The Adair County news., 1922-01-31
FARM BLOC IN
DEFY ON TARIFF
Higher Duties on Farm Products
Urged by Twenty-Five
Senators.
FIGHT ON FORDNEY BILL
Rates Suggested by the soIons Are
Those Proposed by Various Farm
anlzations-Demand 80
Cents on Wheat.

CSulS d pOunu on SuOTL Staple raw cOt-
ton, with Is 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 Is Repub-
lican senator's 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 Stanfe1d, Oregon; Cap
per, Kansas; Nicholson and Phipps,
Colorado; Norbeck and Sterling, South
Dakota. Gooding, Idaho; Jones and
Polndexter, Washington; Oddie, Ne
.vada; 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 senators asked
for basic rate of 80 cents a pound on
raw wool with a secured wool basis as
compared with the Is cents In the
Fordney bill, and they also urged In
ereases over the Fordney bill rates on
numerous farm products, notably
wheat, barley, oats, corn, pOtat Oes,
poultry, fruits. They also urged a
duty on hides, green and dried, which
the Fordney bill would continue on
the free list.
Want 30 Cents a 6usheI on Wheat
Duties proposed by the senators on
other agricultural products were as
follows:
Wheat, 80 cents bushel; barley, 20
cents a bushel; oats and rye, Is cents
q bushel; cattle, tx cents a pound
fresh beef and veal, 81 cents a pound
sheep and goats, 50 head; fresh NUT
ton, 21k cents a pound; lambs, cents
a pound; swine, Y of 1 cent; bacon,
and ham, cents; fresh pork, cent
butter and substitutes, 10 cents a
pound; milk, sweet or sour, 3h cents a
gallon, and SKINNED milk, cent gal
Ion ;@cream, with not more than 20 per
cent butter fat, Is cents a gallon; 5
cents O gallon additional for each ad-
ditiOnal per cent.
Ice-cream mixtures, cents a gal
Ion for that of not more than 10 per
for each additional per cent Of but
terfat; unsweetened condensed or
evaporated milk, 1 cent a pound, and
If sweeetened, one-half of a cent ad-
ditional; all other milk, IL cents a
pound; milk powder, Az cents a
pound; cream powder, 8 cents a
pound. skinned milk powder, ~
cents a pound; shell eggs, 8 cents a
dozen; dried eggs, "a cents pound |;
frozen eggs, cents a pound; poultry,
6 cents a pound; grapes In packages,
IS cents per cubic foot; fresh grapes,
not packed, ! cent a pound; other
grapes, dried, and currants, cents q
pound; raisins, cents pound /;
peaches and pears, dried, dessicated or
evaporated, 2 cents a pound; corn, 20
cents a bushel dried beans, cents a
pound; green peas, 81 per hundred
weight; split peas, IL cents a pound +;
onions, 1 cent a pound; cOpra, 2k
cents a pound.
Seek Duty on Potatoes
Potatoes, three-quarters of a cent a
pound; potato flour, cents a pound
honey. 4 cents pound; millet seed, l
cent pound; fax seed, 40 cents a
bushel; grass seed, 4 cents a pound
hides, green, 2 cents a pound. dried, 6
cents; linseed oil, 81 cents a pound
rice, rough, 2 cents pound almonds,
unshelled, 5 cents, and shelled, 10 cents
a pound; walnuts, unshelled, cents,
and shelled, 10 cents a pound; citrate
of lime, II cents pound; citric acid
20 cents a pound oils of lemon and or
ange. 40 per cent ad valOrem; fruit
Juices, 20 cents gallon; coconut, sOya
bean and cottonseed oil, cents a
pound peanut oil, Az cents a pound
olive oil, III cents a pound; long sta.
pie 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, moi
specially provided for, duty Of
cents a pound was asked. On starch
and all preparations so used, including
n sage and tapioea, rate of cent q
pound was requested.
Senator GOOding said the senators
also accepted the rates on sugar in the
Fordney bill, although they had moi
been discussed. He expressed the per.
sonal view, however, that "the great
sugar industry cannot exist under the
protection afforded in the Fordney
bill"