The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1935-08-16
Sheridan FIGURING Mills Pays
Into Court as Protection
In Case of Refund.

All dTClCle puDllSIlcO IN IdSt
| weeks issue of the Hardin Tri-
bune-Herald under the caption
Local Farmers Enter Concerted
Protest." wherein Ed Torske, pres
ident of the local Wheat Produc-
ton Control association charges
the Sheridan FIGURING Mills with
refusing to pay to the government
the processing taxes on wheat de-
livered to their elevator in Har-
din, has brought a protest to the
editors of the Tribune Herald
from Manager w. K. Cole of the
Sheridan FIGURING Mills Of Sheri-
dan, Wyoming.
The Hardin Tribune -Herald's
policy is to treat everyone with
absolute fairness in its columns.
In line with this policy, at the
request of Mr.. Cole the following
self-explanatory letter under date
OF August 9, written by him as
manager of the Sheridan Flour
ing Mills, Inc, in answer to a
communication from c. M Rey-
nolds, president of the Campbell
County Wheat Production Con-
troll association at Gillette, Wyo.,
is published herewith:
Dear Mr.. Reynolds:
Your letter Of August 6 ask
ing us for information as to our
attitude relative to the Agricul-
tural Adjustment Act and our
suits for the refund of processing
taxes paid, has been received.
The intelligent and fair and OPEN
minded manner in which your re-
quest has been made not only
pleases US, but we are more than
glad to give you complete infor-
nation regarding the entire sit
uation. We will try to outline it
In as orderly and clear a manner
as possible.
I'm the first place, we are not
opposed to the Agricultural Ad-
justment Act, and our actions do
not, in u minds, so indicate.
This is true Notwithstanding the
fact that we have not been able
to absorb the entire amount of
processing taxes paid. However,
our not being able to pass the
entire amount of this tax on to
the flour buyer is the fault of the
competing mills and not the
fault of either the wheat pro-
Queer or the flour buyer.
1.-The fact that there are ap-
proximately $50 suits against the
government for temporary re-
straining orders, ordering the proc
essing tax to be paid into the
court rather than to the collector
OF internal revenue, will have no
bearing whatsoever on whether
there will be a continuation of
the payment of processing taxes
and, subsequently, wheat allot-
ment payments. The entire mat
ter, as we see it, rests with the
supreme court of the United
States, which will decide whether
or not the collection of such taxes
is unconstitutional. When the
supreme court rendered the de-
cision declaring the MIRA program
unconstitutional, by the same de-
auctions it became evident that
the Agricultural Adjustment Act
would also be declared uncon-
stitutional.
ION the strength of this, many
large flour buyers, bakers, and
jobbers declared to the mills
their intentions of bringing suit
against the mills for recovery;
from the mills of their proper
tional share of such taxes as they
had previously paid and in the
future would continue to pay
until the question was settled.
The logical step of the mills.
then, was to institute suits
against the collector of internal
revenue asking that temporary
restraining orders be granted
making it possible for this money
to be paid to the court, as stated
above, rather than to the COL
lector, until a decision was rem
dered.
AT about this time there ap-
Deared in congress House Bill No.
8492. known as the Security Act,
IN which there was a clause,