The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1909-04-13
Nos Important chanaes.

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The metal. agricultural. gloves anu
hosiery schedules of the Payne tariff
bill are the most important provisions
of the measure which are affected by
the changes made by the senate finance
committee
Leaving the question of free hides
and free coal in an unsettled state, the
committee has made many changes in
the free list, most of which restore to
the non dutiable list the articles upon
which the house committee placed a
duty On the other hand. several ar
ticles. of which iron ore is the most
important. have been restored to the
dutiable list A duty of % cents per
ton. a reduction of 10 cents from the
Dingley rates. has been fixed for iron
ore. and the duty on basic Stag, which
also was on the free list as the bill
passed the house. is made 81 a ton. This
reference to basic Stag is an error in
the bill as it was intended to place
basic Stag on the free list which has
been done in the provision regarding
fertilizers The reference to basic Stag
in connection with the iron ore viii be
stricken out. probably by resolution.
The differential of two dollars ton
between pig iron and scrap iron has
been eliminated, but duty on both pig
anu oNldN tlOlt 10 AtNoAA-At0 e-N 49, g
ton. q reduction of $50 from the Ding
ley rates.
Steel Sehedule-
The finance committee has. OF the
whole. followed the policy with re
gard to the iron and steel schedule,
which it adopted in amending the Ding
lev bin in 1897. namely. slightly reduc-
ing the rates on the various iron and
steel products
The duty on iron has been reduced
One-tenth of one cent per pound and
the paragraph has been extended to in
clude muck bars A reduction of 8
Der ton has been made in the duty on
charcoal iron. The Payne as re-
ported to the house. first duty
of So OF this type of iron, Ut the house
adopted an amendment. which in
creased the duty to SO a ton, which has
been reduced by the senate committee
to IS. An increase Of one-tenth of one
cent per pound has been made in the
duty on structural iron. but its appli-
cation is limited to structural shapes
not assembled or manufactured, or ad-
vanced beyond hammering, rolling or
casting. The duty of three-tenths of
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
punches. or fitted for use.
Some of the Rates.
The provisions for d separate duty
on untempeTed steel bands and tenn
pered bands. respectively. has been cut
out Iron and steel plates with layers
of other metal, imposed by forging or
Welding, have q duty of 80 per cent ad
Valorem imposed upon them instead of
the A. per cent duty in the bill as it
passed the house. Sheets of iron or
steel. polished. have d reduction of one
fourth of a cent a pound made in the
duty. Several slight changes are made
in the provision for steel not specifical-
Iy provided for. A specific rate of II
cents per pound has been placed on
steel wool, and the paragraph covering
diamond steel has been stricken out.
The paragraph defining the term iron
plates. steel plates. plate iron and plate
steel has also been eliminated. Slight
reductions have been made in nearly
all the duties contained in the wire
schedule. The general provisions COW
ering the iron and steel schedule. which
specify the classifieat ton and rules for
collecting the duties on iron and steel
products. have been stricken out and
other provisions having properly the
same effect but reading differently, have
been substituted.
The duty on steel rails was left at
s. 90 per ton as fixed by the house bill.
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