Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1909-07-08
|M|LL[RS LOSE
| GROWERS WIN
McCuMBER AMENDMENT PROHlB-
TING FLOUR DRAWBACK
ADOPTED.
STANDARD OIL wins AS USUAL
Blow at Grinders, If 1t Stands, But
Measure May Be AItered-Draw-
back on Flax and Its By-Pro.
ducts Also Barred.

Washington, July 6.-With charac-
yesterday afternoon adopted the Nc
Cumber amendment, cutting the flour
millers of the Northwest out of any
drawback privileges on wheat flour,
and a few minutes later refused to
have anything to do with PROPOSE
ton to cut the Standard Oil Company
out of drawback privileges on tin
plate.
The senate knew what was to hap
pen to the wheat drawback before the
amendment came up. AS conse-
quence, there were but two voices
raised in protest, those of Senator
Clapp of Minnesota and Senator Bur-
ton of Ohio. The finance committee
introduced it's amendment killing the
house drawback and substituting the
drawback section of the existing Ding
ley law, and Senator McCumber's
amendment was then added to this
section, without even the formality of
q roll call.
The McCumber amendment is as
follows:
1.-THE drawback provisions shall not
apply to wheat or wheat -four or to
flax or the products or by-products Of
f'axseed."
This amendment, if allowed to be-
come part of the tariff bill as that
bill is finally enacted, will cut the
millers of Minneapolis and other man.
ufacturing centers out of an import
ant part of their export trade. That
it is not to become part of the final
draft of the bill was the statement
confidently made by well-informed
senators last night.
The senate refused to have any
thing to do with the house drawback
section. The house provision gave
such latitude to the authority under
which a drawback of duty might be
secured, that Senator Aldrich declared
it would cost the government $780,
100000 year in revenues. He assert
ed that the drawback section was to
his mind one of the most beneficent
portions of the tariff law, in that it
fostered and built up the export trade
of American manufacturers, but he
expressed surprise that the house
committee could ever have brought
itself to adopt so unwise a section as
it did.
The McCumber amendment, while
it seeks to defeat the importation Of
Canadian wheat for American manu-
facture, indirectly accomplishes one
thing of the greatest Importance to
the Northwestern milling interests.
1t definitely and finally disposes of the
vexing question which has caused
great uneasiness among the linseed
oil manufacturers of the Twin Cities.
BY prohibiting any drawback upon
'the products or by-products of flax
seed the amendment restores, the
prohibition which has long existed in
tariff laws against a drawback of duty
on .-lcake.
This prohibition was put into the
bill by the house, but stricken out in
the senate. The only benefit to be
derived from it's elimination from the
bill would come to the seahoard oil
mills controlled by the Standard Oil
interests.
The grain drawback section passed
by the house was prepared with great
care Congressman Stevens, Volstead,
Nye, and Gronna of North Dakota,
aiding in it's construction. 1t was sup
posed to give adequate protectin to
the American grain raiser, at the
same time that it paved the way for
a more extensive manufacture of Ca
madam grain in Northwestern mills,
for the export trade. 1t is believed
the house provision as to grains may
be the basis for the conference COM
mittee's final provision as to the draw
back.
Not since the tariff bill has come
into the senate has SO much been &C
complished within day. Indeed,
when the sitting came to an end a
summary of the proceedings showed
that there was very little left to be
done The principal item still to be
considered was the tobacco tax, the
figures on which had not been com
pleted by the committee when the
senate adjourned.
Senator Aldrich hopes to have the
bill pass today from committee Of the
whole to the senate. In the senate
proper it will receive brief attention
and will then go to conference. The
tobacco schedule will probably pro-
woke considerable debate and the
chairman of the finance committee
may be disappointed. Consideration
of the bill is, however, near it's finish
n the senate.