Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-04-12

saccharine from 80 cents per pound to 70
cents. In the Dingley law the rate on
saccharine is 81 so per pound and 10 per
centum ad valorem The House ways
and means committee made the duty %
per cent ad valorem straight. and then
later procured the adoption OF an amend
ment which made the duty specific at 10
cents per pound. Saccharine is used In
certain cases as a substitute for sugar
and Is a product of synthetic chemistry.
Present Rates on Women's Hose.
One of the most significant changes
made by the Senate committee is that
which restores the rates Of the Dingley
law on women's stockings. The House
ways and means committee had
provided in the Payne bill material in
creases in the duties on fashionable
hosiery. This schedule probably aroused
in the Payne bill. thousands of club
women. principally in the west. taking
a stand against the duty. and women
employed in the hosiery factories Of the
east declaring in favor of the increased
rates. The increase provided In the
Payne bill affected the cheaper grades
of hosiery and did not disturb the duty
on the highest grade.
Other changes in the cotton schedule
include provision that no cotton
thread or carded yarn shall pay less
rate of duty than 20 per centum ad va
mercerized shall pay an additional duty
of one-twentieth of one per cent per num-
beh per pound.
Duty Placed on Cotton.
Cotton and cotton waste and fax
manufactured or advanced in value. are
taken from the free list and provided
with a duty Of 20 per centum ad valorem.
although that manufactured is left on
the free list. A minimum rate Of IS per.
centum ad valorem Is provided for
spools. thread or cotton upon which a
specific duty would equal a lower ad
valorem rate. The paragraph covering
cotton cloth not bleached or dyed, is
extended to include additional values.
The original provision Of the Payne
bill providing for the method by which
the count Of threads in cotton cloth
should be determined and which was al
legged to be a Joker" which would in
crease the duty on cotton cloth 200 or
500 per- cent has been practically re-
stored
vision SO far as the count of threads Is
concerned. Is the requirement that each
ply of two or more ply thread shall be
counted as thread The ways and means
committee, claiming that this provision
has been put in the Payne bill without
the intention of decreasing the duties,
procured the adoption of an amendment
by the House which restored the Dingley
provision for counting the threads in the
cloth. Otherwise the cotton schedule Is
straw are taken from the free list and
provided with duties Of 1 cent per pound
and S. per ton.
Dingley Rates on Wool.
The Senate committee stands pat' on
the changes in the wool schedule, for
which 1t was responsible at the time the
Dingley bill was under consideration in
Congress. It restores the provisions OF
that law striking out all the changes
made by the House ways and means COM
mittee. These include the reduction OF
the rates on low-priced wool of the third
class and the increase of the rates on
the higher-grade wool of the third class.
or carpet wool.
1t restores the Dingley rates to top
waste and shoddy, which were reduced 8
cents per pound by the House. It strikes
out the special provision for tops. leav-
ing them subject to the duty provided for
manufactures Of wool not specially pro-
vided for.
In the chemical schedules there are nu-
merous important changes. The Payne
rates nave been restored to varnishes
and on coal tar dyes and colors. The
southern states will be interested in the
reduction of the duty on crude barytes
from $50 to rs cents per ton, the rate
provided by the Payne bill before 1t was
amended in the House. A general rate
of Is per cent ad valorem on all CLUES.
which was at one time in the Payne bill
before it passed the House, has been
again restored. Crude gypsum Is pro-
vided with a 80 per cent reduction, and
oil of nuts, which was on the free list,
has been made dutiable at 8 cents per gal
lon.