Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-04-09
TARIFF BILL IS
THRESHED HARD
BY COMMIT TEE
AUTHOR OF MEASURE IS SUP
PORTED BY HOUSE
NEW MICA SCHEDULE is su5sTl-
TUTED FOR OLD ONE
Duty on Tobacco Especially Is Aimed
at Import Goods from Turkey.
Amount on Steel Is
Decreased
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ment which was adopted, were out Oh
order. An appeal from the DECISION
was lost, On the final vote the Cldtk
amendment was defeated, 10 TO 10
and the original Payne Amendment was
adopted. -,.,..o,,
Mr.. Payne criticised his Republican
colleagues for leaving the champeI,
The rate on briar root, briar wood and
laurel root was increased from to 70
per cent ad valorem.
The tobacco schedule was AMENDED
SO as to Ak a duty of 70 cents pouilu
on unstemmed and 81 pound on
stemmed of all filler tobacco importer
from countries which prohibit similar
importations.
Two important amendments 10 tne
tobacco schedule of the Payne Dill
were decided on by the ways ana
means committee today. turkey
which bars American filler tobacco, IS
aimed at in one amendment ana the
other exempts tobacco growers from
the payment of the manufacturers IL
cense for the sale of tobacco IN leaI.
This is embodied in bill Whlch the
house has twice passed.
An amendment was made to the par
agraph placing a duty of 80 cents a
hound on unstemmed filler tobacco and
so cents a pound on stemmed filler to-
bacco, To this a proViso was ADDED
which makes the duty so cents on the
former and 81 on the latter when 1t IS
the product or is imported from
country which phoribits the importa-
ton of American filler tobacco.
DingIey Provision Restored
Paragraph 318 of the bill, regarding
cotton cloths, was stricken out, ana
the provision of the Dingley law on the
same subject was restored.
jacquard figured goods for upholster-
ing, covers, ETC., composed wholly or In
chief of cotton or other vegetable hber,
were given protection by leVying
duty of so per cent ad valorem.
A tax of 45 per cent ad valorem was
put on tire fabric, or fabrics used for
pneumatic tires. The effect of this pro-
vision will be to place the duty on the
long staple cotton used in the fabric.
A duty of 20 per cent ad valorem was
put on cotton bleached and purlneu
whether medicated or not.
The dividing line between the high and
lower rates of duty on oil cloth and
linoleum was fixed at eleven feet, In
stead of nine feet, as originally in the
bill. 1t was twelve feet in the Dingley
law.
The amendment restoring the Ding
ley rates of As cents a dozen pieces and
Is per cent ad valorem on cotton collars
and cuffs was agreed to. In connection
with this change Mr.. Harrison of New
York criticised the method employed
for presenting committee amendments.
He argued they were printed in the rec
ords prior to their presentation on the
floor.
Because of an inadvertance in consoI-
idating the paragraphs covering laces
and articles of silk and Indian rubber,
the duty on bindings, carriers and sus-
penders was increased.
Mr.. Hill of Connecticut offered COM
mittee amendment to have retained the
duties now levied in the Dingley law.
Mr.. Fitzgerald Of New York, claiming
that he acted in the interest of all of
the American people, whom he wished
to see wear silk suspenders and gar
tiers, offered an amendment reducing
the duty 80 per cent ad valorem on sus-
penders and garters, and 40 per cent
in the paragraph for laces.
On a division vote this amendment
was lost, and the committee amend
ment was agreed to.