The times., 1897-06-04
SENATE sggR D! 1! SCHEDULE
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Democrats Will Content Them
selves With 2 Criticism.
NO AMENDMENTS TO OFFER
A Statement to The Times Indi-
eating the Character OF the At
tack to Be Made by Senator's
White, Jones and vest-Preu,a-
ture Calculations Upset.

| Democrat in the Senate. is CONVEX sant " I'll
that schedule, said that he did rot beiievc
the Democrats would offer any Amendment
when that part of the BILLS reached There
was, he sa.d, abundant evidence OF The
fact that the Republicans intended 10 with.
draw their schedule and substitute t;theI
the House rates or substitute based upon
specific duties The Democrats would con
tent themselves with a criticism CT the
schedule, and for this particular part OF
the work Senators, White, Vest aud zones
have thoroughly prepared themselves The
| character of their attack is Witnessed in
the following statement by the Demo ratio
members, which was yesterday furnished
to The Times:
| In fixing any rates of duty and in Il l.
tempting in advance to announce their
| effects On the revenue ON the interested
industries, and as burdens TO the taxpayers,
| 1t is necessary TO note the conditions
abroad and the probable tendencies OF
| markets for the future.
| THE false encouragement given in boun-
] ties by continental countries has resulted
| in overproduction abroad, and in so de
| pressing the worlds sugar markets that
since the enactment of the present law
| DlINtN Va obSdt b0NC 81 oCeiiSu tildt UuI
revenues have fallen away more than a
third below what was computed these
rates would yield at the time the law
was passed, and has so cheapened sugars
TO the CONSUMERS that they have hardly
| noticed the burden which 40 per cent on
this necessary of life has imposed.
1T does not seem possible that prices
can go much lower than now but our con-
Consular Report, page 167, shows that new
legislationin Germany, instead of reducing
the trouble, as anticipated, by reason Of
the same tendencies OF fgreed-grasping benz
efits, that prevail there. as here, has ex-
aggerated the embarrassments and en-.
couraged still more bUrdens0me overpro-
duction in Germany, and France retaliates
with like legislation
1.-The result is that while the Germans
can only afford twelve or fifteen pounds
OF sugar per capita annually for home
consumption, they make England and the
United States pay for the fifty or sixty
pounds per capita consumed IN these coun-
tries
1T seems foolish policy, as any one
must admit who reaes Consul General
Mason's letter, but 10 is continuing and
pEOETtSSlft Just now anu VIII pTUfdDiE
result in still lower prices, which viii set
at naught any calculations offered at this
time on the effects of the duties proposed
in this bill.
The amount of protection afforded by
any system of rates on sugar. especially
when these are partly or entirely ad va
loren, Deepen Dis, OF course, In great me asure
upon the relative invoice prices of the raw
aud refined sugars. and these are Just the
elements which the layman has no means
of determining, and which the parties most
interested decline To furnish.
'If the latter were quite in ingenious, the
matter would still be complicated and un-
certain by reason of fluctuations. OF differ
eucesin different markets at different ports |
andin different seasons When the present |
law was enacted sugar was more than |
cent higher than at the present time, aud |
the 40 per cent rate fixed was calculated |
and realized half cent mere per pound on
our tremendous importations
In criticising the estimates made by |
Hon. William L Wilson on the rates pro-
posed by the Senate bill, Senator Aldrch
tRecord p. 1850 says: German cranu-
lated, the price of which / have already |
shown, in the month OF March was 2.3
cents per pound
And on page 1859 of the Record, IN
table given TO show how irregularly end
unfairly the proposed rates of the Dingley |
bill affect the various grades of raw
sugars, the import price for each grade of
s.ch raw sugars is given by Senator
Aldrich.
Taking these prices as a basis and
using the drawback allow ance of pounds
Of each grade established by the Govern
101 pounds OF 99-degree SUI
gar to nearly Al pounds of 75-degree test
to make 100 pounds OF granulated-the
margins found in the following tables show
the differences of the duties paid on the
raw and refined sugars, usually accepted
as the measure of protection.
These are, of course, misleading since
n the l1494 pounds of 92-degree sugar
here is not only realized 100 pounds of
hard refined sugar, but several pounds of
soft sugars and molasses-
Before the Ways and Means Commit
tee Mr. w. j. McCahan, of Philadelphia,
a refiner, stated that he had calculated
the cost of refining in his refinery for a
year.
''In that time, running on from one-half
TO two-thirds time, using a6 degrees cen
il cost him SO cents per 100
pounds to refine the sugar, but he added:
There is 26 cents waste to come out of
56 CENTS
''Fiis is on 96-degree sugar, and there
S but seven pounds, out of which to realize
he 26 cents 1t ought not to be less ON
over grade sugars, where the allowance
.uns as high as forty-six pounds, AMI this
dds a quarter Of a cent per pound pro-
ection TO any circulation which makes
lie Government drawback allowance the
'asis for computing the margin of profit
o the refiner.
at is assumed in all these calculations
hat the refiners turn out no white sugar |
Except the 100-degreesstest. Yet centrifu-
,als of So to 81 degrees may be used and
4-degree refined white sugar result, I'm
which case, instead of waste, more
ounds Of refined sugar come out than
vent in of the raw sugar
This condition cannot, and ought not, to
AVE any bearing upon any calculation as
o margins, but ought to be an answer to
he brazen and the foolish, who alone claim .
hat the protection in the rate on refined t
ugar is limited to what is left after sub I
racting the duties paid on 115 pounds C
{ 92-degree OF 122 pounds of SS-degree t
ugar. /
''To show how entirely these calculations ,
est upon the values of the sugars, it is !
My necessary to compare page 636O OF the i
Ways and Means testimony, where Mr..
ayne, Of the committee, suggests, and Mr.
icCahan, the refiner, does not dissent, that | I
he rates established by the committee do t