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Show nieation from the officers of the sugar com- pany which says, among other things, that during the year 18M, it expended the sum of (450,000 at Lent, in the erection and partial j equipment of a sugar factory, to complete which will require an expenditure of at least $50,00!) the coming season. Ten thousand thou-sand tons of beets were run through the factory fac-tory last season, from which were produced 1,100,UOO pounds of sugar, with au extremely small margin of prolit. Employment has been furnished hundreds of farmers, mechanics and laborers and w hen the works are producing up to their full capacity, which is 7,000,000 pounds for years will prove a greater factor 1 than at present in the development of this territory. "In view of the foregoing fore-going considerations and the beneficial results re-sults which must follow the inauguration of the. sugar industry, your petitioners pray that your honorable body may, for such length of time and under such conditions and restrictions re-strictions as you may deem expedient, provide pro-vide for tlie payments of a bounty to encourage en-courage the manufacture of sugar in this territory." The communication is signed by Elias .Morris, as president, and others. A communication inclosing resolutions from the inhabitants of Spanish Fork, in which the position of the majority of the legislature is indorsed. The bill Is making a desperate struggle against long odds. IT IS DYING GAME. Tlie Suirar Hotinty IVople .one In the ltesctiu of the Kill Which Is in Its Last Throes. The Biigar bounty bill is dying a violent death. Councillor Raskin lias fought hard to make its last hours those of peace, but each crumb of comfort has been denied the dying measure. Councillor Evans, who is leading the measure in the upper house, finding that the brutal killing of the bill would not be r .cruized .cr-uized as the proper thing at this period in the dovolopmentof Utah's natural resources, has gone to ranting, aud Is now crushing the newspapers, whom he denounces as the "only" opposing force, in his bony lingers. He says he has written "the. sugar bounty people on it," and Councillor Raskin was patiently waiting the answer. lie read from bounty laws of 1800, and commenting said that tinder its provisions, and in tin- absence of other industries, the sugar people got the entire amount appropriated two years ago and had eomowhofo about $11,001). Under this act if the factory during this yearmakes suuicient sugar they can get $20,000, and that is the only factory that can claim any. at thu time this acl was nvu'.o the McKinley act had not gone Into effect. The territorial bounty, in addition to that provided by lb McKinley bill, nude the amount received by the sugar company tlXl.lHK). Resides this, the legislature hail exempted from luxation the sugar company for live years, This institution, in-stitution, he thought, had been very liberally dealt with, and he did not see how any person per-son could sny that the legislature had killed the industry, lie wanted to know whether (he institution needed this bounty or not, whether the factory could ever be placed upon a paying basis. If the factory was go lug lo be a perpetual drain on the treasury of tho territory, then the sooner It was kill-fd kill-fd the better. ' If il could be placed upon its feel iu a few years, why then, every citizen Mgardless of politics, would be willing that ,t should be aided After the bill had been made the rpecial Mdvf for Councillor Evans spruug a euuimu- |