The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-04-12
TARIFF BILL IS REPORTED
 TO SENATE
Articles in Common Use Taken From Dutiable
 and Placed on Free List.
Senator Aldrich States that Rates in Bill as Coming to Senate Are Lower Than House Measure.
SpGeial from United Press3

Washington, April 12.-The Payne
 tariff bill as amended by the Republi-
 can members of the Senate Finance
 committee was toda4 ordered reported
 to the Senate after a full meeting of
 the committee at which the Demo-
 cratic members were present. It was
 accompanied by brief summary by
 Senator Aldrich of the general char acter of the changes proposed by the Senate committee to the House bill as follows:
 ''In the main, the rates in the tariff
 bill as reported from the Senate Fiji
 in the bill as it passed the House, the actual number of reductions being about three times the number of in- creases. Such increases as have been made have been largely rendered in order to preserve the symmetry of the schedules. A considerable number of articles in common use have been taken from the dutiable list on the House bill and restored to the free list. The great mass of the rules re- ported are below those of existing law.
 Tn schedule A, Othe chemical sched- u1e), the principal charges are in the nature of reductions below the House bill. One important change is in put ting distilled and expressed oils upon the free list.
 ''In schedule B, (earth and earthen Wdre), the rates T9ma1n largely the same. In the House bill by a change in phraseOlogy from existing law, the duties on common earthen ware in two colors are raised from 9 to 60 per cent. The committee has reduced them to the rates of existing law. In glass and glass ware, the rates remain the same as in the House bill.
 s"The Senate committee restored iron ore. to the dutiable list at % cents per ton, reduction of 15 cents a ton from fhR DlnQlev The In1ISa had made large reductions in this schedule throughout. Nearly all these reduc- tions have been retained by the Senate committee. In addition to those made has made quite a large number of other reductions.
 "The Senate committee has retained the House rate on lead ore of 1 1-2 to have raised the rates on lead pro- ducts throughout the bill to correspond with this duty on lead ore.
 Tn schedule D. (wood and nnanufac lures of wood). the Senate has taken the House rate of $1 a thousand on rough lumber, reduction of s1 from the Dingley law and has retained the House rates on manufactures of wood nearly all showing reductions from the Dingley rate.
 '"The only important change in the schedule made by the Senate commit tee was the restoration of imported hard-woods to the free list.
 t'The Senate committee left the su- gar schedule as it came from the House but reduced the House rates on sugar, biscuits and waters, from fifty
 .'The tobacco schedule remains un- changed
 "The agricultural schedules, includ- ing meat products, remains practically where reductions were made by the the Senate committee has re- stored the Dingley rates in response to the demands of farmers throughout the country and the represent atives of the great agricultural interests.
 ''F,ish remains as it came from the House.
 "The Senate has returned cocoa to the free-list, believing that an article of such general consumption both as beverage and in all forms of choco- late, should no more be made dutiable than tea or coffee. The committee felt that if it was necessary to increase revenue it could be done better on lux of life and have pursued this policy in the construction of this bill.
 ''The Senate committee has applied the same principle to species and re- versed them to the free list where they have always been. Again, on the same principle, the Senate committee hasa the rates on spirit and wine l5 per cent throughout and this it is
  venue of $S,OOO,000, most of which will | come from the increased duty on | champagne.
 Tn the cotton sceduIe, there has l been an extension of the specific rates 1 to cover a class of fancy goods and l novelties which are covered in the l existing law by advaloem rates. The | resulting advalOrem rates have not | been increased.
 "Tfe average rate in the cotton sche- | lules other than those on novelties | and fancies, remain the same. There | S one exception to this statement and | hat is the reduction in the House | pill on fashioned hosiery where the | committee has recommended the re- ;toration of the rates of the existing aw. The committee contemplates still | mother substitution specific for ad- 5aIorem rates in other paragraphs of h bill.
 Raw flax has been restored by the | Senate committee to the dutiable list otherwise the schedule remains sub ,tantianlly as it came from the House.
 ''The Senate committee has restored he rates in the wool schedule to the present law. ldopted a new schedule replacing ad -alorem with specific rates in all cases where it is possible to do so, showing | slight average reduction from the ,quivalent ad valorem.
 "The Senate committee has not yet | lecided what rates it will recommend n regard to wood-pulp and the az icles dependent upon it. They have llso left open for future action the | question of the duties on coal and tides
 Tt would be impossible, in a brief 1 tatement, to review all the articles lnder the heading of sundries. The hangeS from the House bill in the main are of such minor importance as lot to require a detailed statement. It nay be felt, however, to call attention O the fact that the Senate committee m average in the specific duties on | lats and bonnets which the House had aised in some instances above Dingley ates. The Senate committee has also truck out the House paragraph in re- ,ard to gloves and has restored the ates in the existing law.
 .'The Senate committee has also ad-