Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-04-10


ocratic tariff revision bill was intro
duced in the House to-day by Chair
man Underwood. of the House Way
and Means Committee 1t was auto
matically referred to the committe
by which it will be reported to tn
House within several days.
Several articles of food and cloth
ing classed as necessities of life ar
placed on the free list or greatly re
duced in duties. Accompanying tn
bill is an income tax on all income
Of $4,000 year or over.
The bill would take effect the ca
after the President signs it, The mai
features Of the bill are:
Drastic reductions in the chemi-
cal and earthernware schedules.
Window glasses are reduced
from 46 to 2S per cent on the ave-
rage.
Duties on pig iron, structural
steel and forgings cut in half.
Bicycles reduced from as to 25
per cent. The duty on razors is
more than cut in half.
Steel rails go on the free list.
Nearly all kinds of rough lum-
Der put on the free list and heavy
reductions in the finished prod
ucts.
Twenty FIVE per cent reduction
in the duty of sugar with the pro-
Viso that in three years it shall
be placed on the free list.
7 tobacco and liquor schedules
unchanged.
Agricultural products cut in
half, including a reduction on the
tariff on LEMONS from 60 to "a per
cent.
CLOTHING AND COTTON CUT.
Duties on all articles of clothing
in the cotton schedule reduced a
little over one half.
Raw fax and raw hemp reduced
about one half.
Raw wool placed on free list
with the retention Of only one
third Of the present duties on most
Of the wooden manufactured arti-
eles in common use.
Moderate reduction in the silk
schedule with removal Of con-
cealed protection.
Print paper and Bibles placed on
the free list.
A 5liaht reduction in jewelry
with rouuh diamonds transferred
from the free list to the dutiabIe
list with a duty Of 10 per cent ad
valorUn.
Many articles are placed on the
free list, among them the follow
ing:
Wo0d alcohol, charcoal, phos
phorus, radium salts, sodas, sui
phur and tanning materials.
Iron ore, band iron for baling
cotton, nails, barbed wire, wire for
fencing, steel rails, Tungsten
bearing ore.
Cash registers, linotype ma
chimes, typesetting machines, sew
ina machines, typewriters.
Lumber, boards, laths, piekets,
shinules, heWn and round tim
bers.
Bacon, hams, beef, veal, NUT
ton, pork, fresh water fish, other
'ssl1slJeA 10 Lsqmnu 10 qsg
meats of all kinds, lard, tallow,
dairy products.
BREADSTUFFS REDUCED.
Breadstuffs, including bread,
buckwheat flour, broomcorn,
maize. corn, cornmeal, oatmeal,
wheat -four, potatoes, salt, swine,
sugar of milk.
5aaqing for cotton, flax straw,
raw wool, press cloth for oil mill
ina purposes, wooden rags.
Wood pulp, print paper valued
at not more than 21-2 cents a
pound, Bibles.
Bone meal, bran, wheat screen
ings.
Coal (bituminous and shale),
coke, slack, cork, waste and shaw
ings.
and cattle hides, boots and shoes,
harness.
Agricultural implements and
leather, including hoe laces.
Many important changes are
made in the administrative fea-
lures of the tariff law and in
place of the maximum and mini
nun, section of the Payne act,
which empowered the President
TO invoke higher duties against
any nation which Disseminated
AGAINST the United States, there
IS a provision giving the Chief
Executive a free hand to nego-
tate reciprocity treaties with
Foreiun nations, the only proviso
beind that such agreements shall
be ratified by a majority of both
oress in a special message of his
facts and conclusions bearing on
the matter.
The provision, according TO the
COMMITTEES, is to maintain the
tariff on a competitive" basis.
a provision in the bill also pre-
vents the importation of obscene
pictures or postcards or any OBJ
scene matter.
In accordance with it's policy
of placing heavy duties on luxu-
ries and reducing taxes on ne
cessities of life, the committee
has transferred altar of rose from
the free list and made it dutiable
at 20 per cent ad valorem.
PERFUMERY HIGHER.
Perfumery is slightly increased.
Perfumed toilet soap IS reduced
from so to 40 per cent.