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Show Request Legislation. Tho people of California have a number of practical evidences of the benefits of the sugar industry and can icalizo tho good of it. In accordance with n defiire to funlicr this, industry Senator Jones has Introduced the .following resolutions in the state legis lat'Tti: Wiu'itKASj Under tho encouragement given to the beet sugar industry by the McKinlev bill, tho production of beet sugar in the United States increased from 12,001,838 pounds in 1892 to 45,-191,200 45,-191,200 pounds in ISO 1, and the product of California alone from 8, 175,4o8 pounds 1892 10 :ir,0S8,y09 pounds in 1894, thereby there-by bringing thousands of dollars into this State, to be distributed among the farmers, merchants and wage earners of this commonwealth ; and Witi'id'AS, A renewal of the bounty or adequate production for the sugar interests, inter-ests, so that America will pioduco the sugar sho consumes, means tho addition of over one hundred million dollars annually an-nually to the income of American farmers, therefore, bo it Jlcsolved, by the Senate, the Assembly concurring, That our Sonators bo in-struced in-struced and our Representatives bo earnestly requested to use their best endeavors en-deavors to have adequate protection to tho sugar interests inserted in tho new tariff bill now being prepared, and that tho secretary of tho Senate be and is hereby instructed to transmit to.our tSenators, -ndRopVe'te'lUarive'grIeca , copy of theso:re'8olutio'n3. . " ' 1 , |