Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-04-11
SENATE TARIFF
BILL IS READY;
RATES REVISED
RESERVATION MADE ON GER
TAIN ARTICLES
REVENUES NOT DECREASED, BUT
DUTIES MUCH LOWER
Because of Protests from Women,
Committee Decides to Retain the
DngIey Charges on Hosiery
and Gloves
ny Associated Press. ]

HJ ASHINGTON, April 1O.-Ihe SEN
~ ate tariff bill, so far as rates are
w concerned, was completed to-
night, but it was decided that in max
ing a report Chairman Aldrich will an
nounce q reservation on certain impor-
tant schedules for further action.
These reservations will lncluoe
hides, steel rails, wood pulp ana cruoe
petroleum.
Chairman Aldrich asserted tonight
that the senate committee had made
more general revision of rates than
was done by the house committee on
ways and means and that reductions
had been made on a far greater num-
Der of articles.
This did not mean there would be
reduction of revenues but there would
be recommended a bona fide revision
downward of the tariff.
The great number of changes are due
largely to the fact that while the
Payne bill revised rates on certain
basic articles, the revision did not
extend to related articles. For In
stance, lead ore was reduced in the
PAYNE bill and the several manufac-
lures of lead ore remain unchanged.
The senate committee made general
reductions in these manufactures IN
harmony with the reduction in I'M
worked material.
schedules, which will account for the
several amendments which will be pre-
sented in the senate.
Hides Go on Free List
In the report which will be made TO
the senate, hides Will go on tne free
list as provided by the Payne bill, but
the question of fixing rate in accord
ance with the sentiment of the senate
as expressed through a canvass taken
by western senators will be taken up
in the near future.
A similar condition will be reported
on steel rails. The Payne rates are
1892 per ton, which is one-half the ex-
listing rate. The committee was i'm
pressed by the arguments made by the
steel manufacturers that this rate
should be increased, but it is known
that considerable opposition to such
action will be manifested In the senate.
This item will be discussed later by
the committee, and indications are that
an increase to about $4.25 per ton Will
be recommended. No decision has been
reached on the subject of wood pup.
and this fact will be announced by
Senator Aldrich when he reports the
bill
The same is true of crude petroleum.
The duties on lumber also promise to
occasion debate in the senate, and,
while no change from the Payne bill
will be recommended, it is predicted
that a number of amendments will be
offered on the floor of the senate.
Reduction on Coal
The senate committee today decided
to recommend a reduction from DO cents
to 40 cents per ton on bituminous coal.
The Payne bill includes slack or culm
coal at the same rate as fixed for pl-
luminous coal, increasing the duty on
this product from Is cents to 81 cents.
THE senate committee has decided to
restore the Dingley rate of 10 cents
per ton.
Protests made by heavy importers
of gloves and hosiery against the IN
crease made by the Payne bill over
the existing Dingley rates, as well as
protests made by hundreds of women
throughout the country. induced the
senate committee to agree to recon-
mend continuance of the Dingley rates.
The existing rates on woolens, mate
rally decreased by the Payne BILL Will
be recommended by the senate COM
mittee.
Specific duties will be recommended
throughout on silks of all kinds, the
specific duty being trifle above the
combined ad valorem and SPECIFIC du-
ties now collected under the Dingley
act. This action is taken in order to
meet probably severe competition with
Japanese silks, which every year are
coming in in larger quantities at
constantly decreasing cost of manu-
facture.
Cotton Protection Denied
The demand for protection for long
staple cotton, which comes into COM
petition with Egyptian cotton used in
the manufacture of mercerlzed SILK
goods, has been denied by the senate
committee. This action was taken on
the ground that the long staple cotton
raised on the Sea islands of South
Carolina and Florida now brings a
high price in the American market,
and for the further reason that it
would be difficult not to give like pro-
lection to cotton raised in certain parts
of Texas and Mississippi, which is of
comparatively long staple.
Present indications are the commit
tee will report the bill to the senate
on Tuesday next.
The administrative features of the
bill in all probability will not be re-
ported for another eek or more.
Something of the proposed tariff bu-
reau, which has been the object of a
great deal of study, was learned to-
night, although plans for the estab-
lishment Of such a bureau will not be
completed until other administrative
features of the bill are reached.
According to present plans, the bu-
reau will consist of a concentration of
the bureau of manufactures and the
bureau of statistics, which are under
the department of commerce and la
Dor; the bureau of trade relations, UNI
der the department of state, and the
customs divisions OF the treasury de-
partment.
Tt is intended that this concentra-
ton shall be placed under the head of
the treasury department, and that it
shall act in an advisory capacity to
the president in event of the adoption
of Senator Aldrich's maximum and
minimum provision for the application
of the tariff law
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