Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1921-05-26
FARMERS TARIFF
LAW BY HOUSE,.
HARDING TO sign
Long Battle on Emergency
Tariff Finally Fixes Duties
on Over Thirty Farm Prod
Will Protect U. 5.
Producer.

battle in congress over the emer-
gency tariff bill ended today when
the house by o vote of. 245 to 81,
adopted the conference report to
which the senate already has agreed.
The measure is expected to be signed
by President Harding soon after his
return from New York.
Vetoed by Wilson
The emergency measure passed IN
the closing days of the last session
was vetoed by President Wilson, but
Immediately reintroduced with the
opening of the present extra session.
AS finally passed, vt carries tariff
duties on 80 odd products of the
farm together with compensatory
duties on the articles manufactured
from them. It also empowers the
secretary of the treasury to employ
penalties in staving off dumping of
foreign made goods, continues the
wartime control over importation Of
dyes and operates to clarity tangles
in the assessment OF duties which
result from flqctuating exchange
rates. 7Ss s'f3i. 4, &. II 10;
Only a slight furry Of opposition
appeared as the bill went into the
roll call today. Representative Car
ner of Texas, a Democratic member
of the ways and means committee.
restated the position Of majority
of his party and again declared the
bill could do no possible good.
.t' Rates of Duty
The bill provides for the following
rates of duty:
Wheat. IS cents per bushel.
Wheat -four and semolina, 20 per
cent ad valorem.
Flaxseed, 80 cents per bushel.
Corn or maize, Is cents per bus
he'll,
Beans, 2 cents per pound.
Peanuts or ground beans, 3 cents
per pound.
Potatoes, 25 cents per bushel.
Onions, 40 cents per bushel.
Rice, cleaned, 2 cents per pound;
rice, cleaned for use in manufacture
of canned foods, 1 cent per pound;
uncleaned rice. I Y cents per pound,
rice -four, meal, etc, l cent per
pound; rice paddy, three-fourths of
cent per pound.
Lemons, 2 cents per pound.
Oils: Peanut, 26 cents per gal
Ion: cottonseed, cocoanut, and soya
bean, 20. cents per gallon; olive, 40
cents per gallon in bulk, SO cents
per gallon in containers of less than
5 gallons.
Cattle, 80 per cent ad valorem.
Sheep: One year old or over, 81
per head; less than year old, 81
per head. n
Fresh or frozen beef, veal, mutton,
lamb, and pork, 2 cnts per pound.
Meats Of all kind not provided for
herein, Is per cent ad valoren1.
Cattle and sheep and other stock
imported for breeding purposes,
free. 4
Cotton, with staple Of 3-s inches
or more, cents per pound.
Wool, unwashed,a 15 cents per
pound; washed. 80 cents per pound;
secured, 45 cents per pound.
Wool, advanced beyond washed or
secured condition, t45 cents per
pound in addition to rates of duty
imposed by existing law.
Sugars. tank bottoms, sirnps Of
cane juice, melada. concentrated
melada, concrete and concentrated
molasses, testing by po1ariscope not
above III degrees. i ..16 cents per
pound !; each lad dditional degree by
polariscope, four one hundredths Of
q cent per pound additional: mo1ass-
es not above q o degrees, - per
cent; ad valorem; ); molasses above 40
degrees and not above s @ degrees,
8 4 cents per gallon; above 56 de-
grees, So cents per gall Fl:
Butter, and substitut utes there fore,
6 cents per pound
Cheese, and sub itutes, S23 per
cent ad Svaloreni.
fsSSs M ilk, fresh q 3 Y, cents per ailon !;
cream. s. cents per gallon.
filk,; preserved, cOnd densed Steril-
ized, p cents per pound sllg gar sof
milk S cents per pound sis5s5 isG9s
ss Tobacc wrap per and aller,,
.$2,3 S per pound Sc 6temmN Is per
pound \: m llor,s nstemm6d not ~.
,pectally prov "a ffor, = 5 nts pr.
pound ~ ylll q n .st., esnt !. pslrE
Ipplss 40 se:ants y \ pejrF j bnihsl sS
ssss Gherfie sshts ,0nn6
g Olive III & soluti toni 4 6sss cent speTs
8sllon not ln 1bInti ti0nss cent