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Show HUE CENTS IS I NEW SUGAR PRICE Eastern Manufacturers Authorized Au-thorized to Sell at Higher Scale. Western Concerns May Exceed Ex-ceed Ten and One-half Cents if Cost Justifies. In order to hasten sugar distribution in eastern stales where acute shortages are said to exist. Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer yesterday authorized eastern manufacturers to sell their sugar at a I2-cent seaboard basis, according to Information received here yesterday by Judge H H. Rolapp. president of the L'nlted States Beet Sugar Manufacturers association. Tho price formerly set by the attorney general for all beet sugar was 10 Vi cents a pound. The message to Judge Rolapp said the decision was reached by Attorney Attor-ney General Palmer following a conference confer-ence with two or three eastern manufacturers. manu-facturers. , . These manufacturers veroally engaged themselves to distribute their sugar In territories east of Buffalo and Pittsburg as freely as in areas west of these cities. Hitherto they had restricted their distribution distri-bution somewhat, and eastern seaboard cities had been suffering from a severe sugar shortage. Western sugar manufacturers, said Judge Kolapp. have been notified that thev mav sell at a price exceeding the 1 present price of 10 cents a pound, but not above 12 cents a pound, providing such companies' costs will justify such price, and provided they realize that if they do sell at prices not justified by their cost of production, they are taking chances of Investigation. Judg Rolapp vesterday conveyed this information to all the beet sugar producers pro-ducers from the Rocky mountains to California. He expressed the opinion that the production costs of many western manufacturers would justify their charging charg-ing the 12 cents which has been authorized author-ized for the eastern manufacturers. Stephen H. Love, general sales manager man-ager for the Utah-Idaho Sugar company and chairman of the sugar distribution committee for this district, said yesterday yester-day that his concern will continue to comply com-ply to the letter with the prices set by the attorney general, and for the present is maintaining a price of lO1, cents, with the production sold ahead now for some months at that price. Report Asked. The following resolution requesting the attorney general to make a report to the house of representatives was introduced by Representative George Holden Tink-ham Tink-ham November IS, the day congress adjourned- "Resolved, That the attorney general is hereby requested to report to the house of representative? forthwith: "1. Upon what authority of law he has fixed the price of Louisiana sugar ou the plantation at the price of 17 cents per pound for yellow clarified and IS cents per pound for plantation granulated. "2. Whether it is usual for the office of the attorney general to interpret in advance of legal action the United States criminal statutes as to whom he will prosecute and whom he will not prosecute. prose-cute. "3. The facts upon which he fixed the maximum price of 17 cents per pound for yellow clarified and IS cents per pound for plantation granulated. "1. How sugar at retail can be identified iden-tified either by the seller or the buyer as Louisiana, sugar so as to prevent a general gen-eral rise of the retail price of sugar well in advance of a 17 and ls-cent production base.' No action was taken on the "resolution, it is said, but It probably will be brought before the regular session at an early-date. |