The Detroit times., 1909-04-13
TARIFF ON HATS
GUT BY SENATE
Committee Also Urges That Duties
On Fashionable Hosiery and
Gloves Remain Same.
RATES or TARIFF DUTY FIXED
~ SENATE FINANCE COM
MITTEE.

Tax on common earthenware In two
+ eolors raised from 20 TO 60 per cent.
Iron ore, Is cents per ton.
HardWoods, free.
Squared biscuits and walters reduced
from 80 20 20 per cent from mouse
a schedule.
plnoIey rates restored on meat
" products.
Cocoa. free.
opices, free.
N Spirits and wine. Increased is per
3 cent throughout.
Fashionable hosiery, same as Ding
\ Icy law.
Hats and bonnets. reduced IS per
h cent from house schedule.
GLOVES. same as Dingley law.
Paintings and sculptures more tnan
20 years old and works OF art gen.
orally more than 100 years old, Tree
WASHINGTON, April "a
When the tariff bill az AMENDED
bv the senate finance committee
was presented to the senate To-
day, Bailey, Of Texas. said the
measure had not been read IN
committee and no consideration
whatever was given to II. Alorien
repIIed that whether the bill was
read In committee or not had no
practical bearing. The majority,
he saId, were responsible for u.
WASHINGTON, April IL. - The
Payne tariff. as amended by the he
pubifcan members OF the senate
6nance committee, was today ordered
reported To the senate, after full
meeting of the committee at which
the Democratic members were pres
emit.
II was accompanied by brief sum
mary by Senator Aldrich, OF the gen.
eraI character of the changes proposed
by the senate committee 10 the house
bill, as follows:
''In the main, the rates in the tariff
bfIl. az reported from the senate
hill. as reported from the senate
nuance committee are lower than
those I'm the bill as ii passed the
house. the actual number OF reduc-
lions being about three times the num-
her of increases.
such increases as have been made,
have been largely amended necessary
10 preserve the symmetry OF the
schedules. A considerable number OF
articles In common use have been
taken from the dutiable list or the
house bill and restored to the free
list. The great mass OF the rates re-
ported are below those of the existing
law
I'm schedule "A (chemicaD, the
principal changes are In the nature
az reductions below the house bill. One
important change Is in putting dis
titled and expressed oils upon the free
list.
". I'm schedule b (earthenware) the
rates remain largely the same. In
the house bill, by a change In phrase
ology from the existing law, the duties
on common earthenware, in two col
ors. are raised from 20 TO 60 per cent
The committee has reduced them
70 the rates OF existing law.
In glass and glassware, the rates re-
main the same as in the house bill.
3 ~The senate committee restored iron
ore to the duitable list at % cents per
ton--a reduction OF Is cents ton
from the Dingley rates. The house
had made large reductions in this
schedule throughout. In addition to
those made by the house, the senate
committee has made quite large mum
Der OF other reductions.
THE senate committee has retain
Cd the house rate on lead ore OF IL
cents per pound, but has been obliged
TO have raised the rates on lead prod
Ncts throughout the bill. to correspond
with this duty on lead ore.
I'm SCHEDULE ID wood and manufac
lures of wood). the senate has taken
the house rate of 81 thousand on
rough lumber, reduction of 81 from
the Dingley law. and has retained the
house rates on manufactures OF wood
nearly all showing reductions from the
Dingley rate. The only important
change In the schedule made by the