The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1897-05-12

A legislative Waterloo awaits the sugar
TO suit that monopoly in the Senate sub
committee and reported TO the Senate
has caused storm of protest from all over
the country Senators are antagonistic to
it, and the leading members of the House
declare that they will never agree 10 its
insertion in the bill Already IN organ
lied fight against the avarice of this cor
poration has begun and the indications all
point to it's defeat.
A careful canvass of the representative
men of the Senate leads to the conclusion
that a radical revision will be made in
this schedule when it is reached in the
committee of the whole. A prominent SEN
ator discussing the matter yesterday said
the schedule looked as if the trust had
drawn it for trading purposes, and had
Intentionally placed more in it than they
expected to be able to carry through, so
that they might yield and still secure all
the differential they wanted.
The schedule is intricate and pulling,
even To those who are conversant with the
subject. Senators Caffery and Jones went
over il casually yesterday, aud the Louisi-
ana Senator reached the conclusion that it
gave the trust a protection of 64-1OO of
a cent on every pouadof sugar refined. The
general criticism Of the schedule, from a
Republican standpoint, is the use of al
valorem rates on low-grade sugars, ii be
ing the established practice OF Republican
constructors of tariffs To make specific
rates wherever possible. The substitution
OF al yalorems in this schedule is unneces-
sary, and only done, it is claimed. in order
to open the door for undc valuations and
help the trust.
one Of the best posted men in the Senate
has called attention to the fact that the
fight for the abrogatiOn of the Hawaiian
treaty was inaugurated by the sugar tr -lst,
but is Icing conducted under the guiSe
OF fripndljnesS for the beet sugar growers
of the United States. 1t is worthy Of
note, this Senator says, that the decision
| of the subcommittee TO strike from the
! bill the House provision eXempting tie
Hawaiian sugars from the rates imposed,
was reached Immediately following the
! arrival in Washington of John d. SpreckelS,
son of Claus Spreckels, and ex-senator
| Charles n FELTON, of California, the init
tleInen, together with Mr. Henry oXnard,
the beet sugar representative, have been,
| At is asserted. most energetic in their ef-
forts u mold public opinion in favor ri the
| abrogatipn OF the reciprocal treaty with
Hawaii
The power and influence of the trust Is
discovered in every argument in favor Of
the abrogation of this treaty One OF
! Committee has been estigatiEg this sub
! jecu and has discovered some very inter
estng data 1t appears, from his investi-
| cations, that the Hawaiian sugar plant
ers are under contract To sell their product
10 the san Francisco refinery, which is
said To- be under the control of the trust
/ This trust has shut up every refinery in
/ California but the one ii now controls and
operates. These contracts for the de-
| livery OF Hawaiian sugar expire this year,
and the owners OF the Hawaiian plantd-
! tinns have said that they would not re
new them, but. instead, propose to erect
refinery of their own and place their
product in the American market This,
| of course. means Ia tie trust loss Of all
the profits aCcruing to it by reason Of cX-
listing contracts to sell to it the raw
sugars that come into the United States
free OF duty.
The object Of the trust is. therefore, APP
parent. 1t seeks TO smash this treaty in
I order to force ID surrender on the part of
| the planters, most Of whom are citizens Of
California, who have their money invested
| in Hawaiian lands. If the treaty is ahrO-
gated the trust says it will go into the
| business iii California of manufacturing
beet sugar. thereby benefting the farm
ers OF the Pacific coast by expanding that
industry there.
All Of this appears to be phila nthropic,
says this Senator, if one happens TO he in
ignorance of the real facts One Of these
facts is, he says, that the trust now CON
trols all existing beet sugar factories on