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...present world sugar tariff rate into the U. S. is 2.20? per lb. Cuba, enjoying a 20% differential below the world rate, pays 1.76? per lb. At the demand of cane growers in Louisiana, beet growers in Colorado, Michigan and Utah, the House voted a 3? sugar rate (Cuban: 2.40?). To stifle public outcry against this increase, yet give domestic sugar producers more "protection," Senator Smoot's Finance Committee proposed a world sugar rate of 2.75? (Cuban: 2.20?). Senator Harrison of Mississippi, in the name of U. S. sugar consumers (housewives) who would pay an additional...
...tariff battle then wheeled squarely into Schedule Five-the sugar sector, which was passed over earlier because of its especially controversial nature. The four-cornered sugar lineup: domestic beet producers, led by Utah's Senator Smoot, for a 2.75? per Ib. import rate (Cuban: 2.20?); domestic cane producers, led by Louisiana's Senators Ransdell and Broussard, for the House rate of 3? per Ib. (Cuban: 2.40?); unorganized consumers, led by Mississippi's Senator Harrison, for the existing rate of 2.20? per Ib. (Cuban: 1.76?); scattered farm Senators, led by Idaho's Senator Borah...
Other factors which confused the Battle of Schedule Five and sent Senate soldiery scampering from one camp to another: the scattered production of sugar beets in 16 States; sugar imports from the Philippines and consequent agitation for the Islands' independence; heavy U. S. investments in Cuban sugar production; the activities of high-duty and low-duty sugar lobbies...
...show Michigan's need for a higher sugar duty. Senator Smoot, his heart beating fast for the beet-growers of Utah, delivered an impassioned attack upon the National City Bank of New York. Likewise he smote the "American pop industry" and U. S. chocolate manufacturers with large Cuban sugar properties...
...Cuban editors, one a former Congressman, had been arrested by soldiers and lodged in a military prison because they had printed attacks on certain changes in the Cuban Constitution about to be put through by tortoise-bespectacled President Machado...