Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1913-04-17
PROVISIONS Of THE
NEW TARIFF BILL
CONGRESSMAN Underwood Ex-
plains What It Means to
the Country.
REDUCE REVENUE $4,000, coo
places Raw Wool on the Free List,
and Heavily Reduces the Sugar
Duty-Raises Rates on Sew
eral Items.

eFal Items.
Washington, D. C.-Removal OF all
tariff from many articles OF food and
clothing, broad reductions in the rates
Of duty on all necessaries of life, an
increase of tariff on many luxuries,
and new income tax that would touch
The pocket of every American citizen
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 Is per
cent reduction and the removal Of the
remaining duty in 1916.
Raw wool would be made free at
once, with a corresponding heavy re-
dgctfon in the tariff on all wooden
goods.
Placed on the Free List.
Other articles are put on the free
list as follows: Meats, flour, bread,
boots and shoes, lumber, coal, harness,
saddlery, iron ore, milk and cream, po-
tatOes, salt, swine, corn, cOrnmeal,
cotton bagging, agricultural imple-
TaCnts, leather, wood pulp, Bibles,
printing paper not worth more than
~ 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 suIphuric acids, borax, lum-
Der products, including broom handles,
clapboards, 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 1 cent to cents per
pound
The new rates are estimated to re-
duce the customs revenue approx
mateIy $8O,OO0,O0O year This is ex-
pected to be made up by the income
tax
Protection to the farmer would be
cut throughout by more than 80 per
cent in an effort to reduce the cost
Of food. Protection to the steel and
ina plement manufacturer would In
turn be cut by fully as wide margin.
Heaviest reductions fall upon food
stuffs, agricultural products, wooden
and cotton clothing.
Duty Cuts in Detail.
Chairman Underwoods statement
giving the changes in detail continues
as follows:
In the chemical schedule the rates
reductions. For instance, boracic acid
is cut from 1870 per cent. to 21.43 per
cent. glue from 1906 per cent. to
1929 per cent and red lead from 60.35
per cent. to % per cent. Moderate re-
ductions have been made on medicinal
preparations, which are cut from %
per cent to 5 per cent, backing from
% per cent to Is per cent, drugs
from 1885 Der cent. to 10 per cent,
and olive oil from 1918 per cent to
2I.05 per cent. The schedule contains
a number of articles on which either
NO reduction has been made or an ad-
vance provided for.
Rates on all brick have been cut
on the average from 1923 per cent.
10 1928 per cent. tile from 1874 per
cent to 1886 per cent. asphalt from
3105 per cent to 1852 per cent. Or
binary earthenware, which was al
ready relatively low, being subject
10 an average duty Of 24.67 per cent
has now been cut TO 10 per cent,
while window glass has been given an
average reduction on all glasses of
from 1888 per cent to 1881 per cent.
Plate glass. which may be considered
luxury, still retains a duty of nearly
40 per cent, the average being 3S-45
per cent. in place of the duty of 6395
per cent in the law.
Pig Iron and Forginss Hit.
Pig iron and slabs. which were
SIS per cent and 1919 per cent.
have been cut to per cent in each
ease: beams, from $500 per cent to u
per cent, and forgings from so per
cent to 10 per cent On the other
hand. bicycles. much more highly
manufactured product. are dutiable at
IS per cent. as against IS per cent,
and raZors at 81 per cent as against
776S per cent.
The idea 81 the large extension OF
products has been the fundamental
conception, while the effort has been
made to improve the status OF ths
manufactured lumber Thus. sawed
boards, other than cabine& wood, have
heeu carried to the free list, while
saved cabinet woods, which were
1875 per cent. in 1912, are now 10 per
sent: casks. barrels, etc, which were
20 per cent, are now 14.T7 per cent,
and house furniture. which was IS per
cent. is now Is per cent.
Tobacco and spirits have been
found TO be good producers of revenue
and have, therefore, been left at the
same rates as in the present law.
Would Reduce Cost of Living.
IN the effort to relieve the consum-
er and 10 mitigate the high and rising
cost Of living. schedule G, which deals
with agricultural products, has been
thoroughly revised and important re
auctions have been made. For in
stance, the duty on horses has been
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