The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1902-04-23


making sugar in the island of Cuba
and alsO, If any concession shall b.
made in the way of a reduction of tn,
duty on sugar coming from Cuba int,
the United States, what concessions
should be made by the government O
Cuba about to be established on arti
l cles produced in the United States anC
1 exported into the said island of Cuba
l in order 10 make reciprocal and
l equitable arrangement as to exports tC
Cuba and imports therefrom to the
4 United States"
The resolution was referred to the
committee ON relations with Cuba at
the suggestion of Mr.. Platt, of Con-
necticut, chairman of that committee.
High tension was manifested among
the Republicans today as result of
the action of the House last night in
overriding the ways and means COM
mittee on the Cuban reciprocity bill.
Chairman Payne took the reverse
philosophically. He pointed out that
the effect of the amendment was to
take off not only the differential on
sugar, butsalso the counter. vailing
duty provided by the Dingley law, a
result not intended by the author of
the amendment. Under the Dingley
act an additional or countorvailing duty
is levied on sugar coming from Cuba
and paying bounty on sugar, equal
in amount to the bounty received.
This is by section of the Dingley act
and is provision separate from that
making differential between the duty
on raw and refined sugar. Mr.. Payne
holds, however, that as the amendment
specifies that the rate of 1926 cents
! shall be " in lieu of the duties thereon
now provided by law it takes off both |
the differential of about IL cents q |
hundred pounds and the countervall-
ing duty of the Dingley law amounting
to between 2G and 81 cents hundred
pounds.
Mr.. Payne stated later in the day
that the abolition of the differential
and countervailing duties affected an
even greater reduction and loss than
he had at first estimated. His earlier
figures showed the countervailing duty
to be between 26 and 27 cents per hun
dred pounds. But this referred to
raw sugar, and the countervailing
duty on the refined article was even
more, namely, 1888 per hundred
pounds. This, with the differential of
.125 makes total reduction on refined
sugar of sos per hundred. Mr.. Long,
of the ways and means committee, al.
80 made estimates which IN his judg- ,
ment bore out the foregoing figures
that the amendment would take of ,
differential and countervailing duties
a total of .509 on refined sugar COM .
ing from Germany and other countries !
giving bountles.
Representative Morris, who framed ,
the amendment, is examining the :
Dingley and other laws to determine =,
whether Mr.. Payne's point is good.
Mr.. Morris said that from his inquiry
so far he did not think the claim was
good, but If it was the matter could
easily be remedied by amendment. :
The Senate is by no means decided as
to what it will do with the bill.
The measure reached the Senate "a
few minutes after that body convened i,
today, and was received with excep-
tiOnal interest, which was evident by |
the private comments of Senators. I
The bill goes to the committee on re- ;
latiOns with Cuba, which is composed y
of seven Republicans and four opposl- :
ton Senators, Mr.. Platt, of Connecti-
cut, being chairman. Being asked If
he felt disposed to outline his view of
the probable course of the committee
with reference to the measure Senator /
Platt declined to say more than that q
meeting would be called at an early !,
date to decide upon a course of action,
merely adding: "We are not going !.
to lose cur composure, but will consi-
der the question carefully"
If the bill had passed the House l
without an amendment removing the
differential on refined sugar i. would
have received the support of two of the
four opposition members of the COM
mittee. These are Messrs. Money end
Simons, and they are now more than : :
ever pleased with 1T. On the other
hand, at least two of the Republican
Messrs. Mcmillan and {
Spooner, oppose the bill. Ii
The indications are that the DEM J
ocratic strength of the committe Q 9
will now be thrown to the support OF {
the differential amendment. So it, &
SoSluS pTODdDlc tudJ tlc ChbIdCIcE vi
the report to be made to the Senate, if
any, will depend upon the other Re-
publican members of the com nittee,
Messrs, Plat, Aldrich, Cullom, De- ]
Doe and Burnham.
Senator Teller says he will support i
any action calculated to kill the bill in
the Senate, and he is inclined to think
that the House adoption of the amend {
ment for the removal of the differential I
will have that effect. There are not q l
few Senators who predict that the bill {
will be allowed to die in committee.
After the turbulent scenes of yester-
day the House settled down TO routine
business today. An opportunity was
found, however, for the two elements
in the recent struggle to give express
sion to their feelings. Mr.. Grosvenor,
of Ohio, one of the ways ard means
leaders, SAID that the amendment Which
the opponents of the ways and means
committee had ingrafted upon the
Payne hill not only wiped out the
differential on sugar, but alsO did away
with the counteryailing duty of the
Dingley law. Mr.. Weeks, of Michigan,
made spirited rejoinder in behalf of
those who opposed the ways and means
committee. lie frankly conceded that
the motive of the opposition had been
In Lii Tho hill