The Coconino sun., 1919-06-27

SENATE BILL NO. 5634
 A bill to Encourage the Community
 Milling of Wheat and for Other
 Purposes.
 Be it enacted by the senate and house of representatives of the United States of America in Congress as- sembled, that the Commissioner of ln- ternational Revenue is hereby author ized to ,place under bond millers' ware houses, on application of owners thereof, and to issue certificates of de- posit for wheat deposited therein, graded according to the United States standards.
 Sec. 2. That such total bonded stor- age being available to the owners of warehouses and flour mills shall not exceed one years capacity of his ad- joining mill, or mill in the same town or city.
 Sec. 8. That such bonded certifi- cates shall be issued for all wheat de- livered to the warehouse by farmers in wagons or other similar convey ances; provided, that the Commission CT of International Revenue is em- powered to prescribe rules and regu- iations consistent with the purpose and provisions of this act for the is suance of bonded certificates for wheat delivered by or received from common carriers.
 Sec. 4. That wheat from any har- vest must be taken out of bond be- fore the end of September of the next succeeding harvest; provided, that the Commissioner of Internal Revenue may require the withdrawal of such wheat from bond at an earlier date when necessary to carry into effect the purpose and provisions of this act
 Sec. 5. That the owner of said bond ed warehouse must each sixty days take out of bond not less than one. sixth of the total of such bonded wheat.
 Sec. 6. That wheat taken out of bond shall not again be put in bond.
 Sec. z. That every owner of bond ed warehouse must have flour mill of sufficient capacity to grind, during that year, the total contents of such warehouse.
 Sec. 8. That any withdrawal of wheat shall be accompanied by an ac- count of the last withdrawal of wheat, stating disposition of the said wheat.
 Sec. 9. That any wheat taken out of bond shall be ground by the owner within 90 days next thereafter.
 D Sec. 10-That wheat may be depos- ited or withdrawn in amount of one hundred bushels and upward.
 Sec. II. That wheat may be depos- ,v. Af hundred bushels and upward.
 Sec. 12. That there shall be levied, collected, and paid tax of two cents per bushel on all wheat withdrawn from bonded warehouse; and on the withdrawal of the last one-twelfth of said total stored wheat, the owner shall equalize the total of such with drawals with the total amount put in bond, finally paying such sum as will make the total multiplied by two cents equal to the number of bushels originally stored.
 The said tax shall be paid to the custodian of the bonded warehouse for the district, and the money thus col lected shall be paid into the treasury of the United States and shall consti- ute a permanent appropriation to be called the Community Millers' Ware house Fund.-" to be used under the direction of the Secretary of the Treasury to defray the expenses of administering this act. The said GUS todians shall be appointed by the Commissioner of Internal Revenue, who shall fix the compensation to be paid each; provided, that local post masters may, with the approval of the postmaster general, be appointed such custodians.
 Sec. 12. That any person convicted of violating the provisions of this act shall be deemed guilty of a misde- meanor and shall be punished by a fine of not more than $2,500, or by imprisonment of not more than six months, or both such fine and impris- onment at the discretion of the court.
 You will notice that postmasters can be authorized to act as United States storekeepers and assist the Horn Milling Co. in having an equal footing with the big millers. This can only be done where there are not enough mills in given territory to keep a regular storekeeper employed.
 With this bonded wheat warehouse bill enacted into law we will be able to buy, say, 100 bushels of wheat, put it into our warehouse, receive a U. s. government certificate, which we can then take to the bank and bor- row money on. We can then buy more wheat, have it bonded, and so on, repeating the above course of ac- tion until we have the allotted amount of wheat to run us from one harvest to another.
 In other words, the bonded ware house bill will practically furnish us small millers capital to run our busi- ness the entire year.
 If you think this proposed bill is a good one and that it will help us in this county, won't you enlist in the fight to have it passed during this extra session of Congress am sure we can get this bill passed if the farmers all over the United States will write letters to their congress- men aSkinp that the hill he naSSpd