The Caldwell watchman. (Columbia, La.) 1885-1946, 1913-04-18
PROVISIONS Of TIE
NEW TARIFF BILL
Congressman Underwood Ex'
plains What 1t Means to
the Country.
REDUCE REVENUE. $50, 000,O 900
Places Raw Wool on the Free List,
and Heavily Reduces the Sugar
Duty-Ralses Rates on Sew
eral Items.

Washington, d. C.-Removal OF all
tariff from many articles of food and
clothing, broad reductions In the rates
OF duty on all necessaries OF life, an
increase Of tariff on many luxuries,
and new income tax that would touch
the pocket Of every American citizen
whose net income exceeds $4,000 are
the striking features of the new Dem
ocratic tariff revision bill.
Sugar would be free Of duty in 1916,
the bill proposing an immediate rs per
cent. reduction and the removal of the
remaining duty in 1916.
Raw wool would be made free at
once, with corresponding heavy re-
duction in the tariff on all woolen
goods.
Placed on the Free List.
Other articles are put on the free
list as follows: Meats, -four, bread,
boots and shoes, lumber, coal, harness,
saddIery, iron ore, milk and cream, po-
tatoes, salt, swine, corn. cornmeal,
cotton bagging, agricultural nipple.
ments, leather, wood pulp, Bibles,
printing paper not worth more than
~ cents a pound, typewriters, sewing
machines, typesetting machines, cash
registers, steel rails. fence wire, cot
ton ties, nails, hoop and band iron,
fish, sulphur, soda, tanning materials,
acetic and sulphuric acids, borax. lum-
Der products, including broom handles,
clapboards, hubs for wheels, pests,
laths, pickets, slaves, shingles.
These principal items are taken
from the free list and taxed: Rough
and uncut diamonds and precious
stones. furs, coal tar products, 10 per
cent; volatile oils, 20 per cent;
spices, from l cent to cents per
pound.
The new rates are estimated to re-
duce the customs revenue approx
mately sS0,0O0,0 900 year. This Is ex-
pected to be made up by the income
tax.
Protection to the farmer would be
cut throughout by more than so per
cent In an effort to reduce the cost
of food. Protection to the steel and
implement manufacturer would in
turn be cut by fully as wide margin.
Heaviest reductions fall upon food
stuffs. agricultural products, wooden
and cotton clothing.
j Duty Cuts In Detail.
Chairman Underwood's statement
giving the changes in detail continues
as follows:
I'm the chemical schedule the rates
on certain commodities show heavy
reductions. For instance, boracic acid
is cut from 1870 per cent. to 2143 per
cent. glue from 5000 per cent. to
1923 per cent and red lead from 60.35
per cent. to Is per cent. Moderate re-
auctions have been made on medicinal
preparations, which are cut from Is
per cent to IS per cent, backing from
rs per cent. to Is per cent, drugs
from 1856 per cent to 10 per cent,
and olive oil from 1918 per cent. to
21.05 per cent. The schedule contains
a number of articles on which either
no reduction has been made or an ad-
vance provided for.
Rates on all brick have been cut
on the average from 1923 per cent.
to 1928 per cent, tile from 47.S4 per
cent. to 1886 per cent, asphalt from
3705 per cent to 9.62 per cent. Or
binary earthenware, which was al.
ready relatively low, being subject
to an average duty of 24.67 per cent,
has now been cut to Is per cent,
while window glass has been given an
average reduction on all glasses OF
from 1888 per cent. to 1881 per cent
Plate glass, which may be considered
luxury, still retains duty Of nearly
40 per cent, the average being 3S.4s
per cent, in place Of the duty of $685.
per cent. In the law.
El3 tSIs oud y VI SiH3e TIT
pig iron and slabs, which were
1886 per cent. and 1873 per cent.
have been cut to per cent. in each
case; beams, from 1920 per cent. to l:
per cent, and forgings from 80 pei
cent. to Is per cent. On the Other
hand, bicycles, much more highly
manufactured product. are dutiable al
Is per cent. as against 45 per cent.
and razors at S5 per cent. as against
77.6S per cent.
The idea of the large extension Of
the free list for the manufactured
products has been the fundamental
conception, while the effort has beer
made to improve the status of the
manufactured lumber. Thus, sawed
boards, other than cabinet wood, have
been carried to the free list while
sawed cabinet woods, which were
1875 per cent In 1912, are now 10 pei
cent: casks, barrels, etc, which were
30 per cent, are now ATT per cent.
and house furniture, which was IS pei
cent, Is now Is per cent.
Tobacco and spirits have beer
found to be good producers of revenue
and have. therefore, been left at the
same rates as In the present law.
Mould Reduce Cost of Living.
"In the effort to relieve the consum
err and to mitigate the high and rising
cost OF living, scheduled, which deals
with agricultural products, has beer
thoroughly revised and important re