Connecticut western news., 1909-03-25
NEW TARIFF AND
 STATE INDUSTRIES
CONGRESSMAN HILL EXPLAINS
How the Changes Will Effect Business in Connecticut Will Help Hardware Manufacturers Changes Affecting Tobacco.

Manufacturers Changes Affecting
 Tobacco.
 Representative E. J. Hill of Connecti- cut gives this outline of the important changes in the tariff proposed in the new bill, which affect Connecticut in dustries.
 Speaking generally, MT. Hill esti- mates that the customs provisions of the new bill will net the government SlO, 0,O0O or $15. .OO0, ,000 more revenue than the Dingley law did in 1906 when the total was about $290, 100000. The in heritance tax and the increased internal revenue tax on cigarettes, MT, Hill says, are expected to raise the government receipts by $2O,OOO,O00 or $25, 100000 more, so that the total increase 1n re- ceipts will be $35, ,OOO, 900 or $40, 900, ,0O0.
 "While no change is made with the reference to clothing wools, the duties on by-products of manufacture have been materially lowered, said MT. Hill
 "There are reductions on top, rowing hubbing and garnetted wastes, shoddy, noils, rags, mungo and f1ocks ranging from two to ten cents a pound. Tops arc made subject to the duty on secured wool and six cents pound in addition thereto. Yarns not more than thirty cents pound have been changed from 40 to 25 per cent ad valorem in addition to the compensating duty. Carpet wools will pay three cents @ pound if valued at not more than ten cents, instead of four cents pound on twelve cent wool, and ranging upward according to value.
 "The silk schedule is practically as it was in the old law. There is also added to the schedule artificial silk dutiable at 50 per cent. and artificial horsehair, with provision that importations of both must be labeled as such.
 -"There are very few changes in the cotton schedule. The duty ou spool thread and cloth are practically un- changed.
 "To the Connecticut hardware in- dustry the greatest boom will be the re- duction of the duty on scrap iron and scrap steel from $4 to 50 cents a ton, and also in the general reductions in the steel schedules. Some changes have been made in the table cutlery schedule, the same having been acceded to by the representatives of the industry con- cerned. Reductions in the duties on machine tools have been made under similar conditions.
 "A great advantage will accrue to hardware and tool manufacturers in Connecticut and other state industries from the modification of the drawback clause. Under it domestic materials can be substituted in the process of manufacture for imported materials and corresponding draw back allowed.
 There is no change in the tobacco schedules, except as regards Philippine importations. The bill provides for free trade with the Philippines, except in sugar and tobacco. The amount of those articles that can be imported free in any year is limited to 300, ,000 tons of sugar, 15O,000.000 cigars, 300, ,0O0 pounds of wrapper tobacco and 5000, O0o pounds of filler leaf. do not think these ex- captions on tobacco will injure the Connecticut tobacco growers.
 "The fur hat schedule was left in somewhat better shape than before by reason of changed classification. Duties on straw hats remain the same.
 "The brass industry will be practically unaffected.
 "On the paper schedule. the com mittee practically adopted the report of the Mann special committee, reducing the duties on wood pulp and pr1pt paper from $6 to $2 a ton.
 There has been slight increase in the duties on watches, but the clock duties remain as before.