The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1909-03-21

steel wires and numerous other iron
and steel products.
MAXIMUM on POTTERY.
The maximum duties for the pottery
schedules are % per cent more than the
minimum. and for the sundries sched-
ule the increase is an addition of % per
cent ad valorem. The fax and wool
schedules have no maximum duties
prescribed.
The principal articles on the free list
FOR which a 20 per cent ad valorem is
provided in the maximum schedule are
coffee crude natural cansphor drugs
for dyeing and tanning hides. iron ore,
oils, including petroleum. tallov and
tobacco stems.
Representatives Of western states
are claiming that the new drawback
provision IN the Payne tariff bill is dis
criminatory against the west in favor
of the east. The revised drawback sec
ton permits manufacturers To secure
the drawback of 90 per cent of the
duty paid on imported raw material,
without the necessity of using the i'm
Ported material in the manufactured
product that is epOTted. raw ma
terial OF domestic production in equal
quantity and of similar character may
be used instead of the imported ma
terial.
CLAIMS OF WESTERN MEN.
Western members of congress are
contending that this tends to give the
manufacturers at seaboard q decided
advantage over the manufacturer in
the interior, on account of freight rates.
One illustration offered was that of a
-four manufacturer in Minneapolis. who
imports from Canada a thousand BUSH
els of wheat. on which he intends to
collect ORA hlp x1-Har IT iG fod
He would find it more advantageous,
under the new drawback provision, to
dispose of his -four In the local market
and purchase an equal amount of flour
at some seaport for expectation. This
would save him the transportation
charges from Minneapolis to the sea
port, it IS said, and the manufacturer
would at the same time secure his
drawback on the flour exported. IN
der the present law the -four exported
would have to be made from the i'm
ported wheat in order to secure the
drawback
BENEFTT OF HONEST EXPORTER.
The ways and means committee
claims, however, that the new draw
back is for the benefit of the honest
exporter, who has been iaboTing under
a disadvantage because INSCRIPTIONS
manufacturers have taken advantage
of the difficulty of enforcing the pres
ent drawback provision. It is also con-
tended that the new drawback section
extends this privilege to many indus
tries which have been unable to make
use of it, and that for this reason it
will encourage manufacture in this
country.
One amendment to the Payne bill
which has the support of the members
of the ways and means committee,
and which probably will be submitted
as a committee amendment. is that the
section regarding maximum duties
should also apply in the case of the
mother country granting lower tariff
to a dependency or colony.
FREE PHILIPPINE RICE.
The rice growing and distributing in
-terests of the United States are appre-
hensive of the effects on their industry
of the proposed free entry of that sta
pie from the Philippines. Today rep
resentatives of that industry had con-
ference with Secretary of War Dic1xin-
son and secured his consent TO an
amendment TO the bill providing that
when rice is imported from the islands
for commercial purposes free of duty
ing into the Philippines from any for
eign country a duty equal in amount to
that imposed on such imports entering
the United States from foreign coun-
tries Officials of the insular bureau
say it will be a long time before the
Philippines export any rice.