TAX ON FOOD.
PROPOSALS IN AMERICA. Ky Telegraph.- -Press Assn.—Copyright. Received June 30, 12.10 a.m. Washington, June 28. The Senate Tariff Committee has increased various meat and cattle duties fixed by the House, as follows: Cattle weighing 1050 lb, from 1} to 2 cents per lb; cattle above 1050 lb, from 2 to 3£ cents; fresh beef and veal, from 2 to 3i cents, and sheep and goats were fixed at 2 dollars per head, instead of 1 cent per lb, as the House provided, with fresh mutton from 1£ to 24 cents. 'Hie changes were carried only after a violent partisan debate, in which the Democrats declared that the food bill of the American people would be increased by many billions of dollars yearly.—Aus.'N.Z. Cable Asns.
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Taranaki Daily News, 30 June 1922, Page 5
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127TAX ON FOOD. Taranaki Daily News, 30 June 1922, Page 5
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