AGRICULTURAL RELIEF

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[ cent tariff, and the American farmer or the little fellow who
brings 1t in for domestic consumption pays 42 cents tariff. Yet
there are a few fellows running over the country and trying to tell
the farmers that the tariff on wheat is for the benefit of the American
farmer. If those fellows did not have that privilege, instead of going
to Canada and buying 11,000,000 bushels of wheat, as they did last
year, they would take 11,000,000 bushels of wheat from the American
farmer. That is what would benefit them.
I want to put these in the record.
The CrairMAN. Have you stated from what source the statistics
come
Mr. KiNncHELOE. This is a statement prepared by the United
States Tariff Commission, statistical division.
The CuairMAN. And it gives the percentage of mixtures?
Mr. KiNcHELOE. Oh, no; the law gives that.
The CrairmaN. To what extent was it mixed with domestic
wheat? I believe vou said 30 per cent. I am interested in those
figures.
Mr. KiNncHELOE. I am giving the total number of bushels of wheat
imported into this country since 1922, by years.
The CrairMAN. I understood you to say it was mixed with domestic
 wheat and exported.
Mr. KincHELOE. I will state this, under the provision of the
tariff on wheat of the Fordney-McCumber tariff law, the American
miller, as I say, who imports wheat into this country and mixes as
much as 30 per cent of American wheat with it, grinds it into flour
and its by-products and exports it, that miller has the right to go
back to the customhouse and draw back 99 cents out of every
dollar of tariff paid. So this gives the number of bushels of wheat
and this gives what he should have paid to the Federal Treasury if
he had paid like the little fellow; and this is what he did not pay.
Mr. AsweLL. How are you going to correct it? I was wondering
if the Haugen bill would correct that.
Mr. KincueLoE. No, they do not propose to correct that. I want
to insert this to show the falacy of the emergency tariff and the
Fordney-McCumber tariff bills helping the wheat farmers. It helps
the millers and not the wheat farmers.
(The statements submitted by Mr. Kincheloe are as follows:)
Imports of wheat into the United States
[Act of 1022]

Duty-paid wheat

(mported free in bond
for milling and export
as flour

Calendar year

mmm

hod
~on

Juantity

Bushels
165, 026
929, 749
204, 625
208, 399
51,029
zl. 299

Duties paidl

$949, 508
2, 678, 925
2, 149, 887
549, 528
189, 432
3 946

Quantity

Rushels
}, 998, 888
J O88, 592
4, 479, 819
10, 439, 714
15, 429, 102
"1. 152. 699

99 per cent
of estimated
duties !

$1, 187, 669
2 966, 612
3. 578, 335
1, 340, 833
8, 415, 421
t 637. 293

. Equivalent to drawback under other tariff acts.
' Act of 1922, September 22-December 31, 1922, dutiable at 30 cents per bushel.
i By presidential proclamation, dutiable at 42 cents per bushel, effective April 6, 1924
Jonree: Foreign Commerce and Navigation of the United States