The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1912-03-07
NEW NAME FOR
THE SUGAR BILL
An Act to Create Monopoly
And Destroy c Competition
Is Suggested

washington, March 7.-PropoSinR
to rename the Democratic free sugar
bill "an act to surrender revenue. de-
stroy competition and create mono
and means committee of the house to-
day submitted q minority report on
the Underwood bill which will be the
next of the tariff bills to be consider
ed by the house. ..'''..
The report was submitted by Rep
resentative Fordney of Michigan. II
charges that there is = union between
the sugar trust and the Democratic
party and that the free sugar meas.
the consumer and will in time deliver
the consumer to the mercy Of the
sugar trust. .
The report reviews in the main the
dissenting views Of the Republican
members Of the Hardwick sugar trust
investigating committee. 1t gives
credit to the beet sugar industry for
holding down the price Of sugar dur
ing the advance Of last year and pre-.
diets that such a safeguard would be
destroyed If the beet sugar men are
driven out Of business.
The report asserts that the Under
wood free sugar bill is 'the boldest
attempt in the hisory of our republic
to surrender an important and grow
ing industry to foreign impoters." and
that 1t Is against the domestic sugar
producers and solely in the interest
Of the refiners Of important raw sugar,
commercially known as the sugar
trust"
The report asserts that the sugar
beet growing industry would be kill
ed II the best refineries were forced
to suspend by tariff legislation.
There are $4,000 farmers engaged in
growing supar beets, the report de-
clares and 1t comments that "the
Democratic party says to these farm
ers: We propose to ask you pay for
this reduction in the tariff on sugar"
Predicting dire days for the sugar
, consumer. the report says:
mot in the palmiest days Of the
trust when Mr.. Haveneyer ruled its
fortunes with a rod Of iron and an
ambition bounded only by the confines
Of this country did the American Sug-
ar Refining company ever monopolize
such a portion Of the sugar consumed
in the United States as this bill would
deliver into its keeping"
The assertion that the Underwood
bill will help. the sugar refiners and
destroy the beet industry Is followed
by the insinuation that there has been
collusion between the Democratic ma
jority and the suPar trust. In charg-
ing that the beneiciaries Of the tar
III removal will be the sugar reflners,
the report makes this specification:
ANOTHER evidence Of the closenesa
Of the union between the Democratic
party and the sugar trust is found
in the chemical schedule recently
passed by the unanimous vote of the
Democratic representatives and op-
posed by the unanimous vote Of the
Republican representatives.
"The Payne-Aldrich bill places an
ad valorem duty Of twenty-five Der
cent on bone black. In the Demo-
cratic chemical schedule the duty on
all items in this section. except bone
black is reduced from twenty-five per
cont. Bone black is taken out of the
section and placed on the free list.
Who. uses bone black? Practically no
one except the sugar reflners. It ID
one Of the principal items Of expense
In refining sugar.
'Not pound 10 used In the domea-
tic sugar industry.
''The man who uses lamp black IN
painting his barn must pay fifteen
sugar trust that uses millions OF
pounds Of bone black shall have the
duty removed entirely 30 that it can
import the most expensive material
used In its business without paying
any revenue into the national treas
l"Now less than . month after the
passage. Of the chemical schedule, the
same Democratic party introduces q
bill placing sugar on the free list, re-
lieving' these same "rehners of the bur.
den Of 362.000.000 duty on their raw
sugar. Thus the union has been con-