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create an absolute monopoly in the Ameri- 
can refineries, giving them entire control 
of price? It is submitted that the prac- 
tical operation of this Paragraph 502, if 
made law, will reduce the production of 
Cuban, Philippine, Hawaiian and Porto 
Rican sugar, by either Cubans or Ameri- 
cans, to absolute dependence upon Ameri- 
can refiners and manufacturers, and will 
destroy sugar production as a separate in- 
dustry, making it industrially subservient 
to refiners.” 
In conclusion, the brief summarizes the 
appeal of the mission as follows: 
“Tt is, therefore, respectfully requested 
and recommended that the duty on Cuban 
sugar existing prior to the enactment of 
the Emergency Tariff Act be reestablished, 
or that the present 20 per cent. duty prefer- 
ential awarded by the treaty of commercial 
reciprocity of 1902 to Cuban sugars im- 
ported into the United States be increased, 
by legislation or treaty, from 20 per cent. 
to 50 per cent., which by virtue of the 
increased tariff rate, would make the net 
duty thereon the same as existing before the 
enactment of the Emergency Tariff Act.” 
American Business Men in Protest 
Against Tariff 
Announcement has been made of the 
organization of the American Committee 
on Cuban Emergency, composed of Amer- 
ican business interests whose trade with 
Cuba is seriously affected by the present 
industrial depression in the island due to 
the slump in the sugar market. Head- 
quarters of the committee have been estab- 
lished at 25 West 43d Street. 
The announced purpose of this com- 
mittee is to bring to the attention of Con- 
gress the unfortunate effect of the 60 per 
cent. increased sugar duties enacted by the 
Emergency Tariff act, and to urge Congress 
to reconsider those duties if the effective 
period of the Emergency Tariff act is ex- 
tended, and to reduce the rate of 1.6c. a 
pound, as it now stands in the Fordney 
Tariff bill as it passes the House to the Ic. 
a pound rate in effect before the enactment 
of the emergency act. The committee in 
its announcement points out that the do- 
mestic sugar industry prospered under the 
old rate of 1c. a pound and that there is no 
excuse for the increase which the Fordney 
bill would enact. 
Among the members of the committee are 
the following: E. J. Berwind, Berwind-White 
Coal Mining Company, 11 Broadway, New 
York; R. F. Almirall, vice-president West 
India Oil Refining Company; E. F. Atkins, 
president Punta Alegre Sugar Company. 
Boston; Charles H. Candler, president Coco- 
Cola Company, Atlanta; A. B. Farquhar, 
president A. B. Farquhar Company, York, 
Pa.; Andrew Fletcher, president American 
Locomotive Company; H.C. Fox, Fox Bros. 
& Co.; W.S. Franklin, vice-president Ameri- 
can Trading Company; J. M. Hansen, presi- 
dent Standard Steel Car Company; R. B 
Hawley, president Cuban-American Sugar 
Company; M. M. Hedges, president Casey- 
Hedges Company, Chattanooga, Tenn.; E. M. 
Herr, president Westinghouse Electric & 
Manufacturing Company, East Pittsburgh, 
Pa.; F. N. Hoffstot, president Pressed Steel 
Car Company; Adolf B. Horn, vice-president 
United States and Cuban Allied Works En- 
gineering Corporation; H.C. Lakin, president 
Cuba Company; W. W. Woodin, president 
American Car & Foundry Export Company; 
J. P. Beckwith, vice-president Florida Hast 
Coast Car Ferry Company, St. Augustine, 
Fla.; Charles F. Bliss, president Farrel Foun- 
dry & Machine Company, Ansonia, Conn. ; 
John McE. Bowman, president Bowman 
Hotels; Louis K. Liggett, president United 
Drug Company, Boston; Frank C. Lowry, E. 
Atkins & Co.; Robert J. Magor, president 
Magor Car Corporation; J. A. Munroe, vice- 
president E. T. Wright & Co., Rockland, 
Mass.; W. E. Ogilvie, president Cuba Cane 
Sugar Company; Charles Piez, president 
Link-Belt Company; Manuel E. Rionda, 
Czarnikow-Rionda Company; Horatio S. 
Rubens, chairman of board, Cuba Railroad 
Company; Henry A. Rubino, president 
Miranda Sugar Company; H. J. Steinbreder, 
president Fulton Iron Works, St. Louis; 
Joseph B. Terbell, president American Brake 
Shoe & Foundry Company; George E. Tur- 
nure, Lawrence Turnure & Co.; Samuel M. 
Vauclain, president Baldwin Locomotive 
Works, Philadelphia; Charles A. Schieren, 
president Charles A. Schieren Company. 
American Bankers’ Survey 
It is reported that Dwight W. Morrow, 
of J. P. Morgan & Company, and Norman 
H. Davis, formerly Assistant Secretary of 
the Treasury, have gone to Cuba for a 
first-hand survey of the financial situation, 
and will confer with General Enoch 
Crowder and Cuban officials regarding 
the proposed loan. 
