The Bounty On Beet Sugar

The Republicana were compelled to abandon the beet-sugar bounty proposition in the new tarriff bill because oi Democratie opposition. The amendment proposed to pay a bounty of a quarter of a cent á pound during a flve year's period from the passage of the bill. This, it was feit, would insure the establishment of the beet-sugar iudnstry in the United States. It is by this process that European countries have not only encouraged the production of beet sugar, but actually established a system which supplied more than half the sugar of the world by a process a geueration ago uuknown, It was feit that this slight encouragement in this country similar to that utilized iu other countries miglit enable the farmers of the United States to produce the hundred uiillion dollars' worth of sugar for which we are now seuding our ruoney abroad . But the Democrats opposed the proposition, as they do everything which emanates from the Republicans, and gave notice that they would delay the bilí by a long and iudefluite discussiou, making it probable that months would elapse before a vote could be had if the bounty proposition were pressed by the Republicans. The result was that the Republicans were compeüed to either abandon the proposition temporarily or keep the country in suspense with reference to the tariff bill for months. They therefore determined to withdraw their sugar-bounty amendmentand offer itas a separate measure in the hope of getting a vote upon it at next session.