The Hawaiian gazette., 1913-05-13
SUGAR MAKERS ARE ..n
playing FQR DELAY
Doing Everything in Their Power
to stave Off Application
@ag dcof New Tariff. ~

to Stave OFF Application
@'ag dcof New Tariff. 2
tBy Federal Wireless re egraph)
WASHINGTON, May l0,-(special
to The Advertiser "A radical amend
lnent to the Democratic Tariff Bill was
proposed to the house. majority lender,
Representatives Underwood today by
senator Simmons Of North Caralina,
ehairmap of the senate finance com
nittee. II is reported that presidept
Wilson approves the plan, .li,,ee
The amendment proposed would give
Secretary eof the Treasury McAdoo
authority TO lnoLlaim fixed standards
of value for the assessment of duties,
irrespective of price fluctuations OF
foreign markets. Such standard5 wpHld
he. iu, force on fifteen days notice and
could not be changed without sixty
days notice TO i.iportns, stis6
: The change is designed to avoid
aon1usi9n in the change to an ad
yalorem system of assessing values Of
Imports adopted in the Underwood Bill
from the specific system of the Payne
Law.
1t il believed such action would
avoid much litigation and appeals
from decisions of customs appraisers.
WASHINGTON, April 2S.-ThfOuph
one apparently small concession the SUI
gar interests hope to stave off free SUI
gar ana perhaps defeat it altbgethet,
Deserted by fhe wool Interests and
hopeless of defeating the free sugar
clause i'll thkltJdderwood 3fjll, ,sth6'shsai
a,eii are 1beItiia&s aIlI IthBr energies to-
.waid pbtainingsa ga delay in tile ,aaflica-
ton Of the new s,igan tariff, Hhey Want
the Aldrjeb,Paype rates to- continue on
sugar until February \, id9IA.s Ab3tfsat
time they eonaede ,thpt, the rlInderwDod
rates must .be applied to s,,gar, bringing
about an, immediate lredpction of about
Twenty-Five per cent. Free sugar, ttheS
seem to think, will inevitably be proyid-
ed for, becoming effective three years
after February I'l9fJdAggAaRTA
TlhIsaM,lssT The sM,lsssT TfSiss fiss sSEEsntSzno oHgumedt
4 fbfs. .ialag MAH application of the Ur.
derwooi rates,a Durihg helprbseiit. cane
and Beet growing season. there's Wili liinec.
essarily be uncertainty as to the shfga,
tariff. Sugar beet factofiesi especially
are puzzled to know under what eondi.
tions and at what prices they ean Con
tract with farmefsi The canen growers
of Louisiana are helpless because cane
growing is long time operation. They
planted seed last fall with, the under
standing that hee sugar would find nc
| nla in nfnt Ia
vill give the first crop OF cane the com
ing fall and will give second crop in
the fall of 1914 sug3r cane seed being
good for two successive crops.
If the sugar clause of the Underwood
Bill becomes effective Immediately ac
cording to this argument, the lower
rates will be reflected in less favorable
price conditions for marketing the croI
of this year. The Underwood Bill will
become effective about September ] il
not before. i'
TWO --ITWO - TWO 80 TWO
Would Not Disturb Conditions.
The domestic sugar making campaign
begins the latter part of October oil
early in November and continues al
least through January, therefore the
Underwood rates will nit the domestic
sugar industry almost as soon as Presi
4 dent Wilson signs the bill. The fail
thing. say the domestic sugar men, i:
to Keen conditions updisturbed for the
present growing season and the coming
sugar making campaign.
The senate finance committee. it Is
understood. has been strongly impre,sat
by this argument At lelst majority
| af hn m
to authentic information. wishes t.
grant the sugar men "this one httl,
concession in view of the severe iol
which sugar is receiving in the bill
SO it is planned that Senator Simmons
chairman of the finance committee, an'
perhaps other members of that com
| mittce, shall confer with Chairman I'm
derwood within a few days. They viii
sound Underwood on this schedul
i chiefly, but there are other items wit
regard to which thev think there ough
lie be delayed applieatiemcof theaJin
d96weoi Yates. sgstt tyisss zysrbr :
s.o Proposal is LOADED. srtr
4 This innocent looking proposal ]:
loaded, when yiewed from the stand
point of the administration. ~
The sugar men haven't taken mucl
pains to explain their ultimate hone
hut here it is: As the Underwood Bill
stands now, with the sugar clause Of
feetive upon passage, sugar would be
come free on or about September I
1916, the year of the presidential elee
ton. With the anplication of the I'm
derwood rates DELAYED nntit February
l, 1914. sugar would not become FIRE,
until February I, 1917, fhree month
after the presidential election. ShouiC
the free sugar Demoeracy be defeate,
in 1916 there would be ample oppor
tunity to convene the congress in extri
session. make tariff changes and havl
sngar protected again by the fall o
1917. II this series of events SHOULD
work out iacesrdipg TO the hopes o
the sUpar man, tine Underwood HI
wruld have the practical effect oplv o
reducing the sng1r tariff hy twenty iv,
ner cent. q reduction which is not litcl'
to plt out Of business any factory hav