The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-02-03
Millers Indorse Measure Permit
ting Sale Here of Canadian
Wheat By-Products.
Impracticable to Export Bran
Mixed Feed and Middlings
from This District.
Bill Promotes Importation of
Canadian Wheat and Benefits
the Whole Northwest.

MINNEAPOLIS millers promise vigor-
Gus support for the Stevens bill, in
troduced In the lower branch OF con-
gress yesterday, permitting millers to
sell in this country the by-prOducts OF
Canadian wheat ground in bond.
The growing necessity of grinding
Canadian wheat In order to keep the
Minneapolis mills busy at all times
has been recognized by local mlllers
for some time, just as the undeslr-
ability of using southwestern wheat IN
Minnesota -four has long been admit
ted.
The expense incident to importing
Canadian wheat and paying duty on
it compels the local miller to rely on
wheat imported in bond, and 1T has
long been problem how to get rid or
the by-products.
The idea of the Stevens bill is a
good one,' said James Marshall, pres
ident of the Chamber of Commerce:
TT is one step nearer reciprocity and
therefore a thing to be desired"
Method of Grinding in Bond.
1.-THE flour 1nillers of the northwest,
at certain seasons Of the year, when
stocks Of wheat are small and wheat
receipts light, can import Canadian
wheat in bond, bond one or more or
their mills as bonded manufacturing
warehouses, and manufacture much
imported Canadian wheat into flour,
said John Washburn, Of the WASH
burn-Crosby company, which has been
doing a large part of the bonded
wheat grinding in Minneapolis. 1.-The
mills have to a limited extent done so
during the past twelve months.
Under the provisions Of the exist
ing tariff laws and the regulations OF
the secretary of the treasury, all the
products manufactured from this i'm
ported wheat, including the flour,
nd
products Of the process Of manufac-
ture, must be exported from the
United States and sold in foreign
countries.
by this mode Of manufacturing II,
bond no duty is paid OH the wheat i'm
ported. The duty on wheat is 70 cents
a bushel of sixty pounds, and the duty
on bran, mixed feed and middlings
is 20 per cent ad valorem. The by
products amount to "a per cent OF
the total product. The present law
does not provide for the withdrawal
from bond Of any Of these by-prod-
ucts, even upon paying duties or
them. r-.
Do Not Want Duties RENTED.
What the flour millers now ask
is not the remission of duties, MOI
any evasion Of or exemption from
existing tariff laws, but simply the
right to sell in this country the by
products Of imported wheat, upor
the payment Of duties which would
be charged If those by-products Wer'
imported in manufactured form.
MIXED feed, middlings and bra1
are unsuited for export to fore1gl
countries because Of their Egh
weight and great bulk. and becaus
of their tendency to lose grade an
condition in the course Of extensiv
carriage, which is apt to put thes
products in an unmarketable condi
ton. This is not a theory, 1t IS tn
discovery resultant from attempt
made by local millers.
IF flour millers were allowed t
sell their by-products from Canada
wheat in the home market they coul
import more Canadian wheat, ru
their mills more days in the yea
increase the government revenue o
bran and middlings for domest1
consumption. and increase also tn
supply Of bran and middnngs to
stock feeders in this region.
1T will mean more men to handI
wheat and freight and more to mar
ufacture sacks and packages. TIL
increase in bran will enable the farm
ers to feed their stock to better &C
vantage and will finally return to tn
wheat fields the increment which ma
urally comes from such feeding.
THE flour rnillers of this countr
ask no government assistance Or II
vors We ship our goods into fo1
eien markets. where discriminate
is often made against us. All
ask Is opportunity to sell at nome III
exportable by-products on which
are willing to pay appropriate duties