Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-06-29
SENATE TARIFF
AMENDMENTS
To AID REVENUE
Several Millions Added to Income
of Nation in Underwood Bill
in Present Shape.
Continued From Page I.

not to exceed one and one-fourth
times that specified: Earthen, stone
and chinaware; lemons, cheese, wines
of all kinds, malt liquors, knitted
goods, silk dress and piece goods,
leather gloves, laces and embroideries
of whatever material composed, and
articles made wholly or in part of
same; toys, jewelry and precious,
semi precious and imitation precious
stones
Following are the principal changes
made by the Senate Committee in
the House bill:
Added to the free list:
Alizarin, single jute yarns, school
| books, cement, creosote oil, anthra-
Gene and anthracene oil, glaciers and
engravers' diamonds, not cut; miners
| diamonds and diamond dust, crude
artificial abrasives, fax and hemp
tow; amber gum, valued at not more
than so cents a pound; indigo colors,
pig iron, wrought and scrap iron;
ferro manganese and iron in slabs,
blooms. loops or other forms less fin
ished than iron bars, except castings;
leather, including patent leather for
shoes, harness and saddle leather;
asphaltum, limestone rock asphalt,
needles for shoe machines, photo
graphic films and moving picture
films, cyanide of potash; steel ingots,
etc, not containing alloy; cattle,
sheep and all other domestic live ami
mails suitable for human food; wool
or the angora goat and alpaca; paint
tngs, etchings, sculptures, etc. of a
professional charactar"
Wheat on Free List.
Wheat, 10 cents per bushel in the
Underwood bill, was added to the free
list, but the Senate committee re-
tained a retaliatory provision for a
duty of 10 cents a bushel on wheat,
/ As cents a barrel on -four and 10 per
cent ad valorem on other wheat prod
ucts when imported from a country
that imposes duty on American wheat
or wheat products.
A retaliatory duty Of 10 per cent
upon potatoes imported from coun-
tries imposing duties against the
United States also was inserted Po-
tatoes were unreservedly on the free
list in the Underwood bill.
Other changes affecting living cost
were as follows, the new Senate rate
being stated first in each instances:
Agricultural Products-Oats,
cents bushel House, 10 cents; oat-
meal and rolled oats, 33 cents per
| hundred pounds, and oat feed, 9 cents
| per hundred; House, free list; cheese
2 Ia cents per pound; House 20 per
| cent; butter and butter substitutes
Ia cents per pound; House, cents
+ beets, 5 per cent; House. 10 per cent;
! eggs, frozen or otherwise prepared,
cents a pound, House 21-2 cents:
| frozen or liquid egg albumen, l cent
| per pound House, free list; peas
| green or dried, 10 cents a bushel
| House, Is cents; f1axseed linseed and
other OIL seeds, Is cents bushel;
| House, 20 cents; all other seeds, [
| cents pound; House. 10 per cent ad
valorem; zante and all other seeds, {
! cents per pound; House, 10 per cent
| ad valorem; zante currants. l cent
| pound; House, 2 cents.
Fish, except shellfsh, 25 per cent:
| House, 20 per cent; lemons, lines
| oranges, grapefruit, shaddock and
| pomelos, IL OF / cent per pound
House rates ranged from IS cents to
| 20 cents per package, according to
size; bananas, cents per bunch;
| House, free list
Oils-Alizarin assistants, SOAPS
containing castor oil, all other alizarin
and all soluble greases used in dye
| ing. softening, finishing, not special
| ly provided for, Is per cent ad valo-
rem; House, Is per cent.
! Flaxseed and linseed oil, raw, boil ed
| or oxydized, 10 cents per gallon:
| House, IL
Olive OIL, not specially provided for
20 cents gallon; House, 20 per cent
| ad valorem.