The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1915-02-13
SOME INTERESTING
FIGURES


FIGURES
In a recent address in Congress
Senator George Sutherland of Utah,
gave the following interesting figures
on the present administration:
The first important measure that
we had to deal with was the tariff
bill. Senators came from States vi
tally interested in preserving a duty
upon sugar. Some of them, If ! am
credibly informed, had substantially
promised their constituents that they
would stand for duty upon sugar;
timent of those communities was in
favor of duty upon sugar. The
necessities of the State demanded
that the duty should be preserved;
but, one by one, they yielded their
convictions and set aside the needs
OF their constituents In order to
follow the command of the President.
So the duty upon sugar was first re-
duced, and then. to take effect at a
date in the future, 1t was put upon
the free list.
The same thing may be said of
wool. | undertake to say, without
doubt In my own mind as to the
truth of the assertion, that a clear
majority of both Houses of Congress
believed that there should be some
duty retained both upon sugar and
upon wool. Why, Mr. President, it
Ito good Democratic doctrine and good
Republican doctrine to maintain du.
ties upon those two articles. True,
the reasons for the maintenance OF
the duty are different with the two
parties. The Republican party be-
lieves in maintaining them in order
TO protect and foster those industries.
The Democratic party believes in
maintaining the duties as Il means of
raising revenue. The Treasury of
the United States is in depleted
condition. We have been compelled
to resort to extraordinary taxation
We have provided for the collection
OF an emergency revenue miscalled a
war revenue measure, because we
are not at war; but we have been
compelled to pass an emergency
measure to collect by extraordinary
taxation sl00.000.0OO a year. Why,
Mr.. President, We are losing half
that sum upon these two articles
alone. We were collecting until the
free wool clause of the Underwood
bill went into operation, s35, 000, 900
year from the duties upon wool;
We were collecting between $50, 1000.
600 and sG0,000000 year from the
duties upon sugar. So, by one
stroke OF the pen we have kept out
Of the Treasury of the United States
$35,OO0,O 900 in the case Of wool. and
already, by the reduction of % per
cent OF the duty upon sugar $4,000.
600 or $l6,0OO.0OO upon sugar; and
when the free sugar clause goes into
final operation We shall have diverted
from the Treasury of the United
States an additional $4,000, 900 from
those causes alone. II the Payne.
Aldrich bill had been in operation,
II Is perfectly plain that there would
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would have been no occasion for re-
sorting to emergency taxation. The
President, in his message, as I recall
1t, asking for the passage of the EN-.
Urgency tax law. said that we had
been losing an enormous amount of
revenue on account of the war in
Europe.
He called attention to the fast that
in August, 1913, the revenue OF the
government from impost duties
amounted to something over 100000
900 for that month, and he said for
the month of August, which was
the first month of the war in Eur
ope, the revenues amounted to Sl9,.
100000, Hence there had been a
loss to the Treasury of the United
States OF 100000 month on &C.
count of the war in Europe.
Mr.. President, the statement,
While, of course, not so intended, Is
entirely disingenuous. The President
fails to distinguish between pos hoe
and propter hoe. A moments inves.