Senator Claude Pepper of Florida to-day notified the Senate Finance Committee that he would offer an amendment to the sugar bill cutting the quota on Cuban sugar imports, and correspondingly. increasing the Florida production quota, Senator Allen J, Ellender and Senator John B. Everton, both Louisiana, said that if the amendment was included in the bill they would demand a proportionate increase in the quota of their own state. 4 Senator Arthur H, Vandenberg, Republican of Michigan, interposed, "Would" it not change the whole theory of the bill if you seek to write specific state quotas into it?" Mr. Everton conceded that it would do so.
Mr, Walter G, Andrews, Republican of New York, opposing the bill but apparently for different reasons than Senator Vandenberg, denied, that Sugar growing was an innovation in Florida, He said that one plantation was a century old, and testified that thousands of acres in the Everglades which are now idle could produce sugar and employ thousands of additional persons. He said that Florida had consumed 120,000 tons of sugar last year, nearly twice the production quota whith the bill as Jit stands now allots to state the United Press,
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