Show If GROWERS LASH SUGAR UGAR BENEFIT BENERT CONTROL PLAN Payments Hit as I Treasury Raids I At p House Hearing W WASHINGTON A ASH S H I April 11 AP Clarence AP-Clarence Clarence R. R Bitting one of oi the country's largest producers producers producers pro pro- of cane sugar asserted Thursday the governments government's sugar c con control 0 fl t r 0 1 system had tricked the American house- house i wife Protesting against restrictions on the the production and marketing of domestic sugar Bitting declared the quota system legalizes a raid by spec special al interests on the public treasury Some day he said the Ameri Amen American Americ c can n housewife will awaken to hobe how ho- she be has been tricked into lining the pockets of those whose interestS interests interests interests' inter inter inter- ests ests' ests are not not American interests interests' a and d h her r wr wrath th will be great Hits j Treasury Raids' Raids Bittings Sittings company operates big t plantations In and near Clewiston fla fIa For years herand other Flor Flor- have complained that the governments government's control a promising sugar industry in the the- I everglades everglades' He said th the great bulk of the money paid out in benefits was to large arge operators including the company of which 1 1 have the honor to be president preside t. t He protested protested protested pro pro- tested against such a raid on the treasury even If as present legislation provides we are entitled ito to to membership in the raiding I party Although the sugar benefit system tern tem is financed by means of a at t tax Bitting said this levy was re reflected re fleeted in the price charged the consumer on the price paid the producer Restrictions Attacked Under all alt the circumstances he said it would seem only common common com corn mon non sense to abandon all sugar legIslation leg leg- R. R C Cr Barr Woodland Cal presIdent president presIdent pres pres- ident of the Central California Beet Growers' Growers association urged that regulation of f farming practices practices tices and labor standards be re removed removed removed re- re moved from the sugar law He said sugar w was s the only commodity commodity com corn subject to such regulation On broad features of the program however he said beet growers were In accord and would support a bill by Representative Cummings D. D Colo Cob Representative Maloney D. D La I opposed the Cummings bill urging instead his own which would in in- in quotas and provide for a continued gradual expansion 1937 Act j Assailed David W W. Pipes Jr Houma La asserted the 1937 act has been unfair unfair unfair un un- un- un fair to Louisiana and advocated the elimination of all restrictions on domestic production Gentlemen of the committee he M pleaded with us it is c cane ne or ol orvee weeds vee We have no comparable substitute cash crop The committee recessed until Friday but representatives of the domestic producing areas agreed Continued oh on on PRe Page Four p- p Column Five GROWERS SCORE SUGAR CONTROL Continued From Prom Page Pace One to meet Thursday afternoon in an effort to reach an agreement on on- the terms of new legislation The meeting was called at the suggestion of pf Representative Lemke R. R N. N D. D who said he was not interested interest d In having the attendance attendance attendance attend attend- ance of Cubans or any other for for- eigners Representative August H. H Andresen Andresen An- An dresen R. R Minn a cri critic ic of the mart marketing control system said he feared this session of congress would yield to the administrations administration's reported desire for the simple continuing continuing continuing con con- resolution Tariff Advocated The administration can do anything anything anything any any- thing it wants to do with sugar Andresen said The trouble is that there are too many members members' of congress who dont don't care anything anything any any- anything thing about sugar The MInnesotan said the logical solution of the sugar problem lay in a tariff high enough to protect the domestic market against undue competition from foreign pr producing producIng duc- duc ing areas That he said would do away with the need of marketing quotas for domestic producers and import quotas for foreign competitors On the other hand Representative tive Coffee D. D Neb declared the tariff wo would ld protect the domestic market only against competition from front Cuba It would offer no protection protection pro pro- he said against heavy price depressing importations from the insular possessions 17 Bills lUs Studied With at least a score of witnesses yet to be heard the house committee committee commit commit- tee sifted through 17 bills aimed to solve the sugar problem A scramble among domestic producing producing pro pro- producing areas for bigger marketing quotas has dogged a session long effort by leaders to draft new legIslation legislation leg leg- acceptable to the sugar bloc Representative Cummings D D. Colo chairman of the bloc sought to compromise the differences differences differences differ differ- through a bill to increase domestic domestic do do- quotas short tons largely at the expense of the Cuban import quota The Cummings measure measure meas mess ure would make a number of changes in existing law but would continue in effect the broad features features fea lea tures of the 1937 act A bill to continue the present act another year was offered by Representative Barry D. D N. N Y LI The administration has opposed any reduction in the Cuban share contending it would be unwise t to interrupt trade relations with the island |