The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1913-04-17
CONGRESSMAN Underwood Ex-
plains What 1t Means to
the Country.
REDUCE REVENUE $50, 600, 600
Places Raw Wool on the Free List,
and Heavily Reduces the Sugar
Duty-Raises Rates on Sew
eral Items.

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Of duty OF ell necessaries of life, an
increase OF tariff on many luxuries,
and a 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 1918,
the bill proposing an immediate % per
cent. reduction and the removal OF the
remaining duty in 1916.
Raw wool would be made free at
once, with a corresponding heavy re-
duction in the tariff on all wooden
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,
saddlery, iron ore, milk and cream, po-
tatoes, salt, swine, corn, cornmeal,
cotton bagging, agricultural imple-
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,
cl~apboards, hubs for wheels, posts,
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 / cent to 2 cents per
pound.
The new rates are estimated to re-
duce the customs revenue approx
mately $500 600, 900 a 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 a margin.
Heaviest reductions fall upon food
stuffs, agricultural products, wooden
and cotton clothing.
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 21.43 per
cent, glue from 1906 per cent. to
1929 per cent. and red lead from 60.35
per cent to 25 per cent. Moderate re-
auctions have been made on medicinal
preparations, which are cut from 25
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 30.23 per cent.
to 1928 per cent, tile from 47.S4 per
cent. to 1885 per cent, asphalt from
SIZES 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 46.3S per cent. to 1881 per cent.
Plate glass, which may be considered
m l,v,,ry ctiIl rata;pc n dufv ~ naarIu
40 per cent, the average being 3S.45
per cent, in place of the duty Of $685.
per cent. In the law.
Pig Iron and Forsings Hit.
pig iron and slabs, which were
1886 per cent. and 1873 per cent.
have been cut to 8 per cent. in each
/ case; beams, from 1920 per cent. to IL
per cent, and forgings from 30 per
cent. to Is per cent. On the other
hand, bicycles, a much more highly
manufactured product, are dutiable at
Is per cent. as against As per cent,
and razors at 35 per cent. as against
71.68 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 been
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
1915 per cent. in 1912, are now 10 per
cent; casks, barrels. etc.. which were
80 per cent. are now 14.77 per cent,
and house furniture, which was 35 per
cent, Ia o Is per cent.
Tobacco and spirits have been
found to be good producers Of revenue
and have. therefore. been left at tbs
same rates as n the present law.
Would Reduce Cost Of Living.
In the effort to relieve the consum-
es and TO mitigate the high and rising
cost of living. schedule G, which deals
with agricultural products. has been
thoroughly revised and important re-
auctions have bean made. For In
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