The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1897-06-11
SUGAR ~ THE SENATE.


Dtngley DilI.
The mnn who does not recognize thu
6ne Italian hand of the trusts in the sen
ne amendments to the Dingley bill mus
be the blind man Of the proverb. VIII.
does not want to see.
We are told that on ''rough esti
mate" the senate schedule will yielc
from sugar a revenue of $o0,000.000 q
year. The figure is so full one looks fol
confirmation Of so great expectations
The full text of the sugar schedule Il
not given. but from the synopsis tele
eraphed il appears that reduced to an
I'D valorem rate the senate proposes tc
tax sugar rs per cent. as compared with
70 per cent. in the Dingley bill. and 40
to44 percent. In the Wilson bill. The Nc.
Kinley act let sugar in free. II is also
stated that the senate bill is so drawn
as to place the regular duty on Ha-
waiian sugar.
The senate hardly has put an ad va
loren duty on sugar. The report is
merely an estimate of an ad valoreni
rate. The original Dingley bill taxes
sugar not above 16 d. S. in any shape
one cent per pound testing not above
rs degrees by the polariscope. and for
every additional degree three-hun-
dredths OF one cent per pound. On
sugar above 16 ID. S., and on all refined
sugars, the rates made were to be .375
cents per pound. The highest rate pos
sible on sugar below 16 d. S. under the
Dingley bill would be ~ cents per
pound. 1t was estimated that the rev.
enue derived would be about $50 200. 600.
But there was no intention to collect
duty on Hawaiian sugar.
If the senate bill is to produce $780,
100000 year, there must be con-
templated "a stiff advance over the rates
provided for under the home schedule.
The sugar trust is. of course. mt the
bottom, and deep down under the foun-
dation Of this policy. 1t seems to have
taken the senate n willing captive The
projected abrogation of the Hawaiian
reciprocity treaty seems TO be part of
the same monopoly-inspired raid on the
rights of the people. Sir Claus was the
original instigator of that treaty, and
be has prospered under it in the twenty
odd years of its operation to the tune of
many millions. His contracts with the
island sugar planters are about to en-
pire. Some are already at an end. we
believe. Hence this pronounced inter
est in American industries demanding
that the treaty cease. If behind this
little game the heavy trump up Mr..
spreckles' sleeve is the limiting of Cali
fornia beet sugar reduction. why, it
would be better for the country to go on
losing the revenue on Hawaiian sugar.
But sugar is not the only sweet morscl
In the senate bill. The hand Of the
trust and of the monopoly did not grow
weary wnen that piece of work was !
done. ITS skill and cunning are shown |
broadcast in all the schedules. any re-
port of which has reached here. Taking |
the reported ad valorem estimates, il |
appears that lead ore was raised TO |
04.74 per cent. from 62h in the house
bill. 1887 in the Wilson act and SO. - in
the Mckinley act. When we get TO
wool. product of the farmer, and where
the interest of the eastern high tariff
lies in getting il as cheap
ms possible, this trust-ridden senate
has lowered the rate from
1888 per cent. in the house bill, the
same as in the Mckinley act. to 1897
per cent. But spun yarn. in which the
has put some of his money.
is raised from 40 per cent in the Wilson
bill to 90.s7 per cent. in the senate bill.
ii was only 5061 in the Mckinley act.
The Dingley schedule made the duty on
yarns run from Is to IS cents per pound.
On machinery generally the house
schedule of 35 per cent. is made As per
cent. in the senate bill. Both the Will
son and Mckinley acts made the rate
a. per cent.
On hops, a direct product of the farm,
the house rate of 67.2O per cent. is low
cred to 53.76. Still wines are dropped
from 1929 to 46.35 per cent. Hemp
comes down from 70.52 to 16.41 per
cent.
This is rs far as the republican men,
pcrs OF the ways and means committee
OF the senate. who alone are RESPONSE
ole for all changes made in the bill
sent up from the house, consented to
et the people know what they have
Tone. The rest of the bill is kept locked
up In the star chamber secrets. under
Which the work of revision was carried
on. They are probably letting uY down
easy. And If the rest of the changes
manifest the same subservient regard /,
Tor monopoly interests as these. and the /,
same blind Indifference to the interests
d the farmers and consumers of the
they had better let us down
very easy. A little of this sort of thing
makes heavy burden of bad news
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