The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1912-02-09
FOREIGN NATIONS
CONTROL SUGAR.
COST or COMMODITY THROUGH.
!. !. OUT THE WORLD SHOWS a
GENERAL INCREASE.
KNOX MAKES A REPORT
Resolution to Prevent Third Term 10,
Roossys,t sidetraeked in the
House.-other News d
Congress. Il

nouSS.-OIner NEWS OF
@ Congress.
Washington. Feb. 7.-Sugar. univer.
sally consumed and universally taxed.
is subjected to government control D
regulation as to price in almost every
country and to varying trade methods
as we'll. reported Secretary of State
knox in a letter which President Taft
forwarded to congress.
Retail prices OF sugar. varying even
in different localities in the same
country, generally showed an increase
throughout the world between July
and November last. attributed to the
.shrinkage in the Cuban cane crop and
prospective shortage in the best crops
of Europe The increase ranged from
/ to 3 cents a pound, averaging about
2 cents on ordinary white sugar. The
great range Of price : quotations 10
shown by the IA cents a pound
charged in Italy and Spain and S cents
in Glasgow. Scotland.
Secretary Knox said that in Spain,
WucIC liz July luASeN duSOu " W
10 cents. actual decreases even took
place in some cities.
In Russia, where large surplus
stocks had been carried over from the
preceding seasons, the government
kept the price unchanged. The sugar
combination in Sweden, which had
been enforcing a high price prior to
kl.~ ~oh~,nol x1rCnj~nn,, ~, tive ~
supply. found 1t difficult to make in.
creaSes. So
Control in Persia Absolute.
Russia exercises absolute control
ove the prices in. the. empire. Trade
guilds in Japan and Brazil Individually
assert the right to manipulate prices.
The Argentine republic fixes prices by
law. In Canada. Montreal %retineries
control the situation. In Sweden retail
dealers combine to keep the price just
low enough to make imports unprofit.
able.
The United Kingdom, the Neither
lands. Belgium. Switzerland. Greece
and Peru treat sugar solely as .
source of venue Sweden, Roumania,
Japan, Mexico. Brazil, Chile and the
Union of South Africa subject sugar
to high import duties to protect and
develop domestic industries. with sec
ondary regard to the emu
Russia. Spain, Italy. Canada and
Denmark treat 1t as a means Of foster
ing native production and Of providing
for national
A,.k,io .L Cou-.-.. ..l
France, signatory to the Brussels con.
ference, which abolished bounties on
production. may lie said to form q
class by themselves in their treatment
of sugar in relation to import duties.
Thus Austria-tIungary, Germany and
France hold in allegiance their regular
tariff rates in so far as they exceed
the SO cents a 100 pounds avoirdupois
which the conference permits as the
maximum import duty allowed above
their excise duties. Some of these
also remit the excise taxes on sugar
when imported and Franco and Portu.
gal give sugar from their colonies
preferential treatment.
Liability Bill 10 Passed.
A. house bill extending to the en-.
ployes' of the bureau Of mines the right
to receive compensation from the gov.
eminent for injuries received while ON
duty, was passed by the senate.
The house of representatives avoid.
ed going on record on presidential
third terms. Just at the moment when
the Slayden resolution aimed primar.
lily at, Colonel Theodore Roosevelt
seemed about to pass. a shrewd par
liamentary turn displaced the meas
ure from further consideration.
The slayden resolution sought to ex.
press the opinion OF the house, that
|thS example OF Washington. In retiring
af.ser a second term had BY universal
concurrence become the time konorsd
custom Of the country. . violation OF
which would be fraught with peril 70
free institutions.