The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-05-26
Kansas Senator Pleads for Low.
er Duty on Sugar.
Exhibits Bottles of Sugar as an
Object Lesson.
THE DUTCH STANDARD
He Declares, Serves to Rob the
American People.
he objects to Paying Toll to the
Sugar Trust.

washington, May 26.-After Mr.. Nc
Emery, a Democrat, had spoken for q
hlgh and protective rate on sugar TODAY
senator Br1stow of Kansas, a Repub-
mean, advocated a reduction, introduce
ing an amendment to strike out the
provision for mo. 16 Dutch standard"
ana reducing the duty on refined sugar
from one and ninety-one hundredths to
one and eighty-two and a half ONE
nundredths of one cent a pound. He said.
whenever senator endeavors to re-
uuce the existing duties in the bill he is
at once accused of attempting to de-
stroy the industry affected"
He insisted that the senators who
are endeavoring to obtain reductions in
the tariff duties were the best friends
Of the protective policy. -They want"
ne declared, ito have the protective
policy stand as a symbol for American
industries and not as a symbol for
graft and greed"
Illustrating his remarks by exhibiting
bottles of sugar, Senator Bristow ex-
planned that according to his view the
removal OF the Dutch standard test
would allow dark colored sugar to come
into this country and at once go to con-
sumers if they should desire to have it
without the refining or whitening pro-
cess.
THE onlv purpose of this color test"
he said, lis to force the people to pay
to the American Sugar Refining COM
pany 80 cents a hundred pounds for re-
fining that sugar"
He claimed that in order to avoid the
payment of duty on sugar of higher
color standard the sugar trust imports
the product of dark color and refines it.
IF the Dutch standard were re-
moved" he said, "a greater amount of
revenue would be received. The Dutch
standard had been superseded as a
standard for testing sugar by the
polariscopic test"
Holding up to the view of the SEN
ate, bottle of dark crystalized
| sugar, he said it was a product of
Java and sold largely in England
HAS not that very sugar driven
out of existence the sugar re-
fineries of England?" inquired Mr..
Smith of Mich.
Mr.. Rristow did not know about
that, but he declared that if such
Java sugar could be brought into the
United States. it would permit the
American people to use it without
paying toll to the American Sugar
Refinery
.'The Dutch standard alone with
it's attendant tax" he said. now
prevents the importation of such
cheap brown sugar"
81 can not as a United states SEN
ator say to the American citizen that
he can not buy cheap brown
sugar if he wants to do so,'' declared
Mr.. Bristow ITO do so would be a
tyranny that the American citizens
will not stand.
Mr.. Bristow declared that the ac-
tuaI differential received by the
trust on refined sugar has been in
creased from 265 cents per hundred
pounds to 67.3 per hundred since the
Dingley law went into effect.
Senator Clay introduced an
amendment to the sugar schedule,
striking out the Dutch standard for
grading sugar and fixing a rate of SO
cents a hundred pounds on sugar,
cane Juice and concrete and con-
centrated molasses, testing by the
polariscopic bove rs degrees and
| for every additional degree two cents
hundred additional; refined sugar
81 a hundred pounds. Molasses not
above 40 degrees 20 per per cent ad
valorem. above 40 degrees and not
| above Sc degrees three cents gall
lon and above Sc degrees six cents
|