Salt Lake Telegram | 1934-03-31 | Page 1 | Filipinos Quit Fight Against Bill on Sugar

FILIPINOS QUIT FIGHT AGAINST BILL ON SUGAR Islanders Trust Roosevelt to See Favorable Quota Is Passed HOUSE TO ACT MONDAY Speed Also Is Expected in Senate Br fly Associated Press WASHINGTON March 31 T If- If Philippine objection to the thc Jones Jones-Cos- tigan sugar bill which leaves lel the Philippine I quota undefined d v was abandoned today in face of certainty th the measure will pass the thc house howe next week Former Senator Hawes representing represent represent- ing the Philippine Suar Sugar association said interests interest he reprEsented represented had decided de dc dc- dc to withdraw their objections to the measure and place trust in m President dent Roosevelt to see sec ee his suggested quota for the thc Philippines would go o into effect I This quota was vas annu annually ally Latest information was the thc bill bilI will go 10 through the thc house probably Monda Monday Monday Mon Mon- da day alter after limited debate and that the thc senate may act with equal dispatch Apparently no open hearings will be bc beheld beheld held on the thc bill which so far lar as the thc insular possessions ore are concerned is a arev rev revival nl o of the first bill introduced some weeks ago Rafael Ralael Alunan president of the thc Philippine Sugar association will leave or Tuesday with members of ot the Philippine independence independence inde inde- m mission sion to return to Manila Manuel recovering from Irom an illness in New Y York rk is expected to return return return re re- re- re turn here Monday and probably will depart Tuesday for lor the west vest coast Hawaiian and Porto Rican objections objections to the thc sugar bill continued today today today to to- day however in face o of almost hopeless hopeless hopeless hope hope- less obstacles to g gaining ining their point which is Ii fixed quotas for Hawaii and Porto Rico Apparently blocked in efforts efforts ef el ef- ef forts orts to amend the bill in the thc house houe representatives of those interests will carr carry the thc fight light to the thc senate House to Get Bill Bitt Monday Speaker Rainey Raincy arranged today toda- to have the bill brought up in the thc hou house e Monday Upon receiving word representatives representatives tives lives from Irom sugar b beet et producing states would accept the bill the speaker said he would recognize Chairman Jones Continued on Or Pa Page Pue e Two TOI r FILIPINOS QUIT SUGAR BATTLE Islanders kanders Trust Roosevelt to See Favorable Quota Is Passed I Continued from Pace Pe One CD D. D Texas of oC the agriculture com corn to move for lor suspension of house rules and passage of ot the bill bilI It requires a n two two thirds majority t to pass SS a bill under the procedure barring bar ring amendments amendment and limiting debate The bill bUl fixes a n ton quota for domestic sugar augar beet producers am and anda n a ton quota for Lou Louisiana lana and Florida cane sugar growers growers King to Accept e 1 Measure ure ureThe The turn of sug sugar legislation Isn isn't exactly pleasing to Senator King Kins D. D Utah but he will accept the compro raise mise measure The veteran senator did not wan want any an- quota placed on the beet sugar industry but said he would not oppose oppose op op- pose the measure as it will guarantee at least a por portion lon of ot any increase in domestic co consumption to the sugar beet industry King joined with Representatives Robinson Utah Democrats Demo ats in pointing out that the quota of at tons was tons above the aJ allotment proposed by the tore I B Both th Murdock and Robinson pr pro pro- i idi di dIned dieted ted acreage limitations imitations would be I eliminated from the measure before it itIs I is ls finally made into law v. J I I Information from irom Honolulu today Indicated Hawaii was up in iii arms over i the terms of at the bill Delegate McCandless of the islands reported he had received 20 cablegrams cablegrams cable cable- grams iams from froni Hawaii and that indica Indica- j ti ns were the islands island's sugar growers were ere bombarding all government departments de I concerned with messages beseeching and demanding that Hawaii Ha Ha- be accorded equal treatment With continental sugar growers Hawaiian interests are asking for fora forIt a It fixed quota of ot tons Mr Me Mc said he would carry his fight before the senate finance committee and aid try to get Hawaiian interests fair attention from the senate enate floor when t tife c bill came up there