Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-03-17

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mate of the revenue-producing qualities
OF the new bill. Should the next fiscal
year prove prosperous and the normal
conditions of 1906 return. on account Of
the large increase in population the rev.
enues for 1910 would show a considerable
increase over the estimates of the COM
mittee.
with return to anything like normal
conditions during the next fiscal year 1t
is safe to predict that the deficit would be
entirely wiped out: but in case it is not,
the bill provides for the issue Of Panama
canal bonds to reimburse the Treasury
for the s4O,O0O,OOO paid out in the original
purchase Of the canal. This would more
than make up any probable deficiency.
There is also re-enacted the provision for
| the issue of certificates to run one year to
replenish the Treasury, raising the amount
| from one hundred millions to two hun
dred and fifty million dollars, an amount
sufficient to provide at any time against
two three years of depressed business
| conditions
Increases Solely for Revenue.
The statement gives the rates in the
present law, the Dingley tariff and
shows the changes that the Payne bill
proposes. The abstract Of the bill con-
! tinues:
THE committee has transferred some
articles from the free list to the du-
| TABLE and have increased duties on
| others for the sole purpose of increas-
| ing the revenue Most OF these articles
on which duties have been Increased
are luxuries, which have been increased
as follows
"Perfumeries and toilet articles. from
fifty to sixty per centum ad valorem.
Fancy soap, from fifteen to twenty cents
per pound: Chcory root, raw, not dried,
from one cent to two and one-half cents
per pound; roasted, from two and one
half cents to five cents per pound. Cocoa,
crude, transferred from the free list to
the dutiable. at four cents per pound;
prepared or manufactured, increased two
| cents or each classification except that
| valued above thirsy-five cents per pound.
which remains the same. Ten per CEN
| turn adj valorem is also added to the du-
| ties assessed on that valued between
| fifteen and thirty-five cents per pound.
| Powdered cocoa. from five cents to nine
cents per pound.
Cocoa butter from three and one
half to five and one-half cents per pound.
Dandelion root and articles used a
substitute for coffee. two and one-half
cents to four cents per pound
Spices. which are now largely on the
| free list, are assessed an average duty
of thirty per centum ad valorem. Feathers
are increased from fifteen per centum to
twenty per centum ad valorem. and
dressed colored feathers receive an
increase Of ten per centum. Furs. dress
| ed on the skin. are assessed twenty
seven and one-half per centum ad va
| loren.
Duties for Protection.
Duties on the following articles have
/ been increased because the committee
| found that there was not sufficient pro-
| lection under the present law" contin-
| ued Mr.. Payne. Coal tar dyes or col
ors now bearing a duty of thirty per
| centum. to thirty-five per centum ad
| valorem. Zinc. in ore. now bought in at
| twenty per centum ad valorem. to one
| cent per pound for the zinc contents
contained therein.
Peas. split peas, from forty cents to
| forty-five cents per bushel. Figs. from
| two cents to two and one-half cents
per pound Lemons, from one cent to
| one and one-fourth cents per pound.
! Pineapples. from seven dollars per thou
| sand to eight dollars per thousand
Increases in the cotton schedule are:
An additional duty of one cent per
yard on mercerized fabrics Ga new
process Of manufacturing invented since
| the present law was enacted.
ALSO a small additional duty on lap
pets. There is also increased duty
! on stockings fashioned and shaped wholly
or in part on knitting machines
| Paper Schedule Changes.
| Changes in the paper schedule. which
include those recommended by the spe
paper investigation are:
'Surface-coated papers, covered with
metal from 3 cents and ~ per centum
to > cents and 20 per centum ad valorem
other surface-coated paper. from 212 cents
per pound and 10 per centum adj ralOrem
| to : cents per pound.
/ photographic prints from cents per
pound TO cents, cardboard, from 20
| cents to % cents: other paper, 2D cents
| 10 - cents per pound. with small in
| creases on various sizes of other paper.
| LithoSraphc cigar labels. from 20 cents
/ per pound to 80 cents per pound; printed
! in colors less than eight, from 90 cents
to 80 cents per pound; more than eight.
| from 30 cents 10 BIZ cents per pound
printed in metal leaf from 80 cents per
pound to j2ka cents per pound: paper
| hangings. from % per centum to 80 per
centum ad valorem: paper not specially
provided for from % per centum to 50
per centum adj valorem.
! plain paper envelopes from 10 per
centum to 30 per centum ad valorem.
/ The recommendations of the select
committee were to permit the free entry
of mechanically ground wood pulp from
any country not imposing export duty
and to reduce printing paper valued at
| not above IA cents per pound from three
| tenths to one-tenth of one cent per pound;
valued not above De cents a pound, from
| four -tenths TO twO-tenthS of one cent per
pound"
Reductions Exceed Increases.
The reductions in duty are mucli more
| numerous than the increases. In the
| schedule on chemicals oils and paints
they are:
"Boracic acid, borax from : cents TO
:. cents per pound: reductions of cents
per pound are made on gallic and tar
laric acid and borate of lime Reduc-
| tions of fifty per cent made I'm the
duty on salicylic acid, chIoroform. fruit
others. oils or essences. peppermint OIL
whiting and paris white, dry: bichromate
and chromate of potash and santonin.'
Other material. reductions made in the
chemical schedule are:
'BOrate of lime and other borate ma
teria is reduced from cents to liz cents
per pound and from 3 cents to l cent per
pound, according to the percentage of
anhydrous boracic acid contained. Sui
phura others are reduced to cents per
pound. Spirits Of nitrous ether to 20
cents per pound. Iodoform from 81 to
IS cents per pound. FlaXseed linSeed and
poppyseed oil reduced TO IL cents per gall
ion. Varnshes reduced from thirty five
10 twenty-five per centum ad valore m
and spirit varnishes from $1.32 per gal
Ion and thirty-tive per centum to twenty
five per centum ad valorem.