Las Vegas optic. (East Las Vegas, N.M.) 1908-1921, 1913-09-29
DEMOCRATS DONE WITH IT
THEY PASS 1T UP TO THE REPuB-
LlcANs OF CONFERENCE
COMMITTEE
INCOME EXEMPTIONS CUT
NUMEROUS ITEMS ON NECESSITY
LIST WILL BE ADMITTED
WITHOUT DUTY

Washington, Sept. 29.-The confer
ence report on the Unuerwood-Sim-
mons tariff bill, representing the final
adjustment of disputes between the
senate and house over the formers
amendments, was made public early
today when the democratic majority
submitted it for the first time to their
republican colleagues, on the confer
ence committee.
In the form in which the tariff bill
ultimately will go 10 President Will
son for his signature, it carries many
changes from the original Underwood
bill passed by the house last May.
While the senate gave way on many
of its amendments, the general aver
age of rates in the house bill was re-
duced about 4 per cent advalorem.
The report shows the Following i'm
portant alterations or the original I'm
derwood house bill:
The tax rate on incomes above
$4,000 was increased by a graduated
scale from per cent to per cent
and the income tax exemptions re-
duced from $4,000 to $4,000. Articles
added to the free list include pig
iron, ferro manganese ores, cheap
grades of iron, cattle and other food
animals, wheat, flour, 1lax, hemp,
sugar refining machinery, school text
books, sand blast machines, indigo
dyes, Photographic moving picture
films, cement, asphalt and many other
articles.
a. new classification for wooIen
stockings, gloves and mittens makes
a reduction from the house rate at
less than $12O a dozen, and an in
crease on those above. Angora wool
and articles made from it were given
higher duty than in the house bill.
The house rate on silk ribbons and
narrow fabrics was increased from 40
to AS per cent, while the house rates
on common paper box boards and pa
pers used for Photographic prints
were reduced. An increased rate Of
duty was provided for lithographic
views Of American scenes, and the
rates on surface coated papers suit
able for covering boxes was increased
from 80 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, camers hair
press cloth for use in cotton oil mills,
and through a re-classification, rates
will be slightly reduced from those
fixed by the house on fancy grades Of
cotton cloth. The house rate on cot
ton stockings and half hose was also
reduced.
Chemical Schedule Lowered
Reductions in the house rates on
the chemical schedule covered per
fumed and medical soaps, crude
ohicle linseed oil, chlorate of potash
and several other items, while the
house rates were increased on many
kinds Of acids, and on some classes
Of paints. The senate succeeded in
reducing the house rates on high
power lenses, surveying instruments,
telescopes and the like.
Most Of the senate changes reduc-
ing the rates on iron and steel pro
ducts were approved by the confer
ence committee, making the rates
considerably lower on the average
than those Of the original house bill
The tariff on automobiles, fixed by
the house at As per cent and radical
" cut by the senate, was finally com
promised by making new classified
tion for automobiles valued below
$4,000, for which rate Of 80 pei
cent was fixed.
The more important changes agreed
to by the conference covered the
schedule Of agricultural products anC