Show I IS FOR All Should Necessity Arise Price Pricer Control Authority r Will ill Be BeT T Exercised With Aid Given v u hy by Y DP Department e of Justice I Jan 3 dent V Wilson has decided not to exercise powers conferred in the Mcary Mc- Mc Mcary ary sugar control bill biH authorizing 1 purchase P PA and distribution of the A Cuban sugar crop according to a 3 t Statement issued t tonight night at the House blouse l' l The Tho statement eald said the Pr President had f decided f decided o on the basis or of facts acts presented for for his consideration and the ion of or the tho sugar sug-ar equalization board 4 1 that at this power should not be exercised 1 In a a. long IonS statement the Presidents President's decision the declaration Is made mado that thit apparently the available sugar supply Is sufficient for tor American needs even e on tho the present unnecessarily arny large Jars basis basis' of oC consumption and police Is s-Iv s given ui n that tho the power of oC price control through h tho licensing system authorized by the bill will be Invoked If tr necessary ar in operation co-operation with tho department of or justice Supply In III Detailed t t t Figures attached show that tho estl- estl 1 1919 consumption In the United i States was slightly moro more than I tons of or which normally only f tons was domestic production As tho the I Cuban crop is unusually largo large at tons O of which x tho the allies however f 1 because of ot limited purchasing power j 1 will take about tons and ai as tho estimated Louisiana western beet Hawaiian and Porto RIcan production kill reach tons tho the statement foresees a sufficient supply for tor Amer Amer- Lican ican needs Tho American per capita tion of sugar BuS the statement said had hadt t risen from thirty five pounds In to an average of or five eighty pounds T 1 during the 1914 1918 period and to two ninety-two pounds for tor 1919 Congress to 10 Act When the question of oC purchasing the Cuban crop first came up in August on only y yone one ono member of ot the sugar board boar d dissented from tho conclusion that the Cuban crop should 1 not bo be purchased unless the boards board's powers of ot control were made effective requiring action the statement said The President had reached no conclusion 1 when ho was nas taken taken during his west west- Early EarlY fn in October tho the board sugar sugar board recommended rec roc ommen to a Senate committee thes tho the J s purchase of or tho the 1920 Cuban crop th the board board then feeling that its contracts contract s with both pro producers and refiners could coul d be renewed Congress did not act the statement adds until December 20 0 Conditions have o so 80 changed that the members of oC the board feel that action actio n by by bj it under the McNary nry act docs does no not t offer oCter a a. way to securing a regular supply supply sup sup- ply at a reasonable price the statement statement state- state ment said Bald There Is no contract with west western rn beet sugar or Louisiana cano cane producers for tor tho 1920 crop and by Oct Oc Oc- t tober e 15 tho the control of ot the board ap- ap an f only to the remainder of ot tho the Cu- Cu J Uan 1919 1911 crop the tho statement said i Competition Feared One One of oC the elements which helped materially to make tho the boards board's action for Jor the 1919 crop effective o no lon longer longe er r c exists It ft continues The board waa was able to deal with tho the unified Cuban Cuba n selling Belling agency ency for tor the tho 1919 crop and t to and control the crop No Now v o there Is no person or committee au au- au au to sell the tho balance of the 1920 Cuban crop If It the board n now w went nt Into the Cuban Cuban Cu Cu- ban market the statement said f It t would be able to buy Individual lot lots s In competition with private ate buyers bUers an and with a tendency to Increase the price The statement points out that under unde r the McNary act control of or domestic sugar would en end July 30 and adds that should the sugar board succeed In purchasing pur pur- cha chasing Cuban sugar for delivery throughout tho rear ear It would woul bo be In the position of ot trying to maintain a n. uniform uni uni- form reasonable price over the tho country countr with no control whatsoever cr over largo large quantities of ot sugar from Hawaii and Porto Rico which come como In fn mainly after June 30 30 and over OYer tho the now Lousana cane an and 1 western beet sugars This Title too the statement said laid nt at tho time of ot the year when If It at all absolute b control oc or all nIl sugars by the b board ard would t be essential |