The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1913-04-12
new TARIFF BILL
Wool and Other NecessaTies
Of Life Enter Free.
RECIPROCITY IS ENCOURAGED

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Cuba - Arrangement for Easy
Change Of Rates incorporated.
Bills providing for reductions in all
schedfts OF the tariff law except the
tobacco ana spirits schedules and an
income tax 10 make up the vast de.
ficiency to be caused BY the tariff cuts
were introduced in the house by
Chairman Underwood OF ,he house
ways and means committee.
Several articles OF food and cloth.
ing, classed as necessaries OF life and
affecting the high cost of living, are
placed on the free list or greatly re-
duced In duties. The income tax bill
provides for levy on all incomes or
$4,000 year or over.
Many important changes are made
in the administrative features OF the
tariff law and in place OF the maxi
mum ana minimum section of the
Payne act, which empowered the
president 10 invoke higher duties
against any nation which discrimin-
ated against the United States, there
is q provision giving the chief ex-
ecutive free hand 20 negotiate recip-
rocity treaties with foreign nations.
The trade treaty with Cuba is re-
tanned and provision is made for alb
solute free trade with the Philippines.
There will be hereafter according TO
the terms OF the Underwood bill no
restriction on the amount OF rice. to-
bacco and sugar that could be import
ed free from the islands
Provision for Easy Change.
AS an assurance against any duties
IN the bill being ultra-protective, IL is
provided that the president shall
cause to be ascertained each year the
amount of imports and exports OF all
articles, with an estimate OF the
amount OF domestic consumption and
production and where IL is ascertained
the imports amount TO less than per
cent or the domestic consumption he
shall Immediately notify congress in
a special message or his facts and
'NuStuSloho bcaiihb Oh inc hattct.
This provision, according 20 the
committee, is TO maintain the tariff
on Competitive" basis.
The bills will take effect the day
after the president signs them. The
main features OF the bill are:
Drastic reductions in the chemical
and earthenware schedules.
Window glasses are reduced from
4e 10 % per cent on the average.
Duties on pig iron. structural steel
and forgings cut in half Bicycles
reduced from IS to 25 per cent. The
duty on razors is more than cut In
half.
Steel rails 90 on the free list.
Nearly all kinds or rough lumber
nut on the free list and heavy reduc-
lions In the finished products.
Sugar Free In Three Years.
Twenty-Five per cent reduction In
the duty on sugar, with the proviso
that in there years Il shall be placed
on the free list.
Tobacco and liquor schedules un-
changed.
Agricultural products cut in half,
including a reduction on the tariff on
lemons from 6S to "a per cent.
Duties on all articles OF clothing in
the cotton schedule reduced little
over one-half.
Raw FAX and raw hemp. reduced
about one-half
Raw wool placed on free list with
the retention OF only one-third OF the
present duties on most of the wooden
manufactured articles in common
use.
Moderate reduction in the silk
schedule, with removal OF concealed
protection"
Print paper and Bibles placed on
the free list.
A slight reducs.Su In jewelry, with
rosgh diamonds transferred from the
free list TO the dutiable list. with
duty Of 10 per cent ad valorem.
Articles on Free Lat.
Among the articles placed on the
free list are: Wood, alcohol, char
coal. phosphorus, radium salts, sodas.
sulphur, tanning materials, iron ore.
band iron for balIng cotton. nails, barb
wire. wire for fencins. steel rails,
Tungsten bearing ore. cash registers,
linotype machines, typesetting ma
chimes, sewing machines, typewriters,
lumber, boards, wagon material, laths
plckets, shingles, hewn and round
Ambers. bacon and hams. beef, veal
muttos. pork. fresh water FISH. other
fish of number Of varieties. meats
OF all kinds. lard. tallow. dairy prod
ucts. breadstuffs. including bread,
buckwheat -four, broom corn. maize,
corn, cornmeal. oatmeal, wheat -four.
potatoes, salt. swine, sugar OF mix.
bagging for cotton, fax straw, raw
wool, press cloth for oil milling pur-
poses, wooden rags, woodruff. print