The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1912-07-28
TARIFF
|sCALED DOWN
IBY THE SENATE
Iepublican Regulars and Pro-
kressives Get Together and
Frame Schedule President
Will Probably Sign.
STANDARD is
REPEALED BY BILL
ifferential Also Eliminated;
pss of Revenue S5,OOo,OOO, |
While Saving to People Will |
Amount to s25,ooo,ooo.
ITCH STANDARD is
REPEALED BY BILL
International News Service.

international News Service.
AT AsHINGTON, July 27.-The Re
M publican regulars and progress
. sives got together on a tariff
Ia bill for the first time during
h cungress today in committee of the
loIe and passed the sugar schedule
+ The tariff bill as prepared by SEN
~ Bristow. Every Republican and
1sto.s Foster and Thornton, the two
|nocrats from Louisiana, the cane
nsr state, voted for it, All other
|nocratic votes were cast for the Will
Ius substitute. The bill was put
.oneh by a vote Of 81 to 25.
Under the terms of the bill adopted
\ (which Senator Burton stated in
4 course of the debate that the presl-
ot would approve, the duty on pure
La is reduced from $l.9o a hundred
1nds, as in the present law, to Sl-6O.
& differential, which has given the
&t 7is cents on every hundred
unds OF sugar. is eliminated, as also
@ho Dutch standard, under which the
Et has been enabled to compel every
Lid of light colored sugar imported
|osy the same duty as refined.
Reduce Trust Profits.
be net saving to the consumer may
be visible in these figures, but it
ErRued that the bill will very ma-
11Ily reduce the enormous profits Of
sugar trust in the future.
tere is u concession Of 90 per cent
.uears imported from Cuba. Senator
row this afternoon, after the bill
been passed. pointed out that the
Of all sugars imported come from
island, which will bring the rate
Cuban sugars down to about S1.2o |
hundred pounds.
>reful computations based on the i'm
ations of 1911 show that loss IN
nue OF approximately $1,000, 900 per
will result through this reduced |
but Senator Bri5tow asserts that |
AMERICAN consumer will save more |
e25, 100000 annually.
'<ch Standard Test.
Ae elimination Of the Dutch stand
has long been fought for and a
&ple struggle along this line was
~ during the Payne-Aldrich bill
~ when Senator Bristow devoted
days to an exhaustive review of
5uRar question, endeavoring to
to the senate that this one pro.
m was of incalculable advantage
Dne sugar refineries. Under that pro-
Jpn, no matter how pure a brown
IT might be, the Dutch color stand
was what it was measured by and
z 1efiners got hold Of it for pur-
4 OF refining. Under the proposed
au sugars will pay duty on their
: {.pse purity and the light browns
! pen purity, 30 common years ago,
3 3 Itpiy VIII again be found In the
Y y to' democrats stood by the Williams |
. ~ tonR as 1t had any parliamentary
fB II was rejected when it was
7o as substitute for the Lodge
- Dill by vote of s6 to %,
9 g''ors Foster and Thornton again re-
xort r.
Sndments Defeated.
nator McCumber attempted TO put
0fspeal Of the reciprocity law with
0vlsion fixing the duty on print
- RON Canada at s2 a tom, as Al
s 70 this bill, but IN view Of the
8 'nat che president Will approve this
! fe IL 1T ever reaches him, the
z = refused to support tho repeal
ii 'tion, and it was rejected, 80 to|
>. faor to this Mr.. Bacon sought to
II tne McCumber amendment 30 rs
np'nne the provisions for free
B paper This was defeated 81
II 1torts to amend tho compromise
~ ncan-progresaive bill having
On Its final passage, IL was
go oy a vote Of Sc to 8. The neg.
- .otes were cast by Senators Fos-
~ Thornton. Democrats, of Louis.
@nd Hepburn, Republican, of
4 hours Of debate preceded this
~ SoAfinlIed on Page Two.)