The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1897-07-22
REPUBLICAN, STATEMENT.
Sugar Schedule Explained to the
Public-SOme Changes Made.

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Washington, July 19.-The republican
conferees today reported the agreement
| they had reached on the tariff bill to the
full conference committee and also made
public statement concerning the confer,
| encc report in which 1t reviews the
| changes made. Of sugar the statement
says:
The house diferential between raw
and rtined sugars and the general feat.
urcs of the house schedule are preserved
ana the senate amendment increasing the
ditferential to one-fifth and providing for
reduction of one-tenth of the duty on
raw sugar not above 81 degrees, which
would have given a duty OF l.39 on 81
degrees and only l.26 on 81 degrees sugar.
are nor ADOPTED.
In difference to tie wishes or those IN
terested III beet sugar production that the
senate rate OF l.3b on fenneu sugar might
he retained as an increased encourage
ment TO TINS industry the duty on raw
hundrcdths, so rs to make the increase
ON them the same as the increase on re-,
tined sugar and thus leave the difierential
between raw sugar and refined the same
as IN the house Dill. ana to meet the OBJ
lectl0n that mas been urged That the
house rates or low grade raw sugar show
Il niSher al valorem than those on the
higher grades, the duty on 20 degrees
sugar IS reduced hye hundredths of one
cent ana theh me duty per degree Is m
creased regularly from three h'lndredths
Cas proposed III the house BID to three
ana u halt htndredtlS, IN order to raise.
the duty on raw sugar the same as on
refined. .
by TINS addition the duty on raw su,
CARS OF lOo degrees polafity is raised
from lao las proposed originally by the
nouSc) to l.S2 IL. ana the duty on re-
lncd sugar IS raised from l.Sl L. las
proposed originally by the house, to 30,
thus giving the same ditferential of II
ana nall hundrcdths between raw and
rchneg sugar 1t this point, as was origin
ally given by the house.
AS this arrangement will increase the
revenue over S2,0OO.OOO and at the same
time give additional encouragement to
the production OF sugar III this country
IT is thought to he Il desirable consumma-
ton
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The paragraph in relation to sugar in
full follows:
Sugar not above No. 49, Dutch standard
in color. tank bottoms, syrups of cane
juice, melada, concentrated melada. con-
crete and concentrated molasses, testing
by the polarlscope not above 20 degrees,
9o-lOOO per pound. and for every addition
al degree shown by the polariscope test,
3o-lOOO of l per cent per pound additional,
and fractions of degree in proportion; on
sugar above IL Dutch standard in color,
and on all sugar which has gone through
process of refining, LOS cents per pound;
molasses testing above 40 degrees and not
above o6 degrees, j cents per gallon; test
ing Of degrees and above. cents per gal
Ion. Sugar DRAWINGS and sugar sweep
ings shall be subject to the same duty as
molasses or sugar, as the case may be, ac-
cording to polariscopic test
Provided that nothing herein contained
shall be so construed as to abrogate or in
any manner impair or affect the provisions
of the treaty of commercial reciprocity
concluded between the United and king
of the Hawaiian islands, on January ~,
1880 or the provision of any act of con-
gress heretofore passed for the execution
of same.
The conference restored the house rate
of 20 per cent on sugar. Saccarine is
made LOO per pound and l per cent ad
valolem. The confectionery paragraph is
changed to read as follows:
Sugar candy and all confectionery not
especially provided for in this act. valued
mt ID cents per pound or less, and on sugar
after being refined, when tinctured or col
ored, or in any way adulterated, cents
per pound and 10 per cent ad valOrem.