President. If It had been possible to enter into a contract with Cuba. it would not have affected this years crop at all. it would have affected only next years crop. and the point I want to make with the Senator is that it is not Cuba we should discuss. let us not discuss Cuba at all. because 85 per cent of all the sugar produced in Cuba is by American capital. It is not Cuba at all. it is Americans who now are selling to the American people the sugar they have grown in Cuba by contract coolie labor. shipped in there under bond. 40.000 of them on the island today. increasing at the rate of S.000 per year. So it is said. and that testimony can be found in the hearings before the Finance Committee. With that kind of labor producing sugar in Cuba. the American people are paying something over a quarter of a millon dollars a day for Cuban sugar.