The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-04-26

ministration, and most Republicans,
whatever their personal feelings toward
the President, say the administration
of its friends.
a. Senator Spooner's rebate Or COM
promise scheme Ii the administration
would accept this it might carry, but
there are serious objections to it,
"Out CT the puzzle of politics and
trust selfishDess Chairman Plat, the
wise man of the Senate" is trying TO
find something that will work 1t is a
most difficult task.
Senator Plat said today he should
favor the original House bill, without
The differential amendment. But he
capnot get this bill out of the committee.
The Democrats, under Mr.. Bailey's
shrewd guidance, are determined that
if anything is done for Cuba the refiners'
trust shall be smitten. In his game
there may be a little something of per-
sonal ambition. When Mr.. German re-
turns to the Senate he IS expected to
become leader again. Mr.. German used
&c be the Democratic friend of the sugar
trust, just as Mr.. Aldrich is the Bepub-
lican friend. Till the cat comes back
Mr.. Bailey hopes to have a good deal of
fun with Mr. Germans friends in New
York.
"Hence Mr.. Bailey, having gone over
to the House and knocked out Leader
Richardson and secured a solid Demo-
cratic front, is now trying to line up
the Senate Democrats against the trust.
He has succeeded SO we'll that it is be-
lieved nothing can be accomplished in
the Senate that does not hit the Have
meyer concern. Mr. Aldrich, who is a
power in the Senate, says nothing can
be done that will hurt that corporation.
Thus there is pretty sort of dead
lock. All hands are guessing as to the
outcome, with a rebate compromise ri.-
ins in favor.
Senator Dolliver, who was a member
of the Ways and Means Committee
when the Dingley law was framed says
the New York trust can get along very
well with what protection it has left in
the statute. There are two differentials
in the law, says Mr.. Dolliver. One is
the expressed differential of one eighth
of q cent pound in favor of raw sugar.
The other is a concealed differential
based ON the theory that it requires 113
pounds of So polariscope test raw sugar
to produce 100 pounds of refined sugar.
On every 113 pounds of raw imported
the refiners have to pay duty on only
10( pounds, and this differertial is fig
ured to be worth to them S1a cents a
hundred pounds. This latter difteren-
tial is not touched by the Morris amend
ment, and leaves the trust all the pro-
lection a modest concern ought to ask
for
"Mr. Oxnard, the manager of the beet
sugar concern, says his people can stand
the loss of the differential, and that he
knew what he was talking about when
he had that amendment adopted. He
did not and does not expect the bill to
become n law, but if it should he says
the. German refined sugar that might
come into this market would make itself
felt along the Atlantic seabOard, where
it would hurt the New York trust, and
would not enter the interior of the
country on account of freight rates, and
therefore would not do any harm to the
beet producers.
"Many Senators are getting tired of
the pulling and hauling of these rival
trusts, and propose to go ahead and give
Cuba a reduction of % or 80 per cent,
even if the authorization thereof has to
be put as a rider on an appropriation
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