The copper era and Morenci leader., 1913-06-06
PROVISIONS OF THE
new TARIFF BILL
Congressman Underwood Ex-
plains What 1t Means to
the Country.
REDUCE REVENUE $50, ooo, 900
Places Raw Wool on the Free List,
and Heavily Reduces the Sugar
Duty-RaIses Rates on Sow
eraI Items.

erai Items.
Washington, D. C.-Removal OF al
tarffr 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 Injuries,
and a 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 1915,
the bill proposing an immediate % 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 the free
list as follows: Meats. -four, bread,
boots and shoes, lumber, coal, harness,
saddlery, iron ore, milk and cream, po-
tatoes, salt, swine, corn, cornmeal,
cotton bagging, agricultural nipple
ments. leather, wood pulp. Bibles.
printing paper not worth more than
III 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, posts,
latAs, pickets. slaves, shingles.
These principal items are taken
from the free list and taxed: Rough
and uncut diamonds and precious
stones, fuPs, coal tar products, 10 Per
cent; volatile oils, 20 per cent;
sDicss, from 1 cent to cents per
pound.
The new rates are estimated to re-
duce the customs revenue approx
mately $50. o00, 900 \ year. This Is ex-
pected to be made up by the income
tax.
Protection to the farmer would be
cut throughout by more than 50 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 a. wide . margin
Heaviest reductions fall upon food
stuffs, agricultural products. WOODEN
and cotton clothing.
Duty cuts In Detail.
Chairman Underwood's statement
giving the changes In detail continues
as follows:
In the chemical schedule the rates
ON certain commodities show heavy
reductions. For instance, boracic acid
Il cut from 1910 per cent to Has per
cent. glue from 1906 per cent to
14.3e per cent and red lead from 6o.36
per cent. to zs per cent. Moderate re-
auctions have been made on medicinal
preparations. which are cut from Is
per cent to Is per cent. backing from
1s per cent. to Is per cent, drugs
from 1885 per cent to 10 per cent,
and olive oil from 1918 per cent. to
81 6 per cont. The schedule contains
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 1913 per cent. !
to 1928 per cent, tile from 47S4 per
cent to 1885 per cent, asphalt from
3705 per cent to 9.62 per cent. Or
binary earthenware. which was al !
ready relatively low. being subject
to an average duty of 24.67 per cent, /
has now been cut to Is per cent, /
while window glass has been given an
average reduction on all glasses of |
from 1888 per cent. to 1881 per cent.
Plate glass, which may be considered
a luxury. still retains duty of nearly
40 per cent. the average being 3S.45
per cent, in place of the duty of 63.95
per cent in the law.
Pig Iron and FornInos Hit
Pig iron and slabs. which were
1888 per cent. and 1779 per cent,
have been cut to per cent in each
case; beams, from $50 per cent. to IL
per cent. and forgings from 80 per
cent. to IL per. cent. On the other
hand, bicycles, q much more highly
product. are duttabls at
Is per cent. AZ against 46 per cent,
md rasors at IS per cent. as against
Y7.es per cent.
The idea Of the large extension Of
he free list for the manufactured
products has been the fundamental
while the effort has been
made to improve the status of the
lumber. Thus, sawed
,oHrds. other than cabinet wood, have
,esn carried to the free list, while
awed cabinet woods, which were
&T5 per cent. In 1912, are now 10 per
;ent-; casks. barrels. ETC., which were
70 per cent, are now 14.77 per cent.
nd house furniture, which was IS per
emit. Is now Ii per cent.
Tobacco and spirits have been
ound to be good producers 81 revenue
nd have, therefore, been LETT at the
anne rates as IN the present law.
Would Reduce Cost Of Living
Tn the effort to relieve the eonsuua-
E and to mitigate the high and riding
est Of living. schedule q. witch dsals
nth Agricultural products. has been
Roughly revised and important re-