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Show 9K ' &-AJ v A4fe i4M A444 ' . .i . . , . 1 MNJIPT l fli Pres. Wilsoia Attaches Hi Signature to Sugar BI B ' Before Midnight HI . WASHINGTON, Jan- 1 President i Bfc Wilson has signed the McNary bill j Hjf continuing the United States sugar Hh equalization board through 1920. It r. was,, announced today at the White' Hr House that his signature had been al-j IHjl tached before midnight last night j 1 i Secretaiy Tumulty in making the' HBft jt; announcement, issued this statement: Mlar? "The president has signed the sugar i 1: control bill. The bill confers discre-j Hflf tion on the president in ihe matter joU HB purchaaing sugar from Cuba. It is HKf ' doubtful whether it will be practicable , Hw or ise or tue president to exercise HH the power carried so far as the pur-' He chase and distribution of sugar arcj HH concerned. IK Some of the Cuban sugar has al-j HH ready been purchased and there is noj HHf central control over sugar in Cuba as' there was last year and it might there-. Hi! be impossible for the government to HHk step in and purchase the sugar without ; II increasing the price to the consumer.! Hi The- bill, however, continues the licens- j Ik ing power also and this power may be! IV used to assist in controlling the profi-i II teering among distributors. Much Cu-II Cu-II ban sugar is coming in now and thej IB indications are that prices have II reached their peak and that there will i I' be a tendency for prices to fall in ,the H? next few weeks. I IH on |