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Salt Lake Telegram | 1934-04-12 | Page 1 | Solons Slash Sugar Power of Wallace

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Date 1934-04-12
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City Salt Lake City
County Salt Lake
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Article Title Solons Slash Sugar Power of Wallace
Type article
Date 1934-04-12
Paper Salt Lake Telegram
Language eng
City Salt Lake City
County Salt Lake
Page 1
OCR Text SOLONS SLASH I SUGAR POWER oi OF WALLACE Finance Body Adopts Five Important Amendments to Measure PAY AUTHORITY STRICKEN Benefit Seen for Beet Men in Clause Fixing By FY o. o GRIDLEY tram ram W Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON D. D C. C April 12 A Republican uprising in the senate against objectionable provisions or of the administration sugar control bill got under way Thursday when the senate finance committee adopted five important amendments to the bill demonstrating strength which may mar other ch changes in the bill billbe be before ore it is reported The committees committee's action in fixing g estimated sugar consumption for the first year of the control plan at tons instead of allowing the estimate esti esti- mate to be fixed by Secretary of Agriculture Wallace was hailed by Senator Arthur of Michigan Michi Michi- gan as highly advantageous to beet sugar Another amendment provides that the ary shall have ha authority to limIt or regulate child labor instead of oC to elIminate it ft and a third strikes out his authority to fix ix minimum wages in the beet fields Th The change ch-ange regarding child labor would permit farmers farmers' own children to help hep with the beets and boys from 13 to 16 to work in the fields duri during g school reo re- c es Exe Exempts Floor Floor Sto Stocks ks The amendments in be behalf hall half of sug sugar beets ts exempt all floor stocks of refined sugar from process ing taxes and reduce penalties for violations ol of administrative rules and re regulations to a maximum of Toe The house bill provIdes a maxI mum mum penalty penally of six months in jail and 1000 1000 fine That amendment and those affecting affect affect- ing child chUd labor and minimum w wages were a adopted by a 7 6 vote in each instance An attempt to reduce the penalty for violation ot of the sections of the bill d dealing with wilh false reports of processing tax payments end and other false statements to Ca failed led when Continued d on in Pace Pue T Two o BEET SUGAR AID SEEN IN CHANGE CHANCE Senate Body Fixes Consumption tion at Tons 5 Amendments Adopted Continued from Pace One members decided that the maximum punishment for any fraud should remain reo re- reoma main ma n at six months and 1000 fine Low v Estimate Advantageous The low estimate on consumption is dIstinctly advantageous to domestic tic tics s suge- suge since they alone have fixed quotas and nd the insular quotas must be taken out oL 01 the difference be- be tweets the consumption estimate and the domestic quotas Not only will insular q quotas otas thus U us be smaller th than n they would if Secretary Wallace were to fix the estimated consumption but the probability ot of consumption of f sugar In excess or of the estimate te of which domestic producers will supply sup sup- ply 30 per cent Is correspondIngly greater
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