The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1913-04-18

whose net income exceeds $4,000 are
the striking features of the new Dem
ocratic tariff revision bill.
Sugar would be free Of duty in 1916,
the bill proposing an immediate rs per
cent. reduction and the removal Of the
remaining duty in 1915.
Raw wool would be made free at
once, with a corresponding heavy re-
duction in the tariff on all WOODEN
goods.
Placed on the Free List.
Other articles are put on the free
list as follows: Meats, -four, bread,
boots and shoes, lumber, coal, harness,
saddlery, iron ore, milk and cream, po-
tatoes, salt, swine, corn, cornmeal,
cotton bagging, agricultural nipple
ments, leather, wood pulp, Bibles,
printing paper not worth more than
2h cents a pound, typewriters, sewing
machines, typesetting machines, cash
registers, steel rails, fence wire, cot
ton ties, nails, hoop and band iron,
fish, sulphur, soda, tanning materials,
acetic and sulphuric acids, borax, lum-
Der products, including broom handles,
c%lapboards, hubs for wheels, posts,
laths, pickets, slaves, shingles.
These principal items are taken
from the free list and taxed: Rough
and uncut diamonds and precious
stones, furs, coal tar products, 10 per
cent; volatile oils, 20 per cent;
spices, from l cent to 2 cents per
pound.
The new rates are estimated to re
duce the customs revenue approx
mately $50, 900, 900 a year. This is eX
pected to be made up by the income
tax.
Protection to the farmer would b
cut throughout by more than so pc
cent. in an effort to reduce the cos
Of food. Protection to the steel an,
implement manufacturer would Il
turn be cut by fully as wide a margin
Heaviest reductions fall upon fooC
stuffs, agricultural products, woole.
and cotton clothing.
Duty Cuts In Detail.
Chairman U~nderwood's statemen
giving the changes in detail continue
as follows:
"In the chemical schedule the rate
on certain commodities show heav
/, reductions. For instance, boracic aci
is cut from 1870 per cent. to 21.43 pc
cent, glue from 1906 per cent. t
1929 per cent. and red lead from 6O.S
per cent. to 20 per cent. Moderate r.
auctions have been made on medicin'
preparations, which are cut from
, per cent 10 Is per cent, backing froI
25 per cent. to Is per cent, drug
from 1855 per cent. to 10 per cent
e and olive oil from 35.1S per cent.
21.O5 per cent. The schedule contain
a number Of articles on which eith'
no reduction has been made or an a
vance provided for.
Rates on all brick have been CT
9 on the average from 1923 per cen
l II. 1928 per cent, tile from 47,S4 p'
r cent. to 1888 per cent. asphalt fro
i. 37.O5 per cent. to 1852 per cent. 0
binary earthenware, which was {
> ready relatively low, being subje
e to an average duty of 24.67 per cen
Nos now been cut to 10 per cen
while window glass has been given
' average reduction on all glasses
y from 1888 per cent. to 1881 per cer
# Plate glass, which may be consider
!, a luxury, still retains a duty OF near
- 40 per cent, the average being SS.
k per cent, in place Of the duty OF SO,
per cent. in the law.
PIo Iron and ForglnsS HIt-
~ pig iron and slabs, which we
4, 1885 per cent. and 17.7s per Ger
4 have been cut to 8 per cent. in ca
case; beams, from 1920 per cent. to
" per cent, and ~forgings from 30 ?
a cent. TO is per cent. On the 9th
re hand. bicycles, a much more higt
4 manufactured product, are dutiable
- rs per cent. as against 45 per eel
d and razors at s5 per cent. as agail
77.68 per cent.
THE idea OF the large extension
the free list for the unmanufactur
t. products has been the fundamen
at conception. while the effort has be
made to improve the stStus OF I
n manufactured lumber. Thus, saw
In boards, other than cabinet wood, ha
been carried to the free list, VIII
sawed cabinet woods, which W.
1875 per cent. in 1912, r now 10
cent casks, barrels, etc, which w
80 per cent, are now 14.77 per ce'
and house furniture, which was 80
cent, is now Is per cent.
Tobacco and spirits have b'
found to be good producers Of reyel
and have, therefore, been left at
same rates as in the present law.
Would Reduce Cost Of Living
"a I'm the effort to relieve the cons'
er and to mitigate the high and ris
cost OF living, schedule G, which Dc
81 with agricultural products, has b
81 thoroughly revised and important
ductlous have been made. For
stance. the duty on horses has b