Show NEW SUGAR ACT BEING DRAFTED Bill Designed to Meet De Demands Demands De- De mands of Beet Growing Growing Grow Grow- ing illg States By D CHARLES O O. O GRIDLEY WASHINGTON March 8 A 8 A bill to tomake tomake tomake make sugar a basic baic commodity which would be highly sat satisfactory to the II beet growing growing states was in sight today 33 as an an informal subcommittee of or the h house louse committee on agriculture composed composed composed com com- posed chiefly of representatives from II those hose sta states tes proceeded with the redrafting redrafting redrafting re re- drafting of i the unsatisfactory Costigan Cost Costi- gan bill The most Important development of the he day was was' a concession by the department de of agriculture that the tho bill must be rewritten in order to have any chance of ot getting through the house This was conceded in the most direct manner submission manner submission of ot the he proposed redraft to the subcommittee subcommittee by representatives ives of the de de- de- de While the fixed quota for beet sugar has las not yet been finally agreed upon pon it t would not nol be less than tons ons under a formula worked out b by bythe the he committee or more than tons Ions ons above bove the highest quota possible under the Costigan bill Other pro pro- prop p posed sed ch changes would provide for ad ad- by the secretary of ot agriculture agriculture agriculture agri agri- culture of differences between beet growers and processors over the price of af beets preference of federal reclamation reclamation mation districts in allotting of quota and provision r purchase by the commodity credit corporation of DOD tons of surplus sugar domestically produced last year In addition do- do producers would be guaranteed guaranteed guaran guaran- teed ed at least 30 per cent of ot any con con- of oC sugar consumed in excess of at tons tons- the he figure upon which all quotas are areto to be based W WASHINGTON ASHINGTON March 8 P A P A Alouse house louse agriculture subcommittee today today today to to- day discussed proposed increases in inthe inthe the he domestic sugar quotas which President President Pres- Pres ident dent Roosevelt sug suggested in a recent message to congress It was was reported authoritatively that he the committee increasing the quota for beet sugar production from tons suggested by the the- the dent to The committee also proposed to cut the he Cuban quota from the suggested tons to a decrease of |