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Show NEW TARIFF LAW ' BREAKING DOWN IN FIRST YEAR Wilson Administration Faces i Deficit and May Be Compelled Com-pelled to Retain Duty of One Cent cn Sugar. RED FIELD MAKING AN INVESTIGATION Repcrt Made on Cane Sugar, j but Not Yet Made Public; I , List of Sugar Facto- j I ries Closed Down. f By International News Sservice. WASHINGTON, May 31. The ' administration, ad-ministration, facing a treasury deficit and fearing destruction of both cane and beet suar industry through free sugar, may reverse its free sugar policy hy amending the Underwood tariff lav.-to lav.-to retain a duty of 1 cent a pound on fcugar. It is estimated this will yield about $37,000,000. The treasury is now running run-ning short on revenues about $-500,000 a dav while awaiting collections from the income tax and other sources. It .is the opinion of both sugar cane growers in Louisiana and beat sugar growers in Colorado that the 1 cent a pound duty will permit those industries in-dustries to survive. It is coutended still that they will not be profitable except ex-cept nuder the most favorable economic conditions. Acting for the Democratic administration, adminis-tration, Secretary Redheld of the department de-partment of commerce has had experts make a study in Louisiana of the actual ac-tual cost of raising ugar cane and of its reduction into raw sugar. The Louisiana sugar planters insisted that free sugar would make it impossible for them to compete w-ith Cuban grown sugar caue. Many of them went out of the sugar cane growing business and sugar plantations are now on the market mar-ket selling tor nominal prices. Redfield Has Report. The report of the' experts, it is said, :' is now in the hands of Secretary Red-lield. Red-lield. Senator-elect .Robert F. Broussard of Louisiana, now a oi'.gressmac, has asked Mr. Kedfield for particulars of the report. The contentions of the Louisiana planters is said to be upheld l..v the government experts, but Mr. broiiisard want: the particulars for . use in the house. He opposed this pru-i pru-i io!i of the Underwood law. A simiiar c::pert study of the beet si:gav production is being made at the ixiicas ot - the go eminent in Mibi-Kai.. Mibi-Kai.. i oioru-1". Hitro.mo. ...ab other sugar-beet growing sections. i,w V-'-l -.ir-'ar rtuneriea have gone u-t of operation since the UDderwood i v.cnt into i-tiect last October and i,.-e sir ar farmers in those se.-tions ..rt ..oT'da'tniuc- bitterlv against the renin'-, out bv Taw of this profitable ia:m "crop. This report Las not yet been submitted to .Secretary Kedneld. Closed Refineries. i,.,c tbe close, I bee'e sugar redo-eri'f-s' aie the Ottawa Sugar company. Ohio: i oatm-iital &uar company. Ohio Western Sugar Keliinug company, plants at Lamsr and t- Animas. ( olo Hoilv S igar company, t olorado: s-ai. Luis ieif.v compauv. Cc:Oia.lu; Ltah-'daho Stiar company at .ui!?a. Idaho: Xea'd& S,;g:.r company. Neva-,ia. Neva-,ia. Southeast''-n. Sugar tc Laud com-ranv. com-ranv. Arizona: Alameda Sugar -Lav ( aiitoraia: a' rameuto alley vjz- co'cpanv. C'aiitornia. and Pacibe S'i'ar company. California. rmarv k'I-M sttnt d his mves-ti"ations mves-ti"ations of the cost of sugar production produc-tion to ju,t:ty the demand ot Pro-i-Pent Wiisou tnat lliere should w- t:ee L',,',,.'r and that t" r''ino'al of the ; a7v ..voiild not injure the industry. Assurances Given. vifar growers, both .-auc aud beet, v .-ii'.'assure'l l,v Mr. Liou-sard before iV 'domination' ot Presidt-ut Wilson hat Mr 'iisoo would not approve Ir'.i-lation to their hurt. Thev uu-,i.rrstood uu-,i.rrstood from this U.at duly would hi- (t;'.incl on sugar. .dr. Lud'-r-tscuh fraieer of the tarilt law. fa-j orcd a dntv o?i sugar from the reve-.raiidl'Oiot. reve-.raiidl'Oiot. but. Ii It it to the prc-i-,-,.t to dci ide on tins s''li'."lulo of the t'a'ilf. "I ,. old tariff dot.' 'in sugar ran loin l 'o .ll.ll"' a hundred pounds, iron 'this duty the go', eiumei.r d.v p. , i a r(;vt'ii!ir m ii ii '.' al i y ot abo.it i r . . i ' i 1 1 1 1 . i P'ri'-'d'-n' .'viisori for''cl a o-iiproifij pi'ovidiii:' for a gra.P.at.". ;.duc:.io:i in '.'ut.ifs of per I't'nt a y,t,r until then- -f.ouM be free sugar ':,, pip',. Th" dutv . idb'i'fe.l tills vejjr, ';,' 1 ',-'. pmi'id. Tr, i.ft-.'t th" bl-s in rc'-emit, from ,.-o'.al of dufv in -ttr tbr '' ' ;, t 'ix la w I roin v. Inch ." . .,. ',- ."1 to r: " -' '-." ',:''' ., vf.;. 1 ;,, .,', ''. 1" Will "l.'M' I""' p, ,. !.vT.I..'i.t .1 I and will "rft to t-tppom.iiv t. P"- in r"'.'" . ,, ... . up i-ea-ur'.' dr-li.'il. it , r-'t !'."'! H tr":'..trv n)'i '. . : .: ,-...' ' II 'I ; will ,. , .., . to !,.,M ):." treii-iirv bamu''" on t"" r '.on ! .(.! st.clv r"-." , ... ill r, f,t t W.y ii. I o the t rr:i '.n V to i- ""t lh" tlaiiv ' H'.'ii. ""''. 1 1 ou-" I "ii-P'r ! 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With the change of the. law- will come the pledge that as soon as the beet sugar industry can stand without a dutv and revenues from the income tax iustifv it, there will be removal of all duty from sugar. ' |