Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1902-02-23
Europe and America This Necessity Of Peoples Daily
Food Seriously Attracts Business Men
And Law Makers.

bounties are a matter of the greatest
importance, as It is OF course neces.
sary to protect the established duty
with a countervailing duty upon all
sugar that has received the support
of foreign country.
The present tariff law fixes the duty
on sugar as follows:
Sugars. not alone number 16
Dutch standard in color, tank bot
toms, sirups of cane juice. melada.
concentrated melada, concrete and
concentrated molasses, testing by the
polariscopc not above rs degrees, 95.
100 of one cent per pound, and for
every additional degree shown by the
polariscopic test. $4,000 of one cent
per pound additional, and fractions OF
a degree in proportion; and on sugar
above number 16 Dutch standard in
color, and on all sugar which has gone
through process Of refining, one
cent and 95.1OO of one cent per
pound"
The duty on raw sugar, to state 1t
simply, is 1.6S5c per pound, and on re.
fined sugar, SO degrees centrifugal
test. 1.95c per pound. This tarlf
may be high enough to work a hard.
ship upon the sugar raisers of Cuba,
but without the protection of a coun.
tervailing duty it would be no protec.
ton at all against the bounty-fed beet
sugar of Europe, which would food
this country, and kill of the entire
domestic industry.
By an act approved July "a. 1897,
1t was provided that the Secretary OF
the Treasury should ascertain the
amount Of bounty paid for the expor'
tation of any article from any foreign
country, and should charge an add
tional duty ON such articles on then
entrance into the United States, equal
to such bounties. The Treasury De,
partment encountered the greatest diff.
ficulties in finding out just what the
sugar bounties were in the various
European countries. Many of them
are indirect bounties, and information
concerning them is jealously guarded.
Countries paying such bounties have
usually sought to conceal them by
paying drawbacks at expectation on
the basis of the actual amount export.
ed, while the original tax was levied
on the basis of an assumed amount OF
production, from a measured quantity
of beets.
offsetting the Bounties.
On December ~, 1898, Secretary
Gage issued an order putting in
force countervailing duties on sugar
coming into this country from the Ar
gentine Republic, Austria Hungary,
Denmark, France. Germany. the
Netherlands and Russia. In all of
these countries there is bounty on
export sugar.
Since that time there have>been a
number of circulars issued by the
Treasury Department changing the
countervailing duties on sugar from
different countries, as the department
received additional information con,
corning foreign bounties. The latest
of these orders was Issued on the
nth of last month. II fixes the coun.
tervailing duty on beet sugar from
Holland at Csc per pound on raw, and
.38c on refined.
In the consideration of tariff legisla.
ton in this country there are always
two opposing factions at cross pur,
poses lone the domestic bet sugare
men, clamoring always for higher tar,
it, and the other, the sugar refners
who wish the tariff to be placed on
refined sugar only.
The beet sugar men have undoubt.
eddy received a great deal of consider.
alton at the hands of the lawmakers.
It is their claim, however, that they
are in need OF more. The industry is
not exactly a new one in the United
States, as a beet. sugar factory was
established at Chatsworth, ILL.,, in
1868, and beet sugar was made in
this country even much before this
date. The rapid growth of the indus.
try has, however, been during recent
years. There are now in the United
States thirty-siX beet sugar factories,
to which must be added eight factor.
les in course of construction, but not
yet IN operation. The factories in op.
Grafton have a combined capacity of
22,95O tons, and the new ones of 1850
tons. Most of the larger factories are
in the West, the largest In the United
States being the Spreckels factory, at
Spreckels, Cal, with a capacity of
5000 tons and the factory of the Amer
lean Beet Sugar Company at Oxnard,
Cal, with a capacity of 22OO tons.
Wanted State 6ountIes.