Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1912-03-07
REPUBLICANS ON WAYS AND
MEANS COMMITTEE SUBMIT
MINORITY REPORT.
DEMOCRATS IN A COMBINE
Charges That the Democratic Party
Had Sold out to the Sugar
Trust and Combine.

WASHINGTON, March 6.-Propos-
ing to rename the democratic free
sugar bill, IAN act to surrender rev.
enue, destroy competition and create
monopoly the republicans on the
ways and means committee Of the
house today submitted a minority re-
port on the Underwood bill, which
will be the next of tariff bills to be
considered by the house.
The report was submitted by Rep
resentative Fordney of Michigan. 1t
charged that there is union be-
tween the sugar trust and the demo-
cratic party and that the free sugar
measure is designed to catch the vot-
es of the consumer and will in time
deliver the consumer to the mercy OF
the sugar trust.
The report reviews In the main the
dissenting views of the republican
members of the Hardwicl sugar trust
investigating committee. 1t gives
credit to the beet sugar inquiry for
holding down the price of sugar dur
ing the advance Of last year and pre-
diets that such a safeguard would be
destroyed If the beet sugar men were
driven out of business.
Fayors the Sugar Trust.
The report asserts that the Under
wood free sugar bill Is the boldest
attempt in the history of our repub-
lie to surrender an important and
growing industry to foreign import
ers," and that is Is the reflners of
imported raw sugar, commonly
known as the sugar trust"
The report asserts that the sugar
beet growing industry would be kill
ed If the beet refineries were forced
to suspend by tariff legislation. There
are 10000 farmers engaged in
growing beets. the report declares
1t comments that 'the democratic
party says to these farmers how they
will make up this reduction by their
substitute, the income tax
Not in the palmiest days of the
trust, when Mr.. Havemeyer ruled its
fortune with rod of iron, and an
bounded only by the con-
fines of this country, did the Ameri-
can Sugar Refinery company ever
such a portion of the sug-
ar business as this bill you'd deliver
into its hands" The assertion that
the Underwood bill will help the |
sugar refiners and destroy the beet
industry is followed by the insinua-
tion that there has been collusion be-
tween the democratic majority and
the sugar trust.
The traiff removal would practical
ly remove every competitor OF tho
sugar trust that exists today.
Collusion Is Charged.
THE Payne-Aldrich bill places an
i'd valorem duty Of 25 per cent on
,one black. In the democratic chem
cal schedule the duty on all items
n this section, except bone black, is
'educed from 25 per cent to so per-
,ent. Bone black is known as essen
ial TO the trust, and yet is to be plac-
ID on the free list.
1T is not one Of the principal items
u eNporls III sugar.
nestle sugar industry.
THE man who uses lamp black in
'ainting his barn must pay a fifteen
'er cent duty on the same, but the
ugar trust that uses millions of
'ounds Of bone black. shall have the
uty removed entirely so that 1t can
import the most expensive material
sed in its business without paying
ny revenue into the national treas
ry.
Now. less than month after the ,
assase OF the chemical schedule the
anne democratic party Introduces ,
III placing sugar on the free list.
eIieving these same refiners Of the
urden of s52.0oO.o0O duty on their
pnstlrn n ated"