The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-05-26

make the ad yalorem equivalents more
uniform. We believe that the imposition
OF the high specific rates upon low grade
sugar testing 81 degrees or below would
nave the effect to exclude them from the
markets of the United States. The total
amount OF these low grades produced is,
as L maze already stated, unirnDortant
as compared with the total sugar CROP
but their continued importation into the
United States 5 very important when
viewed from the standpoint of our trade
and commerce with other countries.
TO exclude from the American market
all the low grade cane sugars from the
nearby countries and sugars of all grades
from distant countries, would confine
american purchasers to beet sugar and to
centrifugais from points nearest the
United states. and send all other sugars
70 Tree markets like Canada and England
rms colicy would undoubtedly increase
the price of the sugars from nearby
countries, AID necessarily add to the
cost OF sugar to consumers in the United
States These are the resolutions which
led your committee to suggest an ad
Valorem rate of 20 per cent on all sugars
Lestlng not above 81 degrees. but this
rate can never apply to but a very small
portion or the sugars of the world. as
from obvious causes, the proportionate
creasing.
OF the same sugars testing above 81 de-
gress, very much the larger portions, as
l have already stated, are centrifugals
testing about 96 degrees and we are con-
fronted with the fact that these rates
would discriminate in favor of the sugar
OF certain localities and values, against
NOSE or others The committee. after full
consideration, reached the conclusion that
the essential elements of a certainty of
revenue and an adjustment of rates that
would lessen determinations could best
De secured by the adoption of compound
rates. The committee, therefore, adopted
the suggestion which is contained in the
Dill we nave reported to the senate. of i'm
posing specific duty which is eouiva lent
Va NIT
an additional duty of 30 per cent ad
Valorem on all sugars from 81 to 100 de-
grees, with thirteen-hundredth of a cent
per pound additional on all sugars above
NO. IL Dutch standard in color and in
refined sugars
More than 80 per cent of the sugar
winch is imported into the United States
has heretofore been imported in a raw
condltion, and has been refined here and
IT IS; therefore. of Importance that we
should carefully consider the effect which
the schedule proposed by the senate com
nlItee would have upon the refining in
9ustry assume that it will be admitted
IN IN. al quarters that this industry is en-
titled to fair treatment The fact that
the business as conducted today is in
comparatively few hands and that a
large portion of it is carried on by one
company, While 1t furnishes a resolution
Tor unusual care in the adjustment of the
rates IN order that no undue or unfair
aoVantage shall be given to sugar re-
dli te should not be allowed to furnish
PHI ., constructed uDon protective lines for
tne destruction of a great industry In
otner words. IT is important from every
economic standpoint that we make If
possible that the refining of sugar can be
successfully carried on here and that the
business should not be turned over BY
refiners. D'i
1t IS. therefore, incumbent upon us 70
Snow that no protection is given the re-
ih1 nEad interests t by the proposed schedule
beyond that which is adequate for the
continued existence of the business in the
United States. For this purpose. I have
prepared a series of statements which 7
SUBMIT SUP for your consideration. showing
imposed by the schedule upon raw sugars
OF dll1erent grades and refined
Inc hrst of these tables to which will
can your attention shows the rates i'm
posed upon each grade of sugar testing
above 81 degrees by the house bill and the
senate bill; II shows further the actual
aSlIerentlal on each grade in both the
t teot ana senate bills. This table shows
fined sugars by the senate proposition
varies from 81 to Il. 40c. per 100 pounds
while the differential in the house bill
varies from 1920 to II 35c per 100 mounds
1t will be seen from an examination of
TINS table that the differential between
graduated sugar and 96 degrees centri-
Iusais-this being by far the most i'm
portant class of raw sugars and in
amount two-thirdS of the total imnorts
OF raw cane-is 9.S7c. per hundred Mounds:
on ~ degrees centrifusals the differentiaI
Is j: lO.sc-: on 50 degrees Muscavadoes the
differential is 14.6
In order to show the committees
does not give undue adj
vantage to beet sugars as compared with
taIle sugars, the following statement has
been prepared by me to show the differ
entail between raw and refined beet
sugar IN comparison with the defferential
OF the same sugars based on the rates
imposed by existing law:
Diferential rates on raw beet sugar. S.
degrees analysis, and on German granu-
lated; Present law. refined 104 80: raw.
952 differential 14.9S. Senate bill re-
IA. 797.
Mr. Aldrich then submitted statements
showing the differentials under varying
values of sugar. and resumed:
Under existing law. German refined re-
ceiTes .3S of a cent per pound export
bounty The countervailing duty here is
but L OF cent per pound. The German
reflner therefore receives a net bounty of
to sell his product at a less price than
the American refiner has to pay for So
degrees centrifusals. 1t is this kind of
competition which is driving the cane
sugar producers and refiners of the world
TO the wall
He then replied at length TO a statement
by Hon. William L. Wilson. in which the
latter estimated the rates imposed by
the senate committees proposition. Con-
tinuing Mr.. Aldrich said:
I'm the tables | have submitted no al
fusion is made to the bounty provisions
contained both in the senate and house
proposals. The adoption of these or SINH
lar provisions for countervailing duties
seems TO be necessity if we are to de-
United States. Otherwise ii will be posi-
Die for any foreign country by extension
Of its bounties to neutralize entirely the
effect of our protective duties.
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whether the differential proposed by either
he house or the senate bill is greater
than il should be, we are bound in fair
lesS to take into consideration existing
conditions and the changes which have
aiken place since the enactment of the
act of 1894. When that act was under
discussion in the senate the Difference of
German graduated and raw beets IS per
pound In March the difference was 33
IF a cent per pound. The importatonS of |
'efined sugars into the United States |
amounted IN 1891 to 100000 pounds: and
n 1892. to 100000 pounds. The impor- |
atoms in 1896 amounted to 1S7. 900. 900 |
pounds. while the importations in the |
single month of April. 1897 amounted to |
2. 100000 pounds. German refiners have |
treat Britain almost entirely out of ex- |
stence- They are, as I have already |
stated, invading every sugar market of I
he world with their product Most of |
esult of a continuous process of refining. |
Cor months raw beet sugar and German |
Sranulated have sold on absolute parity I
II value, taking into account only the I
of pure sugar contained in |
ach- If We assume the cost of refining /
ugar in the United States 10 be approx I
mately u a cent per pound, and is Ger |
nan refined can be sold without loss on 1
he same basis with German raws, it |
must be evident that the differentials sug- /
rested in the senate proposition ore not |
My not excessive, but they are quite /
likely in the near future to prove mad
cuate 10 secure the continuance or alb