The L'Anse sentinel., 1913-04-26
PROVISIONS OF THE
new TARIFF BILL
Congressman Underwood Ex-
plains What It Means to
the Country.
REDUCE REVENUE $50, 100000
Places Raw Wool on the FREQ List,
and Heavily Reduces the Sugar
Duty--RaIses Rates on Sew
eral Items.

tariff from many articles OF food and
clothing, broad reductions In the rates
| of duty on all necessaries of life, an
increase of tariff on many luxuries,
and new income tax that would touch
the pocket Of every American citizen
whose net income exceeds $4,000 are
the striking features of the new Dem
ocratic tariff revision bill. \
Sugar would be free OF duty in 1916,
the bill proposing an immediate rs per
cent. reduction and the removal OF the
remaining duty in 1916.
Raw wool would be made free at
once. with corresponding heavy re-
duction in the tariff on all wooden
goods.
Placed on the Free List.
Other articles are put on tho free
list as follows: Meats. flour. bread.
boots and shoes, lumber, coal. harness,
saddlery, iron ore, milk and cream. po-
tatoes, salt, swine, corn. cornmeal,
cotton bagging, agricultural imple-
ments, leather. wood pulp, Bibles,
printing paper not worth more than
2h cents a pound. typewriters, sewing
machines, typesetting machines, cash
registers, steel rails, fence wire, cot
ton ties, nails, hoop and band iron,
fish. sulphur, soda, tanning materials,
acetic and sulphuric acids, borax, lum-
Der products. including broom handles,
clapboards, hubs for wheels. pests,
laths, pickets. slaves. shingles.
These principal items are taken
from the free list and taxed: Rough
and uncut diamonds and precious
stones, furs. coal tar products. 10 per
cent; volatile oils, 20 per cent. =;
spices, from 1 cent to cents per
pound.
The new rates are estimated to re-
duce the customs revenue approx
mately $50, ,000, 900 a year. This is ex-
pected to be made up by the income
tax.
Protection to the farmer would be
cut throughout by more than so per
cent. in an effort to reduce the cost
of food. Protection to the steel and
implement manufacturer would In
turn be cut by fully as wide margin
Heaviest reductions fall upon food
stuffs, agricultural products, woolen
and cotton clothing.
Duty Cuts In Detail.
Chairman Underwood's statement
giving the changes In detail continue:
as follows:
I'm the chemical schedule the rates
on certain commodities show heavy
reductions. For instance. boracic acit
is cut from 1870 per cent to 21.43 pei
cent, glue from 35.06 per cent. tC
1929 per cent. and red lead from 500.
per cent. to % per cent. Moderate re
ductions have been made on medicina
preparations. which are cut from n
per cent to Is per cent, backing from
rs per cent to Is per cent, drugs
from 1855 per cent. to 10 per cent.
and olive oil from 35.18 per cent. tc
21.05 per cent. The schedule contains
a number Of articles on which either
no reduction has been made or an ad
vance provided for.
Rates on all brick have been cut
on the average from 30.23 per cent
to 1923 per cent. tile from ABA pei
cent to 23.36 per cent, asphalt from
37.05 per cent. to 9.62 per cent. Or
dinary earthenware. which was al
ready relatively low. being subject
TO an average duty of 24.67 per cent.
has now been cut to 15 per cent.
while window glass has been given an
average reduction on all glasses OF
from 46.3S per cent. to 1881 per cent
Plate glass, which may be considered
luxury, still retains duty OF nearly
40 per cent. the average being 3s.4t
per. cent, in place OF the duty Of 639t
per cent. In the law.
PIa Iron and Forplnos Hit.
pig iron and slabs, which were
1896 per cent. and 1919 per cent.
have been cut to per cent. in each
case: beams, from 1920 per cent. to Il
per cent, and forgings from 30 pei
cent. to 10 per cent. On the other
hand. bicycles, a much more highly
manufactured product. are dutiable al
rs per cent. as against 40 per cent.
and razors ut 35 per cent. as against
776S per cent
THE idea OF the large extension ol
the free list for the unmanufactured
products has been the fundamental
conception. while the effort has been
made to improve the status of the
manufactured lumber. Thus. sawed
boards, other than cabinet wood, have
been carried to the free list, while
sawed cabinet woods, which were
1a.75 per cent. In 1912, are now 10 per
cent; casks, barrels. etc, which were
30 per cent, are now 14.77 per cent.
and house furniture, which was IS pei
cent. 10 now Is per cent.
Tobacco and spirits have been
found to be good producers Of revenue
and have, therefore, been left at the
same rates ~ In the present law.
| Would Reduce Cost Of Living.
TN the effort to relieve the consum
or and to mitigate the high and rising
cost OF living. schedule @. which deals
with agricultural products, has beer
thoroughly revised and Important re
auctions have been made. For In
stance. the duty on horses has beer