The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1909-03-24
CONGRESS RECEIVES
PAYNE TARIFF BILL
$500, 600, 600 Revenue for Nation
Provided by New Measure---Duties
on Luxuries Lncreased---CoHee Re-
mains on Free observation-disclosures
Tax Proposed.

Washington.-The Payne tariff bill,
which is designed to increase the
country's revenues to $30O,000,000 a
year, is being considered by the ways
and means committee of the house.
1t was presented to congress Wednes-
day.
The senate committee on finance
also began informal consideration OF
the measure. The probabilities are
that the house committee will have
only one sitting on the bill, that the
measure will be reported to the house
Immediately after it convenes today
and the debates will begin next Mon
day.
The measure, which was introduced
by Serene Payne, chairman of the
committee, chairman of the ways
and means committee provides for an
inheritance tax; increased internal
revenue tax on cigarettes; a 100000
900 issue of Panama canal bonds; an
increased issue of $150,000,000 in
treasury certificates, and the imposi-
ton of duties on maximum and
minimum basis. Coffee, hides and
iron ore are on the free list; boots and
shoes, leather goods, steel and iron
products, lumber, wool shoddy, and
waste, and the cheaper grades of third,
class wool are materially reduced. Tea
is taxed eight cents pound. The in
| ternal revenue tax on beer and whis-
ky is not disturbed. Thirty thousand
copies will be printed.
No Duty on Coffee.
While there is no duty imposed
upon coffee, tea is taxed eight cents
when imported from the country
where it is produced, and nine cents
when from other than the producing
country. The internal revenue tax
on cigarettes is materially increased.
while the tax on beer and whisky is
undisturbed. A cut of so per cent
is made in the steel and lumber SEIZED.
ules. Hides, tallow, cottonseed oil
and works of art more than 20 years
old are placed on the free list.
The tariff on boots and shoes is re
duced 40 per cent. and Oh other leath
er manufactures in proportion. The
pottery schedule remains about the
same, but the duties on window and
plate glass of the smaller sizes are
increased, while the duties on the
larger sizes are reduced. The tariff
on wool of the first and second class
used principally in clothing, is moi
disturbed, but on wool of the thirt
class, known as carpet wool, it is re
duced on the cheaper grades.
Duty on Agricultural Products.
Agricultural products schedules: Bar
ley, from 80 cents per bushel to II
cents; barley malt from As cents tt
25 cents; cabbages from to 2 cent!
each; bacon and hams from cent:
per pound to cents; fresh meat from
cents to 1h cents per pound; lart
from 2 cents to " cents; tallow from
n of 1 cent per pound to the FREE
list; wool grease from u of 1 cent t.
n of / cent; dextrin, burnt starch
and so forth from cents to 11a cent
per pound; peas, green, from 40 cent
per bushel to 80 cents per bushel
all starch, except potato starch, from
~ cents to 1 cent per pound; sugar
refined, is reduced from 95/100 cent
to i 90/100 cents per pound"
Reduction for Wool.
; A 1--WE cent reduction is made Il
the duties on shoddy and waste, Will
wool tops are assessed six cents
pound more than the duty on secure
> wool, which is unchanged. TIL
recommendations for placing WOO
pulp on the free list and reducing tn
| duties on print paper, with certain n
strictions, made by the Mann commi
: tee of the house, are incorporated
the bill.
! The duty on refined sugar is reduce
: 800 of a cent a pound and on de.
trim half cent a pound. A redu
t ton of half cent pound is ais
l made in the duty on starch, with tn
y exception of potato starch. Zinc
e ore is assessed one cent per poun
!. for the zinc contained The tariff G
pig iron is reduced from 81 to $2.s
e per ton.
s Where Increases Are Made.
q The principal increases are made
e the duties on lemons, cocoa and SUI
j. stitutes for coffee, coal-tar, dye
gloves, and coated papers and 18th
q graphic prints.
r. AS was expected. the new tariff bill
70 made on a maximum and minimu
IT. basis, with the provision that Il
maximum rates are not to go into {
n feet until 60 days after the passal
II. of the bill. Reciprocity provision
h. are contained in the paragraphs 6
l. sessing duties on bituminous coal al
n coke and agricultural implements.
which these articles are given ent
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