The interesting feature that occurs to me is that apparently my colleague. despite his long attendance at the hearings before this committee. has overshot the mark. as have those others of the committee who may agree with him. in the statement that this bill constitutes unfair discriminatory restrictions against the two insular possessions. The quotas provided in this bill lie with equal force on all continental United States and on the entire domestic area producing sugar. Efforts were made by the committee to listen to every side. and to bring about the fairest adjustment under a quota system possible. as the only efficient means of stabilizing and retaining a market strong enough to permit both the continental and the insular sugar producer to enjoy remunerative prices above the world market price for sugar. It is an interesting commentary that the great States of New York and Texas were producing beets at one time. and Texas both beets and sugarcane. and it is interesting also to now find that under this bill they are not permitted to resume that activity. and then hear the claim that the bill discriminates against Hawaii and Puerto Rico to a greater extent than it does against the great States of this Union. I shall not have time in the brief period assigned to me to go into a discussion of this bill. but I do ask the members of the committee who have shown enough interest to sit here throughout this debate to at least read the extension of my remarks in the RECORD tomorrow.
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