Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-06-15
SENATE DEVoTEs ENTIRE
DAY TO TARIFF ON SUGAR
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ments pro and con on the various
Philippine questions. The finance COM
nlittee will report further on the free
trade section tomorrow after which q
vote will be taken.
Washington, June 14.-rhe Philip
pine islands were the subject of con-
sideration by the Senate as soon as the
tariff bill Twas taken up today. The
finance committees provision regulat-
ing tile payment Of duties on commod-
tiles coming into the United States
from the island was taken up after the
Senate had held an executive session
and Immediately became the subject of
animated discussion.
This provision permits the free i'm
portation of Philippine goods with re-
strictions and exceptions and on mo-
ton of Senator Lodge it was made ap-
plicable to Guam and Tutuila on the
same terms.
The language Of the paragraph re-
ferring to the free admission of free
products of the Philippines was
changed to make clear that all manu-
featured articles imported into the
United States from the Philippines
should be composed partly or wholly OF
products Of the islands or of the Unit
ed States. The change was made upon
suggestion of Senators Buckley and
Brandego and was intended to permit
Connecticut cigar wrappers to be TAX
en- to the islands and then reimported
into the United States as a part of a
cigar free of duty.
The provision requiring raw or refined
sugar to pay the same duty when i'm
ported into the Philippines as when i'm
ported into the United States, aroused
Bristow, who thought he saw in it an adj
vartags to the American Sugar Refining
Co.
Aldrich said he had not heard such an
objection before and added that unless
some such regulation was made sugar
might be shipped into these islands and
then come into the United States free of
duty.
Declaring that the Philippine sugar
was SO poor in quality that there was
no market for it in the United States,
Bulkeley said the legislation allowing
100000 tons annually to come into the
United States was a humbug" The
sugar industry in the Philippines, he said
raised annually.
THE cause Of this condition" he said,
zig the laziness and stupidity Of the peo-
pie"
Resuming his remarks Bristow said:
When you enact this law admitting 300, :
600 tons of Philippine sugar into this
country free Of duty you do not benefit
single American except he be interest ed
in the American Sugar Refining Co. Pri-
marily the sole purpose of this bill is to
benefit the Philippine islands and the Fill
ipino. Every year they import from Ger
many and China several millions of
pounds of sugar and now the incorpora-
tion of this provisions for a duty on SUI
gar imported into the Philippines will
force the people of those islands to pur-
chase their refined sugar from the Amer
lean Sugar Refining Co. In return from
that they can sell their raw sugar to the
sugar trust free of duty. / ask senators
whether this is in fact legislation in the
interest of the people Of the Philippine
islands
proviso offered by Lodge giving
to the Philippine commission the pow
err to allot and pay out the internal
tariff bill was adopted
Bristow offered an amendment to the
Philippine free trade provision which
would prohibit the importation Of raw
and refined sugar into the Philippines
at rates that may be lower than the
sugar duties of the United States. He
also proposed an amendment eliminat-
ing the provision of the bill which gave
the preference for the 100000 ton free
sugar proviso to producers of less than
500 tons of sugar
Bristow said the change he propos-
ed would give an opportunity for the
establishment of centrifugal sugar fac
tories in the Philippines.
Foster opposed Bristow's amend
ment. speaking in the interest of the
American sugar grower and declaring
that the finance committees amend
ment did not propose to exclude from
the free trade provision the sugar pro-
duced by large sugar factories in the
Philippines but that it merely gave
the preference to the production of tn ,
small farmers.
Lodge. replying to Bristow. said the
proposal to admit sugar and tobacco
into the United States free of duty
was concession to those who con-
tended for absolute free trade between
the islands and the United States.
1nterrupting Lodge. Buckley said no
compromise was made on this provision
with the tobacco growers of Connecti-
cut
we have reached no compromise
with the senator from Connecticut"
retorted Lodge.
You will have to- responded the
Connecticut senator.
I'VE will see about that when the
vote is taken" said Lodge
Aldrich insisted that the Philippine
amendment provided practically for a
bounty to the sugar raisers in the
Philippines.
Il venture the prediction" he said,
that the processes of refining sugar
in the United States in a refined con-
dition. They will no longer make their
sugar by the old open kettle process.
They will have modern machinery and
make the best class of sugar"
That" he said was the experience
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