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Excerpt from Reciprocity With Canada, Vol. 2: Hearings Before the Committee on Finance of the United States Senate, Sixty-Second Congress, on H. R. 4412, an Act to Promote Reciprocal Trade Relations With the Dominion of Canada and for Other Purposes The committee met at 10 o'clock a. m., Hon. Boies Penrose in the chair. Present: Senators Penrose (chairman), Cullom, Lodge, McCumber, Smoot, Gallinger, Heyburn, Simmons, Stone, Williams, Kern. The committee thereupon proceeded to the consideration of H. R. 4412, an act to promote reciprocal trade relations with the Dominion of Canada, and for other purposes. The Chairman. The committee will come to order. The people representing the sheep industry will continue their hearing this morning. Are you ready to go on, Mr. Knollin? Mr. Knollin. Yes, sir. The Chairman. You will proceed, then, a quorum of the committee being present Senator McCumber. Why not hear Senator Nelson? I understand he has a short statement. The Chairman. Do you want to make a statement now, or wait until we have a full committee? Senator Nelson. I will wait. The Chairman. Now, Mr. Knollin, if you will go on, the committee will hear you. Statement of Mr. A. J. Knollin, of Soda Springs, Idaho, Representing the National Woolgrowers' Association. Mr. Knollin. Mr. Chairman and gentlemen of the committee, I regret the inability of the president of the National Woolgrowers' Association, or of one of the other vice presidents, to be here at this time, as I think perhaps they could tell you in a more entertaining way regarding our industry than I can. It seems, however, that I was the only vice president that could come at this time. Mr. F. R. Gooding, of Idaho, our president, had intended to be here, but was unable to come. Mr. Chairman, it is well to take a text when one has a subject to consider, and in considering House bills 4412 and 4413 I desire to read from the report of the Secretary of Agriculture for 1909. In looking this over it would seem to me that our honorable Secretary was inspired, as he stated words that are true indeed, when he submitted to the President his report for that year. He says: The value of the farm products is so Incomprehensibly large that It has become merely a row of figures. For this year it Is $8,760,000,000; the gain of this year over the preceding one Is $869,000,000. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
