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Show SUGAR IMPORTERS TO RENEW DUTY FIGHT NEW YORK. Dec. 23. It Is announced an-nounced that the famous sugar duty rebate re-bate case recently decided against the importers by the Supreme court Is to be reopened. This was a test case, and had been fought through all the courts, occupying occupy-ing seven years In reaching a final ruling. The new plan Is to attack the constitutionality consti-tutionality of the treasury department's practice, which, the Importers say, amounts to the assumption of a fight to increase the duty at wllL The case will go first to the board of United States general appraisers, then to the Circuit court, and finally to the Supreme Su-preme Court of the United States. |