The Robesonian. [volume] (Lumberton, N.C.) 1870-current, 1909-03-22
TARIFF BILL INTRODUCED.
An Increase of Nearly $780,
100000 in the Annual Reve-
nue. of the Country Will Re-
suit From the Proposed
Changes-Big Cut in Lumber.

NnangeS-blg Gut IN Lumber
The long-awaited tariff bill was
presented in the national House
OF Representatives Wednesday
by Representative Serene E.,
Payne, of New York, chairman
OF the ways and means commit
tee. An increase of $4,000 ,OO(
to $50, 600, 900 in the annual rev.
enue OF the country will, it is
estimated, result from the
changes proposed, making a
total Of about $500, 10000
The following in regard to the
bill is taken from a press dis
patch of the 17th from Wash
ington:
The bill contemplates down
ward revision with maximum and
minimum provisions which i'm
pose an average maximum duty
of 20 per cent. in excess of the
present tariff. The recommends
tons made by President Taft
that inheritance tax be provided
and that a limited amount of
tobacco and sugar be admitted
free from the Philippines-are
included in the bill. The measure
also provides for the issuance of
Panama canal bonds to the
amount of $4O,0O0,000 to reim-
burse the Treasury for the Or
iginal purchase of the canal and
re-enacts the provision for the
issue of Treasury certificates, the
amount being increased from
800, 900, 900 to $25O,OO0,O 900. The
bill was referred to committee.
THE IMPORTANT CHANGES.
Some of the salient features of
the bill follow.
An additional duty of one cent
per yard is placed on mercerized
cotton fabrics, with a small ad-
ditional duty on lappets and an
increased duty on stockings
fashioned and shaped wholly or
in part on knitting machines.
Coffee is on the free list; tea
is taxed 8 cents per pound, and
9 cents when brought in from
other than the producing coun-
try.
Iron ore is on the free list, a
reduction from the present rate
Of 40 cents a ton. The duties
on manufactures of iron and
steel are materially reduced. T n
plate and steel rails are reduced.
Hides are on the free list and
duties an manufactured leather
reduced; and shoes reduced DO
per cent.
Lumber and timber duties are
cut in half.
An inheritance tax is provided,
estimated to bring in $4,000,
900.
There is to be reciprocal free
trade with the Philippines, with
a limintation on the amount of
sugar and tobacco annually to be
imported.
Reciprocity with Cuba con-
tinues.
The internal revenue tax on
cigarettes is increased from So
to $3.50 and from 81 to ST. SO per
thousand. Beer and whiskey
are not touched.
Sugar is reduced five one-hun-
dredths of a cent per pound.
The cheaper grades of wool
are reduced.
Tallow, cotton seed oil and
works of art more than twenty
years old, are placed on the free
list.
The tariff on boots and shoes
is reduced 40 per cent. and other
leather manufactures in proper
ton. The pottery schedule re-
mains about the same, but the
duties on window and plate
glass Of the smaller sizes are in
creased, while the duties on the
larger size are reduced. The
tariff on wool of the first s.nd
second class, used principally in
clothing is not disturbed, but on
wool of the third class, known
as carpet wool, it is reduced on
the cheaper grades. The rec
ommendation for placing wood
pulp on the free list and reduc.
ing the duties on print paper,
with certain restrictions made by
the Mann committee of the
House, are Incorporated in the
bill.
The duty on refined sugar is
reduced five one-hundredths of ;
cent per pound. A reduction O.
one cent a pound is also made il
the duty on starch, with the ex
ception of potato starch. Zin,
ore IS assessed one cent per pOun(
for the zinc contained. The tariff
on pig iron is reduced from 81 t,
So. so per ton.
INCREASED DUTIES.
The principal increases ar
made in the duties on lemons
cocoa and substitutes on coffee
coal tar, dyes, gloves, and coat
ed papers and lithographi
prints.
The new tariff bill is made O
a maximum and minimum basis
with the provision that tn
maximum rates are not to g
into effect until 60 days after tn
bill. Reciprocity provisions ar
contained in the paragraphs as
sessing duties on bituminou
The Glow of LurId Doom.
lwas seen in the red face, hands ar
body of the little son Of H. M. Adam
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