Evening Star Newspaper, March 16, 1937, Page 13

ADAMS URGES BILL 10 CONTROL SUGAR Advocates Passage of Measure Designed to Sta- bilize Industry in U. S. (Continued From Seventh Page) maximum hours to be fixed as fair and reasonable by the Secretary of Agri- culture. In fixing such wages and hours the Secretary of Agriculture is directed to take into consideration the differences in conditions among the various producing areas. 3. He must not have exceeded his quota 4. He must comply with such | regulations as may be fixed by the Secretary of Agriculture to preserve THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, TUESDAY, MARCH 16, 1937. will not be the case. They point out that the one-half cent processing tax under the former act did not result in an increase in consumer prices and that no different result will | follow & three-fourths of a cent tax. | The bill, however, to guard against | such a situation, contains a provision which authorizes the Secretary of | Agriculture to adjust quotas in order to prevent prices “in excess of those | reasonably necessary to maintain the | tween the price the consumer pays | ored to find some better and more effective way to establish limitations | on the amount of incoming sugar. | ‘These threatened dangers were | averted by two measures passed by | the American Congress. The first | the Philippine independence bill, | which placed a limit on the impor- | tation of Philippine sugar of 972,000 | tons, an amount less than had been | imported in the year of greatest im- ports, yet large enough to provide lib- | erally for sugar culture in the island: The other measure was the Jone: Costigan amendment to th. agricul- tural adjustment act, which fixed quotas on both imporwed and domestic sugars and provided by & processing | tax for payments to growers. This | measure was very successful in its op- eration but the decision of the Su- preme Court invalidating processing taxes led to its abandonment except &s to its quota provisions | Improved Bill Sought. The present bill seeks to secure, in an | improved and in a constitutional form, the principal objectives of that act. The pending bill provides that the Secre- | tary of Agriculture shall each year | estimate the amount of sugar to be | consumed in continental United States. | Of this total estimated amount a quota is fixed by the bill of 1,550,000 t for American-produced beet sugar an 360.000 tons of American-produced cane sugar. The remainder of the estimated consumption is divided among the various offshore sugar- producing areas. To Cuba, 1,948,000 tons; to Hawaii, 989,726 tons; to Puerto Rico, 842,611 tons, and to the Philip- pine Islands, the amount fixed by the independence act These quotas are figured on a basic estimate fixed in the bill of 6,452,000 tons. If the consumption is found to exceed that amount, the excess is to be apportioned among the various sugar-producing areas. Many details are incorporated to meet various con- tingencies which need not now be considered The bill also provides for the levy of an excise tax of three-quarters of a cent per pound on all sugar pro- duced in or imported into the United Btates The money raised by this tax will g0 into the Treasury of the United States. The tax of three-quarters of a cent will produce approximately one hundred million dollars. Of t tax the sugar producers of the United States will pay 24 per cent $20,000,000 Donated to Cuba. Tt should be noted that under the tariff act of 1930 the on Cuban sugar was per pound This was reduced by the Jones-Costigan act by one-half cen per pound to offset the processing t of the same amount When the processing tax was declared the tariff which had been redu. cause of it was restored. There- fore, the pending bill, ed, will but restore in ef at in the tariff, and add an additional tax of one-quarter of a cent per pound With a view to securing reasonable payments to the grower, preventing child labor in sugar flelds and op- pressive wages and hours for worke preventing excessive profits to refiners | and unfair or extortionate prices to | consumers, the bill provides for con- ditional benefit payments to sugar beet and cane growers. The method by which these pay- ments are to be used to omplish these desirable ends is as follows | The authorizes the Secretary of Agriculture to make a payment of 70 cents to the grower for each 100 sugar produced. These may, however, only be made must nc have permitted child under 14 to work at all, or a child | between 14 and 16 to work more than | eight hours per day. 2. 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Sugar is the cheapest food that comes upon our tables in terms of food value. There is less spread be- the fertility of the soll and prevent soil erosion. Payments Substantial. These benefit payments are so sub- stantial that no grower can afford to fail to meet the conditions and thereby lose them The bill, therefore, will definitely eliminate child labor and oppressive labor and wage conditions in the beet fields. Under the Jones-Costigan act cer- tain large producers received what seemed excessive benefit payments. The present bill provides for a grad- uated scale of reductions in payments to producers of sugar in excess of 250 tons, | The bill contains a specific direction | to the Secretary of Agriculture to pro- tect the small and new producer as far as possible. z These benefit payments are only | made to growers in the United States and in its possessions, so no payments | will be made to growers in Cuba or | the Philippine Islands. | The conditional payments will only amount to about one-half of the sum produced by this excise tax. There- fore, the bill will provide net revenue | for the United States Treasury of about 50 million dollars. It has been suggested that the ex- | cise tax would result in increasing the cost of sugar to the consumers. The | experts and economists who have | studied the situation insist that this when you switch to richer RICHFIELD HI-OCTANE GASOLINE See Ad on Page A-16. 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This is known to every | America stays in America, while a housewife, to every purchaser of farm | comparatively small portion of the products, at wholesale or retail. Unlike ‘ dollar sent to Cuba or the Philippine many products of factories and mills, | Islands for imported sugar returns the sugar, when it leaves the re- |to us. finery, is ready for the table, | It is believed that this bill, if en- acted into law, will produce a well- balanced and prosperous condition in the American sugar industry. While there will be restrictions on the pro- duction of sugar in continental United States, which some of us oppose as a matter of principle, these restric- tions will not to any considerable degree restrict production below past production figures. The beet grower will be protected against excessive importation of sugar by the quotas on off-shore sugar so that the disastrous condition of 1932-3 cannot be repeated. In addition, he will receive benefit payments which, in addition to payments from processors, will give him a fair price for hln! beets. Cuba, which has been rescued from financial disaster by the quota system | and the reductions in tariff, will not be the threat to peace as in 1932, and by reason of its prosperity will be a good customer of the United States to the advantage of agriculture and manufacturing sections of the United | States not directly interested in sugar production. Puerto Rico, the Philippine Islands | and Hawail have, in fact, been fairly | treated and their sugar industry will | continue, &5 it now is, prosperous. The United States Treasury will re- | $50,000,000. * A-13 revenues of about Increased income taxes will also come from individuals and industries who have profited directly and indirectly. 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