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Show CUBAN SUGAR THEME AT SENATE HEARING Island Producers Consider Price of $4.60 Too Low, Trade Adviser Asserts. WASHINGTON', Jan. 4. The senate committee investigating sugar devoted all the time today to hearing .1. V. Knight, testifying as a trade adviser ; for the Cuban government and a cou- I tributor to trade newspapers. Knight said Cuban sugar producers : were (Unsatisfied with the price of ff 4 .f0 agreed upon between the ( 'u ban government gov-ernment and the state depart incut and predicted that the discontent would cause .decreased production next ye:ir. Other witnesses had testified that the Cuban price was too high. The first Cuban com mission which came to Washington last September was ' ' practically presented wil h an ultimatum,'1 ul-timatum,'1 on the price ot .4.fiM) Knight said, and declined to a uj'je to it, but another commission which arrived ar-rived two months later arrange ! to sell at that price. |