The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1909-07-30
BEFORE
CONGRESS TODAY
President Wins Point for Lower Duty on Lumber
and Thinks Bill as Whole Means Revision Down
ward - Opponents Claim It Will Increase Cost Of
Necessities.

WASHINGTON, ID. c., July 80.
President Taft will sign the tar
in bill as submitted to the house
today by Representative Serene
Payne as soon as it is passed by
congress, according to reports here
today. Although the president is
not thoroughly satisfied he ex-
pressed the belief that i'm the
main the revision was downward.
He regards the bill as an Improve
ment over the Dingley bill now in
effect.
Downward or Upward?
Opponents of. the bill charge
that the rates average from one to
three per cent higher than those
in the Dingley bill and that there
is little relief from the tariff on
necessities.
Members of the conference COM
mittee declare that the measure
will be OF great benefit to the
country by placing lower duties
on necessities and higher rates on
Mxuries.
Presented to the House.
Representative Serene Payne
Representative Serene Payne
presented the tariff bill to the
house today. When the house
acts upon the measure 1t will go
to the senate. Under the rules
neither house can amend the
measure. 1t must be accepted,
rejected or referred to a confer
ence committee.
The bill as presented to the
house is a decided victory for
President Taft in his fight for
downward revision. The conferees,
after receiving the presidents
ultimatum yesterday, gave way
before his demands and made the
alterations Taft had insisted upon.
Western Senators Yield.
The conferees reached decis-
ion after Senators Piles and Jones
of Washington, Borah and Hey
burn of Idaho and Bourne of Ore
gon held conference, and after
a lengthy discussion, decided to
yield to Taft on the reduction of
lumber to $1.25 per thousand feet
Payne In presenting the bill to
the house, explained that the du-
ties had been lowered where they
were too high and raised where
the tariff had not been sufficient
for protection and where the i'm
portations were very great.
He then presented list which
showed the consumption and val
ues of articles on which the rate
of duty had been increased or
decreased, and, I'm all cases where
the amount could be ascertained,
the total OF production.
What Bill includes.
The bill as presented includes:
Free hides.
Free crude petroleum.
Duty of As cents a ton on bi-
luminous coal.
Duty of Is cents a ton on slack
coal.
Duty of Is cents ton on iror
ore.
Duty of $1.25 per thousand feet
ION rough lumber.
/ Dingley rates on gloves.
| Slight increase In the rates OF
hosiery.
Boots and shoes, 10 per cent.
Sole leather, 5 per cent.
Dressed upper leather, 7h pc
cent.
Duty OF 1915 ton on prini
paper.
Free wood pulp, provided reel
Iprocity is granted; otherwise / u
of / er cent a pound.
Slight reduction on low grade
cotton cloth.
The corporation tax in lieu O
1.-THE inheritance tax.
Tariff board to advise the presi
ldent but not congress-.
Maintenance of the presen
drawback system. with certain
privileges for millers importainl
wheat for the manufacture o
flour.
| Cash registers, linotypes, type
writers and all steam engines ar
reduced from As TO 80 per cent.