Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1909-04-15
plan TAX ON LUXURY
PAYNE BILL Is. REPORTED TO
SENATE WITH MANY
CHANGES.
ALDRIcH BODY CUTS DUTIES
Number Of Reductions Are Three
Times the Amount Of Increased
DEMONSTRATES Below Those Of
DingIey Law.

J!
DingIey Law.
Washington, Apr. 13.-Chairman
Aldrich of the finance committee of
the senate yesterday reported the
Payne tariff bill to the senate. The
finance committee had the measure
under consideration for several days
and the amendment propositions will
probably be fought out upon the floor.
The house met yesterday and will
be in session again Thursday. AS
there was no business to be transacted,
the lower branch adjourned to meet
again later in the week.
When the senate was called to order
there was no special business before
it, beyond the usual introduction of
bills and the presentation of some 9th
or routine matters.
Leave Changes to Senate.
The metal, agricultural, gloves and
hosiery. schedules of the Payne tariff
bill are the most important pro-
visions Of the measure which are af-
fected by the changes made by the
senate finance committee, which made
public the amendments upon which
it has reached a decision. Leaving
the question of free hides and free
coal in an unsettled state, the commit
tee 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 ar
important, have been restored to the
dutiable list.
A duty of Is cents per ton, reduc-
tion of IS cents from the Dingley tar
| If 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 reference to basic Stag is
All 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 reference
to basic Stag in connection with the
iron ore will be stricken out prOba-
Uly NY i0SOlullOu.
AIdrich Tells Changes.
Senator Aldrich, when requested to
make a brief summary of the general
, character of the changes proposed by
the senate finance committee to the
house tariff bill, furnished the follow
ing statement:
In the main, the rates in the tariff
bill as reported from the senate f.
nance committee are lower than those
in the bill as it passed the house, the
actual nu1Sber of reductions being
about three times the number of in
creases. Such increases as have been
made have been largely rendered nee
essary to preserve the symmetry Of
the schedules. A considerable num-
,, Der of articles in common use have
been taken from the dutiable list Of
the house bill and restored to the free
list. The great mass of the rates re-
ported are below those of existing
law.
In schedule A (the chemical sched-
ule), the principal changes are in the
nature of reductions below the house
bill. One important change is in put
ting distilled and expressed oils upon
the free list.
Schedule B remains largely the
same.
Iron Is Made DutiabIe.
In the house bill, by a change in
phraseology from existing law, the
duties on common earthenware in two
colors are raised from Is to 60 per
cent. The committee has reduced
them to the rates of existing law. In
glass and glassware the rates remain
the same as in the house BILL
+ The senate committee restored iron
ton-a reduction of Is cents a ton
from the Dingley rate. The house
had made large reductions in this
schedule throughout. Nearly all these
reductions have been retained by the
senate committee. In addition to
those made by the house, the senate
committee have made quite a large
number of other reductions. .-.
The senate committee has retained
house rate of one dollar per 1000 on
per pound, but has been obliged to
raise the rates on lead products
throughout the bill to correspond with
this duty on lead ore.
Schedule D (wood and manufactures
of wood). The senate has taken the
house rate of one ollar 1000 on
rough lumber, a reduction of a dollar
from the Dingley law, and has re.
tanned the house rates on manufac.
lures of woods, nearly all showing re.
auctions from the Dingley rates.
The only important change in the
schedule made by the senate commit.
tee was the restoration of imported
hard woods to the free list.
The senate committee left the sugar
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Observation-Disclosures