Show tqh SHUT OUT 0 REFINERIES r4ou 4a I I1 ou I 16tih a z Sugar Expert on Effect Reciprocity Re-ciprocity Bill i 3 till s uri t htr h1 t ° RIONDA TALKS TO SENATOR ie 1tt Declares That Should Bill Now Pending rdy Pend-ing Become n Law It Would Have Irf 141 the Effect of Bepcnling Counter a atn tt 1 1 vailing Duties on Sugars From European Eu ropean Countries Provided by the It Dingley Law nnd Thus Within a 0tttlr Pew Years Sugar Refineries in U 1nn s r = o S Would Become a Thing of Past telLlr e r I n dl 1 Washington May 11 Manuel Illoncla fD of the sugar brokerage house of sbrola Czarnlkow McDougall t Co of Now Icy Gt y York London and other cities resumed his testimony before the Senate Committee o1tlnl TL It Com-mittee on Cuban Relations today being h Mr Teller under crossexaml nil Ufm by < r 1 1e c Ho said that his house now has stored ° 1S t in Cuba about 11000 tons of sugar S h r which is owned by various refineries h L of the United States His firm had made financial advances to the owners an ant of the Cuban plantations and had contracts con-tracts with these plantations by l E Le which they agree to sell heir entire liner product through the house represented by Mr Rlonda 4imtt SHOULD THE BILL PASS rtatlr Mr Riomla said that if the reciprocity lah It reci-procity bill should pass as it now th I stanch it would have the effect of repealing noI re-pealing Ihe countervailing duties on 1II5Zt sugars frond European countries provided coal pro-vided by the Dingley law and that In D 1 that event not many years would cloti elapse before the sugar refining business lna l busi-ness of the United States would become agtst be-come a thins of the past This remark Lm also was made applicable in the beet httl sugar production of the United Stales h h and the fiugar production of Cuba Porto It loo and HawaiI Vo could md Slit then get all our sugar from Germany e tI Not being a refiner he declined to say what would be the effect of a repeal I of differential duty on refined sugar colftp CANE SUGAR MARKET WORLD 10e t The witness said that t with the 5 Ew countervailing duties In effect the United Slates Is the principal market s n for the cane sugar of tit world 1 SO per 1 l rent of it coming to this country 1r rir The cane sugar he said gets the benelit CdIt of the countervailing ratcK but there ntrt + are times when the market conditions I t toils reverse this situation 1 I ucyat QUESTIONS KIONDAS STATEMENT oan Li Hcyward G Learnt president and Talcq manager of the Standard Beet Sugar 0 nor company of Leavitt Neb said he had eClhhmat been identified t with the 1 beet interests a be for the past thirteen years but C nucr never had boon associated In any way Jrdtr with Mr Oxnard His factory had been 5 Par in existence about two years and its Imo capacity Is now sixty tons of sugar per day He took issue with Mr Rfomla Ju on the point that the Cuban planters n ft get the benefit of the countervailing t all duty on European sugars contending i boy that the Treasury statistics show that F slr for the past year the t relinerips had I a lcd h absorbed the entire 1 benefit He therefore there-fore argued that the refineries also prller would secure the full benefit of the pro lo0r r r 5 Jd r I posed I further reduction on Cuban I duties ONE PURCHASES RAW SUGAR He called attention to the fact that In his statement before the Industrial committee air Havemeyer had said that the American company refined 110 per cent of the refined sugar In the fait > d States He argued that there is virtually only one purchaser for raw sugar In the Cnited States leaving no competition worth speaking of History had shown that the Cuban does not store his sugar Hence he added the I ronelulon it logical I that If we seek to give to the Cuban planter a further advantage of 33 cents per hundred weight t as Is sough by the pending legislation to do he will he very little better able In realise that advantage than I he is to realize thee the-e lslllIS advantage BRUSSELS AGREEMENT Speaking of the Brussels agreement Mr Leavltt said that Us effect would he to place sugar production on a normal hasls nnd that t when curried Into effect Cuban sugar no longer would bo obliged to compute with countries paying enormous bounties to their sugar producers Another effect would bo the restoration of the sugar relinlnr business of England making that country coun-try a competitor with the United States In purchasing Cuban sugar and thus giving Cuba access to the worlds markets mar-kets ketsMr Mr Jo aitl declared that all the modern mills make a small profit |