The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1909-04-12
TARIFF ON HlTslIB
BOMMETsREDuGEa
Is PER GENT
Senate Finance Committee A.
Recommends Duties On Y.ahien-
able Hosiery and Gloves 1emaiz-
Same Al in Dingley Law.
Tax On Iron Ore II Fixed At -
Cents Per Ton-Luxuries
Hit Hard.
RATES OF TARIFF DUTY FIXED
BY SENATE FINANCE COM
MlTTEE.

Tax on common earthonWaro N two
eoIors raised from Is 10 % per cent.
Iron ore, Is oents per ton.
Hardwoods, free.
Squared biscuits and walters reduced
from so to 20 per cent from houss
schedule. ~
Dlnsley rates restored on meat
products.
Cocoa. free.
Spices, free.
Spirits and wine, Increased IS per
cent throughout.
Fashionable hosiery, same ~ Ding
ley law.
Hats and bonnsts. reduced 10 PER
cent from house schedule.
Gloves, same ~ pInOIsy law.
Paintings and sculptures more than
20 years old and works Of art Gen
orally more than 100 years old, free
WASHINGTON, April t2.--
When the tariff bill ~ amended
by the senate finance committee
was presented to the senate to-
day, Bailey, Of Texas, said the
measure had not been read In
committee and no confederation
whatever was given to II. Aldrieh
replied that whether the bill Wae
read In COMMITTEES or not had no
practical bearing. The majority,
he said, were responsible for u.
WASHINGTON, April II. The
Payne tariff. as amended by the Re
publican members Of the sonata
finance committee. was today ordered
reported to the senate, after . full
meeting OF the committee at which
the Democratic members were pres
emit.
It was accompanied by a brief sum-
mary by Senator Aidrich, of the gen.
eral character of the changes proposed
by the senate committee to the house
bill. as follows: a.. 6
In the main. the rates In the tariff
BIN, as reported from the senate
bill, as reported from the senate
finance committee are lower than
those in the bill as ii passed the
house, the actual number OF reduc
Der Of increases.
Such increases as have been made
have been largely amended necessary
to preserve the symmetry of the
schedules. considerable number Of
taken from the dutiable list of the
house bill and restored to the free
list. The great mass Of the rates re-
ported are below those of the existing
law.
I'm schedule "A (chemicaD, the
principal changes are In the nature
of reductions below the house bill. One
important change Is in putting dis
titled and expressed oils upon the free
list. --,--
I'm schedule b (earthenware) the
rates remain largely the same. In
the house bill, by change In phrase
ology from the existing law. the duties
on common earthenware, In two col
ors, are raised from % to so per cent.
The committee has reduced them
to the rates of existing law.
In glass and glassware. the rates re-
main the same as in the house bill.
THE senate committee restored iron
ore to the duitable list at 20 cents per
ton--a reduction Of Is cents ton
from the Dingley rates. The house
had made large reductions In this
schedule throughout. In addition to
those made by the house, the senate
committee has made quite large num-
Der of other reductions.
"The senate committee has retain.
ed the house rate on lead ore OF IL
cents per pound, but has been obliged
to have raised the rates on lead prod
ucts throughout the bill, to correspond
with this duty on lead ore.
I'm SCHEDULE d wood and manufac-
lures OF wood. the senate has taken
the house rate of 81 thousand on
rough lumber. a reduction of 81 from
the Dingley law, and has retained the