The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1922-08-12
TARIFF ON.
SUGAR GIVEN
INCREASE

Decision NJ a d e b y
Vote Of Thirty-sev-
en- t o Thirty-fve,
-Four Democrats Fa-
voring
Washington. Aug. S.-The senate
approved today an increase of
three-tenths Of cent pound in
the tariff on sugar: rejected a plan
for the government bounty of So
100000 for domestic. potash pro-
ducers and rescinded its former ac-
ton in voting an impost of two
cents pound on white arsenic.
Potash and white arsenic were
placed on the free list.
The sugar rate of 2.S cents a
pound was compromise between
the % cents duty urged by Lou
isiana cane and Western beet su-
gar producers and the cents
proposed by the house and approx
ed by the finance committee ma
jority. 1t is three-tentl1s of cent.
above the tariff in the existing
emergency act and Los cents
above that in the Underwood act.
The compromise was offered by
Senator Smoot of Utah. ranking
Republican on the finance commit
tee, and was accpeted by the same
vote that the senate rejected the
2.5 cents duty. 81 to 35 Demo-
Gratis who voted for the Smoot
amendment We're: Broussar6 and
Jones of New Mexico. kendrick
and Ransden. while those 81 who
voted against the amendment in
cluded Dial. Fletcher, overman,
Glass, Harris, Hefiin. Simmons,
Swanson. Trammell and Under
wood. Fourteen Republicans also
voted against the amendment.
The vote against the bounty on
potash was 50 to so. with u Re-
pub1icans opposing and three Dem
ocrats supporting. The Demo-
Gratis weEe Jones of New Mexico,
Kendrick and Ransdell.
Before considering the bounty,
the senate voted, &c to 1. to strike
out the provision by which tar
if duty would have been imposed
on potash for five years at. the
same rates that it was proposed to
pay the bounty.
The vote to place white arsenic
on the free list was 20 to 25 with
ten Republicans opposing the duty
and one Democrat, Kendrick Of
Wyoming supporting it.
Because Of the operation of the
90 per cent. tariff differential al
lowed to Cuba, the. 2.3 cents rate on
sugar would work out at 1.84 cents
a pound on sugar from that coun-
try, which constitutes practically
all of American imports.
The Republican agricultural tar
if bloc voted practically solidly
first for the highest rate proposed
and then for the 9Smcot compro-
mise.
The committee substitute amend
ment proposing to pay potash pro-
ducers a bounty over a period o.
five years led to a sharp fight, dus-
ing which Senator Lenroot (Re-
puhlican) of Wisconsin denounced
the propositin as one which would
open the door of the federal treas
ury for a steady drain of the same
sort in the future.
Senator Smoot replied that as Re
saw the situation it was question
of whether the United States was
to give it's industry an opportunity
to develop or to permit the G'f-
man and French cartels to have
complete domination.
The senate was told by The
Utah senator that S. D. Crensi1aw
of Richmond, Va. vice president
of the Virginia Carolina Chemical
had made deal
whereby "a American manutactul-
ers of fertilizer had signed ron-
tracts with the German and F.sncb
concerns for their entire supply OF
potash for this year to the exciu-
sion of American producers.
Senator Reed (DemocraD OF
Missouri declared that to him 1T
was utterly intolerable" that
manufacturers should be
permitted to sign contracts with
foreign concerns that would have
A tendency to exclude American
products from the American mar
ket.
That is trust practice in its
worst form" he said. and L think
that any American manufacturer
who would do it ought to be sent
to iail for a good long term be
cause he not only is suppresSlns
competition but doing it in the IN
tereyt Of foreign producers as
a sainst American producers.
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