The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1911-09-21

ers in being bill for which the dem
ocrats alone. and not the insurgent
republicans, were responsible. 1t had
passed the house on the report OF
the ways and means committee made
without the taking of any evidence
of persons interested in the manu-
facture or anyone else; it had com
pletely changed the method of CLASH
flying cottons, classifying them ac-
cording to the threads in the yarn
instead of by the threads of the
piece and the specific duty upon the
square yard, as in the present bill.
This was most important change,
and it had been adopted after an in
formal communication in writing
with the bureau of standards and at
ter an adverse report by the treasury
experts The bill was adopted avow
eddy as free trade bill by the house
1t came to the senate and was passed
in the form in which it passed the
house, except that certain amend
ments were added One was an
schedule by sweeping reduction Of
80 per cent and the other was an
amendment of the chemical schedule
With a purported reduction ad valor-
EN- of 25 per cent SO hastily was the
bill thrown together, so little atten-
ton was paid to the consideration of
it in the senate, especially in the
chemit al schedule, that the most lu-
dicrous results were reached. In the
first place, although the amend
ments radically changed the metal
and chemical schedules, no change
was made in the title, which still
read IAN act to reduce duties on
cotton manufactures. An amend
ment was introduced in order to
make certain that in the cotton and
chemical schedules there must be
reduction of all rates to not more |
than 80 per cent ad valorem, but it
was SO placed in the act that by its
language it could only apply to |
goods already in the custom house, |
upon which duty had not been paid. |
ne CdiCuldtiouS ny WHICH the SDe- |!
,ific duties in the chemical schedule |
were transmitted into ad valorem |
rates and then reduced 25 per cent |
we're exceedingly faulty The sena
or who proposed the reductions |
said that he had secured the services
Vt statistician at the treasury de-
,artment, who had done the work as
lie told him to do it, and that that |
vas all he knew about it, |
Senator Williams a democratic |
member of the committee ON finance
# the senate, objected to this meth
ID of adopting a most important
chedule The chemical schedule is
he first schedule in the list 1t has
fic duties. 1t affects many millions |
# imports. Nevertheless, the bill. |
vent through, and it went back to !
he house and was submitted to two |
days examination by the ways and
means committee of that body.
Then it passed the house under
rule that permitted no amendments
whatever ! had the bill examined by
experts, especially with respect to
the chemical schedule. and even in
the very short time | had, | found
the greatest confusion produced by
the amendment. Upon number OF
the articles the reduction was greatly
more than the proposed % per cent, |
reaching in some cases 70 and l0o |
ser cent, and on other articles, in !
stead of being decrease, there was !
IN increase all the way from to 100
Der cent. The bill was supposed to be |
4 concession to the North Carolina
cotton interests, and to be intendef
TO cheaper the BLEACHING, dyeing, /
and coloring materials needed in
that business. The very comical Ell
feet of the bill as amended was that