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Conditions Below Border Demand
ed Action.
President Wilson by an executive
order dated Tuesday, removed all re-'
atrlctlons against the exportation of
xnubitlons of war Into Mexico from
the United States, placing the con
tending Mexican elements on a basis
of equallty-with respect to the pur
chase of arms and supplies In this
country. The executive ofder empha
sized that it was the desire of the.
United States to be In the same posi
tion of neutrality^ towards thereon
tending factions in Mexico as were
the other powers
The text of the proclamation* fol
lows: “Whereas, by a proclamation
of the president, issued on March 14,
1912, under a Joint resolution of con
gress approved by the president on
the same day, It was declared that
there existed In Mexico conditions of
domestic violence which were pro
moted by the use of arms or muni
tions of war procured from the Unit
ed States, and
"Whereas, by the Joint resolution
above mentioned, It thereupon be
came unlawful to export arms or
munitions of war to Mexico except
under such limitations and exceptions
as the president should prescribe:
“Now, therefore, I, Woodrow Wil
son, president of the United States of
America, hereby declare and pro
claim that, as the conditions on which
the proclamation of March 14 was
based have essentially changed and,
as It is desirable to place the United
States, with reference to the exporta
tion of arms or munitions of war to
Mexico In the same posllton as other
powers, the said proclamation Is
hereby revoked."
Accompanying the order .the
White House Issued the following
statement of explanation: “The exe
cutive order by which the exportation
of arms and ammunition to Mexico Is
forbidden was a departure from the
accepted practices of neutrality—a
deliberate departure from those prac
tices under a well considered Joint
resolution of congress—determined
upon in circumstances which have
now ceased to exist. It was Intended
to discourage Incipient revolts against
the regularly constituted authorities
of Mexico.
“Since that order was issued the
circumstances of the case have under
gone a radical change. There notf
Is no constitutional government In
Mexico, and the existence of this or
der hinders and delays the very
thing the government of the United
States is now Insisting upon, namely:
That Mexico shall be left free to set
tle her own affairs and as soon as
possible put them upon a constitu
tional footing by her own force and
counsel. The order is therefore re
scinded." i
American embassies and legations
abroad last Saturday were Instructed
to Inform foreign governments of the
above decision. Similarly, Secretary
Bryan late Tuesday Informed the
aembers of the diplomatic corps
liat this was in line with the pol
icy announced at the beginning of the
present administration here of keep
ing the nations of the world Informed
of the developments In the Mexican
policy of this government.
The administration viewpoint on
the action taken Tuesday, as gathered
from those familiar with the presi
dent’s attitude, may be summed up as
follows: "No one outside Mexico can
accommodate her affairs. The with
drawal of all moral or material sup
port from without Is the Indispen
sable first step to a solution from
within. From many sources which It
deems trustworthy the government of
the United States has received Infor
mation which convinces it that there
is more hopeful prospect of peace, of
security of property and of an early
payment of foreign obligations It
Mexico is left to the forces now reck
oning with one another there, than
there would be if anything like a
mere change of personnel were effect
ed at Mexico City.
"There are no Influences in Mexico
that can be counted on to do anything
morp than to perpetuate and
Strengthen the selfish oligarchial and
military interests which, it is clear,
the rest of the country can be made
to endure only by constant warfare
and f pitiless harrowing of the
North. The president is so fully con
vinced of this, that after months of
the .most careful consideration of the
situation at close range, be no longer
feels Justified is maintaining an Ir
regular position as regards the con-
tending parties in the matter of neu
trality.
"The Intent Is, therefore, to re>
move the inhibition pn agportatlon of
i end ammunition to Hexfco from
> United states. Settlement by civil
I to Its bitter conclusion Is
OoDetoa County Men Let Her Have
9471 Which She Wee to Treat With
Hystic Powers.
W. 0. Hiott of Walterboro is much
interested in the whereabouts of Ma
dame Montclair, clairvoyant, because
he let her have $471 and doesn’t
know where to find It. Incidentally
the Charleston police are now looking
for the aoOthssyer on a charge of
swindling the Colleton county citizen
out of the money. Mme. Montclair
had been In this section for some
time, and had extensively advertised
her. alleged power to read the mind
and explain the Seemingly unknown
She left Charleston hurriedly Sunday
however, the police say, taking with
her a considerable sum, It Is be
lieved, for a great many persons have
sought the benefit of her magic pow
ers.
