Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1907-10-04


ket only to be ground and then
exported, while the coat would
enter the American market for
consumption. If the coat was
i to be exported after the buttons
were attached, I should favor 1T, \
1 provided; as in the wheat case, d
j similar coat could not be pro- !,
duced in the United States at a
price that would Justify exporta-
ton. My reason would be that
the drawback on the coat with
American buttons attached would
furnish employment for the Am
eriean button maker and not in q
jure the American coatmalser Is
he being already barred from the
foreign market. In fact, it would
probably benefit him, for the but
tom maker would very likely
i buy and wear an American made
coat.
The law to which the senator OBJ
jects and which he tried to get
amended was first Incorporated into
the Mckinley Tariff Act OF 1890. " 1t
was subsequently re-enacted in the
Dingley Act and Attorney General
Griggs when in McKinley's cabinet
sustained it exactly as interpreted by
Attorney General Moody and as adj.
ministered by Secretary Of the Treas
ury Shaw. think the farmers of
North Dakota will readily reach the
same conclusion that Griggs while
attorney general under Mckinley was
able to ascertain what Mckinley
meant when he wrote the law. He
held that the exporter of lead bull
lion produced apart from imported
ore was entitled to- a; refund of the
duty paid On the ore consumed in
the manufacture Of exported bullion.
OF course the amount OF Imported
ore consumed in the production of
lead bullion does not appear to the
eye Or any of our other senses in the
exported Z article, but when the
amount can be made to appear from
the books and records Of the business,
the drawback is allowed Attorney
General Moody, blowing the opinion
Of Attorney General Griggs, held that
the exporter OF -four produced in
part from imported wheat was en-
titled to refund Of the duty paid
upon the wheat consume in the man
ufacture Of the exported -four providE
ed the amount thereof could be as
certained. OF course, the amount of
imported wheat consumed I'M the pro-
ductions of -four does not appear to
| the eve or any Of the other senses,
but when the amount lis shown by the
books and records, the drawback is
allowed. The cases are not only an
alogues, but parallel. tfsst a. &
MY. dear Mr. Editor, I want the
good people Of North Dakota to know
| that no particle Of Canadian wheat
ever entered the American market
for consumption by my consent with
| out the payment Of duty, and I have
| never been able to see in what re-
spect the American farmer could be
injured by allowing American work
men to grind Canadian wheat in the
United States .as & $sss
The distinguished senator does not
| refer to one other important feature,
AT the time this matter was pending
the ruling price for wheat in Can
1 ada was about zoe per bushel less
than in the United States and it. re
quires about four bushels of wheat
/ to make a barrel of flour. It does not
/ take an expert to show that the Am.
4 erican miller cannot pay 81 fol
enough wheat to make a barrel OF
flour and export the product in com
! petition with. the Canadian miller
1 who pays, $500 for the same amount
of materfa, or with the Liverpool
miller who buys his wheat in Canads
and takes it over, at less freigh
/ rate than Is charged ON -four. If tht
Il American millers were to keep Am
i erican brands Of flour on the Euro
Ipean market, they were compelled
4 to resort to some one or more of TIN
provisions in the Dingley law mad
expressly for cases Of this kind. First
They could bring IN the Canadial
wheat and grind 1t IN bond Withou
the payment Of any duty, provide
they exported all the product g
this privilege the distinguished sen
ator never made obiection. Second
They could bring ins Canadian wheal
pay the duty, grind Il and export II
product and get their duty back
never knew the senator to object |
this daily authorized way. The oll
thing to, which the senator obaeea
is the right, under the opinions
have quoted. to use part Canada
wheat and part American wheat eazs