The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1912-03-14

members OF the HardW1cK sugar trust
investigating committee. 1t gives cred
II to the beet sugar industry for hold
ing down the price Of sugar during the
advance of last ear and predicts that
such a safeguard would be DESTROYED
IL the beet sugar men were driven out
of business.
The report asserts that the Under
wood free sugar bill is "the boldest
attempt IN the history of our republic
to surrender an important and growing
industry to foreign importers" and
that It is against the domestic sugar
producers and solely in the interest of
the refiners Of imported raw sugar,
commercially known as the sugar
trust"
Industry Would Be Killed.
The report says that the sugar beet
growing industry would be killed II
the beet %refineries were forced to sus-
pend by tariff legislation. There are
liz, 900 farmers engaged in growing
sugar beets, the report declares.
Predicting dire days for the sugar
consumers, the report says:
mot in the palmiest days of the
trust when Mr.. Havemeyer ruled it's
fortunes with a rod of iron and an am
bition bounded only by the confines Of
this country did the American sugar
refining company ever ~monopolize such
a portion of the sugar consumed in the
United States as this bill would de-
liver into it's keeping.
"Thn Doypa A 1dricb b;n ,1ooo. n "
ad valorem duty of % per cent on
bone black. In the Democratic chem
zeal schedule the duty on all items in
this section, except bone black is re-
duced from 25 per cent to Is per cent.
Bone black is taken out of the section
and placed on the free list. Who uses
bone black? Practically no one ex-
cept the sugar refiners. 1t is one of
the principal items of expense in re-
filming sugar"
Panama Bill Is Completed.
The legal machinery for the opera
ton Of the Panama canal and the
transfer of its constructive force to
it's administrative staff was practically
agreed upon at a meeting of the house
committee on interstate and foreign
commerce. The question Of tolls for
the canal was discussed but no cor
clusion reached.
Washington, d. C. - Minister Os-
pima was not recalled as Colombian
minister to the United States as a
result Of the alleged insult to the state
department in an unofficial sugges-
ton that a visit by Secretary Knox
might be "inopportune." Senior Rob-
erto Mac Douall, charge d'affaires Of
the Colombian legation, declared that
Senior Ospina resigned Of his own mi
~tiative, and that the state department
did not receive a special invitation
from Columbia for Mr.. Knox to visit
there.
AS a consequence it is practically
certain that Cartagena will be omitted
from the Knox itinerary.
Senior Mac Douall explained that
Senior Ospina many weeks before the
Knox trip was announced, had applied
for a leave of absence Of three months
on account of the critical illness Of
his wife. The Colombian government
he said, in the midst of the tangle
over the Knox trip, merely granted to
Senior Ospina the leave requested.
Washington, d. c. - The dairy.
men of the country are awakening to
a realization that the Democratic ma
jority in the house is so friendly to
lihAro1 Ian;-Iot;o, t. +ha :t.o3, 80
oleomargarine that a bill is pretty GER
tain to be favorably reported by the
agricultural committee and pass the
house, removing the tax from oleo-
margarine and attempting to prevent
fraudulent substitution of oleomargar-
inc for butter by labels on packages.
The committee probably will vote on
the bill in ten days.
Representative Haughen of Iowa,
who has introduced a bill which rep
resents the wishes of the dairymen,
said that in his opinion, the Demo-
cratic bill giving oleomargarine a bet
ter chance in the trade will pass the
house. Mr.. Haughen has presented
what will come to be known as the
udlly Jill.
The Haughen bill contains two or
three drastic provisions intended to
protect the butter business, chief
among which is the retention of the
proposition that oleomargarine, when
it enters interstate commerce, shall be
subject to the laws Of each state or
territory in which 1t enters, and shall
be liable to seizure II sold in violation
of the laws of such states. The other
proposition is the prohibition of the
use of any milk, cream, butter, or but
ter fat in the production of oleonar-
garine. and another provision Is added
to the special taxes which are i'm
posed upon manufacturers and whole
sale dealers, a clause creating a hotel
or restaurant which serves oleomargar-
ire as a retail dealer, subject to a tax
Of IS a year.. This proposition is that
every person, including keepers of
'sTeloU 'sesnou SuI1Bs snotIsA eseul
restaurants, etc., where food Is sold,
who serves oleomargarine, shall not
only pay the special tax as a retail
dealer, but shall continually display
In the room where cleo is served "a n