It seems that Mr. Hiott had a law
suit on his hands, and being anxious
to find out how it would terminate,
came to Charleston to consult the
clairvoyant, the first of hie series of
deposits was $1, upon which he was
apprised of the fact that he would
win the law suit, but In order to pro
tect him from further annoying ex
periences in the future, Mme. Moht
clair advised him to bring her three
(20 gold pieces, over which she would
suffuse a magic powder. He did this
and the money was duly returned to
him. But in order to make the spell
lasting, (40 was treated with the
same powder, making (100 In all,
which she said must be brought back
to her, along with (260, In gold, If he
would have the Job complete in every
respect. Upon parting with this
amount, on Saturday, Mr. Hiott was
requested to return Monday morning
at 8 o’clock, rain or shine, when upon
tha payment* of a $T0'fee. Ills now
magic (460 would be returned to
Mm, although It was done at a sac
rifice, as the powder was worth much
more than (11. •• . i
Monday morning, the Walterboro
man went to the house of the sooth
sayer, beyond the northern limits of
the city, and found a crowd there be
fore him, all looking for Mme. Mont
clair, who had left the day before for
mysterious regions. Mr. Hiott report
ed the matter to Chief of Police jCant
well Monday night, who had him
swear out a warrant before Magis
trate Williams, charging swindling.
Detectives are working on the case.
Mr, Hiott, whose transactions with
the clairvoyant had extended from
about January 1, takes the matter
philosophically though his faith In
these fate-readers is a bit shaken. He
Is a farmer merchant from near Wal
terboro.
The Charleston police had refused
to grant an operating license to the
soothsayer, and so she rented a part
of a house Just beyond the city limits
on Rutledge avenue. She posed as be
ing a clairvoyant of the highest type.
The police had heard rumors before
but now learn definitely that numbers
have paid out good ^money, with In
tangible results. One lady deposited
(70, another (60, and another per
son (15, according to the police. A ne
gro paid (35 ar.d was told that after a
series of dreams ~e would find hidden
treasures In his back yard, but he
never even experienced the dreams,
it Is said. A Eutawville negro paid
(150 to recover a 206-pound hog, but
after the 16 days had expired' the
prize hog had not appeared. *
THEY TRIED TO, ESCAPE
whether we wish It or not unless some
outside power la to undertake to
sweep Mexico with its armed forces
from end to end, which would be the
mere beginning of a still more diffi
cult problem.
"By removing the inhibition on the
exportation of arms and ammunition
into Mexico the government of the
United States puts Itself and intends
to put Itself In the same position as
other nations, whose subjects all
along have been at liberty to deal as
they pleased with Mexico. The gov
ernment of the United States deems
It essential to the settlement of her
present difficulties that Mexico should
be treated as any other country would
be which was torn by civil war.
“The circumstances that Mexico is,
for the time being, unable to meet her
financial obligation creates no novel
or exceptional International rights,
and she will be the sooner able to
meet her obligations and resume ber
full international responsibilities If
she Is left to determine ber own af
fairs, first by domestic force and then
by domestic counsel.”
♦ ♦
Negro Killed Near Clinton r ~
Jim Vance, colored, was accident
ally shot near Clinton Thursday by
his alleged sweetheart. It is said
they were playfully scuffling J>ver a
gun which he had with him.
was
r Negro Wounds His Wife.
Minnie Brown pf^ Newberry
shot Tuesday through her door by a
person on the outside who later prov
ed to be her husband.
Dangerous Films Barred;
Moving picture films made of lu-
flammabte materials are hatred from
the U. 8. mafia by on order made
pnMle Thursday.
Spartanburg Mystery lie Apparently
Solved in the Arrest of a Young
Couple—Young Mother Says She
Did Not Want to Part With Babe
IBot Alan Refused to Marry Her.
Charged with murder, the alleged
pafents of a girl baby, whose dead
body was found In a mill pond near
Spartanburg Saturday, were arrested
Tuesday afternoon; the woman in
Spartanburg, as she was about to
take a train for Charleston; the man
at Chesrtee, S. C., as hd was prepar
ing to leave for San Francisco. He Is
Clyde Caldwell Clement, twenty-
three years of age, until recently, a
student at Wofford college fitting
school. -She Is Miss Fleta Pendle
ton, age nineteen.
