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 2990 PROCLAMATIONS, 1929. February II, 1929. By THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA A PROCLAlVIATION, WHEREAS public interests require that the Senate of the United States be convened at twelve o'clock on the fourth day of March next to receive such communications as may be made by the Executivc; SpEcial session of (l'G N OW, Therefore, I CALVIN COOLIDGE President of the United Senate to he conve:led S fA' d'hb 1. dd'1 h d' Preamble. . . '\larch 4, lY~'9. tates 0 merlCa, 0 ere y proc aIm an ec are t at an extraor 1- nary occasion requires the Senate of the United States to convene at the Capitol, in the City of Washington, on the fourth day of March next, at twelve o'clock noon, of which all persons who shall at that time be entitled to act as members of that body are hereby required to take notice. FJ bruary 20, 1929. IN WITNESS WHEREVF, I have hereunto set my hand and caused to be affixed the great seal of the United States. Done at the City of Washington, this eleventh day of February, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and [SEAL] twenty-nine, and of the Independence of the United States, the one hundred aud fifty-third. By the President: FRANK B. KELLOGG Secretary of State. CALVIN COOLIDGE By THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA A PROCLAMATION egr[O~ndTarmstroBot (talk):lgll~: WHEREAS in and by section 315 (a) of Title III of the act of m~n, frozen or other- Congress approved September 21 1922 entitled "An act to provide WIse prepared or prE- 1 '.' . . served, and not spa- revenue, to regu ate commerce WIth foreIgn countrIes, to encoi.lra~e Cl"j,7el';'b1!~ed for. the industries of the United States, and for other purposes," it IS, . Statutory authoriza- among other things, provided that whenever the President, upon tl1. 42, p. 9U. investigation of the differences III costs of production of articles wholly or in part the growth or product of the United States and of like or similar articles wholly or in part the growth or product of competing foreign countries, shall find it therebY'shown that the duties fixed in this act do not equalize the said differences in costs of production in the United States and. the principal competing country he shall, by such investigation, ascertain said differences and determine and proclaim the changes in classifications or increases or decreases in rates of duty provided in said act shown by said ascer- tained differences in such costs of production necessary to equalize the same; Vol. 42, p. 942. Whereas in and by section 315 (c) of said act it is further provided that in ascertaining the differences in costs of production, under the provi~ions of subdivisions (a) and (b) of said section, the President, in so far as he finds it practicable, shall take into consideration (1) the differences in conditions in production, including wages, costs of material, and other items in costs of production of such or similar articles in the United States and in competing foreign coUntries; (2) the differences in the wholesale selling prices of domestic and foreign articles in the principal markets of the United States; (3) advantages granted to a foreign producer by a foreign government, or by a person, partnership, corporation, or association in a foreign country; and (4) any other advantages or disadvantages in competition;

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