EMERGENCY TARIFF HEARINGS BEFORE THE COMMITTEE ON FINANCE SIXTY-SIXTH CONGRESS THIRD SESSION ON H. R. 15275 AN ACT IMPOSING TEMPORARY DUTIES UPON CERTAIN AGRI- JANUARY 6, 7, 8, 10, 11, AND 13, 1921 Printed for the use of the Committee on Finance WASHINGTON GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE 1921 EMERGENCY TARIFF. THURSDAY, JANUARY 6, 1921. UNITED STATES SENATE, The committee met, pursuant to call, at 10.30 o'clock a. m., in room 310, Senate Office Building, Senator Boies Penrose presiding. Present: Senators Penrose (chairman), McCumber, Smoot, La Follette, Dillingham, McLean, Curtis, Calder, Sutherland, Simmons, Williams, Thomas, Jones, Gerry, and Nugent. The committee thereupon proceeded to the consideration of the bill (H. R. 15275), an act imposing temporary duties upon certain agricultural products to meet present emergencies, to provide revenue, and for other purposes, which is here printed in full, as follows: Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That on and after the day following the passage of this Act, for the period of ten months, there shall be levied, collected, and paid upon the following articles, when imported from any foreign country into the United States or into any of its possessions (except the Philippine Islands, the Virgin Islands, and the islands of Guam and Tutuila), the rates of duty which are prescribed by this section, namely: 1. Wheat, 30 cents per bushel. 2. Wheat flour and semolina, 20 per centum ad valorem. 3. Corn Corn or maize, 15 cents per bushel of fifty-six pounds. 4. Beans, provided for in paragraph 197 of the act entitled "An act to reduce tariff duties and to provide revenue for the Government, and for other purposes," approved October 3, 1913, 2 cents per pound. 5. Peanuts or ground beans, 3 cents per pound. 6. Potatoes, 25 cents per bushel of sixty pounds. 7. Onions, 40 cents per bushel of fifty-seven pounds. 8. Rice, cleaned, 2 cents per pound; uncleaned rice, or rice free of the outer hull and still having the inner cuticle on, 14 cents per pound; rice flour, and rice meal, and rice broken which will pass through a number twelve wire sieve of a kind prescribed by the Secretary of the Treasury, one-fourth of 1 cent per pound; paddy, or rice having the outer hull on, three-fourths of 1 cent per pound. 9. Lemons, 14 cents per pound. 10. Oils: Peanut, 26 cents per gallon; cottonseed, coconut, and soya bean, 20 cents per gallon. 11. Cattle, 30 per centum ad valorem. 12. Sheep: One year old or over, $2 per head; less than one year old, $1 per head. 13. Fresh mutton and lamb, 2 cents per pound. 14. Cotton having a staple of one and three-eighths inches or more in length, 7 cents per pound. 15. Manufactures of which cotton of the kind provided for in paragraph 14 is the component material of chief value, 7 cents per pound, in addition to the rates of duty imposed thereon by existing law. Un 16. Wool, commonly known as clothing wool, including hair of the camel, angora goat, and alpaca, but not such wools as are commonly known as carpet wools: Unwashed, 15 cents per pound; washed, 30 cents per pound; scoured, 45 cents per pound. washed wools shall be considered such as shall have been shorn from the animal without any cleaning; washed wools shall be considered such as have been washed with water 3 |