Miss Pendleton was Identified as
the mother of the baby by Mrs. W. M.
Hodges of Greenville. ’ When Mrs.
Hodges was taken to’-eee her, Miss
Pendleton is caid to have burst into
tears, and exclaimed, “Oh, Cod, why
did I kill that dear litt’e baby?”
Miss Pendleton collapsed. When
she had partly regained her compo
sure she said Clement dropped the
baby Friday night from a bridge Into
the creek which forms the mill pond.
She said she did not want to lose the
baby, but that Clement told her h,e
did not love “the d—d brat”, and lie
would not marry her unless she
would consent to his doing away with
It.
Weeping piteously in the Spartan
burg Jail Tuesday night, Miss Pendle
ton begged to see the baby, and the
corpse was carried to her to fondle.
Miss Pendleton said she gave birth to
the baby, named Virginia, at the
Presbyterian hospital In Charlotte,
December 6. Clement then took her
to Greenville and got a room for her
at the boarding house of Mrs. Hodges.
In a confession made to Solicitor
A. E. Hill and recorded by a stenog
rapher, she said: -
“Clyde Clement came to Greenville
last Thursday and spent the night
with me and we talked of marrying.
Clyde .said that he would tell me in
the morning what he would do. Clyde
said I would have to make away with
the child, and I told him I did not
want to, because I loved her. He
then said he would not marry me
with the child, but If I would get rid
of her he would marry me. I was
crying and pleading with him nearly
all night not to get rid of the child.
The next day he said that we
would come to Spartajiburg. We left
Greenville, and arrived here about 8
o’clock at night, and caught a public
hack; the hack had curtains on It.
We drove down East Main street,
until we got near the bridge. Then
we got out of the hack and walked
on down toward the bridge. I was
carrying In the baby. Before we got
to the bridge Clyde took the baby
from me, and we walked on across
the bridge. Just as we got across the
bridge I turned my back and went "up
the left hand road by myself. Clyde
went down. I never looked back. I
don’t know how he threw the child
in the river. I didn’t hear the child
hit the water, because I didn’t want
to hear it, as I loved it so much.
“The child was alive when Clyde
took it from my arms, and when he
came back to me he did not have the
baby. I didn't know what he did
with It. Then he and I crossed the
bridge and came on back up the road
together. We didn’t talk about It,
baeawew-I couldn’t' stand to hear It
mentioned.’’
According to Mrs. Hodges Miss
Pendleton tried to place the baby in
the Salvation Army rescue borne, In
Greenville, but the matron refused
to accept It because of its tender age.
At Miss Pendleton’s request Clem
ent was brought from his cell to see
her. She reached her hands out be
tween the bars of the cell and clasped
his bands with many expressions of
love and devotion. Tears streamed
down her face as she chokingly told
the man of her love. She begged
Solicitor Hill to let Clement remain
in the cell with her, but the solicitor
would not consent to this. Clement
never uttered a word during the girl’s
demonstration.
Clement Is the son of Robert C.
Clement, a merchant at Sandy
Springs, N. C. He attended Wofford
college fitting school last year. Miss
Pendleton Is the daughter of a shoe
salesman at Durham, N. G.
Clement came to Spartanburg-
Tuesday morning and gave Miss Pen
dleton (25, telling her to leave the
city at once. She was preparing to
take the first train out of the city,
the Carolina Special, and had sent ber
trunk to the station when Mayor Jno.
F. Floyd. Chief John Hill of the police
force: Solicitor Albert E. Hill and
Robert E. Miller, accompanied by
Mrs. Hodges, called at her boarding
house and arrested her. Clement, in
an automobile, ffaa on his way to
Sandy Springs when be was over
taken at Cbesnto by Sheriff W. J.
White and a detective and arrsaatd.
TO GET WILSON’S VIEWS
SMITH will fin# out his idhas
qS IMMIGRATON BILL
Junior Senator From This State, aa
Chairman of the Senators Immigra
tion Committee, Will See President.
The senate committee on tmmlgra-
tlon.of which Senator Smith of South Senator Introduces Bill Providing a
Carolina Is chairman, during Satur
day’s session decided to authorize the
chairman to call upon President Wil
son and ascertain his views with re
gard to the propositions as to the fur
ther restriction of the (migration
laws. The bill of Senator Smith which
the committee will most likely favor
ably report to the senate at an early
date for passage, was introduced in
the senate last June, ami several days
later the Burnett bill, very similar in
terms, was introduced in the house.
