The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1909-03-18

{. PAYNE.
normal conditions during the next
fiscal year it is safe to predict the
deficit would be entirely wiped out
but in case it is not, the bill provides
| for the issue of Panama canal bonds
to reimburse the treasury for the
4O,OO0,000 paid out in the original
purchase of the canal This would
| more than make up any probable de-
ficiency. There is also re-enacted the
provision for the issue of certificates
to run one year to replenish the
| treasury, raising the amount from one
| hundred million to two hundred and
| fifty million dollars, an amount suf-
| ficient to provide at any time addi-
| tional two or three years of repressed
business conditions
The statement gives the rates in the
present law, the Dingley tariff, and
| shows the changes that the Payne
bill proposes, The statement con-
| tinues:
'The committee has transferred
| some articles from the free list to the
dutiable, and has increased duties on
| others for the sole purpose of increas-
| ing the revenue. Most of these ar
ticles on which duties have been in
| creased are luxuries which have been
| increased as follows:
Perfumes and toilet articles from
fifty to sixty per cent ad valorem
| Fancy soap from Is to 20 cents per
pound Chicory root, raw not dried
from one cent to two and one-half
cents per pound; roasted, from two
and one-half cents to five cents per
pound
| Cocoa Transferred.
Cocoa, crude, transferred from the
free list to the dutiable at four cents
per pound; prepared or manufactured,
| increased two cents on each classifi-
cation EXCEPT that valued above
thirty-five cents per pound which re-
mains the same. Ten per cent ad
! valorem is also added to the duties
assessed on that valued between Is
and 35 cents per pound. Powdered
| cocoa from five cents at nine cents
per pound.
Cocoa butter from three and half
| cents to five and one-half cents per
| pound Dandelion root and articles
used as a substitute for coffee, two
and one-half cents per pound.
"Spices, which are now largely on
| the free list, are assessed an average
| of 80 per centum ad valorem. Feath-
ers are increased from Is per
centum to twenty per centum ad va
| loren and dressed or colored feathers
| receive an increase of 10 per cent.
| Furs, dressed on the skins, are as
sessed 271a per centum ad valorem
Duties on the following articles
have been increased because the COM
| mittee found that there was not suf-
ficient protection under the present
law" continued Mr.. Payne.
Coal Tar Dyes.
Goal tar dyes or colors, now bear
ing duty of 30 per centum to 35 per
centum ad valorem. Zinc in ore, now
brought in at 20 per centum ad valor-
EN- to one cent per pound for the
zinc contents contained therein.
Peas, split peas from 40 cents to
As cents per bushel. Figs, two cents
to two and one-half cents per pound.
Lemons from one cent to one and one
fourth cents per pound Pineapples
from seven dollars per thousand to
eight dollars per thousand"
In creases in the common schedule
are:
"An additional duty of one cent per
yard on mercerized fabrics Ga new
process Of manufacture invented since
the present law was enacted.)
small additional dnfv On
lappets. There is also an increased
shaped wholly or in part on knitting
machines"
Paper Schedule.
Changes in the paper schedule
the special committee on wood pulp
and print paper investigation are:
Surface coated papers, covered with
metal, from three cents and twenty
per centum to five cents and twenty
per centum ad valorem; other surface
coated paper from two and one-half
cents per pound and Is per centum
ad valorem to five cents per pound.
"Lithographic prints, from six cents
per pound to eight cents; cardboard
from 20 cents to % cents per pound;
other paper, 20 cents to 25 cents per
pound and with small increases on
sizes OF other paper Lithographic
cigar labels, from 20 cents per pound
to 30 cents per pound printed in
colors less than eight; from 20 cents
to 80 per pound more than eight;
printed in metal leaf from so cents
per pound to 50 1-2 cents per pound ;
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