The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-02-04
DRAWBACK RULES
ISSUED BY SHAW
Marks, Accounts and Customs
Records Specified by Secre-
tary of Treasury.
PURPOSE OF DRAWBACK
WIDELY misunderstood
New York World, Under Error,
Charges Scheme to Raise
Flour Prices.
By w, w. Jermane.

BY w. w. Jermane.
Washington, Feb. 4.-Secretary Shaw
today issued the treasury regulations
governing grinding of imported and do
nestic wheat for export under decisions
made by Attorney General Moody this
week Thursday. These regulations are
prepared in the customs division OF treas
ury department and are addressed IN the
form Of. letter to the collector Of Gus
toms at New York and signed by Secre-
tary Shaw. They bear the date OF today
and are as follows in full:
Manufactures of flour from imported
wheat mixed with domestic wheat will
be allowed a drawback under the opln-
ion Of the attorney general dated Jan.
"a, 1905, on the following conditions:
"A com plete and detailed record must
be kept showing the quantity OF wheat
imported, date of manufacture, and of
imported and domestic wheat used in
manufacture of each grade and brand
of -four, and the amount of flour of each
Gyade and brand produced, and the
Eusntity of the severed byproducts, in
Guiding waste, ETC., the value of each
and every kind of wheat so used and the
and of each and every byproduct, in
Guiding screenings and waste.
Packages to Be Marked.
"The packages containing flour so
manufactured shall bef 20 marked as
to render Identification easy and GER
tain, to the end that the treasury off
eials at the port of expectation may
determine by examination the essential
facts above stated.
"The manufacturing records shall be
at all times open to the inspection Of
an authorized special agent Of the
treasury department and shall be 50
hot hStr hn
readily verified.
"a sworn abstract from the record
of the mill shall be filed with the col
lector of customs at New York each
week, and therefrom the collector will
furnish extracts as needed for exporta-
ton.
''The primary entries shall show the
marks and numbers of the several pack
ages and the net and gross weight
thereof, separate and aggregate.
1.-The drawback entry shall show
quantity of each brand OF grade of flour
or byproduct, exported, the quantities
of imported and domestic wheat used
in the manufacture thereof, the waste
incurred in manufacture, and the total
duty paid on the imported wheat and
{ the market value of each grade OF
brand of flour and of each byprodnct
at the place of manufactu.,n and ieeejelae
was manufactured in accordance with
manufacturer sworn statement.
"In making the liquidation the duty
manufacture of the article exported
less l per cent, shall be divided be
tween the several grades or brands OF
flour and the several byproducts, in
Guiding screenings, pro rata, in proper
ton to the value Of each at the time an(
place Of manufacture, and the abstrac
will be allowed in accordance there
l, rt1 10 Ixr ,%oJ
in accordance with the plainciple lait
down by the United States circuit cour
of appeals in the United States VS.. tn
Dean Linseed Oil company (97 Fed. Rep
453), approved by the United State
court (172 U. S. 647).
New York World Charges.
The. New York World today has al
editorial claiming that while the draw
back is of immense benefit to the Min
neapolis millers, it will increase tn
price of -four to all consumers and max
flour more expensive in the Unite
States than in any other country. TIL
assumption that portions of the produc
of drawback grinding will be sold
domestic consumers.
1t is well known that all of thi
product is for export. | refer to thi
editorial to show that there is consic
eraDle CONFUSION IN Cne puD!!c mlnu d
to what the Minneapolis millers are
get under the drawback regulation
This confusion evidently extends thr
North Dakota and explains Senate
Hansbrough's proposed amendment
the sundry civil bill.
Hansbrough Opposition.
Senator Hansbrough's propose
amendment to the sundry civil bi
aimed at the wheat drawback, is tt
outgrowth of action by the North D
kota congressman and several CONNIE
cial and industrial associations in TIL
state which strongly oppose extensie
of the drawback principle to whes
claiming it would operate against tt
The effect Of the Hansbrough amen
ment, if adopted, would be to susRel
this drawback on mixed wheat and
other commodities and thus curtail t
export trade OF many million dolla
annually.
In 1903 the government paid dra
backs under the mixing provisi
amounting to about $4,000, 900, and tn
sum represented many more millions
exports. The trade is in leather goot
steel and iron, lead and various 9th
articles, and has assumed such prop
tions that to interfere with it, as Hal
brough proposes, would be to create
financial and Industrial collapse
many sections of the country It
not possible that congress will ag1
with Hansbrough in this matter. T
resolution is noteworthy mainly becar
it marks his desire to reflect the sen
ment of his state on this question:
The Hansbrough amendment has be
referred to the committee on app
priations, and when it comes I'D the
Hansbrough will appear for argume
In support of his amendment he "
argue that the trainers of the Ding
act never intended the drawback D
vision to apply to wheat.
New Drawback Bill.
Representative Lowering of Mas
chusetts today introduced a bill {
amend the customs drawback law ;
encourage trade in flour manufactu
by American Mills It provides +
in lieu of payment of duties on
ported wheat, there may be deposited
bonded warehouses or in bonded {
and vessels, flour equal in weight to
imported wheat, and of the same ul
ity as the -four which could be manu-
tured from the wheat, thus relea
from payment of duties. Tt is !
vided further that such -four shall
be removed from such bonded rece,
cles except for export free of duty
for domestic eNnanmDtion upon /
Ri ment of duty