Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1922-01-14
sOLONS REQUEST
DUTY ON COTTON
CROWN IN WEST
Levy of Five Cents a Pound
On the Long Staple Vari-
ETY. in New Mexico and
Arizona is Asked.

Washington, Jan. IA duty OF
five cents a pound on short staple
raw cotton with is cents a pound
on the long staple Egyptian grown !
in New Mexico and Arizona was
asked Of the senate finance COM
mittee today by Senator GOoding, !
of Idaho, as spokesman for twenty |
five republican senator's from agri- |
cultural states.
The rates suggested by the
twenty-five senators were those
proposed by various farm organiza-
tons. The finance committee was
told that they had been accepted
by the following republican sena-
Johnson and Shortridge. Cali
fornia; McNary and Stanfield,
oregon; Capper, Kansas; Nichol-
son and Phipps. Colorado; Nor
beck and Sterling. South Dakota;
Gooding, Idaho; Jones and Pom
dexter, Washington; eddie, Neva-
da; Ladd. North Dakota; Bursum.
New Mexico; Cameron. Arizona;
Kenyon, Iowa. Warren. Wyoming;
Harreld. Oklahoma; New, Indiana;
Weller, Maryland; Keys, New
lldllpoIl4Le e. anu ION uStlluS AllCLI-
gan.
Besides the duty on cotton, the
republican agricultural senators
asked FOR a basis rate of SO cents a
pound on raw wool with a secured
wool basis as compared with the
rs cents in the Fordney bill and
they also urged increases over the
Fordney bill rates on numerous
farm products, notably wheat,
barley, oats. corn, potatoes, poul-
try, fruits. They also urged a
duty on hides. green and dried,
which the Fordney bill would con-
tinue on the free list.
Duties proposed by the senators
on other agricultural products
were as follows:
Wheat, 80 cents a bushel; barley, |
20 cents a bushel; oats and rye,
Is cents a bushel; cattle, q cents
q pound; fresh beef and veal, 31s |
cents pound; sheep and goats, So
a head; fresh mutton, 21a cents a
pound; lamb. cents a pound; |
swine, q Of one per cent; bacon,
10 cents; butter and substitutes,
10 cents pound; milk, sweet or
sour, u cents q gallon and skim .
med milk, 1 cent a gallon; cream,
with not more than 20 per cent |
butter fat, Is cents q gallon, 5 |
cents gallon additional for each |
additional five per cent; butter fat |
ice cream mixtures. cents a gal
Ion for not more than 10 per cent |
butter fat and cents additional |
for each additional 3 per cent of |
butter fat; unsweetened, condensed |
or evaporated milk, one cent q |
pound, and If sweetened half of q |
cent additional; all other milk one |
and three-fourths cents q pound; |
milk powder. Az cents a pound;
cream powder, 5 cents q pound; |
SKINNED milk powder. II cents q |
pound; shell eggs. cents a dozen; |
dried eggs, "a cents pound; |
frozen eggs, cents a pound; poul-
try, 6 cents a pound; grapes in
packages, 20 cents per cubic foot;
fresh grapes. not packed, l cent a
pound; other grapes, dried, and
currants, cents pound; raislns,
3 cents pound; peaches and
pears, dried, dessicated or eyapo-
rated, 2 cents n pound; corn, 20
cents a bushel: dried beans 3 cents
a pound; green peas, 81 per hum
dredweight; split peas, IL cents
q pound; onions. l cent pound;
copra. 2 II cents a pound: potatoes,
q Of 1 cent a pound; potato flour,
3 cents pound; honey. cents
pound; millet seed, l cent pound;
flax seed, 40 cents a bushel; grass
seed. cents a pound; hides, green,
2 cents a pound dried. cents.
linseed oil, ~ cents a pound; rice,
rough, 2 cents pound; almonds.
unshclled, cents, and sholled, Is
cents a pound; walnuts, uhshelled
cents and shelled, 10 cents a
pound citrate of lime,- IL cents a
pound; citrate acid, 20 cents a
40 per cent advalorem; fruit
juices, 70 cents gallon; cocoanut,
soya beans and cotton seed oil,
cents pound; peanut oil, Az
cents a pound; olive oil. 71s cents
long staple Egyptian cot
ton, Is cents a pound; short staple
cotton. cents a pound; cotton
seed, y of l cent pound. =
On fish frozen or packed In fee,
not especially provided for. a duty
Of cents pound was asked. On
starch and all preparations so
used, including sage and tapioca,
a rate of / cent a pound was re-
quested.
Senator Gooding said the sena-
tors also accepted tho rates on
sugar in the Fordney bill, although
they had not been discussed. He
expressed the personal view, how
ever. that "the great sugar indus
try cannot exist under the protec-
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