Show CD 0 BEET SUGAR PRICES Havemeyer Asserts A Colorado and Utah Concerns Made Terms Last Year Washington May lay 5 During nh the havemeyer Have Havemeyer meyer examination today the witness I said that the terms were made last year I Iby by the beet Met sugar factories of oC Colorado I and Utah Mr r Teller went it tot some length in ex cx examining I the wit witness as to the cause ea ef of e last lut years yeara reduction of the scion mice ot of I sugar at Missouri points the witness In Instating I stating Meting it il was not the in hi price but the Uie more mor important lin t feature I Ithe the exclusiveness of the contract He I could not nol rive give the tile name ume ot of n factory making suen a Mt Mat I I said that the terms were made by It the beet blet factory of oC the southwest t of Colo Cob Colorado Colorado rado and Utah Uth He added that he be had bad I never seen IMD one ODe of the contracts contract l after aner It wa was signed peel but beat he bad had seen een the blank forms I Suppose suggested Senator tor Teller it should turn out that none of the I contracts w wee wac aver ever l nedr My t Is 18 that the contracts contract a I were perfected and a I J acted ct upon on u that hypothesis I Did Dal you lose l mosey money in your reductions I I Ie We e did aid ld He mid aid 14 that he had no Q intention of de destroying the beet sugar Industry I It u he said Id ODI only a little south southwestern southwestern western scrap and did very little harm Mr Havemeyer Insisted ln l s several veral times I that the su sugar ar would have to topa pa pay as u much for tor Cuban wear auar as II it now pays pa even ven if the proposed congressional concession con eon should be made Su Suppose we should S take the entire duty oft off Cuban sugar he was we asked The There not Dot be until tile the volume of Cuban C p si should approximate our l tutu then OM fbi Cubans would get the e benefit Suppose per pet cent 6 W be B added to tIM uty go The rile ded expense would costs com c lRe out of the Cubans The TM price would woId be the Hamburg price DrI pi pl ls s the tb duty doty Mr Teller questioned the witness as u asto uto asto I to where be he would secure his sugar should Mould the Cuban crop not be marketed for several everal months He replied that he I would look to Porto Porte Rico and South America where there Is an a inexhaustible quantity of beet p During the i Spanish I war 3 W W were W e imported from South America He lie s W that the Cuban planter via Is la not in a tIna dat oon to hold hi hIs crop in the event of oC there being no legislation until next see lIeS session lion sion i I |