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Show CITRUS GRQWERS ASK HfTlFF Foreign Competition Hurts West Coast Industry. Committee Com-mittee Is Told WASHINGTON, 21. Growers' orangreti, lemons and onions ap-' j pcaixd todny li?foiv tli liouse ways ;nd means eommltto io nsk proif i -Hon for tholr produrt.-. In ttia revision of the permanent xtf( lsw. j While dclb6 for a duty of two cents a. pound on lemons mnl one rent nn I orange., pnketnen for CTOWera i i lhcn piouiK'ts said tiiey .-ouRhl onl Ian c(Ullty In production costs which they believed would, recede here and increase abroad. Onion ftTrowera'.saked duties ranging from 1 l-j cents to cnt a pound. G. S. Powell, of the California Citrus league, t-xpre&ged the belief that reriuc-tlon in transportation chargi-x I . i the United States could be expactod Shipping ratH.s for Italian lemons ;tnd Spanish onlonn are now verj low, hi Vlil due to a laek of i a rpo-niovliic fr.ni the Vnifed Slates to thOSc COUJ1- Jri ShlpplDg nooutrioM cither had to mak low rates or sec their vessi return to the United States in ballast, j ho said. j |