The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1909-03-24
THE new BILL
On the Tariff Brought in Early
On Wednesday
MAJORITY MEASURE

Of the Ways and Means Com.
mittee-Free Reciprocity With
Cuba and Philippines Except on
Sugar and Tobacco.
Washington, March 17.-Chair-
man Payne of the ways and means
committee introduced a new tariff
bill today. 1t provides for a $40
100000 issue of Panama canal bonds,
r~e-enacts provision for the issuance
OF treasury certificates to the amount
of S250,O00,00O provides for gradu-
ated inheritance tax similar to the
New York State law and imposes
duties on maximum and minimum
bases. Cotton seed oil, iron, ore, tai
low, flax straw and undressed flax.
mechanically ground wood pulp.
hides, and works of art more than
twenty years old are placed on free
list where coffee remains.
Tea Is taxed eight cents per pound.
and internal revenue tax on heavy
grade cigaretts is increased sixty
cents and on those weighing less
than three pounds to the thousand,
1t is increased to $3.50. Lumber is
cut fifty per cent, refined sugar, five
one-hundredths of a cent per pound:
crude gypsum, ten cents per ton:
tire-brick ten per centum and valo-
rem, steel and iron schedule, from
forty to fifty per cent; tin plates,
ninety per cent; bacon and hams,
one cent; dextrin and starch, one
half cent; wool, shoddy and waste,
i've cents, and boots and shoes and
leather goods, from forty to fifty
per cent.
Bituminous coal and agricultural
implements imported from countries
permitting free entry of these ar
ticles from United States, are admit
ted free of duty. Other reductions
are on marble, plate glass, mica,
leadbearing ore, wool, grease, barley
and barley malt, flax gill nettings,
single yarns and threads, oilcloth,
cotton shirts and collars and print
ing paper.
Increases in duties are made on
chfcory root and roasted coffee and
articles used as a substitute for cof-
fee, cocoa, spices, coal tar dyes,
keene's cement, asphaltum, -four
spar, zinc in ore, osler or willow, figs,
lemons, pineapples, Mercerized fab
RIGS and gloves embroidery and lace
making machines are to be imported
free until July 1911.
Free reciprocal trade with the
Philippines is provided for, but lin
iting free sugar to 100000 tons;
wrapper tobacco, to 100000 pounds;
filler tobacco, to 100000 pounds,
and 150,O00,OO0 cigars a year. The
exemption Is confined to products of
the islands.
The continuation Of the Cuban
reciprocity provisions of Dingley bill
are continued, provisions for draw
backs and method of valuation are
extended and b%roadened.
Increases in cotton schedule are:
An additional duty of 1 cent per
yard on mercerized fabrics Ia new
process of manufacturing invented
since present law was enacted).
Also small additional duty on lap
pets. There is also an increase duty
on stockings, fashioned and shaped
wholly or in part on knitting ma
chimes. In his statement on the bill,
Chairman Payne said: "The bill
provides for reciprocal free trade
with Philippine islands, on all ar
ticles, but limiting sugar to be i'm
ported free of duty to 100000 tons:
wrapper tobacco to 100000 pounds
and 100000 pounds Of filler to-
bacco and 100000 cigars in any
one fiscal year. The excess of sugar,
tobacco and cigars to pay full tariff
| rates"
A section inserted preserving
| Cuban reciprocity provisions of pres
ent law. Tax on cigaretts is in
creased, those weighing over three
| pounds per thousand, from 50 to
$3.50, and those weighing less, from
81 TO $3.50.