ROLL CALL
ROLL CALL on Men and Measures SENATE SAVES THE SUGAR CONSUMERS MILLIONS OF DOLLARS | THE senate refused by a vote of 48 to 38. to approve the higher sugar duty 1 proposed by the sponsors of the...
...SYMPATHYNu lack of sympathy with agricultural producers was not involved...
...Steiwcr, Ore...
...Georgia Sleek, Iowa Black, Ala...
...Incidentally...
...Frazicr, N. D. Kean, N. J. Sullivan, Wyo...
...Democrats Ashurst, Ariz...
...Cutting, N. Mex., Republican, and Sens...
...Robinson, Ind...
...Grundy, Pa...
...No announcement was made concerning the position of Sens...
...They were not willing to make American farmers, in common with all other American consumers, pay a higher price for sugar when no assurance could be given that American producers would get more than a small fraction of the increased price paid by the consumer...
...Smoot, Utah Deneen, III...
...H. Pine, Okla...
...Shrppard, Texas Wheeler, Mont...
...Borah, Idaho Ktyrs, .V...
...Jones...
...Waterman, Colo, / Watson, Ind...
...Harris...
...It was this duty of 2.2 cents a pound which the senate rejected on Jan...
...Democrats Broussard, La...
...The unpopularity of the Hawley rate on sugar had become very evident when late in the summer the senate finance committee considered the position which it should take toward the House bill...
...Greene, Vt...
...Glenn, 111., and Reed, Pa., Republicans, or of Sens Plttaian, Nev., Robinson, Ark., and Walsh, Mont., Democrats...
...They were not ready to vote to raise the price of sugar to the consumer when It was evident that the farmers growing beets and cane would rerrlve only a fraction of the increase...
...had increased the duty on raw sugar from the existing rate of 1.76 cents a pound to 2.4 cents a pound—an increase of approximately one-third...
...Goldsborough, Md...
...Nye, N. D. Waleott, Conn...
...Brookhart, Ioway La Follette, Wis...
...S. D. Ronton, Ky...
...Thomas, Okla...
...MrMaster...
...This stratagem also failed...
...Glass, Va...
...Hatfield, W. Va...
...Bingham, Conn...
...Trammel!, Fla...
...Moses, N. H. Vandrnberg, Mich...
...To a majority of the senate this did not seem in accordance with common sense, es- , pecially as it was shown that much, if not most, of the benefit upon ihe one ; pound, produced at home, would go into the pockets of refiners rather than to the farmers...
...Brock, Tenn...
...Harrison, Miss...
...Of the ten senators who did not vote, Sen...
...George, Georgia simmnns, N. C. Farmer-Labor Shipstead, Minn...
...Couzens, Mich...
...McKoller, Tenn...
...Metralf, R. I. Schall, Minn...
...It was demonstrated conclusively during the debate in the senate that even under the higher rate of duty the amount of sugar produced within the United States could not be increased because of high labor costs...
...Norris, Nebr...
...Capper, Kans...
...The opponents of the higher duty, they said, were concerned more about American-owned plantations in Cuba than about American-owned farms within this country...
...King, Utah...
...Ilebert, It, I. Shoririd/fe, Calif...
...Howell, Ncbr...
...Stated briefly, the problem confronting the senate was this...
...Smith, S. C. Barkley, Ky...
...Blease, S. C. Hawcs...
...Oddie, Nev...
...Hale, Me...
...Dill, Wash...
...McNary, Ore...
...Ransdell, La...
...Inhnson, Calif...
...Copeland, New York, and Stephens...
...Bratton, N. Mex...
...The roll call on the Harrison amendment follows: FOR THE AMENDMENT Republicans Allen, Kans...
...16 when by a vote of 48 to 38 it adopted the Harrison amendment providing that the existing rate of 1.76 cents a pound shall continue in force...
...For many years the United States has produced at home but one-fifth of the sugar which It consumes...
...It must be remembered that the time.that the sugar has passed from the hands of the refiner through those of middlemen and into the possession of the ultimate consumer, the amount of the duty has been enhanced materially...
...Tydings, Md...
...Miss., Democrats, were announced as in favor of the Harrison amendment, while Sens...
...Wagner, N. Y. Connally, Texas Overman, N. C. Walsh, Mass...
...Ileflin, Ala...
...VlcCulloch, Ohio Thomas, Idaho Gould, Me...
...Townsend, Dela...
...to approve the higher sugar duty 1 proposed by the sponsors of the Hawley-Smoot tariff bill...
...Norheck...
...Caraway, Ark...
...S. D. Blaine, Wis...
...Hayden, Ariz...
...Furthermore, the additional amount to be paid by American farmers for the sugar which they use would have been far greater than the largest, conceivable benefit to be enjoyed by the small number of farmers who rafcc sugar beets or sugar cane...
...Kendrlck, Wyo...
...This was to be the rate applied to sugar imports from ; Cuba which for many years has supplied practically all of the sugar not grown ' inside of the United States tariff wall...
...The Hawley bill, as passed by the House in May...
...Their readiness to vote for increased agricultural protection whenever It promised to be effective had been demonstrated often enough in earlier roll calls on the tariff...
...Swanson, Va...
...Wash...
...Dale, Vt...
...Fcss, Ohio, Republican, and Fletcher, Fla., Democrat, were announced as opposed to the amendment...
...The vote on the sugar duty was a clear-cut test, of the attitude taken by the members of the senate when forced to choose between the welfare of the whole body of American consumers on the one hand, and the supposed but illusory interests of a small minority of the people, on the other hand...
...Most of the Progressives and a majority of the other members of the senate were interested not in Cuba, but in an economic situation within this country...
...AGAINST THE AMENDMENT Republicans — Baird, N. J. Hastings, Dela...
...Patterson, Mo...
...Gnff, W. Va...
...I Supposedly to benefit American farmers, propagandists for a higher duty wanted American consumers to pay an increased price on every five pounds of sugar they buy in the expectation that American farmers might perhaps get a some- j what increased price for one pound of sugar used in the United States...
...Phlpp.t, Colo...
...The rest comes from island dependencies and from Cuba...
...Gillett, Mass...
...j The high duty propagandists tried to draw a red-herring across their trail by talking about Cuba...
...A majority of the members of the committee, therefore, took refuge in a compromise rate of 2.2 cents a pound—one-fifth of a cent lower than the House rate, but still, more than two-fifths oCa cent higher than the existing tariff...
...To have adopted the senate amendment rite would have added $66,000,000 a year to the sugar bill of the American people...
Vol. 1 • January 1930 • No. 8
