Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1913-10-09
WORK DONE IN CONFERENCE
Alterations That Were Made From the
Original Underwood Bill Passed
by House.

"A bullLudlJ " Liz d6lCVlllCA4t ~
formally announced from day to day
during the conference work shows in
comprehensive manner the following
important alterations Of the original
Underwood bill:
The tax rate on incomes of more
than $4,000 was increased by a grad
uated scale from three per cent. to
seven per cent. and the exemption re-
duced> from $4,000 to $4,000 for single
persons. The new provision allowing
a $4,000 exemption for a married per-
son provides that only one deduction
Of $4,000 shall be made from the ag-
gregate income Of both husband and
wife when living together"
Articles added to the free list in
clude pig iron, ferro manganese ore
cheap grades of iron; cattle and other
food animals; wheat, -four, flax, hemp,
sugar refining machinery, school text
books, sand blast machinery, indigo
dyes, moving picture films, cement
and asphalt.
Some Increases Made.
Increases from the house bill in
clude:
Angora wool and articles made
from it.
Silk ribbons and narrow fabrics
from 40 to As per cent.
Lithographic views of American
scenes.
Surface coated paper suitable for
covering boxes, from So to 40 per
cent.
Many kinds of acids.
Some kinds of paints.
A new classification for wooden
stockings, gloves and mittens makes
a reduction from the house rate on
those valued at less than $1,30 a dozen
and an increase on those above.
Reductions from the house rates in
cludes:
Common paper b%oxboards.
Papers used for Photographic prints
Wearing apparel made of cattle or
goat skins.
Fur hats.
Rough forms Of dog and goat skins.
Camel's hair press cloth for use in
cotton oil mills.
Cotton stockings and half hose.
Perfumed and medicated soaps.
Crude chicle.
Linseed oil.
Chlorate of potash
High-power lenses, surveying instru-
ments, telescopes and the like.
Oats.
Butter.
Beets and other vegetables.
Extracts Of meat.
C%urrants.
Chocolate.
House Rates Changed.
Through a Reconsideration rates will
be slightly reduced from those fixed
by the house on fancy grades of cot
ton cloth.
The tariff on automobiles, fixed by
the house at As per cent. and radical
ly cut by the senate, was compro-
missed by making a new classification
of automobiles valued at less than
$4,000, for which a rate of 30 per cent
was fixed.
The S per cent. rebate in tariff
made by the house bill On goods
brought in American ships was re
tanned with the added provision that
1t should not BE SO construed as to
~abrogate or In any manner impair OF
affect the provisions of any treaty
the United States has.
That portion Of the house bill re
quiring foreign manufacturers or ex
porters to submit their books to Amer
lean custom agents was amended SC
that IL the exporter refused to allow
such examination an additional duty
Of Is per, cent. ad valorem can be i'm
posed on his exports.
Section 5 Of the Cuban reciprocity
treaty, which provides that Cubs
should have a preferential rate of q
per cent. on sugar and that the gen
eral tariff of the United States should
not be reduced below the figures O
the Dingley tariff law Of 1897. is re
pealed.