The Ronan pioneer. [volume] (Ronan, Mont.) 1910-1970, 1913-04-04
WILSON APPROVES LOWEST
TARIFFS SINCE CIVIL WAR

I0IIIu y OUVO6 OJUI6 VIII
Following three hours conference
at the White House with Chairman
Underwood of the ways and mean:
committee, President Wilson, Marcel
"a, put his 0. x. on the tariff bill pre-
pared by the Democrats and promised
to fight for its passage.
The President and the majority lead
err went over the principal features OF
the bill Mr.. Wilson did not pretenc
to have any detailed knowledge of the
construction of a tariff bill, but Mr..
Underwood explained to him that the
bill was written from beginning to end
on the Democratic theory of tariff for
revenue only.
AS presented to the President, the
bill is the lowest tariff bill that has
been written since the Walker bill was
passed in the period just previous to
the Civil war. The free list has been
enlarged until itincludes virtually every
product manufactured by so-calJed COM
binations and trusts.
WOOL RATE REDUCED.
The rate on wool has been reduced to
10 cents and sugar remains on the free
list. Cash registers, steel rails and
manufacturers of aluminium wares of
all sorts have been placed on the free
list
Lumber boots and shoes and cloth
ing OF various sorts also have been put
on the free list All those natural re-
sources, such as iron ore, that are com
ponents of the products of so-called
trusts, have been ,,laced on the free
list
Watches and other classes of goods
have been placed on the free list
Scores of articles that are now protect
ed to such an extent that the Demo-
Gratis say they are not subject to for
eign competition have been placed on
the free list,
The radical members of the commit
tee have carried the vote on every
vital question that has been passed by
the committee. Mr.. Underwood told
the President that the great fight to be
made in the House would be to protect
the low tariff cuts
LEMONS ON FREE LIST.
Lemons and other citrus fruits, along
with many other food stuffs, will enter
free of duty hereafter.
Wherever the committee found that
an article of general use or consump-
ton was not subjected to foreign COM
petition the duty WAS cut to a normal
figure, so as to invite competition and
at the Same time to benefit from the
revenues received therefrom.
Although hundreds of articles have
been subjected to sweeping cuts, the
Democrats say the long heralded trea-
sury deficit will not materialize. The
has completed all but the
features of the income
tax bill, which. it asserts, will meet
the treasury deficit.
INCOME TAX TO RAISE $50, 900, 900.
The income tax bill is based upon the
same calculations as those Incorporated
in the excise tax bin which was passed
last year. The bill will raise $50, OOU,-
200 by taxing all incomes of more than
s., 600 at the rate of | per cent.
The Democrats expect the bill to do
more toward restoring competition
than all the suits brought by the De-
partment of Justice which resulted in
the dissolution of trusts.
The attempts made by some mem
oers of the committee to take from the
free list some of the articles placed in
the free list as passed last year failed.
Every article on the free list as passed
last year remains on the bill to be pre-
sented to the House.
The same is true of the metal sched-
ule passed last year. Several mem
bers of the committee sought to have
some of the rates in this bill raised.
They failed. Those articles which were
not left at the rates made last year
were placed on the free list. There
were no increases.