River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1913-06-26
DEMOCRAT CAUCUS
GETS TARIFF BILL
DUTIES CUT ABOUT HALF IN
MEASURE OF THE HOUSE.
CATTLE AND WHEAT ARE FREE
Bill Probably Will Reach the Senate
Before Next Saturday-Some
of the Changes Intended.

Washington, June 30. Important
reductions in the Underwood tariff
bill rates in iron, steel and other metal
products; the additions of cattle,
wheat, pig iron, angora wool and many
other articles to the free list, and
an increase in rates on many classes
of cotton goods and some silk prod
ucts, were the chief features Of the
revised tariff bill, as it was laid be-
fore senate Democrats by Chairman
Simmon, of the finance committee.
Brought Before Caucus.
After weeks of work in which every
item had undergone close scrutiny
by subcommittee of the majority
members of the finance committee,
the redrafted measure was brought
into the Democratic caucus. For two
hours the important changes were
explained to Democrats and the bill
then was made public Experts of the
committee at once began work on a
comprehensive summary of the
changes.
President Wilson's desires as to free
sugar in 1916 and free wool at once
prevailed in the redraft of the bill.
To the list Of market basket" reduc-
lions the Underwood bill contained the
senate committee added many impor-
tant items. In the general level of it's
rates the Simmons bill represents
heavier cut from existing rates of the
Payne-Aldrich law than did the bill
&c IT naSSnd thn houCp
Back to Senate Shortly.
Senate leaders believe the caucus
will dispose of the bill in time for
it to reach the senate itself Friday
Or Saturday.
Some of the principal changes made
by the senate finance committee in
the rates of the house tariff bill and
presented to the Democratic senate
caucus follow:
Added to the free list:
Alizarin, single jute yarns, school
books, cement, creosote oil, anthra'
Gene and anthracene oil, glaciers and
engravers' diamonds, not cut; miners
diamonds and diamond dust, crude
artificial abrasives, flax, hemp, flax
and hemp toe, amber gum, valued at
not more than SO cents a pound; in.
digo 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, including patent
leather for shoes, harness and saddle
leather, asphaltum, limestone rock
asphalt, needles for shoe machines
Photographic films and moving pic
ture films, cyanide Of potash, stee'
lngots, ETC.. not containing alloy; cat
tie, sheep and all other domestic live
animals suitable for human food, WOO
of the angora goat and alpaca, paint
ings, etchings, sculptures, ETC., of 8
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 re,
tanned retaliatory provision for a
duty of 10 cents bushel on wheat,
as cents a barrel on flour and 10 per
cent ad valorem on other wheat prod.
ucts when imported from a country
that imposes duty on American wheat
or wheat products.
A retaliatory duty of 10 per cent
upon potatoes imported from countries
imposing duties against the United
states also was inserted. Potatoes
were unreservedly on the free list in
the Underwood bill.