The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1902-04-27
BEET SUGAR
MEN MAY
BE NERVOUS
Their Fight on Sugar Trust
viii Cut Them Too.
GOOD THING FOR GERMANY
Which Now Sells at a Loss
and Makes Germans Pay
the Difference.
GOOD THING FOR GERMANY

Especial Correspondence Of The EagIe.)
Washington. April 26.-The iact that the
house organization was overridden in the
final parliamentary stages of the Cuban
reciprocity BILL by no means should be
construed as pressaglng the bins death,
OF its being put 10 sleep in the senate.
There viii be legislation for Cuba be-
fore this session shall end That legis-
Eation viii be in the form Of reciprocity;
the duty on raw sugar from Cuba into
the United States win Doe reduced. in
consideration ~ The admission 10y Cuba
o. our products TT lower rates
Whatever mar be wildly said by the
beet sugar protectionizts their friends or
their press bin in some form VIII
positively Doe passed. ID may not contain
the house amendment offered by Morris
of Minnesota, and over the admission of
which. after the chair had ruled it not
germane, the Republicans split-the
amendment which reduces the dinerential
between raw and refined sugar 1919 cents
per hundred pounds; or it may contain
that amendment. That remains 20 be
seen. But, with or without the amend
ment, the bin viii become a law.
The differential, or the difference be-
tween the duty on hottest raw sugar and
refined sugar. is now the lowest in the
history OF this country. ii is the protec-
tion afforded the refining industry of the
United States 1t Protects the beet Deo-
ple. who are refners as well as the sugar
trust Cut down the differential. as the
beet people were able 10 do in the Nor
ris amendment in the house. and the price
Of sugar viii fall 1872 cents per hundred
pounds. that means just that much less
10 the sugar trust. Of course, but to the
beet people as well It also means the
admission Of foreign refined sugar from
Germany into the United States. for with
the reduction Of the differential. under
the Morris amendment, also goes the
ccuntervaging duty of % cents per hun
dred pounds. now paid by German refin-
ers who export refined sugar into the
United States. The foreign redners would
not be slow in taking advantage Of
things They already sell their export
sugar a a loss, making up in their enOr-
NOUS prices from the German con-
SINNER and they would sell at still more
Of loss to gain the American market
Then would the beet people suffer And
Cuba would lose, too. because its mar
0et for raw sugar is the United States.
Cuba has no redneries TO mention, and
Ii the Unitel States went partially out
Of the refining business Cuba would suf-
fer
Of course the beet people in pressing
The Morris amendment, and joining with
the Democrats to override the chair and
beat the regular Republicans. were TAX
ing a long shot. They knew they took
chances of cutting their own throat But
they figured that they could KIN the bill
Icy playing the game they did. They
never expected that the senate would
pass the biI with the dia--SSntial cut of;
tnd they did not think the house would
pass it with the dinerenUal ON. 81 that
was the situation: they used strategy
and won temporarily. But the senate has
not yet acted; and by the same token
the insurrectos. the beet people. and the
bitter Observation-Disclosures of the house
ma jority. such as Littleheld. Tawney and
Morris Of Minnesota, and others not di-
rectly interested I'm beet culture. are
watching things carefully The plain anti
organizationists do not care a rap what
Is done. they have had their glory and
beaten the leaders. but the beet people
are on needles and pins-and well may
they be r. H. FAEON.