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Show The Sugar Hearing. H Washington, Dec. .".0. In the hearing H beforo the ways and means committee on tho sugar schedule tho conflicting . interests of the producer, refiners and : H importers wero brought in sharp con- trast. The roilucers wanted higli duticu H on refined and not so high on raw sugars. The latter were especially anxioiH that in iinposingcountervailingduties against. export bounty countriee, the additional H duty should be levied only against tho H refined article Thomas Cutler of Utah read statistics H of imports and exports between tho United States and Hawaii, showing that tho exports from tho United States aro H butHp.f perceiit of the imports, and H that $4,057,000 of duties ate rebated to H the Hawaiian producers. The sugar im- ported from Hawaii would give employ- ment in tho United States to 248,000 H men continuously throughout the year. H While much of the work in connection with tho raising of beets was being done H by machinery, the weeding had to bo H dono by hand, but tho producers of California would be glad of n chance to get down on their knees in the fields. H "Utah has felt the hand of the sugar H trust," ho stud. "The momont Utah H tries to get into its own market, tho H American Sugar company of San Fran- H cisco reduces tho price in Utah, so that H we have to accept less than the price H sugar is selling for in San Francisco." H Mr. R. M. Allen of Ames, Neb., spoko H in behalf of the farmers of the trans- H Mississippi country. Low prices for H wheat for years, and corn at 11 cents, H Mr. Allen said, had turned the thoughts H of the Western farmeis to beets. BeetH H wero almost as desirable for cattle-feed- H ing as for sugar'. H Herbert Myiick, president of tho H Orange Judd company, Hoke in the H interest of tlj'? tanner, .Ilis argument -' pv . . H was exhausted and whb largely devoted "H to-showing i tho advantage, of th,pro- 'J v -; duction in this country of thesugar"con" .- ''" mI sinned here. It was an economic- crime, ,. .. 1 he said, to compel American farmers to raise staples in competition with tho H cheap land and labor countries with H which to pay for imported sugar, besides M standing the freight and commission H both ways. The have found by ex- M perience and scientific tests that from H the Hudson to the Pacific, from tho H Carolinas to tho lakes, Miey can grow H sugar beets as rich or richer in saccha- H rino contents than those in Europe. M Tlioy want factories established to atTord M a uuket for these sugar beets, which H they are willing to furnish at from H to M $5 per ton. At these prices the crop is M a profitable one. Every acre devoted M to it will by so much reduce tho M competition in other branches of farm- M |