Putnam patriot., 1913-04-18
PROVISIONS IF TIE
 NEW TARIFF BILL
conoressman Underwood Ex- plains What It Means to
 the Country.
REDUCE REVENUE sao, o,0oo, 600
pIaces Raw Wool on the Free List and Heavily Reduces the Sugar Duty--Hslses Rates on Sew
 ersl Items.

Washington. D. C.-Removai of an tariff from many articles Of food and clothing, broad reductions in the rates of duty on all necessaries of life. an increase of tari1 on many luxuries. and a new income tax that would touch the pocket Of every American citizen whose net income exceeds 5000 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 25 per cent reduction and the removal of the remaining duty in 1916.
 Raw wool would be made free at once. with a corresponding heavy re- duction in the tariff on all woolen 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- tstoes, salt. swine. corn. eornmeal, cotton bagging, agricultural imple- ments, leather. wood pulp Bibles. printing paper not worth more than 2h cents . 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. hectic and sulphuric acids, borax. lum- Der products. including broom handles. clapboards hubs for wheels. posts. laths pickets. slaves, shingles.
 urtr fuL 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 cent to 2 cents per pound.
 The new rates are estimated to re duce the customs revenue approxi- mately $s0. .000. 900 year This is ex- pected to be made up by the income tax.
 Protection to the farmer would be eut throughout by more than 90 per gent in an effort to reduce the cost pf 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 Underwoods statement giving the changes in detail continues as follows.
 'In the chemical schedule the rates on certain commodities show heavy reductions. For instance. boractc acid ia cut from 1870 per cent to 2i.+3 per cent, glue from s6.06 per cent. to 142s per cent and red lead from 6o.35 per cent. to 25 per cent Moderate re- auctions have been made on medicinal preparations, which are cut from 25 per cent to Is per cent. blacking from R5 per cent to Is per cent, drugs from i2.b6 per cent. to 10 per cent. and olive oil from 3bis per cent. to 2lo5 per cent. 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 s0.a3 per cent to 1o2s per cent. tile from 7s4 per cent. to 2s.36 per cent, asphalt from s706 per cent to 9.62 per cent Or dinary earthenware, which was al. ready relatively low. being subject to an average duty of 2467 per cent, has now been cut to l5 per cent. while window glass has been given an average reduction on all glasses of from 46 ss per cent to 2S.Sl per cent. Plate glass, which may be considered 6 luxury. still retains a duty of nearly 70 per cent. the average being 8S45 per cent. In place of the duty of 6S.95 per cent in the law
 pig Iron and Foraines Kit.
 Pig iron and slabs. which were 1e.a5 per cent and l779 per cent. have been cut to S per cent, in each ease: beams, from 2320 per cent to 13 per cent, and forgings from 30 per cent to ib per cent on the other hand bicycles. much more highly manufactured product are dutiable at 25 per cent as against Ab per cent, and razors at S5 per cent. as against 7Tes per cent
 The Idea of the large extension Of the free list for the unmanufaotured 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 l276 per cent in 1919, are now 10 per cent; casks. barrels. etc which were so per cent. are now 14T7 per cent, and house furniture, which was 30 per cent is now 10 per cent.
 "Tobaceo and spirits have been found to be good producers of revenue and have. therefore, been left at the same rates as in the present law.
 Would Reduce Cost Of Living.
 Tn the effort to relieve the consuu- CT and to mitigate the high and rising cost of living. schedule c, which deals with agricultural products, has been thoroughly revised and important re- Auctions have been made. For h. stance. the duty on horses has been reduced from 25 per cent to 10 per cent. cattle from a5.07 per cent to lo per cent. sheep from i641 per cent. to 10 per cent. barley from 42.05 per cent to 2S.o7 per cent. maearoni from s4.f5 per cent. 10 2S.Si per cent, hay from ts2i per cent to 26.67 per cent. fruits from 2T2l per cent. to 153Sper cent. figs from 5I6s per cent 10 s2.lo per cent. lemons from 6s.ss per cent to 24.0s per cent. live poul try from 1910 per cent to 6,eT per cent. and vinegar from 3S.o3 per cent 10 i73s per cent Other changes are sn proportion. and the general effect has been to reduce in very material