this kind of competition which
is driving the cane sugar producers and
retiners OF tho world TO the wall.
He then replied at length to a state |
ment by Hon. VIM. l.. Wilson In which |
the latter estimated the rates imposed
by the senate committees provision. Con- |
tinulng, Mr. Aldrich said:
In the tables I have sub nittC1 no al |
fusion is made to the bounty provisions
contained In both the senate and house /
proposals. The adoption of these or sim |
ilar provisions for oIntervailing duties 1
seem TO be q necessity II we are to devel- !
op the beet sugar industry In the United |
States Otherwise II will he possible for |
any foreign country by extension of It's |
bounties to neutrallze entirely the effect |
of our protective duties