The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1909-03-18
TARIFF BILL PRESENTED,
Various Schedules Submitted ia
Lower Branch
OF SIXTY-FIRST CONGRESS,
In Handing In Coucment Representa-.
tive Payne, Chairman Of the Ways
and Means Committee, Gives Out
to the House a Statement.

| and Means Committee, Gives Gu
| to the House a Statement.
| Washington. March 1S-Tariff bill
was introduced in house Wednesday
In introducing the measure Repre-
tentative Payne, the chairman of the
ways and means committee. gave on
this statement:
One problem that confronted the
committee was the question of reve
| nue.. The business of all commercial
nations has been depressed for nearl,
TWO years and this has affected ouI
commerce and greatly reduced oul
revenues. so that we have large de
ficit. but the revenues under the pres
ent law are improving from month te
month as business conditions are be
coming better.
The. last normal year of imports
was the fiscal year ending June 30
1906; 1907 was an unusually prosper
GUS year and the revenues from Gus.
toms exceeded these of 1906 by s32..
100000 The committee, therefore,
nave taken the year 1906 as the basis
10 FORM their estimate of the revenue
producing qualities of the new bill.
Should the next fiscal year prove
prosperous and the normal conditions
OF 1906 return Oh account of the large
increase in population. the revenues
Tor 1909 would show cOnsidera HE
increase over the estimates of the
committee.
With return to anything like nor
mai conditions during the next fiscal
year. 1t is safe to predict that the de.
1lclt would be entirely wiped out, hut
In case it is not, the bill provides for
the issue of Panama canal bonds to
reimburse the treasury for the $40.
OOO.OOO paid out in the original pur.
chase OF the canal. This would more
than make up any probable deficiency.
Ihere Is also re-enacted the provision
Tor the issue of certificates to run one
year to replenish the treasury, raising
the amount from 100000 900 to $3.50.
OOo.oOO, an amount sufficient to pro-
vide at any time against two or three
years of depressed business condi.
tions."
The statement gives the rate in the
present law, the Dingley tariff, and
shows the changes that the Payne bill
proposes. The abstract of the bill
continues:
The committee have transferred
some articles from the free list to the
dutiable. and have increased duties
on others for the sole purpose of in.
creasing the revenue. Most of these
articles on which duties have been
Increased are Injuries which have
been increased as follows:
Perfumeries and toilet articles
from SO to so per cent UNI ad valorem:
fancy soap from Is to 20 cents per
pound; chickery root, raw not dried.
froe l cent to 2 1-2 cents per pound:
from 1-2 cents to 5 cents per
pound.
Cocoa, crude, transferred from the
[ree list to the dutiable, at cents per
pound; prepared or manufactured, in
creased cents on each classification
except that valued above IS cents per
pound, which remains the same. Ten
percentum is also added to the duties
assessed on that valued between Is
cents and 35 cents per pound; pow
1ered cocoa. from cents to cents |
per pound
Cocoa butter from 1-2 to 5 IL
cents per pound: dandelion root and
articles used as substitute for coffee
IL cents to 4 cents per pound.
Spices. which are now largely on
he free list, are assessed an average
iuty OF 30 percentum to 20 percentum
ID valorem, and dressed or colored
Gathers receive an increase of 10 per.
:enum ad vdvalorem.
Duties on the following articles
lave been increased because the com.
nfttee found that there was not suffi
cient protection under the present
aw." continued Mr. Payne.
Coal tar dyes. or color,. now hear
ng duty OF 30 percentum. to 50 per.
'entum ad valorem: zinc in ore now
brought In at 20 percentum ad vaIorem
o l cent per pound Tor the zinc con.
ents contained therein.
Peas. split peas. from 40 cents to Al
ents per hushel. Figs from 2 cents
o 2 IL cents per pound.
Cotton Schedule Increase.
increases in the cotton schedule
re: An additional duty of cent per
ard on mercerized fabrics, "a new
'rocess of manufacture invented since
he present law was enacted)
Also a small additional duty on
sppets. There is also an increased
uty on stockings fashioned and shan.
d wholly or in part on knitting ma.
hines"
Paper Changes.
Changes in the paper schedule
'hich include those recommended nv
ne special committee on wood pulr
nd print paper investigation. are:
Surfaceroated papers. covered
nth metal. from cents to 20 percen
nm to cents and 20 percent,,n ad
aiorem; other surface-coated papers
rom 2 IL cents per pound and 5 nes
entum ad valorem to 5 cents per
ound.
photographic prints from 6 cents
err pound to cents: cardboard
'om 70 cents to o. cents per hound
ther papers 20 cents to o. cents Der
Ound. with small Increases on various
zes CT other paper: photographic cigar