Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1897-07-03
TARIFF BILL AMENDMENTS
Proposed Provision for q Bounty On Beet
Sugar.
One-Fourth Of q Cent q Pound to be
Paid ProducersLTo Encour.
age Foreign Trade.

Following are the provisions Of the
amendment to the tariff bill providing for
a bounty on beet sugar, recommended by
the Senate finance committee and introduce
ed in the Senate today:
That on and after July L. 1923, and until
July !. 1903, and no longer. there shall be
paid from any moneys in the treasury not
otherwise appropriated. under the pro-
visions Of section 36s9 of the Revised Stat
Ctes, to the producer of sugar made from
beets grown within the United States dur
ing the calendar year 1898. and each sue
ceedng calendar year until July /, 19U' a
bounty of one-fourth of one cent per pound
under such rules AMI regulations as the
commissioner of internal revenue, with
the approval of the Secretary Of the Treas
ury, shall prescribe.
THE producer of said sugar to be en-
titled to said bounty shall have first filed
prior to July of each year with the COM
missioner of internal revenue notice Of
the place Of production. with general de-
scriptipn CT the machinery and methods to
be employed by him, with estimate Of
the amount of sugar proposed to be pro-
duced in the current or next ensuing year.
and an apple alton for license to SO pro-
duce, to be accompanied by a bond in
penalty. and with sure.ies. to be approved
by the commissioner of internal revenue,
&C nditoned that he will faithfully observe
all rules and regulations that shall be
prescribed for such manufacture and pro-
duction of sugar"
1t Is then directed that the internal reve-
nue. commissioner shall issue a license to
the sugar producer. There is a provision
explicitly prohibiting the payment of any
bounty to refiners on sugar imported into
this country.
The Secretary of the Treasury is author
lied to draw warrants on the treasurer of
the United States for the payment of the
bounty. No license is to be granted for
any quantity of sugar less than 800 pounds.
1t is made a misdemeanor. punishable by
a fine of 5000 and imprisonment for five
years. to attempt to collect bounty con-
trary to the provisions of the law
The finance committee has offered the
following amendment to the tariff bill, as
new section:
THAT the sixteenth section of the act en-
titled An act to remove certain burdens oil
the American merchant marine and ell
courage the American foreign trade and
other purposes approved June B, 1884, be
amended so as to read as follows:
Section 16. That all articles of foreign
and domestic production needed and actual
ly Withdrawn from bonded warehouses for
supplies, not including equipment of ves>
sells of the United States engaged in for
eign trade between the Atlantic and Pa
cific ports of the United States may be so
withdrawn from said bonded warehouses,
free of duty or of internal revenue tax, as
the case may be, under such regulations as
the Secretary of the Treasury may pre-
scribe, but no such articles shall be landed
at any port of the United States"
Another amendment by the committee re-
enacts sections 73 to Il, of the present tar
If law. These sections relate to trusts.