Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-07-30
.,,onterees Assembled Early to-
Scan it and See Nothing
Was Left Out.
PAYNE PRE- sENTslT TO HOUSE
Chairman Of Ways and Means
Committee Contends Revision
Is DoWnWards.
Dcs1arcs Was Been Marked Reduction
In Rates OIL Ncccssarics Of Life
But Increase OH Lllxurics..

q Washington, July s0.--As a final act
Il pf caution the tariff conferees as
sembled early today and reviewed
their work. They desired to make cer-
8 tain that In the confusion attending
Il the last few days sessions mistakes
hand not crept into the report.
1 No errors were discovered except a
few that did not effect rates. These
we're corrected easily and before noon
ii was announced that the Payne
Aldrich bill was in shape for It's sec
ond voyage trough tho house and
senate, this time in the form Of q con-
ference report.
When Representative Payne, head
Of the house conferecs on the tariff
bill, which bears his name. rose in
tic, house today to present the report
of the8conferenre committee Of the
| two houses on the bill, the measure
had been, In conference for just three
weeks. y $55 mi
Proceeding on the theory that the
bill marks a general downward - Ell :
tlency from the present rates of duty,
| Mr.. Payne presented. but did not read.
| an exhaustive analysts of It's proYisi ons.
| This statement, he said, had been pre-
pared by himself and he asked to
have ii printed as an official docu-
uent There was objection, however,
from the Democratic side and the
printing was prevented for the time.
lie undertook to show that there,
had been IA marked decrease IN
the rates on !, the NEG essarie of life.
tfni had theln9
m increase on lliXuries.s "a IL SIS.
Probably the most reductions as a
result OF tho action of the two houses
and Of, the conference COMMITTEES, arc
found in the metal schedule. Begin.
ming with a decrease In the rates
| Of iron ore from 40 to 10 cents
per ton, there is q general red uction
throughout, that portion OF the bill.
4 pig iron going down from 81 to So, so
4 per ton and scrap iron from 81 to
81. The reduction on many OF the
items in this schedule amounts to
about so per cent and this reduction
Includes steel rails. There Is an in
crease on structural steel ready for
use and also slight increase on
razors, nippers and pliers and on such
new metals as tungsten. Rough lumber
goes down from 50 to s1.25 per tholi-
| sand feet with a corresponding reduc-s
lion in the differential on dressed lum-.
Der. 81
WOOL.
Tho wool schedule underwent no
change of consequence, but the entire
cotton schedule was reconstructed and
The phraseology greatly changed IN the
hope of preventing red auctions through
decisions by the courts such as nave
sharacterized the administration of the
Dingley law during later years lni
many instances the Dlngley rates We're
cut by those decisions. in some ms
stances from 60 per cent to 3 per cent
ad yalorem 1T is estimated that the
,ates fixed by the bill are about 8 per
cent higher upon an average TRAN col
lccted on cottons last year The rates
on cotton hosiery arc generally ln-s
creased.
In the matteraof gloves the high pro-
tectionists fail to score. They sought,
through an increase made by the house,
:o5raise the duty materially above the
DingleN figures, but We're antagonlzed
by the senate, and the senate Won, the
only change made in the entire schedule
being one slight reduction.
The silk schedule WIS reconstructed
Hitn.a view! Of imposing, specific rather
than.ad va1orem duties with the result
that the average duty will be somewhat
higher under the new law.
Oilcloths and linoleum are heavily cut
but otherwise: the changes In the flax,
hemp and jute provision We're not ma
terial. A slightly Increased duty is
provided for hemp, both crude and
hackled, and also on certain high grade
faces. On linen yarns and nattings
there Is a reduction. Il
SUGAR.
Sugar and tobacco duties remain sub.
stantially as they are under the Ding
ley law The free Importation of con-.
siderable quantities of both of these
articles from the, Philippines is per-
mitted, and a material change was
made in the internal revenue law by
an amendment taking the tax off of
the sale of tobacco iiiS the hand
There Is a uniform Increase on spir-.
Its, wines and liquors Of Is per cent.
In the agricultural schedule, hops are
Increased from II to Is cents pound
and there is also an Increase on lemons,
figs, almonds and pineapples.
PUBLISHERS WON.
The publishers win their fight for
lower wood pulp and print paper, the
rate on the ordinary newspaper print
paper being fixed at, SSI5 per ton in:
stead of S., aslunder the Dingley law.
and on the higher grades of print paper
at s3.75 instead of IS. Mechanically
ground wood pulp is to come in free
OF duty instead of paying one-twelfth
nf a cent a pound as under the Dlngley
law, but provision Is made for a coun
4teryailing duty in case it becomes nee
{ sssary to protect this country against
Canada inhibitions upon the eSporta
ton OF woods to the United States.
FREE HIDES.
ides come in free and there is a cor
responding reduction on leather and
leather goods. The house rates are
practically retained on sole leather.
leather for uppers, boots and shoes and
harness. but the free hides provision
I i -. ba sed on the condition that on and
after Oct. !. 1909. sole leather from the
hides that are to be admitted free viii
ray a duty Of 5 per cent; grain, buff
and split leather I II per cent boots and
shoes. the upper leather of which Is
made from such hides. 10 per cent. and
go III ,,<,,..