Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1913-07-14
SAY TARIFF
!. BILL SURE TO
PASS SENATE
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Colleagues Claim Senators
Thornton, RansdeIl and
49,. Walsh viii Vote
For It a
By C. S. ALBERT.
SPEECH star BuIIetIn Correspondence

!. WASHINGTON, d. c., June 30
The fixing by the senate finance
committee of March ], 1914, as the
date when the reduction of duty on
refined sugar shall drop to cent per
pound was made as a concession to
the cane growers of Louisiana A
request to that effect was fled when
the Underwood bill first came over
from the house. ut was renewed by
Senator Ransdeil, when he made his
speech before the Democratic caucus
in opposition to free sugar. The ma
iority members of the finance COM
mittee after considering the matter
from all viewpoints decided to accept
the proposition.
In the same connection it was spe-
officially stated that the date on
which the placing of sugar on the
years hence, will not be in any way
affected by continuing distinguishes
until March /, 1914 Sugar will go to
the free list as originally planned.
The concession will enable the
planters to dispose of the present
crops under the Payne-Aldrich rates,
instead of the lower ones arranged
in the Underwood BILL 1t is held
that this will enable the Louisiana
planters to meet their obligations in
bank and save themselves from utter
bankruptcy at the beginning.
Hawaii will receive the benefit of
the same concession, but was given
little thought in the making of it.
Hawaii does not have two senators
and cannot be depended. upon to as
sist the administration in passing its
legislative policies.
The opinion is now freely ex-
pressed on all sides that Senators
Ransdell and Thornton will both
vote for the Underwood bill when it
comes to final passage. They will
hold out to- the last minute in their
opposition to free sugar, but when
that calamity is out of the way, their
support may be given the measure as
completed. Senator Ransdell has
given an intimation to this purport.
Senator Thornton will retire from
public life in less than two years and
it is believed he will fall into line If
his colleague does so.
The hopelessness of the sugar situ-
alton began to materially develop
when Senator Walsh made it perfect
ly plain to some of his closest friends
that he would not further carry his
opposition to free sugar. He would
not bolt the tariff bill because of it.
He was regarded as the strongest
man in the opposition and the one
most likely to, cooperate with the
Republicans in an attempt to prevent
the free-listing of sugar. When he
began to weaken there was little
hope of success left.
Senator Snaff~oth of Colorado has
followed the same lines as MIR.
Walsh. All his intimate associates
declare that he will not go beyond
the caucus i'll fighting free sugar.
This process of elimination brings
the basis OF hope down to Senators
Newlands, Hitchcock and TnompsC-i.
1t is useless to place reliance in them
so far as continuing an uphill fight
against free sugar is concerned. 1t
is safe to predict that all three will
stand squarely by the Underwood bill
Gtilu =ltGAt H. SOlbtek4ho dlSSuE-
sion begins in the senate.
A proposition to make free sugar
effective along with other items in
the Underwood bill was started inn
mediately after the fierce caucus
fight. 1t was based on the theory
that President Wilson informed the
sugar people that if they would ac-
cept free sugar with good grace they
would be allowed three years on a
1 cent basis to readjust their bust
ness to the coming conditions. By
reason of the lobby disclosures and
the desperate three days fight in the
Democratic caucus, it was held by
many senators that the sugar people
had not accepted the presidents offer
with any sort of good grace. They
suggested change whereby sugar
would be Immediately placed on the
free list as punishment.
This view did not meet with much
favor except from few of the more
radical ones. 81 <.tf. IL,