Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1922-01-19
TARIFF ASKED BY
THE FARM BLOC
Senate Group Seeks More Duty
on Certain Products.
ATTACKS THE FORDNEY BILL
Twenty-Five Senators Urge Higher
Duties on Products of the Soil
Backed by Various Farmers
Organizations.

washington, JAM IA duty of 5
cents pound on short staple raw cot
ton, with 10 cents a pound on the long
staple Egyptian grown in New Mexico
and Arizona was asked of the senate
hnance committee by Senator Gooding
or Idaho, as spokesman for % Repub-
hcan senators from agricultural states
The rates suggested by the IS sena-
tors were those proposed by various
farm organizations. The finance COM
mlttee was told that they had been ac-
cepted by the following Republican
senator's:
johnson and Shirtridge, California !;
McNary and Stanfield, Oregon; Cap
per, Kansas; Nicholson and Phipps,
Colorado; Norbeck and Sterling. South
Dakota; Gooding. Idaho; Jones and
Poindexter, Washington; Oddie. Ne
braska; Ladd, North Dakota; Bursum,
New Mexico; Cameron, Arizona; Ken
yon, Iowa; Warren, Wyoming; Spen-
Ger, Missouri; Willis, Ohio; Harreld,
Oklahoma; New, Indiana; Weller,
Maryland; Keys, New Hampshire, and
Townsend, Michigan.
Besides the duty On cotton, the Re-
publican agricultural senator's asked
for basic rate of 33 cents a pound on
aw wool with secured wool basis as
compared with the c5 cents in the
Fordney bill, and they also urged in
creages over the Fordney bill rates on
numerous farm products, notably
wheat, barley, oats, corn, potatoes,
poultry fruits. They also urged
duty on hides, green and dried, which
the Fordney bill would continue on
the free list.
Want 80 Cents Bushel on Wheat.
Duties proposed by the senators on
other agricultural products were as
follows:
Wheat, 80 cents a bushel; barley, 20
cents bushel; oats and rye, Is cents
a bushel; CATTLE IL cents a pound;
fresh beef and veal, 3h cents a pound;
sheep and goats. 50 a head; fresh
mutton, PA cents a pound; lambs, 4
cents a pound: swine, q Of 1 cent:
bacon and ham, 2 cents; fresh pork,
/ cent; butter and substitutes, 10
cents pound: MILK sweet or sour,
31a cents gallon. and skinned milk.
l cent gallon; cream. with not more
than 20 per cent butterfat, Is cents
gallon; 5 cents a gallon additional
for each additional 5 per cent.
Ice-cream mixtures, 5 cents a gallon
for that of not more than 10 per cent
butterfat and cents additional for
each additional per cent of butter
fat; unsweetened condensed or evap-
Grated milk, I cent pound and If
sweetened, one-half Of a cent addi-
tional; all other milk, IL cents a
pound; milk powder, AZ, cents
pound; cream powder. 8 cents
pound. skinned milk powder, ~
cents a pound; shell eggs, 8 cents a
dozen; dried eggs. "a cents a pound:
frozen eggs, 8 cents pound; poultry.
6 cents a pound; grapes in packages.
25 cents per cubic foot; fresh grapes,
not packed, 1 cent pound; other
grapes, dried, and currants, 4 cents a
pound; raisins, 3 cents pound;
peaches and pears, dried, dessicated
or evaporated, cents a pound; corn,
20 cents a bushel, dried BEANS 3 cents
a pound; green peas, 81 per hundred
W Weight; split peas, IL cents a pound;
onions, cent a pound; copra, 21a
cents a pound.
Seek Duty on Potatoes.
Potatoes, three-quarters of cent a
pound; potato flour. 3 cents pound;
honey, 4 cents a pound; millet seed.
cent a pound; flax seed, 40 cents
bushel: grass seed. 4 cents a pound:
hides, green, cents pound. dried. 6
cents: linseed oil. 31a cents pound;
rice, rough, 2 cents pound; almonds,
unshelled, cents, and shelled, Is
cents a pound; walnuts unshalled, a
cents, and shelled, II cents a pound:
citrate Of lime II cents pound;
citric acid. 20 cents a pound; oils Of
lemon and orange, 40 per cent ad
valorem; fruit juices, 70 cents gal
Ion: coconut, soya bean and cotton
seed oil, cents a pound; peanut oil.
~ cents a pound; olive oil, ~
cents a pound; long staple Egyptian
cotton, Is cents a pound; short staple
cotton, 5 cents pound; cotton seed,
three-quarters of cent pound.
On fish, frozen or packed in ice, not
snecially provided for. a duty Of 2
cents a pound was asked. On starch
and all preparations so used, including
sago and tapioca, a rate Of I cent a
nound was requested.