HEARINGS BEFORE THE COMMITTEE ON WAYS AND MEANS HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES ON SCHEDULE G-AGRICULTURAL JANUARY 20 AND 21, 1913 WASHINGTON GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE 1913 COMMITTEE ON WAYS AND MEANS. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. OSCAR W. UNDERWOOD, Alabama, Chairman. CHOICE B. RANDELL, Texas. HENRY T. RAINEY, Illinois. LINCOLN DIXON, Indiana. CORDELL HULL, Tennessee. WINFIELD S. HAMMOND, Minnesota. ANDREW J. PETERS, Massachusetts. DANIEL C. ROPER, Clerk. SCHEDULE G.-AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTS AND PROVISIONS. COMMITTEE ON WAYS AND MEANS, January 20 and 21, 1913. The committee met at 10 o'clock a. m., Hon. Oscar W. Underwood (chairman) presiding. Present with the chairman: Messrs. Harrison, Kitchin, James, Rainey, Dixon, Hull, Hammond, Peters, Palmer, Payne, McCall, Hill, Needham, Fordney, and Longworth. The CHAIRMAN. The committee will come to order. Gentlemen, the committee, in order that we may dispose of the large number of witnesses that are coming here, has been allowing each witness 10 minutes. Of course, that does not include the time taken in cross-examination. We will endeavor to let each witness have 10 minutes, and if the committee wants to crossexamine afterwards the time so consumed will not be taken out of his time. We want to give all of the witnesses a chance to be heard. Representative SPARKMAN. May I ask the Chair, would it be proper for one party who will appear here to yield his time to another? The CHAIRMAN. The committee has been in the habit, where there is an important subject and there are several witnesses whose names appear on the calendar, of allowing them to select one man to make the statement; under such circumstances they may yield their time, 10 minutes, to anyone else. Of course the committee reserves the right, where it does not think the subject requires so much time, not to do that. PARAGRAPH 225. Cattle, if less than one year old, two dollars per head; all other cattle if valued at not more than fourteen dollars per head, three dollars and seventyfive cents per head; if valued at more than fourteen dollars per head, twentyseven and one-half per centum ad valorem. CATTLE. TESTIMONY OF MR. DANIEL J. HALEY, OF THE UNITED MASTER BUTCHERS' ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA. The witness was duly sworn by the chairman. Mr. HALEY. Mr. Chairman and gentlemen, I represent the United Master Butchers' Association of America, an organization composed of retail market men. We have branches in every section of the country and represent the sentiment of a good many men in the trade. I have a great deal of data or figures to offer simply as facts in support of our contention that the tariff on cattle, animals designed for human food and meats, should be eliminated. 2597 |