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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Cuban cane, and a limitation on the free importation of Philippine sugar. The House bill raised the world raw sugar duty from $2.20 to $3 per 100 Ib. which would make Cuba, which already enjoys a 20% differential, pay a tariff of $2.40 per 100 Ib. instead of the present $1.76. Swayed by the protest of Secretary of State Stimson as a onetime Governor-General of the Philippines, the House committee placed no limitation on free sugar imports from the Pacific Islands...
Blackstrap. The close interrelation of Industry and Husbandry is clearly set up in the case of blackstrap?a by-product of molasses and cane sugar, used chiefly for making industrial alcohol. The present duty on blackstrap is about ¼¢ per gallon. The new duty would average between 1¼¢ and 2¢ per gallon, depending upon the sugar content. Farm groups forced this increase on the Ways & Means Committee by the argument that a higher levy on this imported article would turn the alcohol manufacturers to domestic corn as a base for their product...
...textile industries received added protection?approximately a 10% increase over present rates. In New England, gratification at this benefit was tempered by disappointment at the bill's failure to shift leather shoes from the free to the dutiable list. The House committee was pressed by the farmers for a duty on hides, which was rejected and with it New England's plea for a shoe duty. Committeemen felt they could not "defend" such an increase on the House floor...
Activities will start at 1 o'clock and are to last through the evening. At 1 o'clock, delegates will register and present their credentials, and, fifteen minutes later, a meeting of the Council will be held. The Council is to be composed of students representing the countries which make up the Geneva Council. At first it was planned to include the United States, Russia, Brazil, Mexico, and Turkey. However, it has been suggested that League procedure might be followed more closely and interesting situations might arise if these five countries the formally admitted in subsequent meetings. The Bolivia-Paraguay...
...clock, the Assembly will be formally opened. The routine business of election of officers and the discussion of plans for permanent organization will be completed. Then Professor C.J. Friedrich will speak on disarmament and present a radical resolution on that subject. Discussion will follow which will be interrupted at 5.30 o'clock for dinner...