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about 81 per cent. The average under
the present law is about 81 per cent.
Many Changes Considered.

Many Changes Considered.
The conference committee had to
deal with 676 paragraphs Oh which
there We're disagreementS. Some OF
these involved only the change Of
word or Il question OF punctuation. hut
a majority of them represented diff
ferences in rates and Il few were fun
damental
The house conferees also accepted
the senate amendment fixing dates
when the wool duties shall go into ef
feet, which was one Of the final STUN
bling blocks.
Raw wool will go on the free list on
Dec. l. and the reduced duties car
ried by the present bill will become ef-
fective OH Jan. l. The house bill pro-
posed to make the wool duties effective
Immediately on the bill being signed
by the president. The final action was
an important concession to the manu-
facturers.
The senate won over the house also
on controverted paragraphs in the
schedule relating to cotton cloths and
yarns. By this agreement slightly
higher duties are given to certain
coarser grades Of cotton cloths and
yarns by changing the classification.
Fur hats and frames. forms and 9TH
er parts for the manufacture of such
hats received rate of As per cent.
This matter affects the hat industry in
Connecticut. The house fixed the rate
at 40 per cent. the senate made. it As.
The silk schedule also was reopened,
and the rate on silk partially manufac-
tured from coceons or wastes, not fur
ther advanced in manufacture than
carded or combed silk, and silk noils.
was reduced from 80 to 20 cents per
pound
The Metal Schedule.
Probably no single industry covered
by the tariff bill suffered such reduc-
tions in duties as did the iron and steel
industry. The house cut duties un-
sparingly. and then the senate follow
ed by making still further reductions
and increasing the free list.
| The house. for example. placed 4
duty Of 3 pc cent on pig iron. spiegel-
sen. scrap iron and scrap steel and
like products and made ferro-ma ganese
dutiable ut Is per cent. The senate
free listed both of them. aud the con-
ference committee after considerable
deadlock yielded to the senate.
| The senate also free listed slabs.
blooms, loops and other products OF
iron more advanced than pig iron,
which the house had made dutiabie at
& per cent. The conference agreed to
this. The senate cut the duty on round
iron or steel wire from 20 per cent in
the house bill to Is per cent, and the
conference accepted the senate reduc-
ton.
Agricultural Schedule.
The conference committee agreed to
the senate amendment, which struck
out the 10 per cent duty on cattle pro-
vided by the house bill and the 10 per
cent rate on sheep and transferring
both to the free list. The conference
! committee also put wheat on the free
list, where the senate had placed it.
by striking out Il duty of 10 cents q
bushel provided by the house bill.
The house won q victory in the duty
on lemons and other citrus fruit when
the conference committee restored the
classification based on the cubic feet
of the containers in which such prod.
ucts are imported, which results in 8
slight decrease of the duty. .
The senate also lost in the struggle
over a proposed duty on bananas when
the conference committee struck Out
the senate rate and restored bananas
to the free list of the house bill.