The Washington times., 1902-03-05

sentative Tawney and Representative
Payne were discussing the compromise,
and Representative Tawney referred to
the former attitude of the committee.
Representative Grosvenor broke in with
the statement that the report of the COM
mittee on Representative Richardson s
bill to admit sugar and molasses from Gu
ba and Porto Rico free would rise up to
confront the committee at this time.
Proved Prophet.
In this the Ohioan proved prophet
At the conference Representative Tawney
read the report of the committee, writ
ten by General Grosvenor. in which he
stated that the benefit of free Cuban sugar
would inure substantially to the Sugar
Trust alone.
There has not been set any limitations
upon the product of that island, and Amer
lean money" said Mr.. Grosvenor, Amer
lean intelligence, and American ambi-
ton will doubtless make of that island
almost one undivided sugar plantation,
and the possibilities of its competition
with the cane sugar of the United States
is almost beyond estimate, and we think
that to turn over the sugar producers OF
the United States to the devastation of
this product, when the sole result would
be to enormously enrich the great cor
porations now holding, practically. NO.
nopolies OF the manufacture of sugar,
would be unjust and unwise as a matter
of legislation
Other Speeches Quoted.
In addition, Mr.. Tawney quoted from
speeches made by Messrs. DIngley,
Payne, and Steele at the time of the
passage of the Dingiey act, in which they
supported the tariff on sugar. saying that
the only hope of controlling or crushing
the sugar trust was by building up a great
beet sugar industry in the United States.
He argued that the remission, rather than
the reduction of the duty. would preserve
the principles of protection and perform
in good faith the expressed and implied
pledges of the Republican party given to
the American sugar industry. His propo-
sition made relief Immediately available,
he said, with its continuance dependent
on Cuba's enactment of our immigration
and exclusion laws. The depression was
ascribed to temporary trade conditions,
he said, and should have temporary re-
lief.
Two objections were urged to cash re-
lief: That the agencies through which
it was proposed to distribute the relief
could not be depended upon, and that it
would be unconstitutional.
Mr.. Tawney claimed the same agencies
Would be employed as those entrusted
with the future government OF the island,
arguing that If they were not fit for the
one they were not fit for the other, and
quoted decisions of the Supreme Court
holding such appropriations to be consti-
tutional. He claimed that under the pro-
posed reduction 70 per cent of the relief
would go to the sugar trust. the Cubans
having but one market and one buyer
He maintained the result OF the re-
duction would be to encourage American
capital to invest in foreign countries
where cheap labor could be employed in
competition with American labor.
81 will read what Mr. Payne, Mr. Gros-
venor, and Mr.. Steele said'' he said, "and
then l want to ask them IL they can ex-
pect Republicans to follow their leader
ship now in favor of taking from an in
FAINT industry the protection 1t is admitted
it needs. and which they helped to give
1t, and decline to give to the American
consumer the benefit of a reduction of
the duty on iron and steel. glass and-lum-
ber and many other products Of giant in
dustries."