Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1906-03-03

Washington. March 3-senator
Lodge. chairman of the committee on
Philippines, has decided to make a
motion that the senate discharge the
committee from further consideration
Of the tariff bill and 1t be taken up for
consideration. Under the rules mo-
ton of this character is debatable. The
senator proposes to make an argu-
ment In favor OF the bill and ask that
action be taken by the senate concern
Ing II. He does not intend, however,
10 precipltate a continuation after the
statehood bill has been disposed or
This means suggested provided the
only way IN which the bill may be
brought before the senate IN view Of
the action of the committee in defeat
ing it,
Opponents of the bill declare the
senate Is overwhelmingly opposed to
the passage OF the bill and that Mr..
Lodges motion II made win be met
with a counter motion TO lay II on the
table. The sentiment of the senate
then would be determined.
Not I'm years has there been such
welcome public news received locally
from Washington as that which APP
paared IN last nights News" am
nouncing that the Philippine tariff
bill had been defeated by the failure OF
the senate committee to report upon it.
Inquiries made by the News" today
among a large number Of citizens OF
diversified business interests. showed
that Their is almost a unanimous APP
proval Of the procedure which dis
posed OF measure, the success 81
which would have been so adverse to
western interests. Particularly happy
were the sugar people themselves. The
views OF several. including Manager
Cutler follow:
General Manager Thomas II. Cutler
OF the Utah Sugar company. returned
last evening from southern California.
where the weather is sunshiny and
balmy-quite different from hat 1t is
here.
He said Il showed Thursday IN Red
lands the FIRST time In years. and the
inhabitants all turned out. men, women
and children. to engage in snowballing.
But the snow was wet. and did not last
very long. In regard 20 the action of
the senate committee on the Philippine
sugar proposition, Manager Cutler said
that he received two dispatches from
Washington during the evening. stat
ing the facts as given In last nights
News While he had not attached
much importance to the hill he could
not but experience feeling OF relief
at the action. or rather nom action OF
the senate committee, which killed the
Intended legislation. II VIII tend to
settle the question In the minds Of
people generally and give further I'M
petus to the beet sugar Industry. Be
sides there will be no fear that Philip
pine competition viii depress prices,
one factor OF importance as affecting
American sugar interests has been the
recent unusually large crop OF sugar
bcets IN Europe; hue from authentic
reports II Is learned that the sowings
over there for the next crop have ma
terially decreased, All sugar factories
are affected by the European crops
and markets whose conditions form
the prices on which the American
market is based. In fact the HAM
burg quotations govern prices IN this
country. This can not be otherwise.
Notwithstanding repeated assertions 20
tie contrary, IL Is the same thing IN
wheat, prices Of that grain In the
United States are governed by quota
tons from Liverpool. Quick connec-
tons by steamship and telegraph regu-
late prices and methods In carriage
STRENGTH TO SUGAR.
However the failure OF Philippine
sugor legislation In the senate Is imme-
diatcly indecisive 10 this extent, that
had % passed as proposed L would
have been some years before the mar