Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1902-02-10
EXPERT Wiley
TALKS ABOUT CUBA
Chiefof Chemistry
Suggests Appeal
to Europe.
UNITED STATES CANNOT
AFFORD ISLAND RELIEF
Depression in Sugar Industry is
Due to BOuntieS Granted in
Europe -FaVOrS Annexation
not Tariff Change,

Washington, Jan. ga member of
the Ways and Means Committee said
late tonight that poll had been taken
in the committee on the reduction of
the Cuban tariff, and that 1t stood I
for reduction and 10 against. There is
little question as to one man." said
this committeeman, who is included
in the count of 10 against. If he gets
over to the other side 1t will make tho
committee stand s for and 9 against.
You can positively say that there is a
majority of the committee against
reduction of the tariff on Cuban sugar.
! think the plan is beaten in the light
of this vote"
DIR. Wiley. Chief Of Bureau of Chem
istry, Department of Agriculture, was
before the Ways and Means Commit
tee today in connection with the Gu
ban reciprocity question. His state
ment covered the scientific phases OF
the production of sugar from beets,
cane. etc. and the development of the
respective industries. BY means OF
charts he showed the comparative in
Significance of the beet sugar industry
in 1855. when most of the sugar was
made from cane. Since then Condi-
! tons have reversed, until now the
| greater part of the sugar production Is
from beets. Much the larger part of
this production was in Europe, the
product in America being comparative
ly small. DR.. Wiley expressed the
opinion. however. that the beet sugar
would never eXtingush the cane prod
uct, as the latter had special uses.
Or. Wileys emphatic declaration
that Cuba's appeal to the United States
was misplaced, and would not afford
relief. attracted much attention, This
came after he had shown that the Eu-
ropean bounty and cartel systems were
the controlling factors in the sugar
situation. The Cuban planters had
prospered, he said, under Spanish re-
gime, and why should they now lay
their misfortunes to the breaking OF
the Spanish yoke? Under such cir
cumstances, It might be best to lead
them back to Spain
DR.. Wiley then said: The cause OF
the trouble they are fighting is not in
the tariff duties of the United States,
but is the overproduction of sugar, due
TO bounties granted by Europe. Their
cause should be pleaded in the parlia.
ments of Europe, not in that Of Amer
lea. Their suit should go before the
Reichstag and the Bundesrath, and not
] la IN
place to plead their cause is before the
Congress OF Brussels, not before the
Ways and Means Committee of the
Congress OF the United States"
At another point Or. Wiley said il
was a question whether the relief
sought for Cuba would have the effect
of killing outright the cane and beet
sugar industry OF this country, or
merely paralyZing them. rendering the
patient a burden to his friends. But II
seemed perfectly certain, he said, that
there would be no further factories and
investments in this line in this cOun-
try. Probably there would be feeble
} efforts to save things from the wreck
but, DR.. Wiley said, there would nc
longer be the work OF young giant OF
protection.
On being questioned by Representa-
tive Newlands of Nevada, DR.. Wiley ex.
pressed himself in favor of Cuban an
nexation, but said admission of Cuban
sugars at reduced rates would be dis
astrous to beet sugar.
Representative Richardson IF Ten