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Rates. What happened, legislatively speaking, was fairly simple: The 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...
...retain the present sugar rates was, to the surprise of many, adopted 48-to-38, rejecting the Finance Committee's proposed increase. Nine Old Guardsmen, with only sugar consumers in their States and up for re-election this year, went over to the Coalition. Three Progressive Republicans from beet-sugar-growing States (Howell of Nebraska, Nye and Frazier of North Dakota) supported a higher rate. Four Democrats (King of Utah, Kendrick of Wyoming, Ransdell and Broussard of Louisiana) joined the protectionist Old Guard...
...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...
...leaped to the Republican breastworks with a mighty harangue on the "absolute necessity" of sugar protection (for Louisiana). Senator Vandenberg followed this up with a devastating gas attack of statistics to 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...
Laboriously sawing wood on the Tariff at the special session last fall, the Senate struck a new and screechy knot-independence of the Philippines. Great has been the growth among U. S. beet and cane growers of the notion that the free importation of Filipino sugar menaced their industry. Senator King of Utah (beets) and Senator Broussard of Louisiana (cane) offered amendments to cut the Islands loose and thereby put their sugar production outside the U. S. tariff wall. Their amendments were defeated, but the agitation for getting rid of the Philippines to reduce agricultural competition by no means subsided...