Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-04-13
SENATOR'S ROLL
UP SLEEVES TO
TACKLE TARIFF
AMENDED BILL PRESENTED BY
ALDRICH
MAJORITY "wlLLlNe TO ASSUME
RESPONSIBILITY"
Democrats Are Told They Had Moth
Ing to Do with Revision, So
Need Not Worry az
to Results
tcontlnued FROM rare /. part l,

eminent WITHOUT fe5OrtllB u ally pue
import taxes.
In this connection the articles which
the federal government purchases in
large quantities in foreign markets are
to be provided with lower rates OF
duty. This Is In accordance with the
plan recently launched in the senate
through the appointment of new
committee on public expenditures TO
reduce the running expenses of the
No maximum and minimum provis-
ions or administrative features which
include additional forms of taxation
were reported.
Ambiguity Eliminated
The new proviso and the. rearrange-
merH OF duties on the various grades
of cloths eliminate the ambiguity
which caused difficulty in carrying out
the provisions of the existing law with
out changing the ad valorem equiva-
lent of the specific duties.
BY restoring the Dlngley rates to
barley and barley malt and by. reduce
ing the taxation on the breakfast ia
BILE by cutting down the duty on coffee
and substitutes and placing cocoa on
the free list the senate amendments to
the Payne bill present a bid for popu-
lar favor.
The numerous increases in the agri-
cultural schedule intended to protect
the American farmer and provided Tor
among the amendments largely through
the efforts of Senator McCumber q new
member in the committee from the
west. were framed with view to gain
ing favorable criticism.
The senate committee on finance, with
all members present, met at 10 o'clock
and Chairman Aldrich presented the
tariff bill as amended by the majority
of the committee. Many OF the revenue
producing features will be reported sub
sequently as they are intertwined with
administrative features OF the measure
which will be adopted later
Senator Aldrich, when requested TO
make a brief summary of the general
character of the changes proposed by
the senate finance committee of the
house tariff bill, furnished the following
statement,
Retains Lead Rate
The senate has retained the house
rate on lead ore of ia per cent per
pound, but 1t has been obliged to raise
the rates on lead products throughout
the bill to correspond with this duty on
lead ore.
In schedule d (wood and manufac-
lures Of wood the senate has taken
the house rate of 81 a thousand on
rough lumber, reduction of 81 from
the Dingley law, and has retained the
house rates on manufactures Of wood,
nearly all showing reductions from the
Dingley rates. The only important
changes in the schedule made by the
senate committee was the restoration
OF imported hardwoods to the free list.
The senate committee left the sugar
schedule as 1t came from the house,
but reduced the house rate on sugar
I'm the biscuits and waters from 90 to
20 per cent.
The tobacco schedule remains un-
changed.
The agricultural schedule, including
meat products, remains practically I'M
changed from the existing law, but
where reductions were made by the
house the senate committee has re-
stored the Dingley rates in response
to the demands of farmers throughout
the country and of the representatives
of the great agricultural interests.
Fish remain as the schedule came
from the house.
The senate has returned cocoa to the
free list, believing an article of such
general consumption, both as bev-
erage and in ali forms of chocolate,
should no more be made dutiable than
tea or coffee.
Raw Flax Dutlable
Flax has been restored by the SEN
ate committee to the dutiable list.
Otherwise the schedule remains sub
stantially as it comes from the house.
The senate committee has restored
the rates in the wool schedule to the
rates OF the present law.
In silks the senate committee has
adopted a new schedule replacing ad
valorem with specific rates in all cases
where 1t was possible to do SO, showing
a slight average reduction from the
equivalent ad valorem
The senate committee has not yet de-
cided what rates 1t will recommend in
regard to wood pulp and the articles
dependent upon 1t. 1t has also left open
for further action the question of duties
on coal and hides. 1t would be impose
sible in brief statement to review
all the articles under the heading of
sundries. The changes in the house
bill in the main are of minor impor-
lance.
The senate committee has made re-
auctions of 15fper cent on an average
in the specific duties on hats and bon
nets which the house had raised in
some instances above the Dingley rates.
The senate committee has also struck
out the house paragraph in regard to
gloves and has restored the rates in
the existing laws.
to the sundries of the dutiable list for
eign built yachts owned by American
citizens, which seemed to the committee
a. luxury which might fairly pay a duty
Of 35 per cent. The free list as report
ed by the senate committee in the
main remains as it has in the existing
law.
The senate committee has taken no
action as yet upon the maximum and
tai fasn ad N
trative sections of the bill.
The rates on corn, oats and wheat
have been increased cents per bushel
and the duty on rice has been made
20 cents instead of 10 cents per bushel.
An, increase of cents ad valorem
has been made in the rate on live ami
mails not specially provided for.
Sugar beets are given a reduction of
is per cent ad valorem. The duty on
hops is made Is cents instead of IL
cents per pound.
Various vegetable seeds, including
mushrooms spawn, are provided with
specific duties instead of the 20 per
cent rate An additional cent is adj
ded to the 2-cent duty on cabbage The
Dingley rates are restored on .spineap-
pies, and an increase OF one-f6urth Of
a cent a pound Is accorded to lemons.
Slight increases are made in the du-
ties on fresh meats, bacon. ham and
lard while taliow is assessed at half a
cent pound Cocoa is restored to the
free list and reduction of nearly so
per cent is made in the rates on cof-
fee substitutes, as well as on cocoa
and chocolate products.
Spices for the most part are restored