The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1912-07-28
REGULAR AND PROGRESSIVE RE-
PUsLIcANs AGREE ON A.
3o-cENT REDUCTION.
LODGES DIRE PROPHECY
"One Year After Abolishinq Sugar
Duties, Domestic Industry Will Be
Dead and Consumer Will Be the
Sufferer"

washington, July Zt.-An agreement
between regular and progressive re-
publicans was reported today for the
passage of tariff bill fixing a duty
of $3.50 per hundred pounds in place
of the present rate of $1.90 on sugar.
The pact which, it was believed would
hold throughout the day, provided
that the progressives should stand
with the regular republicans, desert
ing their previous alliance with the
democrats.
When the senate convened it was
the belief of those favoring a revi3-
ion that a measure below the level
favored by the regular republican
forces would be adopted.
Democrats Stand for Williams Bill
The democrats were determined not
to endorse the house free sugar bill,
but to stand behind the Williams bill
for a reduction of one-third in the
existing tariff rates. Failing in this it
was expected that they would join
the progressives in passing the orig
nal Bristow bill.
Senator Williams, in a report in be-
half of the democratic members of
| the finance committee today support
| ing his bill, said the senate democrats
| could not endorse free sugar because
they believed the sugar tariff is one
| of the big revenue producers Of the
present law.
The report added that while the
democratic house had reduced other
tariffs about one-third, it had attempt
ed to wipe out all duties on sugar.
1T seemed to u.s." said the Williams
report, that this was not in keeping
with the promise of democratic plat
forms to reduce present protective
duties gradually toward and finally to
a revenue basis. We have seen no
reason why sugar should have been
excepted from the general policy ad-
vocated by the democratic party and
believed by US to be right
Mr.. Lodge endorsed a substitute
bill he had reported from the finance
committee, which would abolish the
Dutch standard test and the tariff
differentials of the present law.
The house free sugar bill, the SEN
third reduction in the present tariff,
the Bristow bill for a reduction slight
ly less than this, and other amend.
ments were before the senate when
the fight began. A final vote was
scheduled to be taken before the end
of the day.
Senator Lodge declared that one
year after abolishing sugar duties, the
domestic industry would be dead and
the consumer would be paying ex-
orbitant prices.
$50 far as l have been able to
learn" exclaimed the senator, the
movement for free sugar outside Of
congress has come from one of the
three great sugar refineries of the
country and from that source alone.
''The American Sugar Refining
company and the Arbuckles have not
appeared in this campaign for free
sugar, but the Federal Company, be-
longing to the Spreckles interests, has
spent money employing agents, and
lobbyists, distributed broadcast
throughout the country circulars filled
with statements more or less false,
and has urged the removal Of the
duties on sugar.
The so-called independent refiners
who are denouncing the present du-
ties on sugar, claim that they are
fighting the trust, although aside from
whatever interest it may have in the
domestic industry, the interests of the
trusts are identical with all other re-
iners."