Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1922-01-20
FARM BLOC in
DEFY ON TARIFF
Higher Duties on Farm Products
Urged by Twenty-Five
Senators.
FIGHT ON The FORDNEY BILL
Rates Suggested by the soIons Are
Those Proposed by Various Farm
observation-disclosures so
Cents on Wheat.


Washington, Jan. 16.-A 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
finance committee by Senator Gooding
of Idaho, as spokesman for % Repub-
lican senators from agricultural states.
The rates suggested by the % sena-
tors were those proposed by various
farm organizations. The finance COM
mittee was told that they had been ac-
cepted by the following Republican
senator's:
johnson and Shortridge, California;
McNary and Stanfeld, Oregon; Cap
per, Kansas; Nicholson and PhiDps,
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 pound on
raw wool with a secured wool basis as
compared with the % cents in the
Fordney bill, and they also urged In
creases over the Fordney bill rates on
numerous farm products, notably
wheat, barley, oats, corn, potatoes,
poultry fruits. They also urged a
duty on hides, green and dried, which
the Fordney bill would continue on
the free list.
Duties proposed by the senators on
other agricultural products were as
follows:
Wheat, 80 cents bushel; barley, 20
cents a bushels oats and rye, Is cents
a bushel cattle, IL cents d pound;
fresh beef and veal, 81 cents pound;
sheep and goats, So a head; fresh
mutton, 2115 cents a pound; lambs,
cents a pound; swine, q Of 1 cent;
bacon and ham, 2 cents; fresh pork,
/ cent; butter and substitutes, 10
cents a pound; milk, sweet or sour,
81 cents a gallon, and skinned milk
/ cent a gallon cream, with not more
than 20 per cent butterfht Is cents
gallon; cents gallon additional
for each additional per cent.
Ice-cream mixtures, 8 cents d gallon
for that Of not more than 10 per cent
butterfat and cents additional for
each additional 5 per cent of butter
fat; unsweetened. condensed or evap-
grated milk, cent a pound, and if
sweetened, one-half of a cent addi-
tional; all other milk, ~ cents
pound milk POWDER AZ cents
pound; cream powder, cents
pound, SKINNED milk powder, IL
cents a pound shell eggs, 8 cents
dozen; dried eggs, a cents a pound;
frozen eggs, 8 cents a pound poultry,
6 cents a pound; grapes in packages,
rs cents per cubic foot; fresh grapes,
not packed, 1 cent a pound; other
grapes, dried, and currants, cents a
pound: raisins, 3 cents a pound
peaches and pears, dried, dessicated
or evaporated, 2 cents pound; corn,
20 cents a bushel, dried beans, 3 cents
a pound; green peas, 81 per hundred
weight; split peas, IL cents a pound
onions, 1 cent Il pound; copra, 27z
cents a pound
Potatoes, three-quarters of a cent
pound; potato -four, 8 cents a pound
honey, 4 cents pound millet seed, 1
cent a pound flax Seed 40 cents
bushel; grass seed, 4 cents pound;
hides, green, 2 cents a pound, dried, 6
cents; linseed oil, 81 cents a pound
rice, rough, 2 cents a pound almonds,
unshelled, 8 cents. and shelled, ID
cents a pound walnuts, unshelIed, 4
cents, and shelled, u cents a pound
citrate Of lime, u cents a pound
citric acid, 20 cents a pound oils of
lemon and orange, 40 per cent ad
vaIorem; fruit juices, 20 cents a gal
Ion; coconut, soya bean and cotton
seed oil, 4 cents pound; peanut oil,
AZ cents a pound; olive oil, tx
cents a pound long staple Egyptian
cotton, 10 cents a pound; short staple
cotton, cents a pound; cotton seed,
three-quarters of a cent pound.
On fish, frozen or packed in ice, not
specially provided for, duty of 2
cents a pound was asked. On starch
and all preparations so used, including
sage and tapioca, rate of L cent a
pound was requested.
Senator Gooding said the Senators
also accepted the rates on sugar in the
Fordney bill.