The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-09-29
FINAL TARIFF
 DIFFERENCES
 TO BE ADJUSTED
Full Conference Committee or Senate And House Meet
 To Adopt Report.
SIX G. 0. P. MEMBERS
 CALLED INTODAY
Bill That Will Go To The Pres ident Carries Many Changes From Original Measure Passed By The
 House.

Washington, Sept. 29.-The confer ence report on the Underwood-sin- mons tariff bill, representing the final adjustment of disputes between the Senate and house over the Rormeris amendments, was made public today when the Democratic managers sub ! n1tted it for the first time to their l Republican colleagues on the confer ence committee.
 Tn the. form in which the tariR bill ultimately will go to President Will son for his signature, 1t carries many changes from the original Underwood l bill passed by the House last May. While the Senate gave way on many of its amendments in the two vse1rg' fight in the conference committee, many important changes were retained and the general average of rateS of the House bill was reduced about four per cent. ad va1orem.
 Tn summary of the agreements that have been tnformalI yauuoa1uced
 from day to day during the confer ence work, the report shows the fol- lowing important alterations of the original Underwood House bill:
 The tax rate on incomes abovesSz5.- 900 was increased by a graduated scale from three per cent. to seven Der cent. and the income tax exempt reduced from $4,O0O to $3sOo0. Articles added to the free list include pig iron, F1erro manganese ore, cheap grades of iron. cattle and other food aniamls, wheat
 flour, hemp, sugar refining machinery, school text books sand blast machin- cry, indigo dyes, photographic moving picture nlms, cement asphalt and many other articles
 ings, gloves and mfttens makes a re- duction from the House rate on those valued at less thair $1-2O a dozen and an increase on those above Angora wool and articles made from 1t were given a higher duty than in the House
 The House rate on silk ribbons and narrow fabrics was increased from 40
 to 45 per cent, while the House rates on common paper box boards and pa pers used for photographic prRnts were reduced An increased rate of duty 1 was provided for Hthographic views of American scenes and the rate on sur face coated papers suitable for cov- ering boxes was increased from S5 to 40 per cent. Reduction in the House duties was made on wearing apparel of cattle or goat skins, fur hats. rough
 forms of dog and goat skins. cameI's hair. and cloth used in cotton oil mills and through a reclassthcation, rates will be slightly reduced from those fixed by the House on fancy grades of cotton cloth. The high rate on cotton
 stockings and half hose was also re- duced.
 Reductions in the House rates in the chemical schedule covered perfuIned seed oil, chlorate Of potash and seV- era1 other items, while the House rates were increased on many kinds of acids 1 and on some classes of paints. The 1 Senate succeeded in reducing the House rates on high power lenses, sur veying instruments telescopes and the like Most of the Senate changes re- ducing the rates on iron and steel pro- ducts were approved by the confer ence committee making the rates con- siderably lower on the average than those of the original House bill The tariff on automobiles, fixed by the House at 45 per cent. and radically cut by the Senate was finally compro- missed by making a new classification of automobiles valued below 5000, for Some of the more important chanBeS agreed to by the conference covered the schedule of agricultural products and provisions. In addition to put
 ting cattle and sheep on the free lisr the conference agreed to reductions on oats, butter, beets, extracts Of meat entrants, chocolate and other provls- ions and vegetables. The five per cent rebate in tariff made by the House bill on goods brought in American ships. wac retained in the conference with the added provision that it should not ''be so construed as to abrogate or in any manner impair or affect the provisions of any treaty the United States has now. The conference also amended that portion of the House bill requiring foreign nnanufacturers or exporters to submit their books to American customs agents, so that if the exporter refuses to allow such e<- animation an additional tarif duty of Is per cent ad vaIorem can be i'm posed on his exports.
 The conference agreement repeals Section of the Cuban reciprocity treaty, which provided that Cuba should have a preferential rate of 20 per cent on sugar and that the gen. eral sugar, tariff of the United States should not be reduced below the hg- ures of the DingIey tariff law of 1897.
 The section of the House bill which would have thrown outside the civil
 service the entire force of income tax administrators for a period of two years, was changed by the conference committed In its new form, enployes of the internal revenue office in Wash ington "below the grade Of chief of d1- visions" concerned with the income tax must still be selected under civil service rules Those outside may be appointed by the commissioner of in- ternal revenue under rules fixed by the secretary of the treasury
 The new provision of the income tax allowing a. $4,0oo exemption for a mar ried person, provides that only one deduction of $4,0oO shall be n-Sde from
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