Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-04-26
Washington Ticker

BY the Associated Press.
Complications raised by the writing
OF sugar schedules for the new tariff
bill--a task now engaging House ways
and means committee members - are
among the earliest to draw both adj
ministration and trade attention. They
include dealing with the fact that sugar
imports from the Philippines, now duty
free, have grown from 1922 tons in
1921 to an estimated $4,000 tons for
1929, while there are growing imports
from Porto Rico and Hawaii.
Though committee secrecy surrounds
the schedule as yet, it is reported that
Republican members favor an increase
from 90 cents to 3 cents per pound
upon the foreign import Of raw sugar,
with an increase In the preference rate
now given Cuba from .27 cents to 2.40
cents. But the increase alone Is not
considered SUFFICIENT to protect the
American beet sugar industry in view
of the supplies from the countrys trop-
ical possessions.
II have proposed to limit the free
import Of Philippine sugar into the
United States to 100000 tons per an
mum and among the number OF persons
protesting such policy Is Secretary
Stimson," said Representative Timber
lake, Republican, Colorado, chairman of
the ways subcommittee on sugar. THE
matter will have to go up to the Presi-
dent. The evidence coming to us Is
preponderant In establishing the view
that the Philippines may go on in
creasing output indefinitely, though
peak production is probably close in
Porto Rico and Hawaii. The limit sug-
gested by my resolution for Philippine
sugar is more than that country has
shipped to the United States IN any
one year as yet"
AS q substitute for sugar tariff in
crease, Representative Frear, RepuDll-
can, Wisconsin, has proposed a direct
bounty of cents per pound to Amer
bers interested in the problem, however,
do not consider that method of assist
Ing the American grower will be adopted
1.-THE prejudice against subsidy or
bounty In any form, If nothing else, Is
in my judgment too great to allow ex-
pectation OF the enactment OF sugar
bounty BILL" Representative Timberlake
said.
In spite Of secrecy with which the
committee customarily surrounds its
work until It's printed bill is published,
current gossip in trade and business
circles persistently has it now that tariff
rates are being provided against two
important construction materials now
on the free liSt-cement and shingles.
The actual figures of the rates ascribed
are very diss!milar, but accounts are
in agreement that the committee has
agreed in some part with the argu-
ments presented by representatives o1
the industries concerned. Cement MAX
ers have complained of importations
To- al
ropean manufactured products, while
the single tariff Is urged by the West
Coast lumber interests, British Column
bia competition being cited.
On the basis of past performances,
both of these rumored tariff proposals
will have to face extensive Middle West
opposition. In 1922, former Secretary
Of State Kellogg, then Senator from
Minnesota led a combination OF Re-
publican Senators from the interior who
successfully associated with the Demo-
cratic minority in defeating shingle
An extraordinarily sharp increase in
exports from the United States to South
American countries, amounting TO be-
tween 70 and 80 per cent for the flrsS
Two months of the year has led to
Commerce Department calculations
upon the subject. One of the reasons
ascribed for the jump is the seating
of new administrations IN several inn
portant Latin American states, which |
has released construction work and en-
terprise, but the most of the extra buy
ing haRhem In general articles OF con-
sum- .TFor January and February
Ame9 3. exports to South America
have I'd . total Of sos, 033, 036, a.
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