The Hawaiian gazette., 1912-05-21
SENATE FAVORS
LODGE SUGAR
BILL
Will Do Away With
Dutch Standard
Tests.
LILLE EFFECT HERE
Serious Reductions
Not Contemplated
in Measure.
LILLE EFFECT HERE


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: WASHINGTON. May H. 9
q Ths seuate iuanee COMMITTEES .
= haf authorizes favorable re- =
q porf on tle Lodge Sugar bll,
. eliminating fle df-feutial Do
. favor Of rehned and the Duteh /.
:, STANDARD Otherwise the tarih (.
q is unchanged
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sssenate fnanse committee has So
tbofized fasDfz0ie report on the Lo1ge
ssLstifute sbIrd retains the present
dusies end eliminate liEereBfiaI and
fls Dutel standard. Received illl gts
Republican present La FsIeite absent,
Demoeratis biI prgsidsi sgr duty %
cents 90 1seIers and for -3IyyJ q .
cent ser foalG fof e-eL additional d..
gfee. - Uas l0tal loHa ~ q party
vote. BOtl pfoIgfitl0ls VII BE- offered
81 she senate aad probably also the
BfistOs and rHDD' D.lls
The abggs d. cable received yes-
tefGaF bg Alexander d Baldwin from
the NeN T0rz Office, reEar4iIg the ae,
tion being taken in eDDgfess IN the
matter Os tae sugar tann. u indicates
sifusf5sB farDFab.e ~ Hawaiian IN,
tefests, for Hawaii j. little concerned
in either fhe Dutch STANDARD Or the
preferential. al1 neither the Demo
cratic bili referred 70 nor tse Bristo0
of BmoOt bile clt the tariff very heay.
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Dutch standard Pau.
The Dutch standard appears 10 be
doomed ia sHy event. j. las been a
source u much debate, and has been
much Of . puzzle, for many years. u
ig, ~ bfIef. = color test for sugars i'm
ported into the United States. II wa'
adopted Dy the United states IN 1861.
an over the world sugar men have
q set Of the jars Of sugar which form
the basis II the Dutch standard tests.
There IL q sei 10 the Ufiee Of the Sugar
FaetOTs Company here, and in other
Offices Of sugar corporations. They con.
sist Of 3 number Of small jars filed
with sugar u different eOlOrs, labeled
from eight 70 twenty-five. The quality
Of sugar, and its proportion Of duty
under the tariff Law, is settled In part
by the color testify its comparison
10 eOlOr. with the various standard
samples contained in the little number
ed iafs, They range in color from q
very dark brown 70 nearly perfect
white.
The United States. ike other cOun
tries, has accepted this standard test foi
many years past, bat the cables from
Washington show clearly that it Is nov
about 10 be abandoned.
Other Test Applies Here.
HaNaii's sugar has been sold foI
many years under the polarization test
which ls d chemical test 10 show the
purity Of the product, and the genera
proposition Of sale u sugar from herr
Ii On the basis Of 90 degrees purity
D. shown by this chemical test.
The piferential.
The dlherential tahh provision re
feYTed ~ IN the cables has 70 do Will
refined sugars imported through th'
eHftGmiDuses, and therefore does no
directly affect Hawaii, though II ma.
have sn eIeet on the general suga
market. u n d chemical test, where
by he tam On refined y graded s
The eGsi1mhOBses, according 20 tb
HssTAess ~ the product 20 an idca
standard n 800 per cent purity
10 serious Reductions
Manager a, ~. HOWall, III the Auga
Faet0fs COMPANY, bas Kept careful IA
IN tle gafi6us sugar bids Introduce
gBd bis figures indicate, lH view Oi u
latest eaDlf aqUffsj ibai ngDe ~ y
bills uHdeF discussion ln tho ssnnt
N0Diq make AHH disastrous change
no situation, The sugar taBH ls no
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