The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1913-09-18
DEMOCRATS MAKE
LAST ADJUSTMENTS
MAJORITY SEES NAUGHT BUT
HARMONY IN TARIFF
BILL.
PREDICT SPEEDY AGREEMENT
Minority Members of Committee Are
Barred Until Disputes Disposed
of-Most important Item
to Touch Northwest.

Washington, Sept. 13.-With the
minority members of the conference
committee barred from the proceed
ings of the Democratic majority In
charge of the final work on the tariff
revision bill began its work of adj
justing conflicts between the senate
and house. At the end of a short
afternoon session, the Democrats had
completed work on the chemical
schedule of the bill and Representa-
tive Underwood and Senator SIM
mons predicted that the progress to-
ward a complete agreement would
be speedy and harmonious.
viii Bar Minority.
The Democratic conference will not
call their minority in until they have
settled all phases Of the tariff dis
pute. The conference is participated
in by Senators Simmons, Williams,
Shively and Johnson and Representa-
tives Underwood, Dixon, Kitchin and
Rainey. Representative Murdoch, the
Progressive named on the conference
vi lhO hOipCt Gu dt
the conference roo early in the after
noon, but when he found the Demo
Gratis were working separately on the
bill, he made no effort to join the
conference.
In the session in the house men,
bers yielded to the senate on the
majority OF the amendments, accept
ing the senate's lower rates on most
OF the disputed items. The reduc-
tions made by the senate on coal tar
dyes, including alizarin and anthra-
Gene, were approved, and the senate's
rates on soaps were retained, although
the language Of the paragraph was
changed at the suggestion of the
house members.
OF Interest to Northwest.
The most important item in the bill
touching agricultural products and the
milling industry of the Northwest, is
the item in the free list relating to
wheat, wheat-flour, and other products
of wheat. BY the terms of this pro-
vision of the bill, these products will
be admitted free of duty when they
come from a country that does not
impose duties on like products export
ed from the United States to their
markets. Canada imposes duties on
wheat, flour and other mill products.
Accordingly, therefore, sc long as Can
ada maintains her duties, imports of
wheat from Canada, under the pend
Ing tariff will pay a duty of 10 cents a
bushel. Wheat flour will pay a duty
of As cents per barrel of 1876 pounds,
and other products of wheat, including
bran, wheat screenings, ETC., will pay
10 per cent. ad valorem.
Other Grain Duty.
The duty on oats by the pending
bill Is 6 cents per bushel of 80 pounds,
and the duty on oat products, oatmeal
and rolled oats. is 33 cents per hun
dred, and on oat feed, the duty will
be 8 cents per hundred weight.
The duty on barley will be Is cents
per bushel of 4S pounds, on barley-malt
25 cents per bushel of 81 pounds, and
On barley that is ~permeated, patent, or
hulled, / cent per pound.
All fax straw, or fax. not hacked
or dressed, or fax hacked, known as
dressed line," tow or flax, and fax
oils, are to be admitted free of duty,
under the pending bill.
Potatoes, whether in their natural
state. or dried, d~essicated, or other
wise prepared, will be admitted free