The Ogden standard. [volume] (Ogden City, Utah) 1902-1910, 1909-04-12

! the rates in the wool schedule TO tho
rates OF the present law.
In silks, the same committee has
added a new schedule. replacing ad
yalorem with specific rates in all
cases, where it was posted, showing a
slight average reduction from the
equivalent ad valorem
The senate committee has not yet
decided what wood pulp rate will be
recommended 1t has also left open
for further action the question OF du~
lies on coal and hides 1t would be I'M
possible in brief statement to review
all the articles under the heading OF
sundries. The changes from the house
bin In the main are of minor import
ance The senate committee has made
reductions of fifteen per cent on an
average, In the specific duties on hats
and bonnets, which the house had rails
ed In some instances above the Ding
Icy rates. The senate committee has
also struck out the house paragraph In
regard to gloves, and has restored the
rates in the existing law.
The senate committee has also
added to the sundries of the dutiable
list foreign-built yachts owned by
American citizens, which seemed TO
the committee a luxury which might
fairly pay duty Of 35 per cent
The free list. as reported by the
senate committee In the main. remains
as II has in the existing law. There is
one change, however, In the free list,
which Is of great general interest, and
that Is the provision in regard to free
art The house wisely made paintings
and sculptures more than twenty years
old free, and the senate committee
has added to these works OF art gener-
ally, including artistic antiquities more
than a hundred years old
The senate has taken no action as
yet upon the maximum and minimum
provisions or the administrative sec
tions OF the bill 1t proposes to report
Its amendments to those most i'm
late 1t has adopted this course be-
cause It has seemed to the senate COM
mittee Of the highest importance to
secure immediate action on the tariff
and 1t felt confident the time could be
saved by reporting the section impos~
ing duties first and the maximum and
minimum and administrative features,
later
The metal, agricultural, gloves and
hosiery schedules Of the Payne tariff
bill are the most important provisions
of the measure which are affected by
changes made by the senate finance
committee, which today made public
the amendments on which il has reach
cd a decision.
Senator Aldrich reported the bill. as
TO the senate, when 1t met
at II o'clock
Leaving the question of free hides
and free coal In an unsettled state,
the committee has made many changes
in the free list. most OF which restores
to the non-Gutiable list the articles
upon which the house committee plac-
ed a duty. On the other hand. sew
eral articles of which iron ore is the
most important, have been restored TO
the dutiable list. A duty of % cents
per ton, reduction of fifteen cents
from the Dingley rates. has been fixed
for iron ore, and the duty on basic
Stag, which also was on the free list,
as the bill was passed by the house,
IL made 81 a ton This reference to
basic Stag Is an error in the bill as 1t
was intended to place basic Stag on
the free list. which has been done In
the provision regarding fertilizers.
The reference to basic Stag, in con-
Iection with the iron ore, will be
stricken out, probably by resolution.
The differential Of two dollars a ton,
between pig iron and scrap iron, has
been eliminated but duty on both pig
and scrap Iron is retained at $3.50 a
ton, a reduction OF $1.50 from the
Dingley rates.
The finance committee has. on the
whole, followed the policy with re-
gard to the iron and steel schedule.
which ii adopted in amending the
Dlngley bill in 1897, namely. slightly
reducing the rates on the various iron
and steel products.
The duty on bar iron has been re-
duced onetenth Of one cent per pound,
and the paragraph has been extended
to include muck bars. A reduction of
~ per ton has been made in the duty
on charcoal iron The Payne bill. as
reported to the house. first placed a
duty OF Sc ton on this type Of iron, but
the house adopted an amendment,
which increased the duty to SO a ton,
which has been reduced by the SEN
ate committee to S. An increase Of
one-tenth Of one cent per pound has
teen made In the duty of structural
iron, but. its application Is limited to
structural shapes not assembled or
manufactured, or advanced. beyond
hammering, rolling or casting. The
duty of three-tenths of q cent per
pound, which was placed by the ways
and means committee on structural
iron, was made to apply to structural
shapes. whether plain or punched. or
fitted for use
The provisions for separate duty
on untempered steel bands and tenn
percd bands, respectively, has been
cut out
Iron and steel plates with LAYERS of
metal imposed by forging or welding.
have a duty of 40 per cent adj valorem
imposed upon them instead of the as
ner cent duty In the bill as IL passed
ne house Sheets of iron or steel
pOlIShe1 have a rp1ICfion Of ona