The White Pine news. [volume] (Ely, Nev.) 1906-1910, 1909-04-13
Finance Com mittee
Brings in Tariff Bill
With Amendments.
Reduce Lead Ore Rate
STATED THAT IN THE MAIN. DJ'-
TIES HAVE BEEN CIT BELOW
THE HOTsE-MANN MORE AR
TICLEs ARE PUT ON FREE LIST

WASHINGTON. April i2.-The
senate committee on finance met at
10 o'clock today. when Chairman Al
slrich presented the tariff bill a.
amended hy the majority of the COM
nitfee.
Many of the revenue provision
features will be- reported subsequent-
Iy, n they are iutertwined with the
administrative features OF the meas
urc which will be adopted later. sem
ator Aldrich has furnished the fol-
lowing summary of the general char
acter of the charges proposed by the
senate committee:
I'm the main, the rates in the bill
as il passed the honse ARE covered,
the actual number of reductions being
about three times the number OF the
increases.
a considerable number of articles
of common use have been taken from
the dutiable list and restored TO the
free list. The groat mass of the
rates reported are below those of the
existing laws.
The agricultural schedule. in
Guiding meat products. remains prac-
fically unchanged from the existing
law. but where reductions We're made
by the house, the senate committee
has restored the Dingley rates in re-
sponse To the demands or farmers
throughout the country and of rep
resentatiyes OF the great agricultural
sections The senate committee has
restored the rates in the wool sched-
nles to rates of the present law. The
rates on spirits and wines has been
increased 15 per cent. which 1t is es-
timated will yield an additional rev
enue OF three million dollars.
THE free list as reported by the
senate committee in the main re-
mains as 1t is in the Dingley law.
The senate committee has taken no
action as yet upon the maximum and
minimum provisions of the admins
tratiye section OF the bill.
The senate committee has reduced
the house rate one and one-half cents
ON lead ore but has been obliged TO
raise the rate on lead products
throughout the bill 10 correspond
with this duty on lead ore. The SEN
ate has taken the house rate OF one
dollar a thousand on rough lumber,
reduction of dollar from the
Dingley law. and has retained the
house rates on manufactures of wood,
nearly all showing reductions from
the Dingley rates. The only import
ant change In this schedule made by
the senate committee was the restor-
ing of imported hard woods TO the
free list.
The senate committee left the SUI
gar schedule as 1t came from the
house but reduced the house rate on
sugar In biscuits and waters from
80 TO 20 per cent. The tobacco
schedule remains unchanged.
Senate leaders would not predict
today how much time Is likely to be
occupied in the discussion. A large
number of important items are to be
submitted to the senate without rec
ommendation, the purpose being to
convince the senate and the country
that the committee has not arbitrar-
lily assumed the power To make a
tariff bill. The Republican majority
has assumed the right to indicate the
senates attitude toward the bill, so
that whatever amendments may be
suggested when II Is returned to the
senate, will be the result of their la
bors.
In all probability the Democrats
will make little or no objection to