The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1929-05-16
MILK, FLAX TARIFF
RAISED BY HOOVER
President Increases Schedule
Raised from 40 to Sc Cents
Per Bushel
CREAM 4Oc PER GALLON
Other Products of Farm are
Being Investigated with
Increases Contemplated


number OF Republicans and Demo-
Gratis were finding fault with the
pending tariff bill in the house to-
day, President Hoover took adj
vantage of the flexible proclaim in
creases in duties on faxseed, milk,
cream and window glass.
On recommendation of the tariff
commission, the executive raised
the tariff on fiaxseed from 40 to so
cents bushel, the same rate pro-
posed in the last bill. Some west
ern Republicans, however, are not
satisfied with the 56-cent rate.
The milk duty was increased
from two and one-half to three and
three-quarter cents gallon. The
bill provides duty of five cents.
The rate on cream was raised
from two and one-half to three and
three-quarter cents gallon. The
bill provides a duty of five cents.
The rate on cream was raised
from 20 to 80 cents a gallon. The
bill proposed an increase to 48
cents.
The duties on window glass were
boosted by varying degrees from
the present rate range of one and
one-quarter to two and one-half
cents a pound. The bill provides
similar increases.
Asked what effect the presiden-
tial increases would have on the
rates in the bill, Representative Til
SON of Connecticut, the house Re-
publican leader, said the President
acting on cases which have been
pending some time before the tariff
commission-merely was given re-
lief now without waiting for the
pending bill to be enacted into law.
In announcing his intention to
make the proclamations, President
Hoover said he had consulted with
congressional leaders as to the de-
STABILITY Of those steps. He said
they agreed that "the farmers and
others should have the benefit of
the tariff commissions determine
tons at once"
Some of the reports of the COM
mission" he added, ION which
there is either no majority of the
commission or where new facts ap-
pear to have developed, have been
sent back to the commission for
reconsideration"
Meanwhile representatives from
western states who are dissatisfied
with the bill appeared before the
Republicans of the ways and means
committee, which drafted it, to
press amendments to the bill de-
signed to increase further the pro-
posed duties on agricultural pro-
duce other groups met to plan adj
ditional appearances before the
committeeman. These conferences
will continue for several days and
proposals finding favor will be
proposed on the floor as committee
amendments.
Representative Treadway of Mas
sachusetts, Republican member of
the committee, informed the house
that he disagreed with his colleag-
ues on the proposed duties on ced-
ar, maple and birch lumber, now on
the free list; on the proposed Gu
ban sugar duty of 2.4O cents a
pound; on retention on the free list
OF hides, leather and shoes, and on
the decision to make no changes
in the tobacco duties.
"The differences with nv COL
leagues" he explained, consist of
a few major features. The great
bulk of the bill, however, meets
with my hearty approval"
Action Marks End of Long Battle
Fargo, N. D., May 14.-President
Herbert Hoover's proclamation in
creasing the flax tariff from 40 to
81 cents today brings to an end a
long battle waged by North Dako-
ia interests for this additional ben
eft. The tariff will be effective on
this years crop, in the opinion of
DR.. John Lee Coulter, president of
the North Dakota agricultural col
lege and chairman of the North
west Agricultural Foundation,
which conducted the campaign. The
increase should be reflected in the
price received by the farmers, DR..
Coulter said.