An Enigma In Sugar

Washington, June 8. - The Republican senatorial caucus Tuesday voted to stand together on all schedules in the tariff bilí. The caucus instructed the fina nee cemmittee to report a new sugar scbedule. The schedule is to be speeific and on all sügar whieh has gone through a process of reflning 1.95 cents per pound duty instead of 1.S75 cents per pound as provided by the house. Coarse raw sugars from the Philippine islands and Java are to be admitted at l-10th of a cent less than other raw sugars. The abrogation of the Hawaiian treaty was discussed, but no conclusión was íeached when the caucus adjourned. Text of tlie New Schedule. The text of the new sugar schedule is as follows: Sugars not above No. 16 Dutch standard in color, tank bottoms, sirups of cañe juice, melada, concentrated melada, concrete and concentrated molasses, testing by the polariscope not above 75 degrees, 1 cent per pound, and for every additional degree shown by the polariscope test, 3 l-100ths of 1 cent per pound additional, and fractions of a degree in proportion, and on sugar above No. 10 Dutch standard in color and. on all sugar whieh has gone through a process of relining, 1 cent and 95-10Oths of 1 cent per pound; molasses testing above 40 degrees and not above 56 degrees, 3 cents per ga'.ícn; testing 56 degrees and above, 6 ct: ís per gallon; sugar drawing-s and si?ïr sweepings shall be subject to duty ïis molasses or sugar as the case may be, according to polariscopic t'.'St. , Dnty Equal to Iíounty. Sugars, tank bottoms, sirups, cañe juice or beet juice, melada, concentrated melada and concrete and concentrated molasses, the product of any country whieh pays, directly or indirectly, a bounty on the export thereof, whether imported directly and in condition as exported therefrom, or otherwise, shall pay in addition to the foregoing rates, a duty equal to buch bounty, or so much thereof as may be in excess of any tax collected by such country upon such exported anide or upon the beet or cañe from whieh it was produced. A new paragraph is added reading as follows: "That the duty on molasses clayed, joggery and other sugars testing not above 87 degrees by the polariscope shall be l-10th of 1 cent per pound less than those imposed by the preceding paragraph on the corresponding tests of sugar."