The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1912-02-09
DEMOCRATIC
STEEL BILL
RADICAL REDUCTION PROPOSED
IN ALL IRON AND STEEL
PRODUCTS.
R 0 80 TO so PER CENT
Barbed Wire Placed on Free Llst.-All
Duties on the Ad valorum
easis.-eM Ready to
Be Introduced.

Be introduced.
Washington, Jan. 24.-Reductions.
Of from 80 to so per CEN on all items
in the iron and steel tariff and the
placing on the tariff free list Of iron
ore, sewing machines, printing ma
chinery, cash registers, nails and
tariff is now levied are proposed in
the Democratic steel revision tariff
bill.
After being submitted to the full
committee the bill was laid before the
Democratic caucus. II approved by
the caucus it will be formally intro.
duced in the house.
Sweeping reductions are made in all
of the important items of the iron and
steel tariff. Among articles now duti-
able under the Payne-Aldrich bill,
which would be placed on the free
list are: Iron ore. existing duty 5.29
percent; hoop and band iron and steel,
16 per cent; barbed wire and wire
fencing, 7.T per cent; nails, 1857 per
cent; horseshoes, 81 per cent; tung-
stem ore, 10 per cent; zinc ore, 1861
per cent; cash registers, linotype ma.
Chimes machine tools, printing
presses, sewing machines and type.
writer's. 80 per cent.
The reductions made on finished
steel and iron products range in many
classes as great as so per cent. The
figures given out by the committee ON
ways and means to accompany the bill
show that this will make a correspond
ing reduction in tariff revenues from
these sources.
The rates of duty under the existing
Payne-Aldrich tariff law have been re-
duced to the equivalent ad valorem
duty by the committee. Using the ad
valorem equivalent al a basis, the i'm
portant reductions proposed by the
Democratic bill are as follows:
Slab iron and steel, from 1852 to 10
per cent; round iron. in coils or rods,
"a to 10; beams, Orders. etc., 80 to Is;
boiler plate, 81 to 20; sheet iron or
steel, 32 to Is; steel saw plates, % to
10; iron or steel forgings, 80 to 10;
ball and roller bearings, As to 25; hoop
iron. 1883 to Is; band iron, 35 to IS;
railway bars, 1884 to 10; railway fish
plates, 20 to Is; steel ingots, 21.S3 to
10; rivet, screw and fence rods, IA to
10: anvils. 31.95 to Is.
Automobiles, motor cycles and BIZ
cycles, As to 40 per cent; axles and
axle bars. 1881 to 10; blacksmith
tools, 1912 to 10; bolts, 29.O7 to 10:
cast iron pipes, all kinds, 1913 to 10;
chains, 20 to 20.
Knives and cutlery, 1852 to 35 per
cent; razors, II to 35; scissors and
shears, 52.55 to 80; carpenters, butch
ers' and artisans knives, kitchen
knives and forks, 43.43 to 25; files and
'rasps. 61.16 to Is; muskets. rifles. Is
to- is; breech-loading shotguns and
rifles, 1894 to IS; table, kitchen and
hospital utensils, 40 to Is; needles and
bodkins, 43 to 25; fish hooks, IS to To-,
and fishing rods, reels and tackle, IS
to IS per cent.
Engraved plates for printing electro
types and stereotypes, from 25 to Is
per cent; Autograph plates, so to 25;
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ribs and stretchers, so to 80; railway
wheels, 50.63 to %; aluminium and al
Toys, 1919 to Is; anthony, 26 to 10;
German silver, Is to Is; bronze pow
der ETC., Al to Is; braziers' copper,
11.4S to 5; gold leaf, 1856 to 80. and
silver leaf, $40 to 30.
Tinsel wire, etc., is increased from
IN Az IN IN vnn~ can't Tinao1 uyirA
products are reduced from "a to 20 per
cent; hooks and eyes, $3.50 to Is; lead
bearing ore, So to Is per cen upon the
lead, contents; lead bullion, $3.50 to-
IS; nickel and alloys, 1880 to 10:
pens, except gold, SO to 25; gold pens.
IS per cent, not changed; pins, 30 to
20 per cent; quicksilver, - to 10;
type metal, 81 to Is; watch move
ments, 50 to 30; zinc. in blocks or
pigs, 30 to Is; metal cans and pack
ages. Sc to 30;. bottle caps. so to 80;
steam engines, 80 to Is. and nippers
and pliers, from 60 to 50 per cent.
All other articles are to % dutiable
under the bill at Is per cent ad val
orem, where q rate 10 not specifically
given.
While barbed wire is put on the free
list, telegraph and telephone wire are
given q rate Of 30 per cent id val
orem. at !
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