Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1913-04-10
RAISES TARIFF
upon L.UXUR|ES
New Bill Places Many Necessi-
ties on Free List.
TAXES INCOMES ABOVE $4,000
Duties Are Entirely Removed Fror
Numerous Articles Of Food and
Clothing.

Washington, April S.--Removal Of
all tariffs from many articles of food
and clothing: broad reductions in the
rates of duty on all necessities of life;
an increase Of tariff on many Injuries
and a new income tax that would
touch the pocket Of every American
citizen whose net income exceeds $4.-
600, are the striking features of the
new Democratic tariff revision bill,
just presented to the house.
Sugar would be free of duty in
1916, the bill proposing an immediate
25 per cent reduction and the removal
Of the remaining duty in 1916.
Raw wool would be made free at
once, with a correspondingly heavy
reduction in the tariff on all wooden
goods. The following articles are put
on the free list:
Meat, -four, bread, boots and shoes,
lumber, coal, harness, saddlery, iron
ore, milk and cream, potatoes, salt,
swine corn, cornmeal, cotton bagging,
agricultural implements. leather, wood
pulp, Bibles, printing paper, not worth
more than 2h cents per pound, type
writer's, sewing machines, type-setting
machines, cash registers, steel rails,
fence wire, cotton ties, nails, hoop
and band iron, fish, sulphur, soda, tan
ming materials, lumber products, in
Guiding broom handles, clapboards,
hubs for wheels, posts, laths, slaves,
shingles.
These principal items are taken
from the free list and taxed:
Rough and uncut diamonds and pre-
cious stones, furs, coal tar products,
10 per cent; volatile oils, 20 per cent;
spices, from / cen to 2 cents per
pound.
Reduces Revenue $50, 900, 900.
The e rates are estimated to re-
duce the customs revenue approx
mately $50, 600, 200 a year. This is ex-
pected to be made up by the income
tax. Heaviest reductions fall upon
food products, wooden and cotton cloth
ing.
The free wool proposal, backed by
President Wilson and accepted by the
house committee, is expected to pro-
woke a severes fight within the Demo-
cratic ranks of both houses. 1t has
NJ become clear whether the Demo-
cratic opponents of free wool and free
sugar in the senate will be able to
force a compromise on n or both
those provisions.
The decision to make a gradual re-
ductiOn in the sugar tariff was reached
by the president and the house com
mittee after Louisiana cane growers
declined to accept a compromise that
would have established a 1-cent per
pound tariff for three years, with free
sugar in 1916.
The income tax, which will transfer
indirect tax levies through the tariff
into a direct tax upon the incomes of
individual citizens and corporations,
exempts all sums below $4,000.
Incomes in excess of hat amount
will pay l per cent tax up to $4,000;
2 per cent from $4,000 to $4,000; 8
per cent from $4,000 to 500, 900 and
4 per cent above that figure.
The present corporation tax. levying
l per cent on corporation incomes
above $1,000, would be retained as
part of the income tax.
To encourage trade with foreign
countries the bill would reverse the
maximum and minimum provision of
the present tariff law. The new tariff
rates would be the maximum tariff,
and the president would be given au-
thority to negotiate reciprocity trea-
ties and make concessions to coun-
tries that grant favors to American
exports.