Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1912-03-07
MINORITY REPORT
ON FREE SUGAR
SCHEDULE
MEASURE DENOUNCED
AS SCHEME OF TRUST
Republicans Propose to Name
1t Act to Surrender Revenue,
Destroy Competition and to
Create Monopoly.
tBy Morning Journal special Leased wir..I

tBy Morning journal Special Leased Wirs.1
Washington March 6.-Proposing
to rename the democratic free sugar
I'LL IAN act to bartender revenue.
destroy competition and create
monopoly" the republicans OF the
ways and means committee of the
house, today submitted minority re-
port on the Underwood bill.
The report submitted by Repre-
sentative Fordney, OF Michigan,
charges a union between the sugar
trust and the democratic party. and
that the free sugar measure is de-
signed to catch the votes of the con-
sumner, and will. in time. deliver the
consumer to the mercy of the sugar
trust.
The report gives credit to the beet
sugar industry for holding down the
price of sugar during the advance or
last year, and predicts that such a
safeguard would be destroyed If the
beet sugar men were driven out of
business.
The report asserts that the Under
wood free sugar bill Is the boldest
attompt in the history of our republic
to surrender an important and grow
ing industry to foreign importers"
and that it is against the domestic
terest of the refiners of imported raw
sugar, commercially known as the
sugar trust"
The report says that the sugar beet
growing industry would be killed VI
the beet refineries We're forced to
suspend by tariff legislation. There
aIe 1I2,U00 farmers engaged IN
growing sugar beets. the report adds,
and it comments that "the democratic
party says TO these farmers. we pro-
pose to make you pay for this re-
duction In the tariff on sugar.
Predicting dire days for the sugar
consumer. the report says:
Not in the palmiest days of the
trust. when Mr.. Havemeyer ruled its
fortunes with rod of iron and an
ambition bounded only by the con-
fines of this country, did the Amer
lean Sugar Refining Company ever
mc nopolze such II portion OF the
sugar consumed in the United States
as this bin wGuld deliver into It's
kecping.''
The assertion that the Underwood
bill would help the sugar refners
and destroy the beet industry is fol-
lowed by the insinuation that there
has been colluson between the demo-
cratic majority and the sugar trust.
In charging that the beneficinrics of
the tariff removal will be the sugar
refners, the report makes this
specification:
Another evidence of the close
ness of the union between the demo-
cratic party and the sugar trust IL
found in the chemical schedule Pa
Gently passed by the unanimous vote
of the democratic representatives and
~ l.xt nj N. .f rn
publican representatives.
"The Payne-Aldrich bin places an
ad valorem duty of 20 per cent on
bone black. In the democratic
chemical schedule, the duty on all
items i'm this section. except bone
black. ~ reduced from 20 per cent to
Is per cent. Bone black is taken out
of the section and placed on the free
list. Who uses bone black? Prac-
tically no one except the sugar re-
timers 1t is one of the principal
items of expense in refinin" sugar.
Not pound is used in the do
nestle sugar industry.
The man who uses lamp black in
painting his barn must pay fifteen
per cent duty on the same. but the
sugar trust. that uses millions Of
pounds of bone black shall have the
duty removed entirely so that IT can
import the most expensive material
in its business without paying reve-
nue. into the national treasury.
Now. less than month after the
passage of the chemical schedule. the
same democratic party introduces "a
bill placing sugar on the free list re-
lieving these same refiners of the
burdens of s52.000.0OO duty on their
raw sugar. Thus the union has been