The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1904-12-29
HANSBROU6H TALKS
On FROSTED WHEAT
A Washington dispatch to the
MINNEAPOLIS Journal SAYS:

A Washington dispatch to the
Minneapolis Journal says:
Senator Hansbrough, repre-.
senting a great wheat growing
constituency, is not in favor of
the proposition which finds so
many friends in Minneapolis, of
importing Canadian wheat to this
country in bond, for consump-
tion in American mills. AS ex-
pressing the opinions of his
North Dakota neighbors, what
no has to say on that subject
ought to be of interest in Mime
apolis. In response to request
the senator has consented to he
quoted as follows:
The farmers of the northwest
aresnot in sympathy with the eff
forts which are being made to
secure a treasury department.
decision favoring the wholesale
and indiscriminate Importation
Of Canadian wheat in bond.
Should the order which the mil
lers are asking for be made it
would amount practically to a
repeal of the duty on wheat and
consequent reduction in the
price of that staple. North
western wheat raisers are much
interested and they have about
reached the conclusion that there
is a mysterious relationship be-
tween the demand in certain
quarters for Canadian reciproci-
ty and the concurrent agitation
for the admission of frosted
wheat from Canada and the i'm
portation of Canadian wheat in
bond.
The wheat raisers are not so
welded to existing tariff sched-
ules as to insist upon a particu-
lar rate of duty. A reduction
might not be detrimental to their
interests in case congress should
enter a general readjustment of
the tariff; but whatever the duty
is or may hereafter be, they feel
that it should be honestly ad-
hered to, and that no sort of
ledgerdemain to deprive them of
it's benefits should be counte-
nanced.
The admission of frosted wheat
at low advalorem duty would
simply mean a flood of grain
from Canada under the super
vision of inspectors who might
not know the difference between
frosted wheat and shoe-pegs.
A scheme for the shipment of
wheat in bond, such as the mil
lers are favoring, the government
relying upon the affidavits of the
millers that the wheat had been
reduced to flour and the flour ex-
ported, along with the bran and
shorts, would be worse than a
farce. The only check under
such a system would be by as.
certaining the total exports of
-four, leaving the government the
only alternative of rebating to
the manufacturers the duty for
the wheat equivalent.
DO you favor a general tariff
revision % he was asked.
II am on record in that be-
half" was the reply. Tariff
duties should be adjusted from
time to time to meet changed
conditions. and conditions have
changed decidedly during the
past eight years."
What measures will the North
Dakota delegation seek to secure
during the coming session Of
congress ?"
I'VE hope to make some pro.
gress In the matter of irrigation,
and to pass the bill introduced
by my colleague, Senator Nc
Cumber, in favor of national in
spection of wheat. The people
of the northwest are much inter.
ested in both these matters. It
is pleasant to know that the off.
GERS of the reclamation bureau
here, who originally declared
there were no available irriga.
ton projects in North Dakota,
now proclaim the existence of at
least two in the state and one on
the Montana line. Others will
doubtless be discovered"
A lady who was quite unfa-
miliar with railroading vernacu.
lar was visiting railroad town