Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-04-13
'AYNE BILL TAR'sr FIG.
uRES LOWERED BY SENATE.
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ii TnGf rates on corn, oats ana WHeat
lave been increased five cents per
sushel. and the duty on rye has been
pade % cents instead of 10 cents per
Sushe,. An increase of five per cent.
Id valorem has been made in the rate
IF live animals not specially provided
or
4 The only change in the rates on arti-
lies coming under the head Of dairy
PRODUCTS Is the placing of IS per cent
Id valorem OH casein, which was on
The free list OF the articles listed un-
ier farm products, sugar beets are CIV
in q reduction of Is per cent. adj Valo-
scm in the duty. An important change
b that which makes the duty on hops
Is cents instead of IL cents per pound.
Various vegetable seeds. including
mushroom spawn. are provided with
specific duties instead Of the 20 per
lent rate An additional cent is added
10 the 2-cent duty on cabbages. The
Oinglcy rates are restored On pineap-
bley and an increase of ne-fourth OF
cent per pound is accorded to lemons.
Slight increases are made in the duties
On fresh meats. bacon. ham and lard.
while tailow is taken from the free list
and assessed at one-half OF one cent
f,er POUND. Cocoa is restored to the
free Hist and reduction of nearly 80
per cent is made in the rates Of coffee
Substitutes, as well as on cocoa and
chocolate products
I Except prepared mustard. red pep
per, sage and those not specially pro-
Iided for, spices are restored to the free
list.
With the exception of the restoration
bf 1ard woods to the free list there is
Dut one change in the lumber sched-
ale This strikes cut the duty on reeds
made from Tattans. Two changes are
made in the sugar schedule. One in
rreases the duty on saccharine from so
cents per pound to IS cents. In the
Dingley law the rate on saccharne is
Sl.50 per pound and 10 per cent ad va
loren. The House ways and means
comlnittee made the duty q per cent
al valorem straight and then later pro-
cured the adoption Of an amendment
which made the duty specific at so
cents per pound. Saccharne is used in
certain cases as substitute for SUI
ger and is a produt of synthetic chem
fstry.
\ One of the most significant changes
made by the Senate committee is that
which restores the rates of the Dingley
law on womer's stockings. The House
ways and means committee had pro-
tyideti in the Payne bill material in
creases in the duties on fashionable
hosiery. This schedule probably raised
more popular interest than any other
iv tn pau IF 1,,b
women. principally in the West. taking
stand against the duty and women
scmpleyed in the hosiery factories of the
East declaring in favor Of the Increased
rates. The increase provided III the
Payne bill affected the cheaper grades
OF hosiery and did not disturb the duty
5On the highest grade,
4 Other changes i'll 'fr cotton schedule
Include provision hat no cotton
+ thread or carded yarl shall pay q less
rate of duty than 20 per cent. ad valo-
rem and that threads and warns wher
mercerized shall pay an additional duty
Of i.90y Of / per cent, per number PEI
pound.
Z Cotton and cotton waste and flax
manufactured or advanced in value
T are taken from the free list and pro-
vtded with q duty of 90 per cent. ad
fvalorcin, although that unmanufactur-
ed Is left on the free list. A minimum
rate of rs per cent. I'D valorem is pro-
3vided for spools, thread or cotton upon
which a specific duty would equal a
flower nd valorem rate. The paragraph
lowering cotton cloth. not bleached or
dyed, Is extended to include additional
values.
/ The original provision of the Payne
/ bill providing for the method by which
4 the s,eount of threads in cotton cloth
should he determined and which was
alleged to be Joker which woult
increase the duty on cotton cloth two
lor three hundred per cent. has been
practically restored. The only excep-
ton made in the provision SO far a.
! the count Of threads is concerned, is
the requirement that each ply of two
or more ply shall be counted as thread
The ways and means committee. claim
ing rtnat this provision has been pu,
/ in the Payne bill without the inten-
Ition Of increasing the duties. procured
the adoption of an amendment by the
House, which restored the Dngley pro-
vision for counting the threads in the
cloth. Otherwise the cotton schedule
ia practically unchanged.
Flax or flax straw is taken from the
free list and provided duties of one cent
per pound and S per ton.
The Senate committee Islands pat
on the changes in the wool schedules,
for which it was responsible at the
time the Dingley bill was under con-
solicitation in Congress. 1t restores the
provisions OF that law. striking out all
the changes made by the House WAYS
and means committee. These include
the production of the rates on low
priced. wool Of the third class and the
Increase of the rates on the higher
grade wool of the third class. or carpet
WOOL 1t restores the Dmgley rates to
top WASTE and shoddy. which were re-
duced,s cents per pound by the House.
It strikes out the special provisions
for s0ps. leaving them subject to the
duty provided for manufacturers of
wooAS1ot specially provided for.
In athe chemical schedules there are
numerous changes. The Payne rates
have been restored to varnishes an"
on coaltar dies and colors. A COM
pound rate of duty of 2R cents per
v,,,,Has aud TX r,a,. cent nd valOrem as