The Holbrook news., 1922-08-18
SENATE FAvORS
 DUTY ON SUGAR
NEW TARIFF SCHEDULE OF 2.3 CENTS A POUND IS COMPRO-
 MISE ON FORMER RATE.
LEADS FIGHT
OPPOSED TO PAYING POTASH PRODUCERS BOUNTY FOR
 FIVE YEARS.

Washington.-The Senate approved
 an increase of three-tenths of cent a pound in the tariff on sugar, rejected
 a plan for a government bounty of $9,- i 100000 for domestic potash producers
 and reScinded it's former action in vOt- ing an impost of cents a pound on
 white arsenic. Potash and white ar
 senic were placed on the free list
 The sugar rate of 2.3 cents pound was a compromise between the 2.5 cents duty urged by Louisiana cane and western beet sugar producers, and the 2 cents proposed by the House and approved by the finance committee majority. It is three-tenths of a cent ! above the tariff in the existing emerg ency act and 1.05 cents above that in the Underwood act
 The compromise was offered by Sen atOr Shoot of Utah, ranking Republic i an on the finance committee, and was accepted by the same vote that the | to 35.
 Before considering the bounty, the Senate voted 66 to l to strike out the provision by which a tariff duty would have been imposed on potash for five years at the same rates that it was proposed to pay the bounty 21a cents a pound for the first two years, ? cents for the third year, 11a cents for the fourth year, and l cent for the fifth year. Senator Shortridge, Repub- lican, California, alone voted against eliminating the duty, explaining that he thought the industry should be fos- tered by tariff and not by a federal bounty.
 The vote to place white arsenic on the free list was 29 to 20 with ten Re puDllcanS opposing the duty and one Democrat, Kendrick, Wyoming, SUD- porting it. The Republicans were Cap per, Cummins, Hale, Jones of Washing ton, Reyes, Lenroot, Mckinley, Ster- ling, Townsend and Willis
 Because of the operation of the 20 per cent tariff differential allowed to Cuba, the 2.3 cents rate on sugar would work out at 1.S4 cents a pound on sugar from that country, which constitutes practically all of Ameri- can imports. This rate on Cuban sugar is .24 of l cent above the ex- isting tariff and .16 of 1 cent lower than proposed by Senator Broussard, Democrat, Louisiana, who led the fight for the 2.5 cents rate.
 The sugar fight led to five roll calls, on several of which Republican leaders and the finance committee majority split. The Republican agri- cultural-tariff bloc voted practically solidly, however, first for the highest rate proposed and then for the Shoot compromise. On the first roll call, the senate rejected, 53 to 19, a pro- posal by Senator Gerry, Democrat, Rhode Island, to restore the Under wood rate of IA cents a pound; then 1t voted down, 50 to q, another amendment by Senator Gerry to make the rate IA cents. Senator Willis pro- posed rate of 2A cents, but this was disapprOved, AS to 9.
 The committee sub-amendment pro- posing to pay potash producers a bounty over a period of five years led to a sharp fight, during which Sen ator Lenroot, Republican, Wisconsin, denounced the proposition as one which would open the door of the federal treasury for a steady drain of the same sort in the future.
 Adopt this amendment" he said, land we embark on the sea of boun- ties from which we may never re- turn"
 Senator Shoot replied that as he saw the situation, it was question whether the United States was to give its industry an opportunity to devel- Op or to permit the German and French Cartels to have complete dom- nation