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Jones-Costigan Act", authorized the Secretary of Agriculture
however, he stated that the "uncertainty and anxiety"
to set up sugar quotas, both as to total production and as
caused by the act had come to a close and that cane growers
to importation to the mainland, including a limitation on the
were working "with regained confidence and healthy
amount of refined sugar which was to constitute part of the
quota. 1 The Sugar Act of 1937, which remained in effect
optimism. 11 Reverting to the quota issue, Senator Munoz
Marín testified in August 1941: "If we had 500,000 tons
through 1947, followed a similar pattern. 2 The act of 1934
more of cane in Puerto Rico it would provide a livelihood
provided that the quota was to be determined on the basis
for a quarter of a million people, including families of
of a three-year period between 1925 and 1933. That of 1937
workers. E. P. Wilson, Director of the Puerto Rican
provided for a quota to constitute not quite 22 percent
Trade Council, testified in June 1943 before the sub-
of the total mainland consumption quota. The act of
committee of the House Committee on Insular Affairs:
August of 1947 (1948 Sugar Act), retains the latter quota
system. In view of the sugar shortage occasioned by the
Let Puerto Rico produce the maximum
war, the President suspended the quota on September 11, 1939,
amount of sugar it is capable of producing, instead
effective through December 26 of that year, and again on
April 13, 1942, the suspension remaining in effect through
of 1,000,000 tons a year, as at present. If you let
it produce 1,500,000 tons there will be about
1947.
75,000 more people employed
50,000
of
them
in
Puerto Rican spokesmen for the sugar industry
sugar, the rest in the related industries.
(including political leaders who otherwise opposed the
dominant place of sugar in the island's total economy) have
Dudley Smith, representing the Association of Sugar
Producers of Puerto Rico, testified in the same month:
from the beginning opposed the quota system, pointing out
the importance of sugar production to the general well-being
"Puerto Rico has always felt that probably
of the island. The Jones-Costigan Act appears particularly
to have caused an initial shock because of anticipated
it got a little bit of bad break in the establish-
reverses which failed to materialize. The act was sharply
ment of quotas, which was done according to law
criticized by Filipo L. de Hostos and by Senators Barcelo
by probably as fair a formula as could be set
up.
You cannot go back and change that now, but
and Muñoz Marín4, and the Legislature's concurrent
resolution of March 1935 stressed the detrimental effects
it does put Puerto Rico in a position where it is
of the act 5 The Governor reported in 1935 that the
able to produce considerably more sugar than it is
difficulties brought about by the act "have been seriously
able to market under quota limitations.
felt mainly because of its slow enforcement. "6 In 1936,
Puerto Rico's basic quota was set on the basis of
the Sugar Act of 1948 at 910,000 tons, of which a total of
126,033 tons was permitted to enter as refined sugar. The
1Act of May 9, 1934; 48 Stat. 670.
quota was raised in 1949 to 1,119,331 tons, because of
shortages in other producing areas.5 Puerto Rican spokesmen
2 Act of Sept. 1, 1937; 50 Stat. 903.
361 Stat. 922.
1
Ibid., 1936, p. 36.
4
Hearings
on H. R. 1394, pp. 2-19 (especially
3-5, 17-19), 52-53.
2Hearings
on the Nomination of Rexford G. Tugwell,
p.
45.
Spuerto Rican Legislature, S. Conc. R. No. 1, pp. 3-4.
3 Hearings
Pursuant to H. Res. 159, p. 1135.
6Governor's Annual Report, 1935, p. 63.
4 Ibid., p. 509.
5
Puerto Rico (report to the United Nations), 1949, p. 18.
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