The Penn's Grove record., 1909-04-16
LOWER RATES OF DUTY
Gloves and Hosiery Restored to
Old Schedule.
Senator Aldrich Explains the Effect
of the Senate Tariff Bill Com
pared With the Payne Bill.

Washington, d. C.-After he had
reported the amended Tariff bill to
the Senate Senator Aldrich gave out
a statement explaining it. In part he
said:
I'm the main, the rates in the
Tariff bill as reported from the SEN
ate Finance Committee are lower
than those in the bill as 1t passed the
House, the actual number of reduc-
lions being about three times the
number of increases. Such increases
as have been made have been largely
rendered necessary to preserve the
symmetry of the schedules. A con
siderable number of articles in COM
mon use have been taken from the
dutiable list of the House bill and re-
stored to the free list. The great
mass of the rates reported are below
those of existing law.
"The agricultural schedule, includ-
Ing meat products, remains practi-
cally unchanged from existing law.
but where reductions were made by
the House the Senate committee has
restored the Dingley rates, in re-
spouse to the demands Of farmers
throughout the country and of repre-
sentatives of the great agricultural
interests.
1.-THE Senate has returned cocoa to
the free list, also tea and coffee. The
committee felt that If it was neces-
sary to increase revenue it could be
done better on Injuries than on the
everyday necessities of life, and has
pursued this policy in the construc-
ton of this bill. The Senate commit
tee has applied the same principle
to spices, and has restored them to
the free list, where they have always
been.
Again, on the same principle, the
Senate Committee has increased the
rate on spirits and wines fifteen per
cent. throughout, which, 1t is esti-
mated, will yield an additional rev.
enue of $3,000,0 900. most of which
will come from the increased duty
on champagne.
In the cotton schedule there has
been an extension of the specific rates
to cover a class of fancy goods and
novelties which are covered in the
existing law by ad valorem rates.
The average rates in the cotton sched-
ule, other than the rates on fancies
and novelties, remain the same.
There Is one exception to this state
ment, and that is the reduction from
the House bill on fashioned hosiery,
where the committee has recon-
mended the restoration of the rates
of the existing law.
'"The Senate Committee has re-
stored the rates in the wool schedule
to the rates of the present law.
In silks the Senate committee
has adopted a new schedule, replac-
ing ad valorem with specific rates in
all cases where it was possible to do
so, showing a slight average reduc-
ton from the equivalent ad valorem.
1.-The Senate committee has made
reductions of fifteen per cent. on an
average in the specific duties on hats
and bonnets, which the House had
raised in some instances above the
Dingley rates. The Senate commit
tee has also struck out the House
paragraph in regard to gloves and
has restored the rates in the existing
law.
1.-THE Senate committee has also
added to the sundries of the dutiable
list fo~reign-built yachts owned by
AlueIlCdH ClIlzeuS, WHICH seemed 30
the committee a luxury which might
fairly pay a duty of thirty-fve per
cent.
There is one change in the free
list which is of great general inter-
est, and that is the provision in re-
gard to free art. The House very
wisely made paintings and sculptures
more than twenty years old free, and
the Senate committee has added to
these works of art generally, includ-
ing artistic antiquities more than 100
years old"