The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-07-30
TARIFF BILL
 SUBMITTED Will Be First Disposed of In House and Then Go
 Over to Senate Vote May Be Had
 Tomorrow Night Rates Average Higher Than Dingley Bill Rates By
 1 to 3 Per Cent. Report of Conference Com mittee Was Statement of 5000 Words Civ
 ing Changes


 bilD. Below will be found the chief points of the proposed measure:
 How the conferees revised the tar
 GAS compared with the present Ding ley Law0
 Upward.
 Fancy soaps from 15 cents per pound to 50 cents ad valorem.
 Oxalic acid from free to two cents per pound.
 Plate glass, smaller sizes, slightly.
 Structural steel, punched, from 36 to 45 per cent, ad valorem.
 Razors, general increase.
 Shingles from 30 to 50 cents per thousand.
 Hops, from 12 to 16 cents per pound.
 Pineapples, from $2 to sS per thou sand.
 Lemons, from one cent to one and one-half cents per pound.
 Wines and liquors, 15 per cent.
 Cotton, approximately per cent.
 Cotton, hosiery, valued at not more than $1 per dozen, increased from 50 to 70 cents per dozen pairs.
 Hemp, from $20 to $22 per ton.
 High priced faces, from sixty per cent to 70 per cent.
 Fur clothing, from 35 to 50 per cent
 Fireworks, from 20 per cent ad va lorem, to 12 cents per pound.
 Jewelry, graded increase on higher priced articles.
  Lithographic prints. etc. most classes increased E9
 Opium and cocaine, increased 50 Cocoa, increased five cents per pound.
 Downward.
 White lead, from 2% cents to 12 cents per pound.
 Common window glass, reduced B of a cent per pound
 Fire brick. from 45 to 35 per cent.
 Iron ore from 40 to 15 cents per ton. Pig Iron from S4 to $2.50 per ton. Steel rails from 7-20 to TAO of a cent per pound.
 Wire nails from F to four-tenths of cent per pound.
 Screws from to cents per pound. Cash registers, linotypes, typewrit- CTS and all steam engines, from 45 to 30 per cent.
 Lumber, from g to s1.25 per thou sand feet. cent.
 Salt from 12 to Il cents per hundred pounds.
 Carpets and mats from five cents per square yard and 35 per cent ad valorem, to 4 cents per square yard and 30 cents ad valorem.
 Wool tops, yarns and cloths, with a cotton warp, reduced five per cent Wood pulp, from one-twelfth of a cent per pOuHQ, tO IISO llSt-
 Oil, free and without any counter valing duty.
 Print paper from s6 to ss.75 per ton. Coal (biturninous), from 67 to 65 cents per ton. Hides from IS per cent ad valorem to free list.
 Dressed leather from 20 to ten per cent.
 Calf skins, etc, from 20 to IS per cent.
 Boots and shoes from 25 to ten per cent.
 Agricultural implements from 20 to 15 per cent.
 Works of art, more than 20 years old from 20 per cent to free list. Unchanged.
 Chinaware.
 Cotton. Wool and woolens, except tops, yarn and one grade of cheap dress goods. Bottles, vails and decanters. Crown glass Cheap laceS- Watches and clocks. Stockings worth more than s2 per dozen. Some grades of lithographic prints. Manufactures of nickel, aluminium, bronze, pewter, plate aluminium, etc. Tobacco. Live animals. ASr1culturdl prOOuclS, inoSl ITullS and nuts; fish. Collars and cuffs. Lace curtains. Hats and bonnetS- Buttons, gloves. The Democratic members of the tar | if conference committee were today | invited to sign the report upon the | tariff bill but declined. They will | make no minority report but Senator | Daniel the senior Democratic mem | per, is preparing a statement which | ne will submit when the report is | taken up by the Senate. Aggressive | Republicans who voted against the | pill will have a meeting tomorrow | 1ight to determine .tEeir course on the | inal adoption of the measure. Two l Iowa Senators, with the members of l Congress from that state will meet ] .nis evening. 1t is understood that | Senators Clapp. RIistow. LaFollette, | Deliver Cummins and Beveridge will | maintain their opposition to the bill | .o the end
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