Omaha daily bee., 1909-04-13


templates a still further substitution of
specific for ad valorem rates in other para
graphs of the bill.
Raw flax has been restored by the sem
ate committee to the dutiable list, other
wise the schedule remains substantially as
1t comes from the house.
Present Rates ON Wool.
eth senate committee has restored the
rates in the wool schedule to the rates of
the present law.
I'm silk, the senate committee has
adopted a new schedule, replacing ad val
orem with specific rates in all cases where
It was possible To do SO, showing a slight
average reduction from the equivalent ad
valorem.
9TH senate committee has not yet de-
cided what rates it will in re-
gard to wood pulp and the articles de-
pendent upon it. 1t has also left open for
further action the question of the duties
on coal and hides.
TT would be impossible In a brief state
ment to review all the articles under the
heading of sundries. The changes from
the house bill in the main are Of minor
Importance. The senate committee has
made reductions of 10 per cent on average
in the specific duties on hats and bonnets,
which the house has raised in some in
stances above the Dingeley rates. The SEN
ate has also struck out the house para
graph in regard to gloves and has restored
the rates in the existing law.
The senate committee has also added
to the sundries of the dutiable list foreign
built yachts owned by American citizens,
which seemed to the committee a luxury
which might fairly pay a duty of 80 per
cent.
Works of Art Free.
1.-The free list, as reported by the senate
committee, in the main remains as it is
in the existing law. There is one change,
however, in the free list which is of great
general interest, and that is the provision
in regard to free list. The house wisely
made paintings and sculptures more than
twenty years old free, and the senate com
mittee has added to these works of art
generally, including artistic antiquities
more than 100 years old.
The senate committee has taken no ac-
ton as yet upon the maximum and mini
mum provisions or the administrative sec
lions of the bill. 1t proposes to report it's
amendments 10 lnGSS must important ltd-
lures of the act at a later date. 1t has
adopted this course because 1t has seemed
to the senate committee of the highest i'm
portance to secure immediate action upon
the tariff and 1t felt confident that tim
could be saved by reporting the section
imposing duties first, and the maximum
and minimum and administrative feature
later"
Important Schedules Affected.
The metal, agricultural, gloves and hos
iery schedules of the Payne tariff bill ar,
the most important provisions of the meas
ure which are affected by the changes
made by the senate finance committee
which today made public the amendment
upon which it has reached a decision
Senator Aldrich reported the bill l.
amended to the senate when It met At
o'clock.
Leaving the question Of free hides at
free coal In an unsettled state, the com
mittee has made many changes in the
free list, most OF which restore TO the non
dutiable list the articles upon which the
house committee placed a duty. on the
other hand. several articles, of which iron
ore is the most important, have been re-
stored to the dutiable list, a duty OF 25
cents per ton, a reduction of 10 cents from
the Diugley rates, has been fixed for iron
ore and the duty on basic Stag, which also
was on the free list as the bill was passed
by the house, is made 81 a ton. This ref
erence TO basic Stag is an error in the bill
as IT was intended to place basic Stag on
the free list, which has been done in the
provision regarding fertilizers. The refer
ence to basic Stag in connection with the
iron ore will be stricken out, probably by
resolution.
Duty On Pig aud scrap. Iron.
The differential or s. Ter ton between pig
iron and scrap iron, regarding which there
was considerable controversy in the house.
has been eliminated, but duty on both pig
and scrap iron is retained at $3.50 per ton.
a reduction OF $50 from the Dingiey rates.
The duty on bar iron has been reduced
one-tenth OF / cent per pound and the para
graph has been extended to include muck
bars. A reduction Of s. per ton has been
made in the duty on charcoal iron. The
Payne bill first placed a duty Of IS per
ton on this type Of iron, but the house
adopted an amendment which increased