The provisions of the two bills,
throwing much stronger restrictive
lines around Immigration, Including
rigid educational tests, will probably
strongly opposed In the senate, but
the general concensus of opinion Is
that the Smith-Burnett bill will be
passed by a substantial majority.
The action of the Senate Immigra
tion committee Saturday morning was
taken In order that the committee
might be In full possession of the
president’s views with regard to the
reltrictive features of the bill before
further consideration of It. It Is be
lieved that the Senate committed will
report the bill with a good majority.
Senator Smith has given much
study to this question, and the bill
represents several years of research
In the problem. The hearings before
the committee will be continued next
week, and In the meantime Senator
Smith and the cpmmittee hope to be
in possession of the president’s Ideas
with regard to the matter.
Senator Smith was asked Saturday
afternoon for a statement, and said:
"Of course the bill Is now under
consideration by the committee, and
I can speak only from a personal
standpoint. Its provisions, to which
I have given quite an amount of time
and study, seek to preclude what
seems to have become a latter day
policy with us to throw open our
doors to all character of Immigrants.
I do not believe that the working
classes of this nation, those who, by
Inheritance and teaching, have had
instilled into their natures the spirit
and patriotism of our free Institu
tions, should be supplanted by the
Ignorant and pauper labor of Europe,
which neither cares for our ideals nor
has the capacity to embrace them.
“The development of the vast re-
sources.of America should be a mat
ter for the benefit of our own people.
In which all Americans, workingman
and capitalist alike, should share ac
cording to the measure of the Initia
tive and work done, and I believe
that we are to-day admitting into this
country, because of our lax immigra
tion laws, too many foreigners who
are crowding out American labor.
This bill Is so drafted that it will
prevent this Influx by making it in
cumbent, among other things, that
those who enter this country shall be
able to pass a literacy test.
“Under Its terms, and I think it
will pass, I do not apprehend there
will be any serious danger to the
American workingman from competi
tion with immigrant labor. It Is only
frank to say that I anticipate some
opposition to this measure In the Sen
ate, but I believe that the main fea
tures of the bill are sure of enact
ment into law, and I have now in
possession data and facts which, I
am sure, will make the position that
I have taken In regard to this subject
not only tenable, but conclusive’’
WOULD TATTOO CROOKS.
Woman Gives New York Mayor Some
Novel Advice, f
Going right back to a suburb of
the Garden of Eden for her idea,
"Mme. Mercury” has proposed to
Mayor Mltchel of New York a new
method of dealing with criminals for
the betterment of the race, the uplift
of humanity and all that sort of
"Tattoo ’em.”
“Looking backward over a span
of 2,000 years,” says the mayor’s
correspondent, ”1 see that the more
law and capital punishment adminis
tered to humanity, the more crimes
and criminals there Is to puqish.
Jaljs, penitentiaries, the electric
chair, the gallows, the guillotine,
death and hell has na terrors or in
fluence on stopping crime or lessen
ing the number of criminals.”
' By way of a revolution, ’’humane
and Inexpensive” and sure to ’’rotate
the wheels of crime backward into
oblivion,’’ “Mme. Mercury” suggests:
"A system of tattoolng ; jsach crimi
nal with a suitable mark across bis
forehead or on the cheeks. For a
pickpocket a long-fingered red hand
grasping a purse tattooed on the
cheek. For the black hander a blank
heart, pierced with the red dagger,
on either cheek and on his forehead.
A gunman should be marked with a
red hand grasping a gun; grafters,
grasping the long green tattooed
across tbefr foreheads; thugs, mark
ed with a bine hand grasping a black
jack; burglars marked’with is door
lock aad pick.”
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mLiM «iim me ru cur
IHrm ON THEN
Bill DP TO THE SENATE
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TAX VALUE OF
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i. ’ . 1 > 1 ;*
VARYING
^ . COUNTIES GIVEN
: : • • - *
Anderson Coanty Lands Are High as*
£
\ While the Male* of Harapiost Are
Highest.
Anderson counter lands are
ed for taxation at a higher rate, $7.34
per acre, than tEdbe of any other
South Carolina county, according to
data compiled by the comptroHer
general for the use of the senate in
its discussion of the pending hill to
readjust the salaries of county audi
tors and treasuries. The lowest-rate
per acre> (1-55 is assessed in Berke
ley.
