The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1910-11-22
Promises President Figures for
Consideration of the Tariff
Board,
WANTS NO DUTY MAINTAINED
will Garry Struggle Against Fed
eraI Refining Company Into
the Next Congress.
By Ernest G. walker.
(Mail Special to The Advertiser.)

WASHINGTON, November A.
While the country has been in the
doldrums over the tariff in recent days,
President Taft has been whacking away
at the work of his tariff board. No
one doubts this has been, in some
measure, for political effect but it is
quite certain that this will be continu-
ed after the election. There may be
less publicity about it and the Presi.
dent may not favor so many newspaper
paragraphs from the White House re-
garding the particular phases of tariff
investigation that his board is consider.
ing.
Almost ever since the President re-
turned from Beverly, there have been
visitors constantly at the White House
on some tariff law investigation errand
Some of these have apparently come of
their own volition, as did William
Whitman, of Massachusetts, to him at
Beverly, asking for opportunity to pre-
sent his side of the case about duties
ON wool and woolens. The President
has referred all inquiries to the tariff
board, although he has been ready to
discuss with callers various aspects of
the tariff law that he might gain in.
formation regarding the tariff siela-
tion.
viii Present the Case.
The President decided without regard
to the outcome of the elections, to have
something to say in his annual message
about the work of the tariff board
Whether there was to be a Democratic
house or a Republican house he wanted
to put the situation anew before the
American people and to further public
sentiment in behalf of revision by
schedule Then a further appropriation
for the tariff board viii be necessary
from congress at its next session anC
probably such an appropriation will no
be voted without contest.
Duty on Sugars.
The critics of the tariff have mad
more or less of an outcry, led by Sena
tor Bristow, of Kansas, against the du
: ties on sugar. Some months ago tn
President had some correspondents
with Claus A. Spreckels, president o
the Federal Sugar Refining Company
ON that subject. More than a year ag
Mr.. Spreckels, as the head of this in
dependent company, told the ways an,
means committee of the house, that b
would be well satisfied if duties wer
removed both from raw and refine,
sugar.
Mr. Spreckels evidently intends t.
carry the fight against the American
Sugar Refining Company before con
'gress again. He called to see the Presi
dent the other day and promised t
supply some data for the tariff board
consideration. Some of this informs
tion may be gathered by Mr.. Spreckel
during trip abroad.
81 hope all the sugar duties will b
removed by the sixty.seeond congress,
said Mr.. Spreckels as he left the Whit
House.
No Independent Sellers.
In his ways and means testimony
Mr.. Spreckels declared that the Amer
can Sugar Refining Company had cor
tracts with the Louisiana sugar grow
ers at two.thirds of a cent a pound les
than the New York price and that hi
company was nevertheless unable t
buy raw sugar in Louisiana, for cas-
and for price in advance of the loci
rate. In the same testimony he ais
in Hawaii that the planters there mad
$l5,OOO,0O0 oIt of their product @
100000 tons, Notwithstanding the fac
that they had sold all the crop to I'll
trust at from one and one tenth to OF
and three-eighths cents a pound und,
the New York price He contends thu
the beet sugar growers need no prote
tion, as when their factories are prope
ly located they can produce granulat,
sugar at two and half cents q poun
Full-Fledged Board.
The President has had a number
conferences of late with men who a
interested in establishing a full-hedg,
tariff commission, in place of the pre-
ent board, which has authority to I
port only to him. John G.. Cobb, !
Boston, chairman of committee
the national manufacturers associatio
interested in that subject has recent
been to see the President, as has Hen
II. Towne, of New York, head of
organization working for the same o
ject. When he has returned from Pa
anna the President win hold furth
conferences with prominent friends
the tariff commission idea and W
make an address before d large gat
ering of business men, who are eomi
to Washington in January to hold
meeting.
The Big Topic.
With the elections over, tariff leg
latiop promises TO loom up rs the lal
est lawmaking topic. While no reyisi
Of the tari6 in any particular can
expected for moro than a year, Wa,
ington viii palsate with discussion
the subject. The President has mo
than two years Of his present term
mining and whatever party fore
changes In the Aldrich.Payne law,
win be in a position 20 exert much
hnence in shaping the new statu
Even N q combination ~ Dem0era
and insurgents in the senate shou