Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-04-12
ALpRicH so EXPLAINS IN STATE.
MENT ISSUED REGARDING
COMMITTEE ACTION.
DUTY BACK ON IRON ORE;
LUMBER DUTY UNCHANGED
Senate Committee Votes to Restore
Farm Products to Dinsley Rates on
Which House Made Reductions-Ald-
rich's Explanation Reads More Like
High Tariff.

washington, April 1z.-ChalFmall
Aldrich today presented to the full
senate committee on finance the tariff
bill as amended by the majority. Many
revenue producing features will be re-
ported subsequently,, as they are in
tertwined with the administrative
features of the measure which will be
adopted later.
Aldrich issued a statement showing
the character Of the changes in the bill
as follows:
''In. the main the rates in the bin
as reported from the finance commits
tee are lower than those in the bill as
it passed the house, the actual num-
her Of reductions being about three
times the number of increases. A con-
siderable number Of articles in COM
mon use have ben taken from the du-
table list of the house bill and re-
stored to the free list. The great mass
Of rates reported are below those Of
the existing law"
Some Of the Changes.
'In the chemical schedule the prin-
cipal changes are in the nature of re-
ductions below the house bill. One i'm
portant change is in putting distilled
and expressed oils upon the free list.
In the earthenware schedule the rates
are largely the same. The tobacco and
fish schedules remain unchanged.
On common earthenware in two coll
ors the duty is raised from 25 to SO
per cent by the house. This commit
tee has reduced it's rates to the exist
ing law.
Duty Back on Iron Ore.
The committee restored iron ore to
the dutiable list at 25 cents per ton,
a reduction Of 15 cents from the Ding
ley rate. Nearly all the reductions
made in the iron schedule are retained
8 by the committee and in addition the
: committee has made a large number
Of other reductions The committee has
retained the house rate on lead ore
of 111s cents per pound, but raised the
rates on lead products to correspond
with the duty on ore. The committee
has taken the house rate Of 81 per
thousand on rough lumber, a reduction
Of 81 from the Dingley law, and has
retained the house rates on manufac-
tured woods, nearly all showing re-
ductions from the Dingley rates. The
only important change in the wood
schedule made by the committee was
the reservation of imported hard
woods to the free list.
The committee left the sugar sched-
ule as it came from the house, but re-
duced the house rate on sugar in bis
cults and waters from so to 20 per
cent.
DingIey Rates on Farm Products.
The agricultural schedule, including
meat products, remains practically un-
changed from the existing law, but
where reductions were made by the
house, the committee has restored the
Dingley rates, in response to demands
from the farmers thruout the country
{ and representatives of the great agri-
cultural interests. The senate has re-
turned cocoa and spices to the free
dist. believing that articles of such gen
eral consumption should no more be
made dutiable than tea or coffee. The
committee increased the rates on spir-
its and wines 10 per cent thruout,
which, it is estimated, will yield an ad-
ditional revenues of s3,000,000.
The Cotton Schedule.
In the cotton schedule there has
been an extension of the specific rates
to cover the class of fancy goods and
novelties which are now covered by ad
valorem rates. The average rates Of
the cotton schedule, other than fancy
goods and novelties, remain the same.
There is one exception to this state
1nent, and that is the reduction from
the house bill on fashioned hosiery,
where the committee has recommended
a restoration of the rates of the ex-
listing law. The committee contem-
plates still further substitution Of
specific for ad valorem rates in other
paragraphs of the bill.
Dinsley Rates on Wool.
Raw fax has been restored by the
committee to the dutiable list and it
has restored the rates in the wool
schedule to the rates of the present
law. In silks the committee has adopted
q new schedule, replacing ad valorem
with specific rates in all cases where
4 1t was possible to do SO, showing a
slight average reduction from the
equivalent ad valorem.
important Points Undetermined.
The committee has not yet decided
what rates it will recommend in re-
gard to wood pulp and articles de-
pendent upon it. They have also left
open for further action the question
Of duties on coal and hides.
1t would be impossible in a brief
statement to review all the articles un-
4 der the heading of sundries. Changes
from the house bill in the main are Of
such minor Importance as not to re-
quire detailed statement. 1t may be
well however, to call attention to the
fact that the committee has made re-
4 ductions Of 10 per cent on the average
4 an specific duties on hats and bonnets,
which, the house had raised in some
Instances above the Dingley rates. The
committee has also struck out the
house paragraph in regard to gloves
and restored the rates in the existing
law.
Free List the Same.
The free list, as reported by the sem