The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1909-03-24
On the Tariff Brought in Early
On Wednesday
MAJORITY MEASURE
Introduced by Chairman Payne,
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. It provides for a $40,-
900, 900 issue Of Panama canal bonds,
re-enacts provision for the issuance
of treasury. certificates to the amount
of s250,00o,o00, 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, fax straw and undressed fax,
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,
it 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;
ire-brick ten per centum and va1o-
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,
five 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, fax gill nettings,
single yarns and threads, oilcloth,
cotton shirts and collars and print
ing paper.
Increases in duties are made on
chicory root and roasted coffee and
articles used as substitute for cef-
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 $50, 100000 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 broadened. ;.
Increases in cotton schedule are:
An additional duty Of 1 cent per
yarQ Oh mSlCSl1ACo LcUAASo "
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 bM
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 $50, 100000 cigars in any
one fiscal year. The excess OF sugar,
tobacco and cigars to pay full tarih
rates"
A section is inserted preserving
Cuban reciprocity provisions OF pres
ent law. Tax on cigaretts is IN
creased those weighing over three
pounds per thousand, from IS 10
$3.50, and those weighing less, from
81 to $3.50.