Henderson gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1911-19??, 1911-05-18
THE FARMERS FREE LIST.
The Bill Passes the House by a Ma
iority of I27 Votes.
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The Farmers Free List bill, Whi.l,
fin- PASSED the House on ii eoIid
ID .u,.".rHtic vote and with a maiOri-
ry o. l27, the vote being BOG for, and
100 against, has for its purpose the
giving OF cheaper agricultural i'm
plements to the farmers, cheaper
breads and meats to the dwellers in
the cities. 1t has been passed by
the Democratic House in fulfillment of
the Democratic pledge to the people
to enact such legislation as will put
an end to the high cost of living
In the House the Republicans
sought to block the passage OF the
bill and piled on amendment after
amendment, eighty-three of these
being voted down before the final
overwhelming vote which sent it to
the Senate without any amendment.
That the 'stand-pat" Republicans
in the Senate will fight it, is but to
be expected, and the debate on it is
necessarily, therefore, to be one of
the lOng-draWE-Out kind
The provisions OF the bill are that
there can be inporte1i into the United
States, exempt from duty, the fol
lowing articles:
Pluws, tooth and disc harrOws,
headers, harvtsterH, reapers, agricul-
tural drills and planters, hOrse-rakes,
guilty ators. threshing machines and
cotton gins, farm wagons and farm
carts and all other agricultural i'm
pIements Of any description, whether
sp officially mentioned herein or not,
whether III whole or in parts, includ-
ing repair parts.
Bagging for cotton gunny cloth
and all similar fabrics, materials or
coverings suitable for covering and
baling cotton, composed in whole or
in part OF iute, iute butts, hemp, flax
seq, Russian seq, New Zealand tow,
Norwegian tow, aloe, mill waste, cot
ton tares, or any other materials or
fibres suitable for covering cotton;
and burlaps and bags or sacks com
posed wholly or i'll part OF iute or
burlaps for sacking agricultural
products.
Hoop or band iron, or hoop or
band steel, cut to lengths, punched
or not punched, or wholly or partly
manufactured into hoops or ties,
coated or not coated with paint OF
any other preparation, with OF with.
/ out buckles or fasteningS, for hHllng
/ cotton or any other commodity; and
wire for baling hay, straw and other
agricultural products.
Grain, buff, split and rough sole
leather band, bend or betting leath,
er, boots and shoes, made wholly OF
in chief value of leather made from
cattle hides and cattle skins of what.
ever weight of cattle of the bovine
species, including calf skins, and har
ness, saddles and saddlery in sets OIL
in parts. finished CT unfinished, com
posed wholly or in chief value o.
leather, and leather cut into shoe
uppers or vamps, or other forms
suitable for conversion into manu-
factured articles
Barbed fence wires, wire rods, Wirt
strands or wire rope, wire woven or
manufactured for wire fencing anC
other kinds of wire suitable for fenc
ing, including wire staples.
Beef, veal, mutton, lamb, pork anG
meats of all kind, fresh, salted, pick
led, dried, smoked, dressed or un
dressed, prepared or preserved in
any manner; bacon, hams, should
ers, lard, lard compounds and lard
substitutes. and sausage and sau
sage meats.
Buckwheat -four, corn meal. wheat
-four and semOlina, rye -four, bran
middlings and other offals of grain
oatmeal and rolled oats ard all pre-
pared cereal foods, and biscuits
!. bread, waters and similar article:
not sweetened.
Timber, hewn, sided or squared
round timber, used forspars in build
ing wharves, shingles, laths, fencing
posts, sawed boards, planks, deals
and other lumber, rough or dressed
except boards, planks, deals ant
other lumber, or lignum vitP, lane
wood, ebony, box, grenadillo, ma
hOgany, rosewood, shitimwOOd an
; all other cabinet woods.
Sewing machines and all part
thereof. Salt, whether in bulk or il
bags, sacks, barrels or other pack
ages.