Perth Amboy evening news., 1913-04-07
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IN SCHEDULES
New Tariff Bill is Presented
to Congress Today -
Extra Session.
ENDORSED Bi PRESIDENT
Free List is Greatly Enlarg-
ed and All Rates Are
Down.
ENDORSED Bf PRESIDENT
Special by United Press Wire.

special bY United Press Wire.
Washington, April More radi-
cally sweeping cuts than attempted
in any tariff revision in a generation
are contained in the long-expected
democratic tariff bill, prepared by
the House ways and means commit
tee, and introduced in Congress to-
day. The bill is to be made an ad-
ministrative measure and has the. ap-
proval of President Wilson as it
stands.
Representative Underwood, of AL
ALBANIA, chairman of the House ways
and means committee, whose name
the measure will bear, assert that it
will greatly reduce the cost of liv-
ing. 1t gives free raw wool, cuts
the tariff on sugar, and provides that
this product shall go on the free lisa
at the end of three years; places
steel rails on the free list and
slashes all existing duties on iron
and steel products and either abol-
ishes or reduces to minimum the
duties on meats, flour, bread and
other market basket necessities.
Raw wool free in the bill is follow.
ed by sweeping reductions In yarns,
blankets, flannels, dress goods,
clothing and carpets. The commit
tee, to simplify the bill, practically
abolished the specific compound
rates of the Payne-Aldrich law, and
substituted the ad valorem plan. To
make up the deficits that will result
in the national revenues the COM
mittee included in the bill the long
promised income tax measure, which
levied taxes of l per cent annually
on all incomes in excess of $4,000,
with graded surtax upon incCg es in
excess of 100000. This Is expected
to increase the revenue about $780,
100000. There are heavy reductions
in the chemical schedule and medici-
nal preparations.
Rates on brick have been cut as
we'll upon tile and asphalt. Marked
reductions in eartheDware and all
glass, except white plate glass, are
included.
No change is made In the tobacco
and spirits act, but there is sweep
ing revision on agricultural products.
The duty on horses is from twenty
FIVE to ten per cent; cattle from
twenty-five to ten per cent; fruit
from twenty-seyep to fifteen per
cent; lemons from sixty-eight TO
twenty-four per cent; live poultry
from thirteen to six per cent; and
vinegar from thirty-three to seven
teen per cent Cotton clothing is re-
duced from fifty TO thirty per cent;
stockings from seventy-five to fifty
per cent; gloves from eighty-nine to
thirty-tive per cent; linen rates are
also law, raw hemp being reduced
from $22 to $11.22 per ton, affect
ing oilcloths and handkerchiefs.
On silk and silk goods the rate cut
has been small, averaging from
about twelve to fifteen per cent. 1t
is on the necessities of life that the
cuts have been made most sweeping
Among the articles on which there
are reductions are common soaps
from twenty to five per cent; china
not decorated. fifty-tive to thirty-five
per cent; bicycles, knives, boards,
planks, from seven per cent. to the
free list. Furniture from thirty-five
10 fifteen per cent; cotton cloth from
forty to six per cent; cotton work
gloves from eighty-nine to thirty-fve
per cent; collars and cuffs from
about fifty to thirty per cent; fan
nels from ninety-three to thirty per
cent: women's and children's dress
goods from nearly 100 to thirty-fve
per cent. Harness and saddlery
leather, leather working gloves and
lead pencils are relieevd of fifty per
cent. duty and placed on the free list.