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TARIFF

SCHEDULE 1-CHEMICALS, OILS, AND PAINTS

HEARING

BEFORE THE

COMMITTEE ON FINANCE
UNITED STATES SENATE

SIXTY-SEVENTH CONGRESS

FIRST SESSION

ON

H. R. 7456

AN ACT TO PROVIDE REVENUE, TO REGULATE COMMERCE WITH FOREIGN COUNTRIES, TO ENCOURAGE THE INDUSTRIES OF THE UNITED STATES,

Note. This print is for the immediate use of the Committee
and is subject to correction before the final print

TARIFF

SCHEDULE 1-CHEMICALS, OILS, AND PAINTS

HEARING

BEFORE THE

COMMITTEE ON FINANCE
UNITED STATES SENATE

SIXTY-SEVENTH CONGRESS

FIRST SESSION

ON

H. R. 7456

AN ACT TO PROVIDE REVENUE, TO REGULATE COMMERCE
WITH FOREIGN COUNTRIES, TO ENCOURAGE THE
INDUSTRIES OF THE UNITED STATES,
AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES

COMMITTEE ON FINANCE.

BOIES PENROSE, Pennsylvania, Chairman.

LEIGHTON C. TAYLOR, Clerk.
W. B. STEWART, Assistant Clerk.

TARIFF CHEMICALS, OILS, AND PAINTS.

THURSDAY, AUGUST 18, 1921.

UNITED STATES SENATE,
COMMITTEE ON FINANCE,
Washington, D. C.

The committee met at 10.30 o'clock a. m., in room 312, Senate Office Building, Hon. Boies Penrose presiding.

Present: Senators Penrose (chairman), Smoot, Dillingham, La Follette, Watson, Calder, McCumber, Sutherland, Simmons, and Walsh.

The CHAIRMAN. The committee will be in order. The first gentleman to be heard to-day in continuation of the consideration of the chemical schedule is Mr. G. J. Jenks.

STATEMENT OF MR. G. J. JENKS, OF HARBOR BEACH, MICH., PRESIDENT OF THE HURON MILLING CO.

The CHAIRMAN. Will you kindly state your name, address, and whom you represent, Mr. Jenks. I am

Mr. JENKS. My name is G. J. Jenks of Harbor Beach, Mich. here in the place of Mr. G. G. Scranton. I am president of the Huron Milling Co., which company is engaged in the wheat starch business.

The CHAIRMAN. You may proceed. What is it you want in connection with these duties?

Mr. JENKS. We want the same rate of duty that potato starch carries, 1 cents per pound instead of 1 cent per pound.

The CHAIRMAN. You may proceed. If you will excuse me for a moment, Senator McCumber will preside.

(Senator McCumber thereupon assumed the chair.)

Mr. JENKS. This is a comparatively small matter, gentlemen.. The production of wheat starch is perhaps one-quarter of 1 per cent of the production of corn starch.

Senator SMOOT. We have had that subject up a great many times before.

Mr. JENKS. But it is a big matter to us. Before the war there were eight wheat starch manufacturers in this country. To-day there are only two. During the war the Japanese got into the wheat starch business, and owing to the fact that wheat in their neighborhood is grown with cheap labor and the fact that they are able to employ cheap labor in its manufacture, they came into our market and offered starch first at a half cent a pound below our price and they finally got down this year to 2 cents below our price, nearly 3 cents below. It is unnecessary to say that we could not compete with that competition.