The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1909-03-25
SENATE READY
IN THREE DAYS
No Trouble to Produce a Tariff
Bill According to the Aid
rich Idea.
NEW LUMBER PROPOSITION
MANY PROTESTS AGAINST DUTY
ON COCOA AND CHOCOLATE.

Washington, March 25.-Members of
the senate committee on finance reas-
serted today that they would be ready
TIC report a tariff bill whenever the
house passed the Payne bill. Senator
Aldrich said that the senate committee
could be ready in three days If neces-
sary.
With every days consideration of the
Payne bill, the senate committee is i'm
pressed with the fact that it remains
close to the lines of the Dingley bill
and as result the work of the COM
mittee is much simplified
The changes TO be made will be far
fewer than was at first anticipated.
An especial effort will be to avoid the
possibility of differentiation of i'm
ports.
Related Articles.
A question which IS concerning the
finance committee is the rearrange-
ment of schedules on related articles.
Among these is pig iron and the manu-
featured products of pig iron. Under
the Payne bill, some fear is expressed
that there is too great similarity in
the reductions of these related articles,
and that instead of the desired impor-
tation of iron in pigs the manufactured
products may be imported in great
competition with American COMPETE
tors.
1t is reported that the rate on manu-
featured articles may be increased over
the Payne schedules.
Question of Lumber.
proposition submitted to the COM
mittee on the subject of lumber was
received with some favor. 1t provides
for the free importation of dimensioned
lumber, but with the continuance of the
duty on culis from which a lumber of
an inferior grade is manufactured.
From some of the figures it is as
serted that the difference between tho
cost of producing dimensioned lumber
in Canada and in the United States is
not sufficient to make up for the differ
ence in freight rates between American
mills and Canadian mills to the Ameri-
can market The deduction reached
from this is that even if the duty
on this class of lumber should be
removed entirely, the American lumber
producer would not be injured, but at
the same time, the retention of the
duty on culls would compel the manu-
facture of these culls into inferior lum-
Der for packing boxes instead of per-
uniting it to be burned as is now the
case at most of the large American
mills.
Would prevent waste
The only effect, according to these
arguments of adopting such sche-
dulles on lumber would be to prevent
waste in the United States and aid in
the preservation of the forests.
Many complaints have reached the
finance committee concerning the sche-
dulles in the Payne bill on watches and
the various parts imported from abroad
for watch manufacture
Complaint has also been made
against the 100 per cent increase in
duty on cocoa and chocolate. State
ments have been submitted showing
that cocoa and chocolate are being used
more and more every year as beneficial
beverages and that the increased duty
will compel the consumer to pay more
for these articles.
While no agreement has been reached
regarding the wool schedule, the gen.
eral opinion seems to be in favor of
retaining the Dingley rates. The
Payne bill does not change the duties
on first and second-class wool, but
makes a slight reduction IN the duty
imposed on third-class or carpet wool
ems, while the duty on shOddy and
waste is slightly decreased, and the
duty on tops is made higher than that
on shoddy and waste.