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Show CUT IN CUBA SUGAR TAR1FF0PP0SED WASHINGTON, Jan. 4 trPI Wit- nesses before the commute on reciprocity reci-procity information wera in conflict con-flict today over what caused the recent decline in ths sugar market, but In agreement tariffs on Cuban sugsr should not be lowered. Ernest W. Greene, vies president presi-dent of the Hawaiian Sugar Planters' Plant-ers' association, attributed ths drop to announcement in November that a reduction In the duty on Cuban sugsr was considered. C. J. Bourg, representing both the American Sugar Cane league and the Farmers and Manufacturers' Manufactur-ers' Sugar association, blamed tha decline on three successive overestimates over-estimates of sugar consumption by ths agriculture department. Both opposed tariff reduction. |