The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1902-04-10
LANDS SET APART UNTIL
IRRIGATION ACT PASSES
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stead Of being ? cents per pound. it
was IL cents. and that. therefore. at
the present price in Havana, 1.S1. fob,
the Cubans would receive a profit Of
81 cents per pound.
Sugar Trust Benefited.
If more aid for Cuba was necessary.
Mr.. Norris said, he was willing to go
further and relieve Cuba by the rebate
pian which, he declared, was the only
method by which the relief would
reach those for whom It was intended
He read the report Of the ways and
means committee against the PROPOSE
ton for free sugar from Porto Rico
which said the sugar trust would re-
Ceive the entire benefit of the removal
OF the duty. The report had been pre-
pared by Mr.. GrOsvenor, but all the
Republican members of the committee
/ had subscribed to it. II the statements
were true, then they were true now as
to Cuba.
He produced figures to show that
relatively the Porto Rican sugar grow
ers received IS cents per 100 pounds
less from the sugar trust than the
trust paid for German sugars, and that
the Hawaiian and Cuban planters
Jared in practically the same way.
Z
the trust, being the sole purchaser. was
sure to reap the advantage of any re-
duction made to Cuba He asked why
the sugar trust was advocating this re-
ductiOn if it did not expect to be bene-
J fitted, and in support of the statement
that the trust was after the reduction,
he quoted from a letter written by
/ Speaker Henderson to one of his con-
Stituents, in which the speaker said
[ that the trust was here in the person
/ Of its ablest managers
Not to Protect Raiders.
We are not here" said Mr.. Morris,
/ to make laws for the benefit Of sol
[ diers of fortune, who go to Cuba in
/ stead of home and OF such buccaneers
as Mr.. Havemeyer, the head of the
! sugar trust. But, gentlemen" he add
/ ed, turning TO his Republican coll
/ leagues. IF you are determined to do
/ this thing, if you insist upon giving the
sugar trust a present OF two and a half
millions. let us give the sugar trust "A
/ dose of its own medicine; let US force
! the trust to drink of the cup which ii
C0mmends 80 others; let US take the
differential off refined sugar under
which the trust has grown powerful.
! He called on the Democrats 10 stand
/ with the Republicans and hit the sugar
/ trust, and hit it hard" The Demo-
/ Gratis cried out that Trey would join in
/ the fight, and applauded vigorously.
: Mr.. MOndell OF Wyoming followed
with a set speech in favor of the bill.
+ He argued that the conditions IN Cuba
made it necessary for the relief con-
! tanned in this bill TO be granted if the
new Cuban republic was to be inau-
gurated with any hope Of success. Free
Cuba. to be successful, must be pros
porous. Industrial disaster there
would mean chaos, chaos would mean
Intervention. and Intervention would
i mean annexation. As d friend Of the
I beet sugar industry, who desired 10 put
off the day Of annexation. ne said he
would support the pending bill
Mr.. BAH of Texas opposed the bill
/ be cOntended that it would afford no
/ relief to Cuba. The bill was a Repub-
( liCan measure, and being such, he was
ready to assume the responsibility OF
taking his stand with the Democrats Of
louisiana in opposition to it. rather
than with the Republicans of Pennsyl-
vania in favor of st. He denied that
the bin was in line with Democratic
doctrine. because it was admitted that
il would not result in reducing the
price of sugar 70 the American con-
. sumer. It's sole beneficiary, he argued
would be the sugar trust.
I At $40 o'clock the house adjourned.