The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1913-04-11
new TARIFF BILL
Wool and Other NeCeSSaries
Of Life Enter Free.
RECIPROCITY is ENCOURAGED

tinue Present Trade Treaty with
Cuba - Arrangement for Easy
Change of Rates incorporated.
Bills providing for reductions in all
schedules of the tariff law except the
tobacco ana spirits schedules and an
income tax to make up the vast de-
ficiency to be caused by the tariff cuts
were introduced in the house by
Chairman Underwood of the house
ways and means committee.
Several articles of food and cloth
ing, classed as necessaries of life and
affecting the high cost of living, are
placed on the free list or greatly re.
duced in duties. The income tax bill
provides for a levy on all incomes of
$4,000 year or over.
Many important changes are made
in the adm. illustrative features of the
tariff law and in place of the maxi
mum and minimum section of the
Payne act, which empowered the
president to invoke higher duties
against any nation which discrimin-
ated agains' the United States, there
is a provision giving the chief eX-
ecutive free hand to negotiate recip-
rocity treaties with foreign nations.
The trade treaty with Cuba is re-
tanned and provision is made for alb
soiute free trade with the Philippines.
There will be hereafter according to
the terms # the Underwood bill no
restriction the amount Of rice, to-
bacco and sugar that could be import
ed free from the islands.
Provision for Easy Change.
As an assurance. against any duties
in the bill being ultra-prOtective, it is
provided that the president shall
cause to be ascertained each year the
amount of imports and exports of all
articles, with an estimate OF the
amount of domestic consumption and
production and where it is ascertained
the imports amount to less than per
cent of the domestic consumption he
shall Immediately notify congress in
a special message of his facts and
conclusions bearing on the matter.
This provision, according to the
committee, is to maintain the tariff
on competitive" basis.
The bills will take effect the day
after the president signs them. The
main features of the bill are:
Drastic reductions in the chemical
and earthenware schedules.
Window classes are reduced from
46 to 20 per cent on the average.
Duties on pig iron, structural steel
and forgings cut in half. Bicycles
reduced from As to IS per cent The
duty on razors is more than cut in
half
Steel rails go on the free list.
Nearly all kinds of rough lumber
put on the free list and heavy reduc-
lions in the finished products.
Sugar Free in Three Years.
Twenty-Five per cent reduction In
the duty on sugar, with the proviso
that in there years it shall be placed
on the free list.
Tobacco and liquor schedules un-
changed.
Agricultural products cut in half,
including a reduction on the tariff on
lemons from IS to "a per cent.
Duties on all articles of clothing in
the cotton schedule reduced 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 articles in common
use.
Moderate reduction in the silk
schedule, with removal of concealed
protection
Print paper and Bibles placed on
the free list
A slight reduction in jewelry. with
rough diamonds transferred from the
free list to the dutiable list. with a
duty of 10 per cent ad valorem.
Articles on Free List.
Among tt articles placed on the
free list are: Wood, alcohol, char
coal, phosphorus, radium salts, sodas,
sulphur, tanning materials, iron ore,
band iron for baling cotton, nails, barb
wire. wire for fencing, steel rails,
Tungsten bearing ore, cash registers.
linotype machines, typesetting ma
chimes, sewing machines, typewriters,
lumber, boards, wagon material, laths,
pickets, shingles, hewn and round
timbers, bacon and hams, beef, veal
mutton, pork, fresh water fish, other
fish of a number of varieties meats
of all kinds, lard, tallow, dairy prod
ucts, breadstuffs, including bread,
buckwheat our, broom corn. maize,
corn. cornmeal, oatmeal, wheat -four.
potatoes. sit, swine, sugar of milk.
bagging for cotton, flax straw, raw
wool, press cloth for oil milling pur-
poses. wooden rags. woodpulp, print
paper valued at not more than 21s
cents pound, Bibles. bone meat,