The San Francisco call., 1909-04-13

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/ Miss Isabelle Forsyth, who is
dutiable list Of the house bin and re-
stored TO the free list. The great mass
of the rates reported are below those
In schedule "As Cthe chemical sched-
ule) the principal changes are in the
nature of reductions below the house
1 bill One important change is in put
4 ting distilled and expressed oils on the
I free list.
EARTH AND EARTHENWARE
In schedule B" Cearth and earthen-
ware) the rates are largely the same
l phraseology from existing law, the
/ duty on common earthenTare in two
colors is raised from 25 to so per
cent. The committee has reduced them
10 the rates of the existing law. In
glass and glassware the rates remain
the same as in the house bin.
The senate committee restored iron
ore to the dutiable list at 25 cents per
con-a reduction of 15 cents a ton in
this schedule throughout
Nearly az these reductions have
tee. In addition TO those made by the
house, the senate committee have
made quite a large number of other
An increase of one tenth of 1 cent
per pound has been made in the duty
on structural iron, but its application
sembled or manufactured or advanced
beyond hammering. rolling or casting.
The duty Of three-tenths OF a 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
The provisions for separate duty on
untempered steel bands and tempered
bands, respectively. has been cut out.
The senate committee has retained
! the house rate on lead ore Of \ per
cent per pound. but it has been
obliged to raise the rates on lead
products throughout the bill to corre-
spond with this duty on lead ore.
DUTY ON LUMBER
SCHEDULE ID" (wood and nanufac-
lures of wood. The senate has taken
the house rate of 81 per 1000 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
changes in the schedule made by the
senate committee was the restoration
OF imported hardwoods to the free list
The tobacco schedule remains un-
changed.
MEATS AND FISH
The agricultural schedule. Including
meat products, remains practically un-
changed from existing law but where
reductions were made by the house, the
senate committee has restored the
Dingley rates in response to the de-
mands Of farmers throughout the coun-
try and OF the representatives of the
great agricultural interests. Fish re-
main 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 all forms of chocolate,
should no more be made dutiable than
tea or coffee.
SPIRITS AND WINES
The senate committee has applied
the same principle to spices and has
restored them to the free list, where
they have always been. Again, on the
same principle, the senate committee
has Increased the rates on spirits and
wines 10 per cent throughout. which.
it is estimated. VIII yield an additional
revenue Of $4,000. 600. most Of which
will come from the increased duty on
In the cotton schedule there has been
an extension of the specific rates to
cover class of fancy goods and now
elites which are covered in the exist
ing law by ad valorem rates.
The resulting ad valorem rates have
not been increased.
AGAINST INCREASE ON HOSIERY
The average rates in the cotton
I schedule. other than the rates on fam
cies and novelties, remain the same
There is one exception to this state
ment. and that is the reduction from
4 the house bill on fashioned hosiery
where the committee has recommended
! the restoration OF the rates of the
! existing law. The committee contem-
plates a still further substitution of
specific for ad volorem rates in other
paragraphs of the bill.
Raw fax has been restored by the
senate committee to the dutiable list,
otherwise the schedule remains sub
stantially as it comes from the house
RATES ON WOOL AND SILK
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 the
ad yalorem with specific rates in all
cases where it was possible to do SO
showing slight average reduction
! from the equivalent ad valorem
WOOD PULP IN DOUBT
The senate committee has not vet
decided what rates il will recommend
| in regard to wood pulp and the articles
dependent upon il. 1t has also left
open for further action the question of
duties on coal and hides.
IT would be impossible in A brief
under the heading of sundries The
changes in the house bill in the main
are of minor Importance The senate
committee has made reductions of Is
per cent on an average in the specific
duties on hats and bonnets, which the
above the Dingley rates.
DUTY ON GLOVES
The senate committee has also struck
out the house para graph in regard to
gloves and has restored the rates in
the existing law
The senate committee also has added
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