The six highest rates per acre, af
ter Anderson, are as follows; Lee
$6.41, Spartanburg (6.18, Chester
(6.03, Dillon 5.91, Marlboro (5.72,
Newberry 5.65. Mules are assessed
highest, (93 each, in Hampton; low
est, (32, In Pickens.
The following table showing the as
sessed valuation of land per acre in
the different counties, the average
value of ihules, and the the total
taxes charged, tis prepared by the
comptroller general, Is part of the
statistical information, which will be
used by the senate in its debate on
the county treasurers and auditors’
bill:
Lands Taxes
Tax on Agricultural Products Sold
for Future Delivery—-Measure is
Designed to Prevent Speculation in
Agricultural Commodities.
Senator Tillman Monday introduc
ed the following bill to provide a rev
enue tax on agricultural products,
where sold for future delivery:
“Section 1. All contracts for the
sale and delivery of unmanufactured
agricultural products of the United
States, where the amount contracted
for shall be (5,000 or more, and the
date of such delivery be fixed at’30
days or more distant, shall be evi
denced by a written agreement signed
by the principals or their agents, and
all contracts not so reduced by writ
ing are declared to be in violation of
public policy and subject to the pehr
Allies hereinafter set forth.
“Sec. 2. The party who shall sell
and contract for fliture delivery agri
cultural products as provided In the
foregoing section shall affix to the
written contract ef sale revenue
stamps to be purchased froth the in
ternal revenue collector of the United
States, which stamps shall evidence
the payment to the United States of
ah amount equal to 1 per centum of
the-value of the products contracted
tot, the said value to be computed
upon the basis of the price at which
the purchaser has agreed In good
faith to receive the said products.
Upon the delivery of the contract to
^the purchased the vendor shall cancel
sal^ stamps by writing bis Initials in
Ink across same.
“Sec. 3. No assignment of con
tracts herein provided for shall be
valid unless made In writing by the
parties thereto or their duly authoriz
ed agent, or agents, assignee or as
signees before the products contract
ed for shall have been delivered: Pro
vided further. That no assignment of
a contract shall be valid unless the
principal^ thereto or their agent or
agents/ assignee or assignees, shall
affix and cancel In the manner pre
scribed In the preceding section, rev
enue stamps which shall evidence the
payment to the United States of a
tax of 1-2 of 1 per cent, of the value
of said products computed on the
same basis as set forth in the section
2 of this act.
“Sec. 4. Any person, firm, or cor
poration making or assigning a con
tract for the future delivery of agri
cultural products, where the gross
value of such products amounts to
(5,000 or more, and the date of such
delivery Is 30 days or more distant,
and sh^ll neglect to affix and cancel
revenue stamps as herein provided,
shall upon conviction In a court of
competent jurisdiction pay a fine of
not less than (200 or .be imprisoned
not less than 60 days for each offense
or both fine and imprisonment in the
discretion of the court.
“Sec. 6. Contracts provided here
under may be canceled by mutual
agreement of the parties thereto, and
the evidence of such cancellation
shall be made in writing across the
face of the contract and Signed by the
vendor and vendee, their assignee or
assignees, agent or agents. At the
time of such cancellation, {here shall
be affixed revenue stamps evidencing
the payment to the United States of a
tax of 1-2 of 1 per cent, as provided
In the case of an assignment of said
contract. •, ‘
"Sec. 6. Wherever agricultural
products contracted for under the
provisions of this act are made deliv
erable In the State in which such
products were grown, or In any other
State which produced according to
the last census 10 pe rcentum of the
product contracted for, then the tax
payable on such contract shall be 1-20
of the amount hereinbefore fixed for
the original contract and assignment
or assignments thereof.
“Sec. 7. For the purpose of this
act, lint cotton in bales, wheat, corn,
oats, rye and other grains In their
usual commercial packages shall be agricultural products and the depart-
deemed unmanfactured agricultural ment of agriculture Las heretofore or
j?
Abbeville . ..(59
(5.49
(117,235
Aiken
69
4'-12}.
142,200
Anderson ... .
50
7.34
274,159 --
Bamberg .. .
53
3.76
65,00J^Ws
Barnwell ... .
54
3.61
134.21M)
Beaufort .. .,
80
3.47
46,89Ei ;W
Berkeley .. .
