The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-06-20
Many Reductions and Additions to the
Free List Have Been Made by
tho Senate Finance
Committee.
DOWN NEAR FREE TRADE
Cotton and SILK Schedules Were Par
tlcularIy Affected by the Cuts
In Duties as Roc
ommended.

UNITED Press Leased Wire Service
WASHINGTON, June 2o.-Many re.
ductions in duties and additions to
the free lists were charges In the
house draft Of the tariff bill shown to-
day by the senate finance committee
The measure was presented to the
democratic caucus Of members Of the
upper house. The cotton and silk
schedules were particularly affected
by cuts In duties. Additions to the
free list were: Beet and cane sugar
machinery; all school text books;
cement, all kinds; creosote oil; glaz.
| itrs and engraver's diamonds, not cut;
miners diamonds and diamond dust;
sackled and unsackled flax. hemp
tow and hacked hemp; pig iron.
wrought and scrap iron; ferro man
ganese: feathers of practically all
kinds used in shoe manufacture, un-
finished morocco leather; asphalt and
bitume machinery, moving pict
films: steel ingots and billets made of
the Bessemer or Siemens Martin
processes and not containing alloy; all
cattle, sheep and domestic live ami
'Imals suitable for human food; wheat
land flour and semolya Whereas
4 wheat products are imported from q
country which Imposes duty on the
. same commodities imported from the
\ United States the senate draft pro
vides duty Of ten cents per hushe
on wheat; forty-fye cents per barre
! of 1876 pounds on wheat flour and {
ten per cent ad valorem duty on al
other wheat products.
The free art works paragraph was
amended by the senate SO that 1t in
cludes only those art works proven
over fifty years old. The duty or
mica was cut from a specific ad val
orem duty to graduated one. 1ts
:. effect for the present will be the same
Cotton thread and carded yarns OF al
sorts were slightly reduced and tht
distinction between the various va
rieties with varying duties more
clearly drawn. Cotton cloth unbleach
Vi ed and unstained was slightly cut II
/ all paragraphs and paragraph which
t gives the secretary of treasury th'
lpower to determine the number o
yarn used in the fabric inserted
Handkerchiefs or mufflers of cottol
rnhemmed, were reduced from 80 tt
i25 per cent ad valorem. Cotton cloth
ing remained at thirty per cent, but
provision including all clothing mad
Of vegetable or India rubber, of whicl
cotton or vegetable fibre Is the com
ponent material OF chief value, wa
inserted. In tapestries, Madras, mus
lin and woven upholsters' goods, TIL
Same provision as In cotton clothin
was adhered to. The, duty of 35 pc
cent ad valorem was unchanged. Thi
same provision was also inserted i
the paragraph covering towels, quilts
! sheets and pillow cases, which in bot
= bills is assessed at 25 per cent a
0 valorem duty. Stockings, valued 9
8 not more than seventy cents per do;
Il en-. were cut from forty to thirty pc
|, cent. All bands, belts, ribbons an
/ weddings of flax and hemp and RANT
r are cut from so to 40 per cent. Thi
g same course was pursued in the a
e agraph covering flax and hemp wea,
ing apparel. In the wool schedul
y cloth knit fabric and all woolen good
= of every sort were considerably Gu
. Hosiery, worth not more than sevent
. cents per dozen was cut to thirt
~ per cent.
r1.- 1.t. I.n4z.
q fihe piaiikees anu hammers were e,
! from 35 per cent to 25. In the sill
. schedule partly manufactured silk NJ
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