Clearwater Republican. [volume] (Orofino, Idaho) 1912-1922, 1913-09-12
TAR|FFB|LLASPASSED
FREE LIST ADDS $44,ooo,ooo COST,
BUT SENATE LEADERS SAY
REVENUES WILL OFFSET.
HAVE FREE SUGAR N YEAR 1916
Ad Vaiorem Rate Shows Big Cut on
Existing Tax-Many Changes
Made-Large Number Added
to Free List.

Made-Larse Number Added
to Free List.
Washington.-The tariff bill as it
passed the senate retained the princi-
pal house provisions, including free
sugar and free raw wool. but revised
other rates still further downward.
The average ad valorem rate in the
bill now IL approximately rs per cent,
decrease Of % per cent from exist
ing rates and 4 per cent lower than
the rates Of the house bill.
The Senate's additions to the house
free list, with 1912 as q basis, will cost
the government more than $4,000, 900,
but by adding tax OF one-tenth of one
cent pound on cotton sold for future
delivery, a tax Of one-tenth OF one cent
q pound on bananas, requiring a full
internal revenue tax of $1.10 a gallon
on brandies used to fortify wines and
by increasing the surtax rates on large
incomes Senate leaders believe they
have provided an actual increase.
That is a point disputed by Majority
Leader Underwood Of the House.
Important chansss.
The Senate made these other impor-
tant changes: Lowered the normal
exemption from the one per cent in
come tax from $4,000 to $4,000 for sim
gle persons, with exemptions for wives
and dependent children; exempted the
incomes Of mutual life insurance COM
panies which revert to the benefit Of
stockholders; increased the graduated
surtax on large incomes to a maximum
Of per cent on those more than $780,
900; exempted incomes Of municipali-
ties derived from operation of public
utilities, and changed the date from
which the tax shall be computed for
the first year from January to March
/, 1913.
Free listed cattle and other live
stock, wheat, hair of the angora goat
and some other agricultural products;
restored oatmeal and rolled oats to the
dutiable list. and provided an elabo-
rate inspection of meat imports.
Reduced house rates on wooden man
ufactures to become effective January
1, 1914.
Provided in the sugar schedule for
immediate adjustment OF the duties
standard test; postponed operation OF
proposed reduced rates until March 1,
1914. leaving the provision unchanged
for free sugar in May, 1916.
Slightly increased rates on finer cot
ton goods, reclassifying the whole cot
ton schedule and changing the silk
schedule from an ad valorem to q spe-
cific basis.
Many Jobs Provided.
Provided for an administrative force
to handle income tax collections with
out regard to requirements Of the civil
service.
Struck out countervailing duty on
wood pulp.
Greatly reduced rates Of the metal
schedule.
Struck out many reform provisions
in administrative section; rejected the
anti-dumping clause; the per cent re-
duction on imports In American YES
sells and their requirement for inspec-
ton of books OF foreign manufacturers
in differentiation cases, but added
provision giving the president author
ity to retaliate against matt ms which
discriminate ageinst American goods
by proclaiming increased rates on GER
tain goods: adopted a provision exclud-
ing goods manufactured chiefly by
child labor and provided for the crea-
ton of a commission to revise the Gus
toms laws.
Additions to Free List.
Important additions to the free list
included:
Anthony ore, limestone. asphalt,
asphaltum and bitumen, fabrics of jute
yarns, blankets valued at less than 40
cents q pound, text books, sugar ma
chinery, cast iron pipe, surgical cat
gut, cement, creosote oil, denatured al
cohol, flax and hemp, fur and fur
skins, gunpowder, pig iron, spiegele-
sen, ferro-manganese, wrought iron
slabs and blooms, Photographic NOV
ing picture films, steel ingots, blooms
and slabs, cattle and other live stock,
wheat, angora goats and alpaca wool,
paper twine for binding wool.
Rain at Last.
Heavy rain, which fell over q large