Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-06-20
Rates on Hundreds of Articles
Altered by Senate Finance
Committee.
REVISED BILL PLACED
BEFORE DEMOCRATS
free List Is Enlarged, Wheat Being
Added-Retaliatory Duties
Fixed.

'the Senate finance committee after sew
eral weeks of effort, was given to the
democratic members of the Senate in a
party conference this morning and was
made public early this morning. Hundreds
OF changes from the rates of the Under
wood bill were made by the Senate COM
mittee.
Among the most important changes
are:
Added to the free list: Alizarin,> single
1ute yarns. school books. cement
Creosote oil .anthracene and anthra-
Gene oil. GLACIERS and engravers' dia-
monds, not cut; miners diamonds and
diamond dust. crude artificial abrasives
abrasives. fax. hemp. flax and hemp
tow, amber gum, valued at not more
than so cents a pound indigo colors
pig iron, wrought and scrap iron. ferro-
manganese and iron in slabs, blooms,
loops or other forms less finished than
iron bars, except castings: leather in
cluding patent leather for shoes har-
ness and saddle leather. asphaltum,
hmestone-rosk asphalt, needles for shoe
machines. Photographic films and NOV
Ing picture films. cyanide Of potash,
steel ingotS etc, not containing alloy
cattle, sheep and all other domestic live
animals suitable for human food; wool
or the anSora goat and alpaca, paint
ings. etchings, sculptures. etc. of a
professional character"
Wheat on Free List.
Wheat, 10 cents per bushel in the
Underwood bill, was added to the free
list. but the Senate committee retained
retaliatory provision that would i'm
pose a duty of 10 cents a bushel on
wheat. 40 cents per barrel on flour
and 10 per cent All vaIorem on other
wheat, products when imported from
country that imposes duty on Ameri-
products
retaliatory duty OF 20 per cent
upon potatoes imported from countries
imposing duties against the United
States was also inserted, potatoes being
Cnfeservedly on the free list in the
Underwood bill
Important changes in other rates We're:
Agricultural products
OatS-Senate, cents bushel: Under
wood. 10 cents.
Oatmeal and rolled oats-Senate, 33
cents per hundred pounds and oat food
cents per hundred; Underwood, free
list
Cheese-Senate, 21s cents per pound;
Underwood, ~ per cent.
Butter and butter substtutes-Senate,
al. cents per pound: Underwood, : cents.
Beets-Senate, per cent; Underwood
10 per cent.
Cut on Prepared Eggs.
Eggs. frozen or otherwise prepared
Senate, cents a pound Underw ood, 21s
cents.
Frozen or liquid egg albumen-Senate.
1 cent per pound; Underwood. free list.
Peas, green or dried-Senate, 10 cents
bushel: Underwood, 10 cents.
Flaxseed, linseed and other oil seeds
Senate, Is cents bushel; Underwood, 20
cents All other seeds-Senate, cents
pound; Underwood, 10 per cent ad val
orem.
Zanta currants-Senate, l cent pound ;
Underwood. 2 cents.
Fish. except shellfish-Senate % per
cent: Underwood, 30 per cent.
Lemons lines, oranges, grapefruit,
shaddocks and pomoOs-Senate, 12 of
cent per pound; Underwood rates ranged
from Is cents to 20 cents per package,
according TO size
BananaS-Senate, cents per bunch
Underwood. free list.
Bombay or wild mace-Senate. IS cents
per pound; Underwood. free list.
Chemical Schedule.
sublimate and other mercurial prepara-
tions-Senate - per cent ad valorem
Underwood II per cent.
Compounds of pyroxylin or other eel
lulose esters-Senate - per cent; Under
wood II per cent. Same if in wholly or
partly finished artcles-Senate 10 per
cent; Underwood - per cent.
Chicle, crude. Senate, Is cents pound ::
Underwood. ~ cents; chicle. refined
etc. Senate, 20 cents per pound; Tn
derwood, free.
Dextrine. made from potato starch
or -four. Senate. IL cents pound; Tn
derwood. u of 1 cent.
Oils Alizarin assistants, soaps con-
tanning castor oil and all other alizarin
and all soluble greases used In dyeing.
softening, finishing. not specially pro-
vided for, Senate. % per cent ad va
lorem: Underwood, Is per cent.
Flax seed and linseed OIL raw boiled
or oxidized, Senate 10 cents per gallon
Underwood. 70 cents per gallon.
Olive oil not specially provided for, Sen
ate 20 cents per gallon; Underwood, ~
per cent ad valorem
Zinc oxide not containing more than <
per cent lead Senate. 10 per cent ad
vaiorem; Underwood bill placed limit of
lead contents at per cent
Cotton Manufactures.
Cotton thread and ca~daI yarn. mum
bers 30 TO 30. Senate tate. a2le per cent
Underwood, "a per cent numbers ex.
ceeding 30, Senate. - per cent; Under
wood. - per cent.
Cotton thread and carded yarn, il
bleached. combed. dyed. mercerized OF
colored numbers l to 9, Senate ~.
Underwood, per cent: numbers 10 &C
1e Senate. 10 per cent: Underwood, ~
percent: numbers 20 10 SO. Senate, IL \.
Pc cent; Underwood. 10 per cent; mum
ters 40 to 40. Senate. III. per cent
Underwood. 10: numbers so to So Sen
ate 90 per cent: Underwood, 1712 pei
cent: numbers 90 to 19. Senate, 22E
Per cent: Underwood, 20 per cent: 81
70 % Senate. 25 per cent: Underwood
20 per cent: 100 To 1913. Senate. 27H pei
cent: Underwood. % per cent.
Cotton cloth. when bleached, dyed
colored. merceriZed, etc. numbers sc
to 80. Senate, 22lz per cent: Under
wood, 20h per cent: so TO SO. Senate
27k per cent; Underwood. 251s per
cent
Additional Clause.
An additional clause provides that all
cotton containing thread interviewer
by means of lappets. swivel and other
similar attachment to perform figured
or fancied effects. such plumetis and
dotted swisses cotton cloth contain
ing novelty yarns in whole or in part
other than ordinary ply or cable laid
yarn or thread. shall pay a duty OF
80 per cent ad valorem.
Handkerchiefs or mufflers not hemmed
Senate. 25 per cent: UnderWood 80 pei
cent; TAPESTRIES. madras muslinS and