way, Republican of Massachusetts 'a member of the Ways and Mean" Committee of the Lower House, tacked the proposed three cents 2 pound duty on sugar in the ne iff schedules during the debar toa lay.
Mr, Treadway said that the in= rased sugar" tariff would be talent to an additional duly $14.4 per ton and would mean an additional expenditure by the nation's housewives during the year 000,000, on the total ports, hould this stim revert tothe riner ann! the cane growers," Mr.
way said, "it ly probable that America's housewives would be willing to make the additional expenlituros which it involves, T venture however, that, if this higher iit ly enacted, but a small frac tion of it will be reflected in the price the western farmer receives:
{or hig beets or the southern grower his cane. presentative remarked that suyzar beets now grown in western states, like Colorado, could also be Crown in the southern states.
The House Ways and Means Com-tee will consider the new tant scale on hides on Thureday.—United Press.
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