The San Francisco call., 1909-04-13


eign built yachts owned by American
citizens, which seemed to the committee
luxury which might fairly pay duty
of 35 per cent.
WORKS OF ART DUTY FREE
The free list, as reported by the SEN
as it is in the existing law There is
one change, however, in the. free list
which is of general interest, and that is
the provision in regard to free art The
house wisely made paintings and sculp-
lures more than 20 years old free and
the senate has added TO these works of
tiquities more than 100 years old.
AFFECTING AUTOMOBILES
The paragraph covering automobiles
has been made to include tires, axles
and ball bearings and they are made
subject to the duty of IS per cent ad
valorem. Reductions have been made
In the rates on anyils, blacksmith's
hammers and sledges. bolts, castings of
malleable iron, swords and side arms,
cut nails. cut spikes. nuts and washers
and horse shoes.
While practically no changes are
made in the hide or leather schedules.
compound rates are provided for patent
leather. and chamois skins are specif-
cally mentioned with a duty of 90 per
cent ad valorem.
AGRICULTURAL IMPLEMENTS
The proviso of the Payne bill permit
ting the free entry of agricultural i'm
plements under certain conditions has
been stricken out, but various increases
have been made in the duties coming
barley and barley malt are levied the
same duties as are provided in the
Dingley law, so and 35 cents per bushel,
The rates on corn, oats and wheat
have been increased cents per bushei
and the duty on rice has been made 30
increase of 3 per cent ad valorem has
been made in the rate on live animals
not specially provided for.
The only change in the rates on arti-
cles coming under the head of dairy
products is the placing of a 25 percent
ad valorem on casein, which was on
der farm products, sugar beets are
given q reduction of 15 per cent ad
valorem in the duty.
INCREASED DUTY ON HOPS
An important change is that which
makes the duty on haps Is cents instead
of II cents per pound. Various vege-
table seeds. including mushroom spawn,
are provided with specific duties in
stead of the 20 per cent rate.
An additional cent is added to the Q
cent duty on cabbages. The Dingley
rates are restored on pineapples and an
increase of one--fourth of a cent a pound
is accorded to lemons.
THE SUGAR SCHEDULES
Two changes are made in the sugar
schedule. One increases the duty on
saccharine from so cents per pound to
15 cents In the D1ngley law the rate
on on saccharine is S1.5a per pound and
10 per cent ad valorern. The house
ways and means committee made the
duty 25 per cent ad valorem straight
and then later procured the adoption
of an amendment which made the duty
specific at so cents per pound.
saccharine is used in certain cases as
a substitute for sugar and is a product
OF synthetic chemistry.
Payne Appears Relieved
WASHINGTON, April IA good.
workable membership was present
when the house met today for the first
of its semiweekly sessions. Chairman
Payne was in his accustomed place and
seemed as if a great load has been lift
ed from his shoulders by the passage
of the tariff bill.
AS soon as the journal had been ap-
proved Payne offered a resolution pro-
viding for the return OF the tariff BILL
to the house so that it might be amend
ed so as to make it plain that crude
petroleum and its products should ap-
pear on the free list.
After the bill passed Friday an in
products of petroleum were omitted
from the free list, although such was
not the intention when the Norris
amendment was stricken out and petro-
leum made free.
House Not Restricted
WASHINGTON. April 12.-That the
present session Of the house called to
enact tariff legislation is not restricted
to that subject was the decision of