Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-09-08
TARIFF BILL MEETS
PRESIDENTS DESIRE
Measure, as It viii Pass the
Senate, Expresses Ideas
of Mr.. Wilson.
DEMOCRATS SUPPORT
FINANCE COMMITTEE
Caucus in Upper House, With One
Exception, Stands solidly
Behind Body.

When the tariff bill Is passed by the
Senate tonight or tomorrow 1t will ex-
press the ideas of President Wilson
and of the democratic members of the
finance committee. The President has
been successful in having the Senate
adopt such provisions in the tariff bill
as he has earnestly desired. among
them free raw wool, and free sugar
after q period of reduced duties last
ing three years.
The democratic members of the finance
committee, led by Senator Simmons, their
chairman. have succeeded, with very few
exceptions, in having included in the bill
all Of the provisions which they desired.
The democratic caucus of the Senate has
stood solidly behind the committee, with
one notable exception, and that was in
the case of the income tax. The insur-
gents in the caucus forced an increase
in the rates of taxation on large in
comes.
AS the bill passes the Senate it will
carry a large number Of articles on the
free list which hitherto have been taxed.
The Senate has increased the number
Among the articles on the free list are
raw wool, sugar at the end of three
years. cattle, sheep meats. wheat, -four
print paper valued at less than 212 cents
a pound, wood pulp. pig iron, steel in
gots, blooms and slabs, cast iron pipe,
unexposed, steel rails, cement, milk and
cream, Zero manganese, lard, fax, hemp,
jute, eggs, corn, corn meal, cash regis
ters, sewing machines, typesetting ma
chimes, lumber, hair of the angora goat
Tax on Cotton Futures.
The Senate has placed in the bill tax
on cotton futures, aimed to prevent
gambling It provides for a tax of one
- nd q
sales of cotton futures, with refund
when actual delivery is made. 1t is be-
lieved that this will be stricken out in
conference between the two houses.
The Senate amended the House bill by
striking out the anti-dumping clause,
which would prevent foreign manufacture
ers from dumping into the American mar
ket surplus OF their goods at lower
prices than are charged for the same
goods abroad. The Senate also struck
out Of the bill the provision which would
give q reduction of per cent IN all the
duties charged upon goods imported in
American bottoms.
1t inserted a provision which prohlb-
its lawyers from taking customs ap-
peals cases on the contingent fee plan
in an effort to reduce the amount Of
litigation over the customs.
In the chemical schedule the Senate
has made q great number of amend
ing about equally divided In the
glass and earthenware schedule, ce-
ment, upon which the House placed a
duty of per cent ad valorem. was
placed on the free list The Senate
adopted a new classification for mica,
making the duties specific instead of
ad valorem. and slightly increasing the
rates.
Senate Makes Reduction.
The window glass schedule was finally
left as in the House, though an effort
was made to increase the rates on the
smaller sizes. The Senate made num-
Der of reductions in the glass schedule
including reduction on surveying in
struments, microscopes, Photographic
lenses and frames. from 80 per cent ad
valorem to % per cent.
The House had a duty OF 3 per cent on
pig iron, and the Senate put it on the
free list. The House also had a duty OF
per cent on iron slabs, blooms, etc, and
the Senate added them to the free list.
The Senate reduced the duties on auto
mobiles valued at less than $500. 1t
also reduced the duty on motor cycles
from 40 per cent ad yalorem to % per
cent. Slight increases in the duties on
zinc ores We're made by the Senate.
The same provisions for reducing the
duty on sugar and for making sugar
y
House bill were retained by the Senate.
But an amendment was made providing
that the new reduced duties shall not
go into effect until March 1, 1914.
Agricultural Schedule Reduced.
In the agricultural schedule. the Sem
ate free listed cattle and sheep. which
the House taxed at ten per cent ad
valorem. It reduced the duty on oats
from ten cents per bushel. the House
rate, to six cents. 1t reduced the duty
on beets from ten per cent to five per
cent ad valorem: 1t reduced the duty
on peas from fifteen cents per bushel
to ten cents per bushel and 1t placed
wheat, which the House had taxed at
ten cents per bushel on the free list.
The Senate reduced the duty on Zante
currants from two cents per pound to
one cent.
The Senate has placed duty of one
tenth Of per cent per pound on bananas
They have always been free In the past.
The liquor schedule remained about the
same though the Senate placed a tax of
LILO per gallon on brandies used in the
manufacture OF wines.
The Senate has made slight increase In
cotton yarns and tops. 1t has reduced
the rates somewhat on cotton stockings.
Many large reductions were made In the
fax, hemp and jute schedule, including
the free listing of fax, hemp and jute.
In the wool schedule, the Senate reduced
the. duty on tops from Is per cent ad