Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1913-04-11
Congressman Underwood Ex-
plains What 1t Means to
the Country.
REDUCE REVENUE $50, 900, COO
Places Raw Wool on the Free List,
and Heavily Reduces the Sugar
Duty-Raises Rates on Sew
eraI Items.

clothing, broad reductions in the rates
OF duty on all necessaries of life, an
Increase of tariff on many Injuries.
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 1915,
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 corresponding heavy re-
duction in the tariff on all wcolen
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
21a cents pound. typewriters, sewing
machines, typesetting machines, cash
registers, steel rails. fence wire, cot
ION ties, nails, hoop and band iron,
fish, sulphur, soda, tanning materials,
acetic and sulphuric acids, borax, lnm-
Der products, including broom handles,
"lapboards. hubs for wheels, posts,
,aths, 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 / cent to cents per
pound
The new rates are estimated to re-
luce the customs revenue approx
mately $80,000.000 year. This is ex-
pected to be made up by the income
tax.
Protection to the farmer would be
cut throughout by more than so per
sent. in an effort to reduce the cost
of food. Protection to the steel and
implement manufacturer would In
turn be cut by fully as wide a margin.
Heaviest reductions fall upon food
stuffs, agricultural products, wooden
and cotton clothing.
Duty Cuts in Detail.
Chairman Underwood's statement
giving the changes In detail continues
as follows:
in the chemical schedule the rates
on certain commodities show heavy
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 $685.
per cent. to rs per cent. Moderate re
auctions have been made on medicinal
preparations. which are cut from %
per cent to 10 per cent, backing from
25 per cent to Is per cent, drugs
from 1856 per cent. to 10 per cent.
and olive oil from s5.1S per cent. tc
21.05 per cent. The schedule contains
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
to 1923 per cent, tile from 47.S4 pei
cent. to 1886 per cent, asphalt from
37.O5 per cent. to 9.62 per cent. Or
| binary earthenware, which was al
ready relatively low, being subjec
to an average duty of 24.67 per cent.
has now been cut to Is per cent.
while window glass has been given al
average reduction on all glasses o
from 46.3S per cent. to 1881 per cent
Plate glass, which may be consideret
luxury, still retains duty of nearl.
40 per cent, the average being 1874
per cent, in place of the duty of $50
per cent. in the law.
Pig iron and ForeIngs Hit.
pig iron and slabs, which wer
1886 per cent. and 1879 per cent
have been cut to per cent. in eacl
case; beams. from 1920 per cent. to /
per cent, and forgings from 30 pc
cent. to Is per cent. On the othe
hand. bicycles, much more highl
manufactured product, are dutiable a
25 per cent. as against As per cent
and razors at 35 per cent. as agains
77.6S per cent.
The idea of the large extension O
the free list for the unmanufacture
| products has been the fundamenta
conception. while the effort has bee
made to improve the status OF tn
manufactured lumber. Thus, save
boards, other than cabinet wood, hav
been carried to the free list, Will
! sawed cabinet woods, which wer
1915 per cent in 1912. are now 10 pc
cent: casks, barrels. etc, which wer
80 per cent. are now 14,77 per cent
and house furniture, which was IS pc
} cent. is now is per cent,
; Tobacco and spirits have bee
found to be good producers of revenu
and have, therefore. been left II III
: same rates as in the present law.
3 Would Reduce Cost Of Living.
3 an the effort to relieve the consun
er and to mitigate the high and risin
: cost Of living. schedule G. which deal