The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1905-04-15
.HANSBROUGH
AND SHAW
N. D. SENATOR HANDS
SECRETARY A BUNCH
Senator Hansbrough Charges Secre-
tary Shaw With Making the Inter-
ests of q Few Millers Paramount
to That OF Millions of Farmers.

Washington, April I5-Secretary Of
the Treasury Shaw and Senator Hans
brough have been having an interesting
correspondence relative to drawbacks
on Canadian wheat.
Secretary Shaw wrote Mr.. Hans
brough long letter on April a, in
which he took the position that the
senator had been misquoted.
The secretary replying to Hans
brough says: II
Il do not suppose your recent inter-
view will attract much attention, but
| thought l would bring it to your no
tice, and you can do as you think
best about denying it. Whoever wrote
the interview was wrong in his logic.
He states:-The fact is that millers
can get all the wheat they want in the
United States if they will pay the
price. They prefer the Canadian wheat
because it is from IS to 20 cents per
buShel cheaper.
No mention is made Of the fact,
which, think, is apparent, that Amer
ican millers cannot pay IS to 20 cents
per, bushel more for wheat and export
product in competition with wheat
ground in Canada or exported direct
from Canado. l think told you at
one interview we had that a treasury
expert (former bank examiner) discov-
cred from books Of Minneapolis mills
that they were only making S cents
per barrel on -four. 1t takes a little
over four bushels of wheat to make a
barrel of -four, and, of course, IS cents
per bushel extra on wheat would very
soon exhaust the S cents profit on
flour. This is another reason why i
know you id not write the interview.
i presume you are grateful, as i
am, that the price of American wheat
has not been prejudiced by the Moody
decision 5or by the enforcement of the
law in harmony with the opinion OF the
attorney general E
+ Mr.. Halsbrough, in reply to Shaw's
Interview, says he has not been mis-,
quoted in any respect. He says this
| to the secretary: a
"My confidence in your ability as
statesman is too firmly fixed to admit
| OF belief that you wish to be under
stood as saying the interests of few,
haadresa y escss q 81 arc
mount tosthe interests, of several mil
Hons of grain owners.
| ~ regret that this is the logical con-
iclusion to be. drawn. from your state
ment that the american millers cannot
lpay from IS to, 20 cents per bushel more
lfors wheat and export product in COM
petition with wheat ground in Canada.
The government, my dear Mr.. Secre-
ltary is not under an imperative. obliga-
ton TO keep a few American mills go-,
ling at full speed continually at the ex-
tpense Of multitudes Of American pro-
lducers of raw material
Neither do agree with you that the
lprice of American wheat has not been
Iprejhdiced by the Moody decision. Al
Though your, decision under which the
tfar-reaching blending privilege is
Igranted is but a few weeks old and it
His therefore somewhat early to Judge of
fits tendency to reflect upon current
tprices, it is nevertheless true that the
domestic farm price of wheat is lower
Iby several cents per bushel than it was
when your rebate policy as to export
lflour was entered upon. M