Arizona republican., 1913-10-08
WORK DONE IN CONFERENCE
Alterations That Were Made From the Original Underwood Bill Passed
 by House.

A summary of the agreements in formally announced from day to day during the conference work shows in comprehensive manner the following important alterations of the original Underwood bill:
 The tax rate On incomes of more than $75, 1000 was increased by a grad uated scale from three per cent to seven per cent. and the exemption re- duced from $4,0O0 to S3,O0O for single persons The new provision allowing a $4,OO0 exemption for a married per son provides that only one deduction of s4O00 shall be made from the az gregate income of both husband and wife when living together"
 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 dyes, moving picture films, cement and asphalt
 Some Increases Made.
 Increases from the house bill tn- clude:
 Angora wool and articles made from it.
 Silk ribbons and narrow fabrics from 70 to 45 per cent.
 Lithographic views of American scenes.
 Surface coated paper suitable for covering boxes, from 8 to 70 per cent.
 Many kinds of acids.
 Some kinds of paints.
 A new classification for woOlen stockings, gloves and mittens makes a reduction from the house rate on those valued at less than $1.30 8 dozen and an increase on those above.
 Reductions from the house rates in- cIudes:
 Common paper bOxbOards.
 Papers used for photographic prints
 Wearing apparel made of cattle or goat skins.
 Fur hats
 Rough forms of dog and goat skins.
 Camers hair press cloth for use in cotton oil mills.
 Cotton stockings and half hose.
 Perfumed and medicated soaps
 Crude chicle.
 Iinseed oil.
 Chlorate of potash.
 High-power lenses, surveying instru- ments, telescopes and the like.
 Oats.
 Butter.
 Beets and other vegetables.
 Extracts of meat
 Currants
 Chocolate.
 House Rates Changed.
 Through a reclassiflcation rates will be slightly reduced from those fixed by the house on fancy grades of cot ton cloth.
 The tariff on automobiles, fixed by the house at 45 per cent and radical ly cut by the senate, was compro- missed by making a new classification of automobiles valued at less than S2 900, for which a rate of 30 per cent was fixed
 The per cent. rebate in tariff made by the house bill on goods brought in American ships was re- tained with the added provision that i it should not be so construed as to | abrogate or in any manner impair or affect the provisions of any treaty" i the United States has.
 That portion of the house bill re- | quiring foreign manufacturers or ex- porters to submit their books to Amer 1 jcan custom agents was amended so that If the exporter refused to allow | such examination an additional duty | of 15 per cent ad valOrem can be i'm posed on his exports. q
 Section of the Cuban reciprocity | treaty, which provides that Cuba l should have a preferential rate of 20 ! per cent. on sugar and that the gen. eral tariff of the United States should not be reduced below the figures of the Dingley tariff law of 1897, is re- Dealed.