Salt Lake Telegram | 1902-02-13 | Page 8 | To Investigate Cost of Making Sugar

TO INVESTIGATE COST OF MAKING SUGAR Beet Sugar Men Ask Appointment of I Co to o Go t. t to Cu Cuba a. a WASHINGTON V Feb ChaIrman Payne toda today presented presente 1 to the Ways and Means committee tee a dt brief submitted by the American beet sugar interests and Indorsed in indorsed indorsed In- In by the cane ne sugar sugar interests declaring declaring de tie- claring daring that the recent hearings had shown that sugar sugar was vas vas vas' now being being- made in Cuba at a profit and asking th thit t a special committee proceed to Cuba to in investigate In- In te the the question of cost of production production tion profit prot etc Representative Steele of Indiana asked if the to go to Cuba included payment of expenses of the trip to which Representative Robertson of ot Louisiana answered that the item would be included if It necessary The brief sums up the the- hearing at considerable considerable con con- length and states that if It the tho testimony of the Government experts is correct then then the military Governor of ot Cuba Gen Wood has been misinformed misinform misinform- ed and sugar Is now being manufactured and god sold in Cuba at a profit so that there exists no rio possible justification for forthe forthe forthe the reduction reductio of the present tariff on unrefined unrefined unrefined un un- un- un refined sugar coming from Cuba on the ground that the Cuban planters are now manufacturing sugar s gar at t a loss Beyond receiving the brief the committee commit commit- tee took no action on the Cuban reciprocity ity subject