The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1909-04-13
SENATE CHANCES
IN Tariff BILL
Some Schedules Increased,
Others Reduced.
STATEMENT BY ALDRICH

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Number of Reductions Are About
Three Times the Number Of In.
creases-Great Percentage of the
Rates in Amended Bill Below Those
Of the Existing DinoIey Law.
Washington, April Ex-senator Al
drich, when requested to make a sum
mary Of the general character of the
changes proposed by the senate
finance committee to the house tariff
bill, furnished the following state
ment:
In the main the rates in the tariff
bill as reported from the senate
finance committee are lower than
those In the bill as it passed the
house, the actual number Of reduc.
tons being about three times the
number of increases Such increases
as have been made have been largely
rendered necessary to preserve the
symmetry of the schedules. A con-
siderable number of articles in COM
mon use have been taken from the
dutiable list of the house bill and re-
stored to the free list. The great
mass OF the rates reported are below
those of existing law.
In schedule A (the chemical sched-
ule) the principal changes are in the
nature OF reductions below the house
Dill. In schedule B (earths and
earthenware) the rates remain largely
the same.
The senate committee restored iron
ore to the dutiable list at Is cents per
ton-a reduction Of Is cents a ton
from the Dingley rate. The house
had made large reductions in this
schedule throughout. Nearly all these
reductions have been retained by the
senate committee. In addition to
those made by the house the senate
committee has made quite large
number of other reductions.
The senate committee has retained
the house rate on lead ore of ~
cents per pound, but has been obliged
to raise the rates on lead products
throughout the bill to correspond with
this duty on lead ore.
House Lumber Schedule Retained.
In schedule D (wood and manufac-
lures of wood) the senate has taken
the house rate of 81 thousand on
rough lumber, reduction of 81 from
the Dingley law, and has retained the
house rates on manufactures of
woods, nearly all showing reductions
from the Dingley rates. The only i'm
portant change in the schedule made
by the senate committee was the
restoration of imported hard woods to
the free list.
The agricultural schedule, includ-
Ing meat products, remains practically
unchanged from existing law, but
where reductions were made by the
house the senate committee restored
the Dingley rates in response to the
demands of farmers throughout the
country and of the representatives of
the great agricultural interests.
I The senate has returned cocoa to
the free list, believing that an article
OF such general consumption, both as
a beverage and in all forms of choco-
late, should no more be made dutiable
than tea or coffee. The senate com.
mittee has applied the same principle
to spices and has restored them to the
free list, where they have always
been. The senate committee has in
creased the rates on spirits and wines
Ii per cent throughout, which, it Is
estimated, will yield an additional
revenue of 100000, most of which
will come from the increased duty on
champagne.
The senate committee has restored
the rates in the wool schedule to the
rates Of the present law.
Flax on DutiabIe List.
Raw flax has been restored by the
senate committee to the dutiable list,
otherwise the schedule remains sub
stanttally as it came from the house.
The rates on corn, oats and wheat
have been increased s. cents per
bushel and the duty on rye has been
made 20 cents instead of 10 cents per
bushel. An increase Of 5 per cent ad
valorem has been made in the rate on
live animals not specially provided for.
In silks the senate committee has
adopted new schedule, replacing ad
valorem with specific rates in all cases
whore 1t was possible to do so, show
ing slight average reduction from
the equivalent ad valorem.
The senate committee has not yet
decided what rates 1t will recommend
In regard to wood pulp and the art.
iclss dependent upon it.. They have
also left open for further action the
question of the duties on coal and
hides.
The senate committee has made re-
auctions of Is per cent on an average
In the specific duties on hats and bon
nets, which the house had raised in
some instances above the Dingley
rates. The senate committee has
also struck out the house paragraph in
regard to gloves and hosiery and has
rostered the rates in the existing law.
The free list, as reported by the
senate committee, in the main remains
as 4 is in the existing law.
The amended bill was reported to
the senate - Mr., AldCach shortly