The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1909-04-17


twenty years old free. and the senate
committee has added to these works
of art generally. including artistic an
tiquities more than q hundred years
old.
The senate committee has taken no
action as yet upon the maximum and
minimum provisions or the admins
trative sections of the bill.
The Dingley rates on women's and
children's gloves, which were mater
ially increased by the house, have
been restored.
The provisio of the Payne bill per-
mitting the free entry Of agricultural
implements under certain conditions
has been stricken out. but various in
creases have been made in the duties
coming under the agricultural sched-
ule.
The rates on corn. oats and wheat
have been increased five cents Pei
bushel. and the duty on rye has been
made twenty cents instead of ten
cents per bushel. An increase OF five
per cent advalorem has been made in
the rate on live animals not specially
provided for.
In the articles listed under farm
products. sugar beets are given re-
duction of 81 per cent advalorem in
the duty. An additional cent is adj
ded to the two-cent duty on cabbages.
The Dingley rates are restored on
pineapples, and and an increase of
one-fourth of o cent per pound is ac-
corded to lemons.
One of the most significant changes
made by the senate COMMITTEES Is that
which restores the rates of the Ding
ley law on women's stockings. The
house ways and means committee had
provided In the Payne bill material
increases In the duties on fashionable
hosiery This schedule probably
aroused more popular interest than
any other In the Payne bill, thou.
sands of club women. principally In
the West. taking stand against the
duty and women employed In the no.
sierl' factories In the East. declaring
In favor OF the increased rates. The
Increase provided in the Payne bill
affected the cheaper grades of no.
siery, and did not disturb the duty
on the highest grades.
Other changes in the cotton sched .
ule include a provision that no cotton
thread or carded yarn shall pay less
rate of duty than 20 per centum al
yalorem. and that threads and yarns
when mercerIzed shall pay an addi-
tional duty of one-twentieth of one
cents per hundred pounds.
Cotton and cotton waste and flax
manufactured or advanced In value,
are taken from the free list and pro-
vided with a duty of 20 percentum ad
valorem. although that unmaufactur-
ed is left on the free list. A minimum
ratefof 25 percentum ad valorem is
provided for spools. thread of cotton,
upon which a specific duty would
equal lower ad valorem tate. The
paragraph covering cotton cloth, not
bleached or dyed. Is extended TO ex-
cludc additional value.
The. original provision OF the Payne
bin providing for the method by
which the count OF threads IN cotton
cloth should be determined and which
wac alleged 10 be ''joker," which
would increase the duty on cotton
cloth two or three hundred per cent.
has been practically restored. The
ONLY exception made In the provision,
90 far as the count of threads is CON
cerned. Is the requirement that each
ply OF two-or-more-ply thread Shall
be counted as a thread. The ways and
means committee claiming that this
provision has been put in the Payne
bill without the intention of increas-
ing duties procured the adoption OF
an amendmentby the house, which re-
stored the Dingley provision for
counting the threads in the cloth
Otherwise the cotton schedule is prac-
tically unchanged. Flax and flax
straw are taken from the free list and
provided with duties OF one cent per
pound and So per ton.
The provision placing an increased
duty on filler tobacco imported from
countries which prohibits the impor-
tation OF American tobacco has been
stricken from the bill. This provision
was aimed at Turkey. which exports
the greater part of the filler tobacco,
which comes to this country. and
which prohibits the importation OF