Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-06-21

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foreign countries to DE admitted into
stricken out of the bilk Only cigars
aud tobacco prodeets, exclusively OF
| Philippines tobacco, to be admitted
| free Of duty into the United States. =
OF the amendment to the liquor
schedule he statement said:
AN additional section is added re-
pealing so much of the act approved
October |, 1890, and acts amendatory
thereto SO far as they relate to the
use free of tax of spirits for the ferti-
fication of sweet wines and providing
that hereafter all wine spirits, grape
brandy and alcohol shall be subject
10 the same tax as in other cases
1t is estimated that this tax will re
suit III an increase of revenues of APP
proXimately seven millions Of dollars
per annum."
The Senate finance committee fol-
lowed the House and treated the cot
ton yarn as the House bill treated cot
ton CLOTH the statement continued.
by adding a duty of ~ per cent. up
on cotton cloth when combed, bleach
ed, dyed, mercerized or colored. This
senate committee made in the House
cotton schedule. The Senate commit
tee reduced the tariff on cotton laps
roping, silver ore rowing from 10 per
cent. to ) per cent. and it substituted
the term woven figured for jacquard
figured, where used in the BILL
Washington, June 20.-Here follow
i, h.
Senate finance committee in the rates
eff the House tariff bill and presented
today to the Democratic Senate eau
Gus
Added to the free list-Alizarin; sin
gle jute yarns: schoolbooks. cement.
eresote Gil, anthraeene and anthrecens
oil, GLACIERS and engrayers diamonds.
not cut, miners diamonds and dia-
mond dust, crude artificial abrasives.
fax, hemp, flax and hemp tow, ambre
gum valued at not more than %
cents pound, indigo colors, pig iron.
wrought and scrap iron, ferro man
sanese 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, asphalt
tum, limestone rock asphalt, needles
for shoe machines, photograph films
and moving picture films: cyanide of
potash; steel ingets, etc. mot con-
tanning alloy, cattle. sheep and all
other domestic live animals suitable
for human food. wool of the anGora
goat and alpaca, paintings. etehings.
sculptures. etc, of professional
character"
Wheat, 10 cents per bushel in the
Underwood bill was added to the free
list, but the Senate committee re-
tanned a retaliatory provision for "a
duty of 10 cents a bushel on wheat.
A. cents barrel on flour and 10 per
cent. ad valoram on other wheat
products when imported from a
country that imposes a duty on Am
erican wheat or wheat products.
A retaliatory duty of 10 per cent.
upon potatoes imported from couh-
tries imposing duties against the Unit
ed states also was inserted. Potatoes
were unreservedly on the free list III
the Underwood bill.
Other principal changes were as fol-
lows, the new Senate rate epins
stated first in each instance:
Agricultural products-Oats, cents
q bushel; house 10 cents; oatmeal ana
rolled oats, ;ii3 cents per hundred
rounds and oat feed cents per nun
dred: house. free list; cheese, 212 cents
per pound; house, 20 per cent; butter
and butter substitutes, 212 cents pei
pound: house, cents; oeets, ) pei
cent: house, 10 per cent; eggs irozef
or otherwise prepared, cents d
round: house 2h cents; frozen or IL
ouid egg albumep, l cent per pound;
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