Abbeville progress. (Abbeville, Vermilion Parish, La.) 1913-1944, 1913-09-13
THE TARIFF BILL PASSED
SENATE PASSED BIG DEMO.
CRATIC MEASURE AMID
GREAT APPLAUSE.
LOWERED AFTER LEAVING HOUSE
Rates Carried by Measure Are Re-
duced q Per Cent-Poindexter,
Progressive, and la Toilette,
Republican, Vote for 1t.

Washington. The two months
struggle over the tariff in the senate
ended Tuesday afternoon when the
first big legislative measure of the
Woodrow Wilson administration was
passed by a vote of "A ages to 81
noes, Senators Thornton and Ransdell
of Louisiana, democrats, deserving
their party and voting with the re-
pubIicans, while Senators La Toilette,
republican, and Poindexter, progress
sive, cast in their lot with the demo
Gratis and voted for the bill after haV-
ing done all in their power to amend
it so as to make it conform nearly TO
the progressive republican scheme of
tariff revision.
The tariff bill as it passed the SEN
ate Tuesday retained the principal
house provisions, including free sugar
and free raw wool, but revised other
rates still further downward. The
average ad valorem rate in the bill
now is approximately &c per cent, a
decrease of % per cent from existing
EdlSS anu utdily pei SChI iOWCi Shhh
the rates of the house bill.
Senate's additions to the house free
list with 1912 as basis will cost the
government more than $44,000.000, but
by adding a tax of one-tenth of one
cent a pound on cotton for future de-
livery, a tax on bananas of one-tenth
of one cent pound, restoring the re-
uuirement Of a full internal revenue
tax of S110 gallon on brandies used
to fortify wines, senate leaders be-
lieve they have provided an actual in
crease.
The senate made these other impor-
tant changes:
Lowered the normal exemption from
I per cent income tax from $4,000 to
$4,000 for single persons with exemp-
lions for wives and dependent chill
dren; exempted the incomes of mu-
tual insurance companies which re-
vert to the benefit of stockholders;
increased graduated surtax on large
incomes to a maximum of s per cent
of those more than 100000; exempt
ed incomes of municipalities derived
from operation of public utilities and
changed the date from which the tax
shall be computed for the first year
from Jan. / to March /, 1913.
Free listed cattle and other live
stock, wheat, hair of the Angora goat
and some other agricultural products,
restored oat meal and rolled oats to
the dutiable list and provided an elab-
crate inspection of meal imports.
Reduced house rates on wooden
manufactures to be .ome effective
Jan. /, 1914.
Provided in the sugar schedule for
immediate adjustment of the duties
of standard test; postponed operation
of proposed reduced rates until March
/, 1914, leaving the provision I'M
changed for free sugar in May, 1916.
Slightly increased rates on finer
cotton goods, reclassifying the whole
cotton schedule and changing the silk
schedule from an ad valorem to a
specific basis.
Provided for an administrative force
to handle income tax collections with
out regard to requirements of the civil
service
Struck out a countervailing duty on
wood pulp. 80.
Greatly reduced rates of the metal
schedules.
Struck out many reform provisions
in the administrative section ;rTeject-
ed the anti-dumping clause, the 5 per
cent tariff reduction on imports in
American vessels and the requirement
for inspection of the books of for
eign manufacturers in differentiation
cases; but added a provision giving
the president authority to retaliate
against nations which discriminate
against American goods by proclaim
ing increased rates on certain goods;
adopted a provision excluding goods
manufactured chiefly by child labor
and provided for the creation of a
commission to revise the customs
laws.
Important additions to the free list
included:
Anthony ore, limestone rock, as
phalt, asphaltum and bitumen, fabrics
of jute yarns, wool blankets valued at
less than Ace pound, text books,
sugar machinery, cast iron pipe, surgi-
cal catgut, cement, creosote oil, de-
natured alcohol, flax and hemp, furs
and furskins, gunpowder, pig iron,
shiegelesen, ferro manganese. wrought
iron, iron slabs and blooms photo
graphic moving pictuSe films, steel
ingots, blooms and slabs, cattle and
other live stock, wheat, sawed cedar,
Angora goat and alpaca wool and
paper Irvine for binding WOOL