Show MURDOCK ATTACKS A IT ACKS SUGAR PROPOSAL Processing Tax Quota Plan Held Herd Cuba Subsidy I Branding the proposed sugar processing proc proc- easing essing tax and quota clan of the de de- of ot agriculture a as a subsidy for or Cuba at the expense of ot American I farmers Congressman Abe Abc Murdock of Utah Saturday bitterly assailed the administration sugar relief program I I tor I am much pleased to know we at nt least east have something definite from the ie administration dispatches from WashIngton quoted Murdock as say say- ng but I am greatly displeased that I the quota for the United States has been icen cut about tons tons' and given to Cuba I feel the the quota quota here should at least be equal to the cane and beet sugar crops of the past two years American farmers should not be penalized because capitalists of this country have invested their money in Cuba uba The farmers have their money invested here Murdock said he was particularly opposed to the subsidy for Cuba because because beIt be be- cause it ranks fifteenth on the list of purchasers of United States products l Senator of Wyoming took ook the opposite view saying the quota proposed by the administration was vas greater than the average a beet sugar production in the United States for or the past five years He said he lad had been assured the processing tax would not be passed on to the pro pro- |