Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1909-04-13
MANY CHANGES IN TARIFF IN
MEASURE REPORTED TO UPPER
HOUSE BY COMMITTEES; PRO-
POSED AS SUBSTITUTE.
MORE REDUCTIONS
THAN INCREASES
REVENUE WILL BE
MADE UP BY ADVANCING DU-
TIES ON LUxuRlEs; GLOVES
BACK TO plNGLEY RATES.

Washington, D. c., April 12.-Chair-
man Aldrich today presented to the
full senate committee on finance the
tariff bill as amended by the majority
of the committee. Many revenue pro-
ducing features will be reported sub
sequently as they are intertwined
with the administrative features OF
the measure which will be adopted
later. In statement issued by AL
drich, briefly summarizing the general
character of the changes proposed, he
says in the main the rates as reported
from the senate finance committee
are lower than those in the bill as it
passed the house, the actual number
of reductions being about three times
the number Of increases.
A considerable number of the ar
ticles in common use have been taken
from the dutiable list on the house bill
and restored to the free list. The
great mass of rates reported are be-
low those of the existing law.
Some Important Changes.
One important change is in putting
distilled and expressed oils upon tne
free list The committee has reduced
the duties on common earthenware to
those Of the existing law. The com
mfttee restored iron ore to the duti-
able list at 25 cents per. ton, a rednc-
tion of Is cents a ton from the Ding
ley rate. Nearly all the reductions N
the iron schedule made by the house
are retained by the senate committee.
1t has made quite large number of
other reductions The committee has
>{o3 <f
IL cents per pound, but raised the
rates on lead products.
Agricultural Schedule Unchanged.
The only important change in the
wood schedule made in the commit.
tee was the restoration of imported
hard woods to the free list. The agri.
cultural schedule, including meat pro
ducts, remains practically unchanged
from the existing law, but where re.
ductions were made by the house. the
senate committee has restored Ding
| ley rates.
The senate has returned cocoa and
spices to the free list, but increased
the rates on spirits and wines fifteer
per cent throughout
The average rates in the cottor
schedule, other than the rates or
fancies and novelties, remain tho
same except that the committee has
recommended the restoration of the
rates Of the existing law on fashion
able hosiery.
Raw flax been restored to the duti
able list and the rates In the WOO
schedule correspond to the rates o
the present law.
In silks the committee has adopted
a new schedule replacing ad valorem
Gloves Back at DngIey Rate.
With specific rates in all cases
where it was possible to do SO. Tht
committee has not yet decided wha
rates it will recommend in regard tt
wood pulp, coal and hides.
Z. The committee has made re
duction of fifteen per cent on th
average in the specific duties on hat
and bonents, which house had raiset
in some instances above the Dingle.
rates and has struck out the hous
: paragraph in regard to gloves and re
stored the rates in the existing law
The free list in the main remain
as it is in the existing law, a fey
items have been put on the dutiabl
list and others have been taken fror
the dutiable list and placed upon tn
free list.