Tariff Hearings Before the Committee on Ways and Means of the House of Representatives, Sixtieth Congress, 1908-1909: Schedule G, Agricultural Products and Provisions

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U.S. Government Printing Office, 1909 - Produce trade - 729 pages
 

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Page 3760 - States for sale, including the value of all cartons, cases, crates, boxes, sacks, and coverings of any kind, and all other costs, charges and expenses incident to placing the merchandise in condition, packed ready for shipment to the United States...
Page 3761 - ... the actual market value or wholesale price of such merchandise as bought and sold in usual wholesale quantities, at the time of exportation to the United States, in the principal markets of the country from whence imported...
Page 3804 - Troops, held this day, the following preamble and resolutions were unanimously adopted : Whereas, It has...
Page 3627 - Buffalo, to present to the committee a request for the removal of the duty on barley. The present duty is 30 cents per bushel, which is a prohibitive duty, and was imposed under the present law. Under the law of 1890 it was made 30 cents a bushel, and later, in 1894, it was made 30 per cent ad valorem duty, and under the present law again it was made 30 cents per bushel.
Page 4262 - tapioca, cassava, or cassady " were placed in the free list, while "root flour" was placed in the free list in 1872. (17 Stat., 236.) The Treasury Department held tapioca flour entitled to free entry as tapioca. The Secretary said, " It appears upon investigation that tapioca is prepared in three forms, namely, flake, pearl, and flour, and that these terms do not indicate any substantial difference in the character or quality of the article, but merely indicate its form or appearance.
Page 3624 - Rice, cleaned, two cents per pound ; uncleaned rice, or rice free of the outer hull and still having the inner cuticle on...
Page 4260 - ... tapioca flour, if fit and intended for such use, might be dutiable under the paragraph in question and not be exempt as a form of tapioca. But when the language is
Page 4082 - ... cent in our output, it must be borne in mind that it takes from ten to twelve years from planting to bring a walnut tree into full bearing. Under the stimulus given by the present tariff there have been planted about 8,000 acres in southern California since 1903. We are credibly informed, however, that within the last three or four years there has been a larger acreage than the above planted in Oregon, which is largely on the increase, that will take a number of years before coming into full...
Page 3902 - In this behalf we beg to quote from the report of Mr. David G. Fairchild, agricultural explorer of the United States Department of Agriculture, to the Secretary of Agriculture, under date of April 5, 1901, in reference to the Corinth vineyardists of Greece, as follows (writing of a law enacted by the Grecian Government) : This law Is unique and is well worth study.
Page 3894 - Act, thirty-five per centum ad valorem and in addition two dollars and fifty cents* per proof gallon on the alcohol contained therein in excess of ten per centum; jellies of all kinds, thirty-five per centum ad valorem; pineapples preserved in their own juice, twenty-five per centum ad valorem.

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