The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1912-06-06

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ways and means committee, and then
jammed through the House under the
gag rule. is the comprehensive re
port made by the majority OF the
senate finance committee. Scarcely
no opportunity was permitted by the
democratic managers OF the House
whereby the thousands of American
citizens, whose ruin is spelled in
such legislation, could voice their
protest. The senate report is ready,
and is one Of the ablest documents
that has been presented to congress
ut the present session. Senators Gull
lon Of Illinois, and McCumber of
North Dakota, participated in reach
ing the findings set forth by the ma
iOrity report; which document recon
mends that the present duty on both
raw and refined sugars remain un-
disturbed except for the abolition Of
the Dutch standard and the removal
Of the diffcrential which, as the COM
mittee points out, gives an unfair ad-
vantage to the %refners. Even the
democratic senators were unable TO
swallow the free sugar dose prepared
by the democratic leaders Of the
house, but have recommended merely
a reduction Of 80 ID per cent in the
present duties. The u~ndigested re-
port accompanying the bill in the
house contained some unsupported
declarations, and the democratic
satraps admitted that their bill would
operate i'm the interests of the sugar
trusts and the other %retiners, and de-
clared that the refining industry is
the most important factor connected
with sugar manufacturing in the
United States; therefore the indus
trial position Of refining deserves pri-
mary consideration The senate fl
held extended hearings at which rep
%resentatives of the sugar beet farmers
and manufacturers of seventeen west
ern states, the cane growers Of the
the representatives Of the
industry built up in Rorto Rico,
Hawaii and the Philippines, by the
republican protective policy, and the
pragantnyfv Two. cc A.. rnErnrg &C uyo1I !
al, were heard. In its report the
senate committee says: The rein
ing of imported sugar tends to pro
mote monopoly while the production
domestic sugar mean widespread
competition. The refining industry
is conducted in large units which are
controlled by a few men who fix the
product at will, while it is impossible
to conceive of several hundred beet
or cane sugar factories scattered
throughout a large number of states
being controlled by one body of men"
Continuing the senate report says:
While the refining of imported raw
sugar is merely a process of working
he dirt out of a nearly finished com
modify, the production OF sugar is
both an agricultural and manufacture
ing business, which furnishes much
for labor. Protection to
sugar is first protection to our farm
ars and second to our sugar produc-
In the above statements-one
he snap decision of a few democratic
eaders attempting to throw the sugar
industry of the country into the hands
a small group of millionaire rein
srs, and the other, the deliberative
of republican senators de-
the interests of American
laboiers and manufacturers,
s presented a contrast of party poll
,ies that is seldom eXcelled.
Inasmuch as financial institutions
to furnish information to the
congressional committee investigating
he so-called money trust, the house of
representatives has passed a bill
amending the national banking laws
and giving inquisitorial powers to its
and now that legal OBJ