Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1913-04-08

said tonight that he would be guided
bv the exigencies Of the situation and
/ the counsel of the president
As introduced today, the bin can be
( detached into separate schedules AT
any time II. Ia the debate of the house,
4 il should be deemed best strategicaly
to take this course. The bin was re-
ferred back to the ways and means
committee today. where the republi-
can members for the first time will
have an opportunity to pass upon its
provisions No report will be made by
the committee, however until after
the democratic caucus considers the
measure.
The caucus may be so protracted
as to require a number Of sessions in
order to pass upon the tariff. II will
be called 60 order at II o'clock to-
morrow forenoon, but will recess un-
( til 3 o'clock in the afternoon and the
session may last until night. The dis
position of lhe democratic leaders. in
Guiding Representative Palmer OF
Pennsylvania, who viii preside as
chairman Of the caucus, Is to allow
an the latitude and freedom Of de-
bate possible SO that no member can
say he had no opportunity to present
his views in this preliminary form OF
consideration by the house democrats.
on the ground that tariff consider
alton Is legislative business, Mr. PAT
mer is understood to favor having the
caucus public while that subject is up.
Removal OF an Tariff from
many articles of food and cloth
ing: broad reductions in the rates
of duty on all necessaries Of
life: an increase of tariff on many
luxurios, and new income tax that
would touch the pocket OF every
American citizen whose net income
exceeds $4,000. are the striking tea-
lures Of the new democratic tariff
revision bill presented today to the
house.
Sugar would be free Of duty in
1915, the bin proposing an immediate
25 per cent reduction and the removal
of the remaining duty in 1915.
Raw wool would be made free at
once. with corresponding heavy
reduction in the tariff on all wooden
goods.
All these other articles are put on
the free list. namely: Meats, flour,
bread. boots and shoes, lumber, coal,
harness. saddlery, iron ore, milk and
cream, potatoes, salt, swine corn.
cornmeal, cotton bagging, agricultur-
al implements leather wood pulp,
bibles. printing paper not worth more
than IL cents per pound, typewrit-
ers. sewing machines, typesetting ma
chimes. cash registers steel rails,
fence wire. cotton tie, nails, hoop and
band iron, fish sulphur soda tanning
materials. acetic and sulphuric acids,
borax. lumber products, including
broom handles, clapboards, hubs for
wheels posts, laths, pickets, slaves,
shingles.
While wheat flour is put on the free
list, duty Of 10 per cent is imposed
against countries which levy a duty
on American flour. This viii exclude
flour from Canada and many other
foreign countries.
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 1 cent to . cents per pound.
Chairman Underwood Of the ways
and means committee, in his state
ment accompanying the new tariff bill
gave the following comparative table,
to show reductions in tariff duties
made upon necessaries. In each item
both the present tariff and the pro-
posed tariff had been reduced to an
ad valorem basis: