The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1903-01-10
IoCoLpI GI'DAI TREATY
Beet Sugar Association Takes
Action on Reciprocity.
OPPOSING MEMBERS WITHDRAW.
National Association Urges Guaranty
That raty Shall Be Fixed for Five
Years = seduction of Philippine
Tariff is Condemned.

Washington Jan. 9.-The American
Beet Sugar association held its annual
meeting here yesterday and passed
resolutions withdrawing any oppos-
ton to the ratification cf the Cuban
reciprocity treaty and recommending
that the treaty be so amended as TO
express in precise language what is
intended to be secured by it TO the
beet sugar manufacturers of the Unit
ed States, viz: During the period of
five years covered by the treaty no
sugar exported from Cuba shall be
admitted to the United States at q re-
duction OF duty greater than 20 per
cent of the rates OF duty thereon as
provided by the tariff act OF July "a
1897 The association also adopted
resolution protesting against the I'M
necessary stimulation of the sugar
and tobacco industries of the Philip
pine islands by means Of further tariff
reductions, thus, as the resolution
stated, encouraging the people OF
those islands, where the labor is but
few cents per day, to produce those
things which this country can produce
rather than such commodities as they
are liable to produce.
The action of the association was
not unanimous, the vote on the pas
sage Of the resolution standing to q
although Henry T. Oxnard, the presi-
dent OF the association, said he had
enough proxies with him to make the
vote 12 to 2. The opponents of the
resolution claim there are thirty or
more factories in the association and
that the Representation at the meet
ing does not comprise half of the fac
| tories in the association. None Of the
| sixteen factories in Michigan were rep
| resented in the meeting, excepting
that julius Stroh of Detroit, the treas
urer of the association, was present
There were five companies repre-
sented at the meeting of the associa
ton when the Cuban and Philippine
resolutions were adopted. These
were the American Beet Sugar com
pany, represented by Henry T. Ok
nard; the Utah Sugar company. J. r
Cutler; the Wisconsin Sugar com
pany, r. G. Wagner; the Nationa
Sugar company. F. K. Carey, and the
Los Alimitos Sugar company. J. Rost
Clark. Messrs Wagner and Clarl
strongly opposed the Cuban resolu
tion, declaring that the present gath
ering was not representative one o
the sugar beet growing Industry o
the country. inasmuch as the entire
vote, including the proxies held b!
Mr. Oxnard did not amount to one
half of the sugar beet factories in tn
United States. After the meeting ha'
adjourned they said that they woul
withdraw from further connection
with the association. as it had out
lived it's usefulness and was dominate
by one-man power.
Mr.. Oxnard, when seen, contende
that the yearly output of the comps
nies which he represented and
those for whom he held provies wa
vastly greater many times than tn
! output of the companies whose repre-
sentatives had opposed the resolution
The Michigan beet sugar interest
have not yet passed on the resolutions
Before adjourning the Beet Suga
association last night elected the TO
lowing officers: President, Henry
: OXnard; vice president, f. *. Care
of Baltimore; secretary, Truman
J. Palmer; treasurer, julius Stroh OF d
troit.