The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1911-04-25
ANOTHER BLOW
AT SHEEP INDUSTRY

Following is the full text of the bill
which has been introduced in the house
OF representatives placing many ar
ticles on the free list:
H. r. 4413.
In the House Of RsprsssutaetveA
April 12, 1911.
Mr.. Underwood introduced the follow
ing bill; which was referred to tho
committee on ways and means and
| ordered to be printed.
A DILL
To place on the free list agricultural
implements, cotton bagging, cotton
ties, leather, boots and shoes, fence
wire, meats, cereals, flour, bread,
timber, lumber, sewing machines,
salt, and other articles.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House
Of Representatives of the United
States Of America in Congress a.
sembled, That on and after the day
followed the passage of this act the
following articles shall be exempt
from duty when imported into the
United States:
Plows, tooth and disk harrows,
headers, harvesters, reapers, agricul-
tural drills and planters, mowers,
horserakes, cultivaters, threshing ma
chimes and cotton gins, farm wagons
and farm carts, and all other agricul-
trual implements of any kind and de.
scription, whether specifically mention
ed herein or not, whether in whole or
in parts, including repair parts.
Bagging for cotton, gunny cloth, and
all similar fabrics, materials, or COW
erings, suitable for covering and bal
ing cotton, composed in whole or in
part of jute, jute butts, hemp, flax,
seq, Russian seq, New Zealand TOW,
Norwegian tow, aloe, mill waste, cot
ton tares, or any other materials or
fibers suitable for covering cotton;
and burlaps and bags or sacks compos-
ed wholly or in part Of jute or bur
laps or other material suitable for
bagging or sacking agricultural pro-
ducts.
Hoop or band iron, or hoop or band
steel, cut to lengths, punched or not
punched, or wholly or partly manufac-
tured into hoops or ties, coated or not
coated with paint or any other prepa-
ration, with or without buckles or
fastenings, for baling cotton or any
other commodity; and wire for baline
hay, straw and other agricultural pro-
ducts.
Grain, buff, split, rough and sole
leather, band, bend, or betting leather,
boots and shoes made wholly or in
chief value of leather made from eat
! tie hides and cattle skins of whateveF
weight, of cattle Of the bovine species,
including calfskins; and harness, sod
dies and saddlery, in sets or in parts,
| finished or unfinished, composed Who'll
ly or in chief value Of leather; and
leathesr cut into sole uppers or vamps
or other forms suitable for conversion
into manufactured articles.
Barbed fence wire, wire rods, wire
strands or wire rope, wire woven or
manufactured for wire fencing, and
other kinds of wire suitable for fenc-
ing, including wire staples.
Beef, veal, mutton, lamb, pork, and
meats of all kinds, fresh, salted. pickl-
ed, dried, smoked, dressed or undress-
ed, prepared or preserved in any man.
ner; bacon hams, shoulders, lard, lara
compounds and lard substitutes; and
sausage and sausage meats.
Buckwheat flour, corn meal, wheat
IiouI anu ScmOila, rye IlOur, OIan, mlu-
dlings and other offals Of grain, oat-
meal and rolled oats, and all prepared
cereal foods; and biscuits, bread,
waters and similar articles not sweet.
|ened.
Timber, hcwn, sided, or squared,
round timber used for spsrs or in
building wharves, shingles, laths, fene-
ing posts, sawed boards, planks, deals
and other lumber, rough or dressed,
except boards, planks, deals and other
lumber, Of lignum-vitae, lancewood,
ebony box, granadilla, mahogany, rose
wood, satinw0od and all other cabinet
woods.
Sewing machines and al parts
thereof.
Salt, whether in bulk or in bags,
sacks, barrels or other packages.
Another Blow at sheep Industry.