Cotton Standards: Hearings Before ..., 67-4 on H.R. 14302 ..., February 20 and 24, 1923 |
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American standard arbitration bales of fully believe bill buyers CHAIRMAN classification of cotton Congress cotton business cotton exchanges cotton futures act cotton industry cotton merchant Department of Agriculture different grades established export farmer fully middling future contracts future exchanges gentlemen GEORGE W grade and staple guarantee H. P. FULMER hear HUBBARD hundred bales interested letter license Liverpool Cotton Association Liverpool standards matter MEADOWS offer official cotton standards official standards Orleans Orleans Cotton Exchanges passed practically present producer purpose quarter grades question samples Secretary of Agriculture sell cotton Senator KEYES Senator NORRIS Senator RANSDELL Senator SMITH session set of standards shipper single set spot cotton standards for American standards of classification strictly middling thereof transaction or shipment types uniform standards United States cotton United States Department United States Senate universal standards upland cotton Washington WELD York Cotton Exchange
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Page 4 - commerce" means commerce between any State, Territory, or possession of the United States, or the District of Columbia, and any place outside thereof; or between points within the same State, Territory, or possession, or the 1 District of Columbia, but through any place outside thereof; or within any Territory or possession or the District of Columbia. (k) The term "United States" means the several States, the District of Columbia, and the Territories and possessions of the United States.
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Page 17 - Hon. GN HAUGEN, Chairman Committee on Agriculture, House of Representatives. DEAR MR. HAUGEN: In reply to your request for a report on the bill (HR 6753) introduced by Mr.
Page 3 - August sixteenth, nineteen hundred and sixteen, and for other purposes. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That this Act shall be known by the short title of the "Migratory Bird Treaty Act.
Page 4 - SEC. 7. That in order to carry out the provisions of this act, the Secretary of Agriculture is authorized to cause the inspection, including the sampling, of any cotton involved in any transaction or shipment in commerce, wherever such cotton may be found, or of any cotton with respect to which a determination of the true classification is requested under section 4 of this act.
Page 3 - ... and for determinations made under section 4 of this act, and the amounts so collected shall be used by the Secretary of Agriculture in paying expenses of the Department of Agriculture connected therewith.