According to the report of our consulgeneral in Cuba. sugar in that island can be produced by modern machinery as low as 1 cents. per pound. and on theaverage. by modernmachinery..isnow being produced there at a cost of 11 cents per pound. Beware of compelling the one industry of most benefit to our farmers to compete with the low prices of tropical countries. which will be made still lower by the further employment of Chinese labor. That same consulgeneral asserts that Cuba is capable of raising 6.000.000 tons of sugar a yearmore than twice the entirec consumption of the United States. With no restriction against Asiatic labor in Cuba. and with an unlimited capacity for production of sugar. who can say that this legislation is not diabolical in its tendency? Mr. Chairman.