The Newark star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1909, 1909-04-12
Many Reductions From
Measure as Passed
by the House.
DUTY ON IRON ORE
RESTORED. HOWEVER
Question OF Taxing Hides Not
Settled by Committee Headed
by AIdrich.
PAYS HEED TO DEMANDS
= OF THE WOMEN FOLK
Stoekings and Gloves to Bear
Lower Burden--Cocoa Back
on Free List.


WASHINGTON, April 1a-The Sen
ate committee on finance, with AL
members present, met at 10 o'clock to-
day. and Chairman Aldrich presented
The tariff bill, as amended by the ma
iority OF the committee. Many of the
reTdnue troducing features will be re-
ported Subsequently. as they are inter
teined with administrative features OF
the measure which will be adopted
later Senator Aldrich issued a state
rnent showing the character of changes
I'm the bill, as follows a.
In ths main the rates in the tariff
bill as reported from the Senate
finance committee. are lower than
those in the bill as 1t passed the House,
the actual number of reductions being
about three times the number of in
creases, Such increases as have been
made have been largely rendered neces-
A,ry so =. -4ire the symmetry of the
,nsiderable nunte~ Of
eaons use has
4--..,.. ...,.. ...o .iutiaulv. list or rne
--s1Joure bill and restored to the free list
The great mass of f.the rates reported
are below those of existing law.
DUTY ON Iron Ore.
In the chemical schedule the principal
changes are in the nature of reductions
below the House bill. One important
change is in putting distilled and ex-
pressed oils upon the free list In
schedule &, earths and earthenware, the
rates remain largely the same. In the
House. bill, by change in phraseology
from existing law. the duties on COM
mon earthenware in two colors are
raised from 25 to. so per cent. The COM
nittee 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
orc to the dutiable list at rs cents per
ton--a reduction. of Is cents a ton from
the Dingley rate.
The House haG made large reduc-
tions in this schedule, and nearly all
are retained by the Senate COMMITTEES.
In addition the Senate committee has
made other reductions. The committee
has raised the rates on lead products to
correspond with this duty on lead ore.
The only important change in the lum-
Der schedule will be the restoration of
imported hard woods to the free list.
Sugar and Tobacco Unchanged.
The Senate committee left the sugar
schedule as IL came from the House,
but reduced the House rate on sugared
biscuits and waters from 80 to 70 per
cent. The tobacco schedule remains
unchanged. The agricultural schedule.
including meat products, remains prac-
tically unchanged from existing law,
but where reductions were made by the
House the Senate committee has re-
stored the Dingley rates, in response TO
the demands of farmers throughout the
country and of the representatives 'of
the great agricultural interests.
The Senate has returned cocoa to the
free list, believing that an article of
such general consumption, both as a
beverage and in all forms of chocolate,
should no more be made dutiable than
tea or coffee.
The committee has increased the
rates on spirits and wines Is per cent
throughout, which, it is estimated. will
yield an additional revenue Of $S,ooo.-
900. most of which will come from the
increased duty on champagne.
Cut in Hosiery.
The average rates in the cotton
schedule, other than the rates on fan
c.es and novelties, remain the same.
There is one exception and that is the
reduction in the House bill on fashioned
hosiery, where the committee has
recommended the restoration of the
rates Of existing law. The rates in
the wool sched0le are restored to the
rates of the present law.
Reductions of is per, cent, on an
! average, are made in the specific duties
on hats and bonnets. The Senate com
mittee has also struck out the House
paragraph in regard to gloves and has
restored the rates in the existing law.
The free list as reported by the Senate
committee in the main remains as it
is in the existing law.
The Senate committee has taken no
action as yet upon the maximum and
minimum provisions or the administra-
tive sections of the bill
Senator Aldricn reported the bill as
amended to the Senate when 1t met at
IL o'clock
Tie bill! will come up for considers
ton en- Thursday.
While practically no changes are
made in the hide or leather schedules
compound rates are provided for patent
leather and chanois skins are specific-
Ally mentioned with a duty OF 20 per
.espt. ad vslorem.
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