The Hawaiian gazette., 1912-06-04
PROVISIONS Of
THE LODGE BILL
sMooT RESERVES RIGHT TO
PRESENT HIS BILL AS
SUBSTITUTE.

WASHINGTON, May 1.-THE senate
finance committee today authorized
Senator Lodge to favorably report his
substitute for the house free sugar bill.
The Lodge Bin would eliminate the
differential and the Dutch Standard.
Senator Cullom was authorized to re-
port the house excise measure ad-
versely.
The Lodge substitute for the house
sugar bill would retain the present
duties. When it was presented Senator
Simmons offered as an amendment the
substitute prepared by the Democratic
members of the finance committee. The
Simmons substitute would reduce the
duties to the extent of about one-third
from the existing law and would elimin-
ate the Dutch Standard and the diff
ferential. This Democratic provision
was voted down by strict party vote
of to and the Lodge Bill was
adopted by 8 to 6.
Smoot Reserves Right.
Senator Smoot, who has bill of his
own to lower the sugar rates, voted
with the other Republicans for the
Lodge Bill, but reserved the right to
present his measure in the senate. The
Sm0Ot measure is similar to the Lodge
Bill except that it would reduce the
rate to about $1.T0 per hundred pounds.
The Democratic bill would fix a rate
of sixty-three cents hundred on sugar
of seventy-five degrees in grade and
would add twenty-four one-thousands
of one cent per pound for each addi-
tional degree of fneness. All of the
bills would reserve the twenty per cent
discount ON Cuban sugar.
The committee postponed it's vote on
the wool tariff revision bill from next
Tuesday until next Thursday, May 90.
The Democrats gave notice of sub
stitute for the house chemical tariff
revision bill, on which they expect to
add indigo, Chinese nut oil and other
products to the free list
There was no time suggested by the
committee for vote in the senate on
any of the tariff bills, nor any renewed
effort toward effecting adjournment of
congress before the national party con-
ventions in June.
The sugar and excise reports later
were presented to the senate by Messrs.
Lodge and Cullom. Senator Simmons
announced that he would report for the
minority on these measures as soon as
possible.
Substance of Lodge Bill.
The Lodge substitute sugar bill would
take effect six months after its passage,
and would apply to all articles it emu
merates when imported from any for
eign country "into the United States
or into any of its possessions, except
the Philippines and Tutuila.'' It would
not in any way impair or affect the
commercial reciprocity treaty with
Cuba.
1t provides:
"Sugars, tank bottoms, sirups or
cane juice, melada, concentrated melada,
concrete and concentrated molasses,
testing by the poiariscope not above
seventy-fve degrees, 95-100 of one cent
per pound, and for each additional
degree shown by the polariscope test,
$4,000 of one cent per pound addi-
tional, and fractions of a degree in pro-
portion; molasses not above forty de-
grees, twenty per cent ad valorem;
above forty and not above ffty-six
degrees, three cents per gallon; above
fifty-six degrees, six cents per gallon;
sugar DRAWINGS and sugar sweepings
subject to duty as molasses or sugar,
according to polariscope test"
Every bag, barrel or parcel in which
sugar testing less than ninety nine de-
grees is packed would be plainly
branded with the name of the manu-,
facturer or refner and the polariscope
test accurately stated within one-half
of one degree, under the misbranding
penalty of the pure food and drug law.
/ The requirements of this section would
not apply to any sugars shipped or
delivered to a refiner to be refined be-
fore entering into consumption.
Other Sugars and sirups.
The second section prescribes:
"Maple sugar and maple sirup, -four
cents per pound; glucose or grape sugar
one and one-half cents per pound; sugar
cane in its natural state or manufac.
tured, twenty per centum ad valoremj
sugar cane defeated, shredded, artifi
cially dried or which has been subjected
to any manufacturing or other process
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