The Topeka state journal., 1909-03-17
TARIFF BILL IN.
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1.-The last normal year OF imports
was the fiscal year ending June So
1906; 1907 was an unusually prosper
Gus year and the revenues from Gus
toms exceeded those of 1906 by thir-
ty-two million dollars. The commit
tee have therefore taken the year
1906 as the basis on which to form
their estimate of the revenue produc-
ing qualities of the new bill. Should
the next fiscal year prove prosperous
and the normal conditions OF 1906 re-
turn, on account of the large increase
in population the revenues for 1910
would show a considerable increase
over the estimates of the committee.
with a return to anything ike
normal conditions during the next MS
cal year, it 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 $4u,-
100000 paid out in the original pur-
chase 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 million
to two hundred and fifty million dol
lars an amount sufficient to provide
at any time against two or three years
of depressed business conditions"
The Changes Proposed.
The statement gives the rate in the
shows the changes that the Payne bill
proposes. The abstract of the bill
continues:
1.-The committee have transferred
some articles from the free list to the
dutiable, and have increased duties on
others for the sole purpose of increas-
ing the revenue. Most of. these arti-
cies on which duties have been in
creased are Injuries, which have been
increased as follows:
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from fifty to sixty per centum ad val
orem. Fancy soap from fifteen to
twenty cents per pound. Chicory root,
raw not dried, from one cent to two
and one-half cents per pound; roasted
from two and one-half to five cents
per pound.
cocoa, crude, transferred from the
free list to the dutiable, at four cents
ed, increased two cents on each
classification, except that valued above
S5 cents per pound, which remains the
same. Ten percentum ad valorem is
also added to the duty assessed on
that valued between fifteen and thirty
five cents per pound. Powder cocoa
from to 9 cents per pound. Cocoa
butter. from 8 Il cents to 5 Il cents
per pound. Dandelion root, and ar
tfc1es used as a substitute for coffee
2 II cents to cents per pound.
"Spices, which are now largely on,
the free list, are assessed an average
duty of 80 percentum ad va1orem.
Feathers are increased from Is per-
centum to 90 percentum ad valorem
and dressed or colored feathers re-
ceive an increase of ten percentum.
Furs. dressed on the skin, are assessed
twenty-seven and a half percentum ad
valoren.
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;
Goal tar dyes or colors. now bearing
duty of 30 percentum to So percentum
ad valorem. Zinc in ore, now brought
in 20 percentum ad valorem, to one cent
per pound for the zinc contents contain
Peas, split peas. from 40 cents to
45 cents per bushel. Figs from cents
to 215 cents per pound. Lemons from
/ cent to 119 cents per pound. Pine ap-
pies from 81 per thousand to So per
thousand
Increases in the cotton schedules are:
AN additional duty of l cent per
yard on mercerized fabrics Ca new pro-
cess of manufacture invented since the
present law was enacted)
ALSO small additional duty on lap
pets. There is also an increased duty
on stockings fashioned and shaped
wholly or in part on knitting machines"
The Paper Schedule.
Changes in the paper schedule which
include those recommended by the spec
ial committee on wood pulp and print
paper investigation are:
Surface coated paper covered with
metal, from cts. and 20 cent percentum
tol cents and 20 percentum ad vaIorem;
other surface coated paper some 21b
cents per pound and Is centum ad val
orem to cents per pound.
Lithographic prints, from cents per
pound to 8 cents; cardboard from 20
cents to % cents per pound, other paper
20 cents to 25 cents per pound with
small increases on various sizes of other
paper Lithographic cigar labels, from
20 cents per pound to 80 cents per pound.
printed in colors less than eight from
20 cents to 80 cents per pound: more
than eight from 80 cents to 3715 cents
per pound; printed in metal leaf, from
80 cents per pound to 5215 cents per
pound; paper hangings from 25 percent
um to 80 percentum ad valorem; paper
not specially provided for, from 25 per
centum to 30 percentum ad valorem.
Plaln paper envelopes, from 20 per-
centum to 30 percentum ad Yalorem
The recommendation of the select
committee was to permit the free entry
OF mechanically ground woop pulp from
any country not imposing export duty
and to reduce printing paper valued at
not above "a cents per pound, from
three-tenths to one-tenth of 1 cent per
pound; valued not above 21k cents a
pound, from four-tenths to two-tenths
of cent per pound"
Chemical Schedule.
The reductions in duty are much more
numerous than the increases in the
schedule on chemicals, oils and paints:
they are:
Boracic acid, borax from cents to
2 cents per pound; reductions of 2 cents
per pound are made on Gallo and tar
taric acids, borate of lime Reductions
of so per cent are made in the dutv
on salicylic acid. ctloroform, fruit eth
ers, oils or essences: peppermint oil.
whiting and pariswhite dry; bichromo,
tic and chromate of potash and san
tonin.''
Other material reductions made in the
chemical schedule are:
Borate of lime and other borate ma
terial is reduced from 4 cents to IL