Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1913-06-21
Free List Is Materially Ex-
tended and Many Reduc-
tionS Madei Some Articles
Show Higher Duties,
CATTLE AND MEATS
GET NO PROTECTION
Wheat and Flour Come Under
CounteNaiIing Clause, As Is
True of Potatoes From For
eign Countries,

t.v posnIno Jousrsl SPECIAL Ltsesp wlsEi
Washington, June 20.-Important
reductions in the Underwood tariff
bin rates on iron, steel and other
metal products; the addition Of cat
tie. wheat, pig iron, angora wool ana
many other articles TO the free list
and an increase in rates on many
classes OF cotton goods and some silk
products. were the chief features of
the revised tariff bill. as il was laid
before the senate democrats today by
Chairman Simmons Of the finance
committee.
For two hours the important
changes were explained to democrats
and the bill was then made public.
EXPERTS of the committee at once be-
gan work on a comprehensive sum
mary Of the changes.
President Wilson's desires as to
free wool at once prevailed in the re-
draft Of the bill. In the general Level
of its rates, the Simmons bill repre-
sents a heavier cut from existing rates
Of the Payne Aldrich law than did the
bin as 1t passed the @a''~
The senate caucus auJourned early
and members spent the afternoon
working out private analysis of the
measure. The caucus win reconvene
tomorrow. Senate leaders believe the
bill will reach the senate itself late
next week.
Here follow the principal changes
made fv Tie senatc finance commits
tee in the rates of the house tariff
bin. and presented today to the dem
ocratic senate caucus Added to the
free list.
Alizarin. single jute yarn, school
books. cement, creos0te oil anthra-
Gene and anthracene oil, glaziers and
ongravers' diamonds. not cut, miners
diamonds and diamond dust, crude
artificial abrasives. flax hemp, flax
and hemp tow. ambregum, valued at
not more than so cents a pound; in
digo colors. pig iron, wrought and
scrap iron, ferro manganese and iron
in slabs. blooms. loops or other forms
less finished than iron bars, except
castings: leather, including patent
leather for shoes; harness ana sad
de feathers. asphaltum limestone,
rock asphalt. needles for shoe ma
chimes. Photographic films and NOV
ing picture films, cyanide Of potash,
steel ngots. etc, not containing alloy;
cattle. sheep ana all other domestic
animals suitable for food; wool
Of angora goat and alpaca, paintings,
etchings, sculptures, etc, Of pro-
fossional character. Wheat 10 cents
per bushel in the Underwood bill, was
added to the free list but the senate
committee retained a retaliation pro-
vision for a duty of 10 cents bushel
on wheat, As cents a barrel on flour
ana 10 per cent ad valorem on other
wheat products when imported from
a country that imposes a duty on
American wheat or wheat products.
retaliatory duty Of 10 per cent on
potatoes imported from countries inn
posing duties against the United States
also was inserted. Potatoes were un-
roservcdly on the free list in the I'm
dcrWood bill
other principal changes were as
follows the new senate rate being
stated first in each instance:
Agricultural Products = Oats,
cents a bushel; house. 10 cents; oat-
meal and rolled oats, S3 cents per
100 pounds and oat feed, 2 cents per
lOO house, free list cheese, 2 Y cents
per pound, house. 20 per cent; butter
and butter substitutes, 2a cents per
pound, house, cents; beets, per
cent, house, TO per cent; eggs, frozen
or otherwise prepared, cents a
pound, house, 2ih cents frozen or
liquid egg albumen, 1 cent per pound
house, free list; peas. green or dried
10 cents a bushels, mousse Is cents;
flax seed, lnseed and other oil SEEDS,
lS cents a bushel, house, 20 cents;
all other seeds, cents per pound.
house, 10 per cent ad valorem: zante
currants, l cent per pound house, 2
cents
Fish, except shell fish. 25 per cent
house, 20 per cent; lemons, lines, or
anges, grapefruit, shaddocks and po-
mel, u of 1 cent per pound, house
rates ranged from is to 20 cents per
Package, according to size; bananas,
cents per bunch. house, free list.
Sugar tariff provisions of the house
olll, placing sugar on the free list in
1916 were not changed.
Raw wool put on the free list by
the house was also left unchanged.
Chimal chedule-Calomet eorros-
sive sublimate and other mercurial
Preparations, 20 per cent ad valorem,
mouse, 10 per cent; compounds of
pyroxylin or other cellulose testers, 25
per cent. house. IS per cent; same If
N wholly or partly finished articles,
80 per cent, house. 35 per cent chic
Aie, crude, Is cents per pound, house.