Include Sugar Beets and Sugar Cane as Basic Commodities: Hearing Before the Committee on Agriculture, House of Representatives, Seventy-third Congress, Second Session on H.R. 7907, February 19, 20, 21, 22, and 23, 1934U.S. Government Printing Office, 1934 - 251 pages |
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acreage acres Agricultural Adjustment Act allotment amendment American farmer American sugar amount average basis beet and cane beet farmers beet-sugar industry benefit bill BOILEAU BUCK cane sugar cents per pound CHAIRMAN committee commodities consumer consumption continental United cost crop Cuba Cuban sugar CUMMINGS curtailment duty economic exports EZEKIEL fact factories farm February February 19 foreign countries GILCHRIST GILLMAN going Hawaii HOLMES HOPE imports increase insular insular areas interests invested irrigated Islands KEARNEY KLEBERG labor legislation long tons Louisiana manufacture MCCANDLESS MEAD ment MILES molasses percent Philippines present President President's message price of sugar processing tax processors producing areas production of sugar proposed protection Puerto Rico question quotas raw sugar reduction refined sugar refineries refining industry represent Secretary of Agriculture short tons sirup SNYDER statement sugar beets sugar industry sugar producers sugarcane surplus tariff tion TUGWELL WEAVER
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Page 118 - To establish and maintain such balance between the production and consumption of agricultural commodities, and such marketing conditions therefor, as will reestablish prices to farmers at a level that will give agricultural commodities a purchasing power with respect to articles that farmers buy, equivalent to the purchasing power of agricultural commodities in the base period.
Page 4 - Act, and all duties and taxes collected in the United States upon articles coming from the Philippine Archipelago and upon foreign vessels coming therefrom, shall not be covered into the general fund of the Treasury of the United States, but shall be held as a separate fund and paid into the Treasury of the Philippine Islands, to be used and expended for the government and benefit of said Islands.
Page 4 - The several circuit courts of the United States are hereby invested with jurisdiction to prevent and restrain violations of this act; and it shall be the duty of the several district attorneys of the United States, in their respective districts, under the direction of the Attorney General, to institute proceedings in equity to prevent and restrain such violations.
Page 206 - Instead of embarrassing commerce under piles of regulating laws, duties and prohibitions, could it be relieved from all its shackles in all parts of the world, could every country be employed in producing that which nature has best fitted it to produce, and each be free to exchange with others mutual...
Page 4 - The several district courts of the United States are hereby vested with jurisdiction specifically to enforce, and to prevent and restrain any person from violating, the provisions of this section, or of any order, regulation, agreement, or license heretofore or hereafter made or issued pursuant to this title, in any proceeding now pending or hereafter brought in said courts.
Page 4 - To provide for reduction in the acreage or reduction in the production for market, or both, of any basic agricultural commodity, through agreements with producers or by other voluntary methods, and to provide for rental or benefit payments in connection therewith or upon that part of the production of any basic agricultural commodity...
Page 181 - I do not at this time recommend placing sugar on the free list. I feel that we ought first to try out a system of quotas with the three-fold object of keeping down the price of sugar to consumers, of providing for the retention of beet and cane farming within our continental limits, and also to provide against further expansion of this necessarily expensive industry.
Page 212 - That upon the reimportation of articles once exported, of the growth, product, or manufacture of the United States, upon which no internal tax has been assessed or paid, or upon which such tax has been paid and refunded by allowance or drawback, there shall be levied, collected, and paid a duty equal to the tax imposed by the internalrevenue laws upon such articles...
Page 144 - ... put the sugar business, the beet sugar industry in this country out of existence; if that is what the object of the bill is. we could not accept it. But, any effort to restrict the American sugar production, the American beet sugar production, a non-surplus commodity, is not sound, we believe, and we could not accept it. Mr. MARSHALL. Have you any suggestions? I do not wish to take up the time of the committee, but I was just wondering whether you had any additional suggestions to make? Just...
Page 110 - ... is hereby authorized to adjudicate any dispute as to any of the terms under which sugar beets or sugarcane are grown or are to be grown and/or marketed, and the sugar and byproducts thereof are to be marketed. The decision and any determination of the Secretary shall be final.