The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-06-11
SUGAR SCHEDULE
IN The SENATE
Continued from Page u

schedule as ingenious and artistic. -
The spectators understood il. He had
ascertained and was prepared to prove
automatically with protection given
the trust on sugars testing SO degrees
in the present law "a cents a pound
in the Dingley schedule SO; in the
original senate bill 81 and in the new
schedule agreed on by the Republican
senatorial caucus. 81. In conclusion,
Mr.. Vest declared that the schedule
celuded the public in the interest OF
this gigantic monopoly"
Mr.. Lindsay of Kentucky offered an
amendment which strikes out of the
house schedule in paragraph 206 the
words mot above No. 16 Dutch
standard in color" and also strikes out
the provision in the same paragraph
for a diferential duty on refined sugar.
MI. Morgan at this point gave notice
OF the following amendments to be
onered at the proper time:
"A tax of l cent per pound is hereby
levied and shall be assessed and col
lected on sugar that is a product of any
refinery of sugar in the United States;
but, the persons or corporations en-
gagged in the business of refining sugar.
in whose business there is employed
less than 100000 of cash capital and
who are not connected in business by
corporation engaged in refining sugar.
are exempt from such tax. The laws
for the collection of tax on tobacco, so
FAR as they are applicable to the sub
Ject OF this enactment shall apply to
the collection of the tax imposed by
this act upon refined sugar. And no
person or corporation shall be exempt
from the tax on sugar refined at any
sugar refinery. who shall not clearly es-
rio ~ go
der the rules and regulations to be pre-
scribed by the secretary of the treas
ury for the execution of this law"
THE OLD FIGHT.
Mr.. Caffery. of Louisiana, followed
The old fight between the producers of
raw sugar and the refiner, which in this
country was the trust. was, he said,
again on. He spoke of the scandal of
1894 over the sugar schedule, produced
by the raDacity of the sugar trust. 1t
was to be repeated now. There were
consumed in this country four billion
pounds of sugar annually. If the trust
was to receive half a cent a pound, as
this schedule proposed, that would
mean s20,0O0,000 to the trust. Here,
then, was the im3ellant cause which
to look after it's interests |
They not only control the price, but |
they advance it, he said.
A statement made by him, he said, |
would show that under all of the tariff |
acts. the profits of the sugar trust were |
very large. The trust never lost. All !
[ wanted was sufficient tariff to keep |
)ut the foreign producer, and then it |
lad the American consumer at its |
rhe trust had said they would be
'uined by any differental under Is
,ent per pound, and yet they had
hrived under such a rate.
LOUISIANA SUGAR.
Mr.. Gallery then took I'D the sugar
production of his own state. While he
lad been in the senate the sugar pro-
Iucers had beSieged him TO place a
Ugh tariff on their product When the
Wilson bill was considered he had
oted for duty of 40 per cent because
ugar had been recognized as a legi-
innate revenue producing article. No
ne I'D to that time questioned that
ugar came within the strict letter of
he Democratic doctrine of a tariff for
evenue. But with this had grown up
Many erroneous impressions as to the
eed of an excessive duty.
Under the 30 per cent ad valorem
uty of the law of 1916, the production
sugar had increased enormously,
aaching 495.000,000 pounds in 1855.
A "a per cent duty had shown like
ssults. So that he did not believe a
20 per cent or so per cent duty was ]
ecessary TO keep the Louisiana sugar {
ldustry afioat. !
When o'clock was reached the bill
as laid aside. {
Mr.. Pettigrew made inquiry as to
hat had become of his resolution di-
scting the committee on pacific rail- z
)ads to inquire into the issue of land {
atents to the pacific roads.
Mr.. Gear, of Iowa, chairman of the
answered CURLY that Mr.. l
ettigrew would hear in due time what {
,tion the committee had taken. Mr.. t
ettigrew said he had expected the !
ference to the committee would be l
lie graveyard of the resolution and he
lied the attention of the country to
lie condition of affairs.
were made later that I
e committee would meet Saturday to d
nsider the subject. o
At $40 the senate held an executive b
ssion and then adjourned.