The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1911-08-04
FREE LIST BILL
VOTE ON TUESDAY
Senate Plan to Eliminate -Four And
Meat From House Bill And
Pass Amended Bill.

Washington. d. c.. July S1.-Indica'
tions are that the coalition of progress
sive republicans and democrats viii
continue throughout the session on the
scheduled tariff bills to come before
the senate end that the cotton and
free list measures will be passed. There
is every likelihood that the LaFollette
wool bill viii not be accepted by the
house democrats unless revised and
made entirely democratic and to all
purposes identical with the Under
wood measure.
The free list bill vote viii be taken
in the senate Tuesday and the present
plans of the alliance is to eliminate
meat and -four from the house bill and
pass it. The democrats and progress
sives, who opposed reciprocity be
cause it worked against the interest OF
the farmer" say the free list would
overcome the disadvantage wrought
against the agricultural districts by
reciprocity.
The following table shows the more
important items the democrats pro-
pose to place upon the free list with
the duties as they stand at present
under the Payne-Aldrich tariff law:
Beef, veal, mutton, lamb and pork,
one and one-half cents per pound.
Ham and bacon, four cents per
pound.
Other meats, prepared and preserv-
ed 25 per cent ad valorem.
Lard, one and one-half cents per
pound.
Buckwheat -four, IS per cent ad
valorem.
cornmeal, forty cents per hundred
pounds.
Wheat flour, % per cent ad valerem.
Rye flour, one-half cent per pound.
Oatmeal and rolled oats, one cent
per pound.
Biscuits, bread, waters, etc, not
sweetened, 20 per cent ad valorem.
Timber, hewn, sided or squared, and
round timber, one-half of 1 per cent
per cubic foot.
Shingles, fifty cents per thousand.
Laths, twenty cents per thousand
pieces.
Sawed boards, planks and deals
fifty cents per thousand, board meas
ure.
Sewing machines. 80 per cent az
valorem.
g Salt, in bags, sacks or barrels, clever
e cents per one hundred pounds.
Salt, in bulk, seven cents per on
: hundred pounds.
d Plows and other agricultural implt
ments, Is per cent ad valorem.
e Bagging for cotton, six-terths of on
d lcent per square yard.
d Burlap, for covering agricultural in
= plements, seven-eights of one cent pc
e square yard.
n Hoops of band iron for baling cottol
1t three-tenths of cne cent per pound
I Leather. grain, buff and split, z
Ie per cent ad yalorem.
1t Leather, rough and sole, per eel
ot ad valorem.
1t Boots and shoes, 10 per cent ad va
n orem.
re Harness, saddlery, etc, 20 per eei
I'd ad valorem.
&c Barbed fence wire, one to one al
le three-quarters cents per pound.
Tariff legislation has reached
stage in which it is worrying almost ;
the political elements that participa
with the possible exception of the pl
gressive republicans, who set great /
litical capital for them in the prospe
r. of veto of the wool bill If it shou
T. be concurred in by the house and t
ii cotton and free list measures viii
are scheduled for passage by the co
bination.
at Senator LaFollette, who expects
talk on cotton before the vote on t
free list bill, may amend this me-
ure with his cotton bill. although
democrats have asked hi INTO wait a
'or embody his ideas in the house b
ar. which will come to the senate.