The New York herald., 1922-01-14
NEW TARIFF RATES
NEARING FINALFORM
Farm Products Schedule rs
Placed Before Senate
Committee.

WASHINGTON. Jan. 13.-Finai discus.
| Sion OF the basis Of assessing the import
duties which are to be written into the
new tariff bill was started to-day by
Republican members of the Senate FL
nance Committee. The hope now is that
the bin can be reported to the Sonata
around March !.
The committeeman ret eived from tho
Senate Republican, Farmer-TariH bloc
recommendation as to rates on farm
products These included a suggested
duty of FIVE cents pound on short
! staple cotton. which always has been
on the free list, and rate OF thirty
three cents pound on wool. on tho basis
OF the secured content as against the
twenty-f1 cents proposed In the Ford,
ney bill. Rates at increases over those
in the Fordney bill on wheat. oats and
many other products also were urged.
Original Farm Rates stand.
The recommendations of the Rerubli-
can -Farmer-T bloc as to rates on
farm products were presented to the ma
jority committee members by Senator
Gooding (Idaho). Republican. The rates
were those originally proposed by half
q dozen farm organizations and Senator
Gooding said they had been accepted by
these Republican Senators.
Duties proposed by the Senators on
other agricultural products were as fol.
lows:
Wheat. 80 cents a bushel: barley, 90
cents a bushel: oats and rye, Is cents
bushel: cattle. 1% cents a pound: fresh
beef and veal, 3E cents a pound sheep
and goats, 50 a head !. fresh mutton, 2l5
cents pound; lamb, cents a pound:
swine. u of / cent; bacon and ham, Q
cents; fresh pork. ! oent; butter and
substitutes. 10 cents a pound; milk.
sweet or sour, 3h cents gallon. and
SKINNED milk 1 cent a gallon: cream,
with not more than 20 per cent butter
fat. Is cents gallon and S cents a
gallon additional for each additional s
per cent. Of butter fat: ice cream mix
lures, cents q gallon for not moro
than 10 per cent. butter fat and 5 cents
additional for each additional per cent.
Of butter fat; unsweetened condensed or
evaporeted milk. cent pound, and IL
sweetened. half cent additional; all
other milk ~ cents q pound; milk
powder Az cents a pound; cream pow
der cents a pound; skinned milk
powder. u of I cent q pound.
Poultry Products Scheduled.
Duty on shell eggs was placed at 8
cents a dozen: dried eggs. "a cents a
pound: frozen eggs, 8 cents a pound;
poultry. cents q pound; grapes III
packages, % cents cubic foot; fresh
grapes, not packed, ! cent pound:
other grapes. dried, and currants.
cents q pound; raisins. 3 cents a pound:
peaches and pears. dried. dessicated or
evaporated, Q cents a pound; corn. 70
cents bushel: dried beans. cents a
pound; green peas. 81 hundredweight:
split peas, ~ cents pound: onions.
cent pound: copra, 2h cents pound:
potatoes, Y of I cent a pound; potato
flour, cents a pound: honey. cents
pound: millet seed, / cent a pound;
flaxseed, 40 cents a bushel: grass seed,
4 cents pound: hides, green. cents
pound; dried, cents; linseed oil. 3A
cents pound: rice, rough, cents a
pound; almonds, unshelled. cents. and
shelled, Is cents q pound: walnuts, un-
shelled, cents. and shelled, Il cents
pound: citrate OF lime, II cents pound:
citric acid, 20 cents a pound; oils or
lemon and orange. 40 per cent ad
valorem fruit juices. 20 cents gallon;
cocoanut, soya bean and cottonseed oil,
4 cents a pound; peanut oil. ~ cents
pound: olive oil. TX cents pound; long
staple Egyptian cotton, 10 cents
pound; short staple cotton. cents q
pound; cottonseed, u Of cent pound.
On fish, frozen or packed In ice. not
specially provided for, a duty of cents
a pound was asked. On starch and all
preparations so used, including sago
and tapioca. rate Of cent pound
was requested.