Je veux savoir à propos de…

REGISTER

FEDERAL
VOLUME I

1934
/ U. nited

NUMBER 51

Washington, Saturday, M ay 23, 1936
PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES.
I n c r e a s in g R a t e s o f D u t y o n C o t t o n C l o t h
By the President of the United States o f America A PROCLAMATION

WHEREAS pursuant to section 336 of Title m , Part II, of the Tariff Act of 1930 46 Stat. 590, 701, the United States Tariff Commission has investigated the differences in costs of production of, and all other facts and conditions enumer ated in said section with respect to, cotton cloth, being wholly or in part the growth or product of the United States and of and with respect to a like or similar article wholly or in part the growth or product of the principal competing country;
WHEREAS in the course of said investigation a hearing was held, of which reasonable public notice was given and at which parties interested were given reasonable opportunity to be present, to produce evidence, and to be heard;
WHEREAS the Commission has reported to the President the results of said investigation and its findings with respect to such differences in costs of production;
WHEREAS the Commission has found it shown by said investigation that the principal competing country is Japan, and that the duties expressly fixed by statute do not equalize the differences in the costs of production of the domestic article and the like or similar foreign article when produced in said principal competing country, and has specified in its report the increases in the rates of duty expressly fixed by statute found by the Commission to be shown by said investi gation to be necessary to equalize such differences; and WHEREAS in the judgment of the President such rates of duty are shown by such investigation of the Tariff Com mission to be necessary to equalize such differences in costs of production:
NOW, THEREFORE, I, F R A N K L IN D. ROOSEVELT, President of the United States of America, under and by vir tue of the authority vested in me by sec. 336 c , Title in, Part n of the said Act do. hereby approve and proclaim in
creases in the rates of duty expressly fixed in Paragraph 904
b of Title I o f the said Act on cotton cloth, bleached, con taining yams the average number of which exceeds number 30 but does not exceed number 50, from 13 per centum ad valorem and, in addition thereto, for each number, thirtyfive one-hundredths of 1 per centum ad valorem, to I 8V2 per centum ad valorem and, in addition thereto, for each number, one-half of 1 per centum ad valorem; and increases in the rates of duty expressly fixed in Paragraph 904 c of Title I of the said Act on cotton cloth, printed, dyed, or colored, containing yarns the average number of which exceeds num ber 30 but does not exceed number 50, from 16 per centum ad valorem and, in addition thereto, for each number, thirtyfive one-hundredths of 1 per centum ad valorem, to 22
per centum ad valorem and, in addition thereto, for each number, one-half of 1 per centum ad valorem.

None o f the foregoing increases in rates of duty shall be applied to any cotton cloth of a kind described in Paragraph 904 d of Title I of the said Act.
IN W ITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States of America to be affixed.
Done at the City of Washington this 21st day of May in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and seal thirty-six, and of the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and sixtieth.
F r a n k l in D R o o se v e lt By the President:
C ordell H u l l
Secretary of State.
No. 21713
Filed, May 21, 1936; 4:44 p. m.

E m e r g e n c y B o ar d , W e s t e r n P a c if ic R a il r o a d C o m p a n y , S a c
r a m e n t o N o r t h e r n R a i l w a y , T id e w a t e r S o u t h e r n R a i l
w a y E m ployes -

By the President of the United States of America A PROCLAMATION

W HEREAS the President, having been duly notified by the National Mediation Board that disputes between the West ern Pacific Railroad Company, Sacramento Northern R ail way and Tidewater Southern Railway, carriers, and certain of their employes represented by Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers;
Order of Railway Conductors;
which disputes have not been heretofore adjusted under the provisions of the Railway Labor Act, amended, now threaten substantially to interrupt interstate commerce within the States of California, Nevada and Utah, to a degree such as to deprive that section of the country of essential transpor tation service;
NOW, THEREFORE, I, F R A N K L IN D. ROOSEVELT, President of the United States of America, by virtue of the power vested in me by the Constitution and laws of the United States, and by virtue of and under the authority in me vested by Section 10 of the Railway Labor Act, amended, do hereby create a board to be composed of three persons not pecuniarily or otherwise interested in any organization of railway employes or any carrier, to investigate and report their findings to me within thirty days from this date.
The members of this board shall be compensated for and on account of such duties in the sum of seventy-five, dollars for every day actually employed with or upon ac count of travel and duties incident to such board. The members will be reimbursed for and they are hereby au thorized to make expenditures for expenses for themselves and of the board, including traveling expenses and in con511