The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1924-03-10
NO DRAWBACK
WHEAT COMES
IN SAYS,YoUNG
Congressman Declares North
west Misrepresenting Tar
iff to Own Detriment
SOUTH LIKELY TO ACT
Congressman Says Amount
Manufactured in bond
Under Tariff Is Slight
SOUTH LIKELY TO ACT

Washington, Mar. 10-Congressman
George NJ. Young, North Dakota,
member of the Ways and Means Com
mittee, declared. in a statement hand
ed out today, that the operation of
the wheat tariff has been grossly
and systematically misrepresented.
He said that many letters had been
received by him in wheat grow
ers from the Northwest have claimed
that the wheat tariff rate of 30c a
blu. carried in the Fordney-McCumber
law was valueless, because of the
supposed operation of the drawback
provision found in that law. Young
declared that not bushel of wheat
had been imported under the provi-
sions of the drawback clause in the
law, and that any wheat which has
thus far escaped the payment Of duty
has come in under the provision of
the law which has been in every
for many years. Congressman Young
said:
Drawback provisions have been in
every tariff law for many years, both
Republican and Democratic, in one
form or another, but no wheat worth
mentioning has ever come in under
such provision, and absolutely not
one bushel of wheat has been import
ed under that provision of the Ford
ney-M -McCumber law. have told this
to correspondents at different times,
and they frequently come back with
the statement that the drawback may
be claimed at any time within three
years, and that we shall have to wait
that long before we know whether
drawbacks will be paid. That is not
true. In order to obtain a drawback
it is necessary to serve formal
notice upon the Collector of Gus
toms at the time of Importation, No
such notices have been filed upon
any of the Collectors of Customs up
to the firstA of this month. 1t ap-
pears that tffel drawback provision of
the aw is unworkable, just as draw
back provisions in former laws have
been found to be unworkable.'
No Bond Provision
Again, there is not in the McCum-
past any provision knowp as milling
in-bond. There has been in every
tariff law, both Republican and Dem
ocratic, for many, many years, what
is known as a manufacturing-in-bo bond
privilege, which applies to all kinds
Of commodities imported in bond and
exported. 1t has been the policy Of
both political parties to permit this
10 be done in order to give employ
ment to American labor. An illus
tration of this is cocoa, upon which
here is duty. The United States
however has very large export
trade in cocoa and chocolate goods,
and this is for the most part handled
by manufacturing cocoa in bond.
am not however entering into a dis
cussion as to the adyisability of such
Il policy, but think it is proper to
call attention to the fact that wheat
is covered by that law just the same
us any other commodity"
1T is not true however that the
tariff on wheat is completely des-
troyed by the manufacturing-i in bond
privilege. The fact is that .during
the fiscal year 1923 only ne-sixth as
much wheat was manufactured in
bond as the total importations of
wheat for the fiscal year 1921, when
wheat was on the free list under the
Underwood law
The following figures show the
total amount of wheat imported, in
Guiding wheat thereafter manufac-
cured in bond, also, the total amount
Of flour imported, expressed in BUSH
els, covering the fiscal years ending
July 1st, 1921, 1922, 1923, and until
February 21f 1924:
1921-The last year under Under
wood law,
Imports of wheat. ..... 81 ,OO4 ,O24
Imports of flour Expressed
in bu.) ................. 6,393,978
Total bushels ...........57,3ss,o ,oo2
l922-Imports Of wheat I. {. 4,465 500
Imports Of flour, express
ed in bu.) .............. 2,7S5,972
Total bushels .......... 1881 ,7S1
1923-Imports Of wheat -. 18,O12,540
Imports Of flour (express-
ed in bu,) 49,. 1882, 1922 |
Total bushels ....... 1894, 1862
1924--July 1, 1923, to Feb. 1,
1924,
Imports of wheat 17,775,5S3 |
Imports of flour Expressed
ed in bu) 56o,479 |
Total bushels. -. ...., 1885, ,012
Imports in Bushels
THE estimated total Of imports of
wheat and flour, expressed in bush /
els, for the fiscal year ending July
1st, 1924, made. before and without
regard to the Presidents increase
in wheat duty, was 19,950,000 bush
els. With the increased duty the
amount imported will in all prob
ability bel lessh than!tthis estimate
There has been included in the
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