The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1913-04-10
NEcEssARlES OF LIFE MADE
FREE OF DUTY OR CUT
SHARPLY.
CLOTHING DOWN 43 PER CENT
Celebrated Schedule X" Is Torn to
Pieces and Rates on Both Wooden
and Cotton Materials Greatly
Reduced-Sugar Low.

Washington, d. C.-More radical.
iy sweeping cuts than have been at.
tempted in American tariff revision in
a generation are contained in the long.
expected Democratic tariff bill pre-
pared by the ways and means COM
mittec and introduced in the house.
Eight of the 10 Democratic mem.
beers OF the senate finance committee
urged President Wilson to ask the
house leaders to divide the bill so
that 1t could be considered schedule
by schedule in separate measures.
The president was told that this meth
cd would greatly expedite final nc.
ton on the tariff. and he agreed to
consider the subject carefully. The
bill is so framed that its division
would be easy.
To empower both houses OF con.
Eress by q majority vote to ratlfy
reciprocity and trade agreements with
foreign nations is the revolutionary
proposal OF the section substituted In
the Underwood bill for the present
maximum and minimum tariff law.
The provision would nulify the eX-
elusive senatorial privilege to ratify
such treaties by twothrds vote.
Free List lie Enlarged.
The free list is enlarged material.
ly. The following articles are added:
Alcohol, mothyl. or wood alcohol; am
Tnuia, antitoNins. charcoal, paris green,
radium salts, salts for medicinal pur-
poses, sulphur. tanning materials, bauN-
iic. crude, herrstones, freestoncs, gram
itc, sandstone, limestone, manufactured.
not suitable for building stone; iron orc,
including magniferouH iron ore and the
Oross rcsiduum from burnt pyrites; hoop
or band iron for baling, cut nails: horse
shoes, hob and GU wire nails, spikes,
horse and mule shOcN, lacks and brnds,
barb fencing. baling wire. steel rails.
tungsten bearing orc. cash registers, limo
type machines. typesetting machines.
sowing machines. tTpewritcrs, boards,
plnnks deals. other lumber broomhan-
dies, capboards, hubs, posts, heading
bolts stave bolts and all blocks or sticks.
rough hcwn. sawed or bored. laths, plSN-
Cts and palings: slaves. shingles. timber,
hcwn sided or squared round timber for
sIars or whurves: hams, bacon, veal,
ter fish not specially provided for; her
ring, dels and smets, fresh or frozen;
kinds, prepared and preserved lard. tai
low milk. cream bread biscuits, waters
etc; buckwhoat -four, broom corn, corn
or maize; cornmeal and rolled oats. oat
salt. swine, soya beans. sugar or milk
bagging for cotton, fax straw, raw wool
press cloth for milling purposes. wooler
IL VS. ground o unblcached al and bIeached
printing paper for books and newspaper
valued at not more than 2h cents pei
mound; Bibles. bone meal bran, screen
ings. coal. bltumnous and shale: coke
compositions used for fuel; slack or cuu
coal, cork. waste, etc; gloves made o
ic GIEeT agrlesitnral Implements; ieath
er, including shoe laces.
Free Articles Are Taxed.
The following articles at present oI
the free list are made dutiable: Tea
impure, waste siftiags, etc. vanilla
beans. llcorice roots. eocoanuts and COCO;
meats. palm nuts and palm-nut kernels
cinnamon, cloves. ginger root, mace
rough or uncut: diamonds. miners natur
al or broken; glaciers, not set or diamon
dust; other precioua stones, rough an
uncut: furs and fursklns not dressed Is
DRY tusks In natural state and vegctabl
ivory In natural state.
Neeessaries OF Life Cut.
II f. on the necess1ries Of life that IN
reductions are most sweeping. Article
which show the cut include:
Medical preparations; common soal
from 20 to per cent; china not dec
GRATED, from S. to 50 per cent,
bicycles, pocket Knives, IhLDiS, Srlf
Eors. knives and forks; boards. plank
deals, plancd, ETC.. are cut from abot
per cent 10 free list.
tAapbOards. laths, shingles. are all q
tho free list from rates as high MS
Furniture Is cut from IS to rs y,
cent, swine FROM $3.50 per head to fire.
Era Bran. G bread and ID biscuit. not swcc
cncd: buckwheat flour. macaroni, ric
cleaned wheat and rye flour. from % r'
Eggs. stocks of fruit trees and rs
from TO ~ per cent In present law
free list; meats not specifically provide
FOR, now from : to % per cent. put
above 40 to 1859 per cent; cotton clotl
Ing from so to 90 Pc cent
Hosiery Is cut from 10 tO 80 per cen
mems cotton working gloves from 50
35 per cent: knit shirts and underwe
from. GO to rs per cent; bagging for co
ton from about Is per cent e free 90 II,
cent: blankets from 13 to 25 per Ger
flannel from % to from 20 TO 30 y
cent.
Clothing Is Cut ~ Per Cent.
Ready made clothing is cut from 10.
children's dress goods from nearly
per cent to SO: sewing silk from 25
II per cent; printing paper not valu
brooms, matches, boots and shoes frc
average II per cent TO Tree,
Harness and saddlnry Of leather
other materials. India rubber, lead pc
ellis. leather working gloves from so I
cent, all are nut on the free list.
Even luxuries feel In slight mcasl
the pruning knife OF downward re-
SION Thirty articles are given sligh
lower duties. half n dozen are increns
NOTABLY perfumery, gold and silver ma
ufnctures, not specifically provided Z
and ivory tusks. kmbergrls and altar
rnscs free in the Payne bill, arc assess
% Der cent. 5o;.:c 81 the Items sllgh
reduced are perfumed toilet soap. chi
porcelain etc, painted and decorate
glass and marble manufactures. far
cakes game. excepi birds. Nottlngh
lace window curtains. oriental rugs, bar
EerchIefs. trimmed bets, tewelry, Ia
and embroiderlcs snd gloves.
Schedule X Torn to Pieces.
The bill provides for free raw we
md tears TO pieces the notorious Sch
ulo X: cuts the tariff on sugar and p
vldes that this product shall go on
free list at the end OF three years; re
i,,tionizes the cotton schedule by C
that ARE expected to reduce the price
lhat necessary product: puts steel r.
or ,he free list ana sashcs all exist
duties on iron AMI steel products, and
the market basket necessities az lif
meats. -four bread. etc,--either aboiis
the duty or reduces II To- an absolute ~
.imum.
between the necessities ana the iuxu