Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1913-10-02
C0NFEREES SIGN
TARIFF REPORT
k|lreement Is Submitted for
Final Approval.
MANY CHANGES IN MEASURE
Bill as Ready for Passage Much Diff
ferent From the One Originally
Passed by the House.

Washington, Sept. 3O.-The confer
ence report on the Underwood-Sim-
mons tariff bill, representing the final
adjustment OF disputes between the
senate and house over the formers
amendments, was made public when
the Democratic managers submitted it
for the first time to their Republican,
colleagues on the conference commit
tee.
In the form in which the tariff bill
ultimately will go to President Viii
sol for his signature it carries many
changes from the original Underwood
bill passed by the house last May.
While the senate gave way on many
of its amendments in the two weeks
fight in the conference committee
many important changes We're re-
tanned and the general average Of
rates Of the house bill was reduced
about 4 per cent ad valorem.
Some Important Alterations.
In a summary OF agreements that
have been informally announced from
day to day during conference work
the report shows the following i'm
portant alterations OF the original I'm,
derwood house bill:
The tax rate on incomes above $751;
600 was increased by a graduated
Sn91n from NOV cont 70 NOV aont
and the income tax exemption reduced
from $4,000 to $4,000.
Articles added to the free list in.
clude pig iron, ferro-manganese ore,
cheap grades of iron, cattle and other
food animals, wheat, flour, flax, hemp,
sugar refining machinery, school text
books, sand blast machinery. indigo
O. es, Photographic moving picture
fms, cement, asphalt and many 9th.
er articles.
A new classification for wooden
stockings. gloves and mittens, makes
a reduction from the house rate on
those valued at less than $1,2O a doz-
en- and an increase on those above.
Rate on Silk Ribbon Higher.
The house rate on silk ribbons and
narrow fabrics was increased from ~
to IS per cent, while the house rates
on common paper box boards and pa
pers used for Photographic prints
were reduced.
Reductions in the house duties was
made on wearing apparel made of
aott1o nv roo+ ,1-;,c f,, NOD. ,1,1l
forms of dog and goatskins, camels'
hair, press cloth for use in cotton oil
mills and, through a classification,
rates will be slightly reduced from
those fixed by the house on fancy
grades of cotton cloth. The house
rate on cotton stockings and half hose
was also reduced.
Most of the senate changes reduc.
ing the rates on iron and steel prod
ucts were approved by the confer
ence committee, making the rates con.
siderably lower on the average than
those of the original house bill.
The 5 per cent rebate in tariff
made by the house bill on goods
brought in American ships was re
tanned.
Repeats Section Affecting Cuba.
The conference agreement repeals
section 8 OF the Cuban reciprocity
treaty, which provided that Cuba
should have a preferential rate Of 2:
per cent on sugar, and that the gen
eral sugar tariff of the United States
should not be reduced below the fig
ures of the Dingley tariff law of 1897
The section of the house bill which
would have thrown outside the civi
service the entire force of income ia,
administrators for a period of two
years was changed by the conference
committee. In its new form employees
of the internal revenue office in Wash
ington below the grade Of chief o
division" concerned with the income
tax must still be selected under civil
service rules.
The new provision Of the income ia,
allowing a $4,000 exemption for a mar
ried person provides that only on.
deduction OF 81, 900 shall be made from
the aggregate income of both husband
and wife. when living tOeether-"