56
1.55
54,16a
Calhoun .;
56
3.7*
48,591
Charleston . ?
74
3.66
358,598
Cherokee .. .
74
6.02
117,608
Chester .. ..
66
6.03
131,097
Chesterfield .
69
2.66
102,255'
Clarendon ..
75
3.62
84,897
Colleton .. .
85
2.15
82,167
Darlington ..
64
lB.27
131,871
Dillon ,. .,
69
5.91
105,867
Dorchester ..
74
1.96
71,5ia '
Edgefield .. .
56
4.61
96,27a
Fairfield V. .
69
3.49
88,784
Florence .. .
64
3.99
120,352
Georgetown ..
87
2.02
67,684 ' 1
Greenville ...
37
6.48
358,474
Greenwood ..
53
5.36
147,96a .
Hampton ....
93
2. i 39
63,708-
Horry _ .. .
76
1.70
63,975
Jasper »•*
90‘
2.44
36,721
Kershaw ....
84
3.04*
110,887
Lancaster-.. .
52
3.89
94,120
Laurehs ....
46
5.26
162,403
Lee
61
6.41
75,045-
Lexington ...
66
. 2.94—
-114,592
Marion .. ..
68
2.02
89,174
Marlboro .. .
44
6.72
97,205
Newberry ...
64
6.65
140,463
Oconee .. ..
49
2.99
105,375
Orangeburg .
54
3.60
175,324
Pickens ..
32
3.32
64,161
Richland .. .
68
4.66
292,231
Saluda ..
67
4.73
65,175-
Spartanburg .
49
6.18
390.232
Sumter ... . .
66
5.51
142,781
Union ..... .
61
4:61
139,140
Williamsburg
79
2.33
38,054
York
61
5.56
216,028-
NEGRO WOUNDS THREE.
Camden Ooon . Shoots Two Men and «
' '■'Tfdman.
Sam Canghman, a negro, shat and
seriously wounded three other n
groes near Camden Saturday aftei
noon. One of the wounded negro
Thompson, will not survive while the-
other two will recover. A negro-
named Thompson, his 1 daughter and
Damon Clayburn were, the victims of
shots from daughman’s gun. Tho
affair occurred on the plantation ot
Melvin Hall, three miles east of Cam
den,
It is said that the trouble began
with a fight between., Caughman’n
wife and Thompson’s daughter somo
days ago. The case was tried in a.
magistrate's court Saturday and th»
Thompson girl was acquitted. Thin
is said- to have enraged Caughman
and after receiving a shipment of
whiskey Saturday afternoon he went
on the warpath.: - Thompson and bin
daughter were shot while standing:
in the road. Clayburn was not in
volved, but Was shot as he was at
work in a nearby field.
products, but flour, butter, lard and
dressed meats shall Ire deemed man
ufactured products and not subject to
the provisions of this act.
“It shall be. the duty of secretary
of agriculture to prepare and promul
gate :* list of unmanufactured pro
ducts within the intent and meaning
of this act:. Provided, however, That
no unmanufactured agricultural pro
duct or contract therefore, shall be
taxable under- the provisions of this
act unless the total value of such
product in the United States as showh
by the latest census report shall ex
ceed $10,000,060 in value.-
"The secretary of agrlcuHnre is
further authorised and directed to
construe said census reports and pro
mulgate necessary rules which sityl
be binding as a declaration of the In
tent and purposes of this act, uatil
legally revtaed or changed. 1
“Sec. I. - Wherever any State has
established by law a system of gmd-
ing. Inspection and warehousing
does hereafter establish official stand
ard grades, to determine the quality
or value of such agricultural pro
ducts^ when the secretary of agricul
ture is authorized and directed upom
the application of said State to send
such expert or experts as may be:
necessary to the State, for the pur-' 1 -
pose of establishing the grade and>
quality ot the agricultural product,,
where the value of such product in
the United States according to tho
1 latest census report exceeds the gross
sum of $10,000,000.' -
“Sec. 9. The secretary of agrlcudj
ture is hereby empowered to promii
gate the rule* and regulations uadi
which his department is. prepared to* 1
co-operate wUJi any State which may
undertake by law lo classify, grade
or otherwlap determine the qnallty of
unmanufactured agricultural pro-
dncta a* set forth la tfrts act.
"Soo. 1$. Ali acta and pvt of act*
t with thfa act ho. and the
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