The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1909-05-20
BY Associated Press.

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WASHINGTON, May lo.-Declaring
that Joseph +. Smith, the head Of the
Mormon church. every year fixes the
price Of bccts in fhe interest of thc beet
sugar factories Of Utah. rather than in
favor of the producers of beets. Senator
Clay in the senate today called forth Il
characterization Of his statement as
absolutely untrue, bv Senator
Smoot. himself an apostle of the Nor.
mon church.
Mr.. Clay declared that Mr. Smith. as
president of the beet sugar factories
of Utah. received $4,000 annual salary.
He is always in favor of tho factor
les and against the growers said Mr.
Clay
Upon Mr.. Suoot denying this state.
mcnt. Mr. Clay declined 10 be inter
rupted further.
Mr. Clay declared that votes already
taken in the senate demonstrated that
the finance committee had full power
&c obtain agreement on It's tariff bill
as reported, He favored an early vote
on the bill, as delay was useless III af-
teetlng the rates carried that measure,
Severe Arraignment.
Severely arraisnng the so-called sugar
trust and urging a material reduction in
III
Georgia today discussed at great length
the various phases Of tho beet and can
sugar industries. IIo argued that the
consumer is Disseminated against in ia
vor Of the American Sugar Refining COM
pauy. and that the sugar grower gets nc
benefit OF the diffsreutial between the
duties on raw AND refined sugar. He
criticised most severely the manner in
which the sugar schedule OF the Payne
bill was framed.
Contending that the American Sugar
I,lfir ING
fnerics in the United States. and rs al
most without competition in refining
sugar, Mr.: Clay declared that the duty
on refined sugar almost prohibits The
importation of foreign sugar into this
country, He said that the beet grower
and the cane grower OF sugar both
the price which it fixes Comparing the
wholesale price of sranuated sugar in
Hamburg and in New FORK, which. he
said. was 2.3l cents per. pound cheaper
American consumer pays a difference of
Sl36 600. 900 for It's refined sugar. OF this,
he said the government gets s530oo.0bo
in customs duties. while, he said. thc
sugar trust gets the other sSS, 100000
Tribute to the Trust.
"The American consumers OF sugar
have paid TO the American Sugar Refining
company commonly called the sugar
trnst:" at least S95:ooo,ooo per year in
swelVc psy' years Ss to IS $3.50, 100000 The Rmeri
can people are not aware of the fact
that If the sugar we import camc into
this country free of any duty. both raw
and refined, the cost of sugar To the
American consumer would be reduced
nearly oue-half l am not insisting. that
both refined and raw. or either. should
there ought to be substantial reduction
over the rates fined in the Dingley law
Replying TO the argument that sugar Is
a great revenue producer, M. CLAY de-
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Of life used by the entire American peo-
pie, should be taken and It's cost in
he contended. the amount of the revenue
now produced by sugar could easily he
supplied by an income tax,
.'Let us give to the American people
cheap sugar" continued Mr.. Clay. let
us grasp the sugar trust by the throat
and stranglc II TO death, and Keep IN
view the interest, the happiness and We
must remember that sugar is an Inn
portaut article of food daily consumed
by every man. woman and child IN the
Mo Material Reduction.
Saving that the American workinsmau.
during the last few years has had hard
time to earn living, Mr., Clay depreca-
tod the fact that the duty on refined
sugar remains IN the Payne , 1i h sTsStsn ;Sa,nv
law. He said that the sugar trust had
no representative before the tariI
framing committee oi c1lNer tue mousse Ot
the senate, and added Judging from the
treatment which the sugar trust has re-
,cived this corporation needed no repre-
sentative before either committee.
Taking into account the reciprocity
ju,y on raw sugar from Cuba, the reduced
;ucar from the Hawaiian islands and
Porto Rico under the Dingley law. Mr
clay declared that The average tariff duty
oaid on sugar by the sugar trust amounts
o 0i cents per pond, instead OF being
.sSs cents per hundred He said that
m rofined sugar should be added 10 tho
Iverage duty OF 1.oi cents per hundred
instead OF to sl.6S5 cents, as is done IN
be Payne bill
He said the sugar growers of Cuoa,
7orto Rico. the Philippines or the Hawai-
an islands or the consumers In the
Ynited states, received no benefit from
he concessions made in the duty on raw
usar from those islands. Mr.. Clay de-
Jared that the price OF refined sugar
vas not reduced because OF the reduc-
ID DeItnr,iInp that the American Sugar