The Washington herald., 1913-06-21
Sugar Schedule Changed.

lIoin III 10 10 per cent
Sugar Schedule Changed.
The chemical schedule was not mate
rally changed. except that certain colors
which enter largely into the manufacture
of cotton, wooden and other textiles which
the House had put on the dutiable list
We're transferred to the free list. The
slight increase in duty was made on the
manufactures of celluloid and cyanide
of potash. cyanide of sodium were trans
ferred to the free list.
The changes under the earthenware and
glass schedule also were few. The most
important were the transferring of ce-
ments. asphaltum and bitumen TO the
free list. Mica, common yellow earthen-
ware, carbons, common window glass,
glass lenses, were reclassified, and some
of them changed slightly.
The sugar schedule which has stirred
up so much strife went through with only
one slight alteration. The Senate COM
mittee struck out sugars tinctured and
colored" for fear that ultra-marine blue
used in bleaching sugar might be re-
garded as colored matter and thereby re-
fined sugar would become subject TO a
duty OF cents a pound.
In the tobacco schedule the provision
of the Underwood bill permitting cigars
with 80 per cent OF tobacco produced in
the Philippines and 20 per cent produced
in foreign countries to be admitted free
was stricken out. Only cigars and to-
bacco products made exclusively of
Philippine tobacco are to come in with
out the payment of duty.
The countervailing duty on wheat and
-four will be 10 cents a bushel on
wheat and IS cents a barrel on flour
1t will be 20 per centum ad vaIorem
all
when imported from any country that
maintains a duty against the United
States. The rate on oats is reduced
from 10 to cents a bushel. and the
duty on oat products is equalized by
putting a rate of 3 cents per hundred
weight on oat feed.
The rate on rice, -four and meal. and
broken rice suitable only for brewery
purposes. has been increased slightly
over the House bill. while the duty on
butter and its substitutes and on cheese
have been reduced.
The most important change made by
the Senate committee in the House cot
ton schedule was to add n duty of ~
per cent upon cotton cloth, when combed.
dyed. mercerized or colored. In
this the Senate committee followed the
example OF the House in its dealing with
cotton yarn. The Senate committee re-
duced the tariff on cotton laps and rop-
ing from 10 TO per cent, and substitute
ed the term woven figured" for Jacquard
figures. where used in the bill
The Senate bill puts fax, not hacked
Or dressed. and also fax, hacked or
dressed, on the free list. 1t also reduces
the rates on hemp and tow of hemp. and
there are reductions in the duties on
plain woven fabrics of single jute yarn.
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on floor mattings, and on carpeting and
rugs made of fax hemp or jute. 1t re-
iuced the duty on bags and sacks. and
on shirting- cloth out Of which handker-
chiefs are made.
Silks were not materially changed as
10 rates but equivalent specific rates
were substituted for ad valorem in sew
eral Of the important paragraphs.
Free List Additions.
The following are additions to the free |
list made by the Senate Committee over |
hose in the Underwood bill:
Beet and sugar cane machinery. |
Alizarin. natural or synthetic. and |
,olors obtained from alizarin. anthracene
md carbozoL Steel boxes. Plain woven |
abrics of single jute yarns by whatever |
name known, not chemically treated, !
waste of any of the above articles, suit |
Ible for the manufacture of paper.
Modification of paragraph relating to
looks, maps, music photographs, litho-
graphic prints, and charts by elimi-
ating "engravings, etchings" and words
bound or unbound" Paragraph re-
ating to books amended by striking out
words: land pamphlets. printed chiefly |
n languages other than English; also
ooks," and the following added: land |
III -hOnEs In, ND 9th |
EDUCATIONAL institutions
Sand blast machines, sludge machines
of cat-gut, whip gut and
7orm gut paragraph by striking out "un-
and adding word: for
urgical use"
Cement, Roman, Portland and other
ydraulic. Dead or creosote oil and an
hracene and anthracene oil. Cryolith,
r Kryolith, modified by adding word
natural" Glaciers and engravers' dia-
londs, not cut, miners diamonds ana
iamond dust. Crude artificial abrasives.
Flax, not hacked or dressed: flax,
ackled, known as dressed line," tow
flax and fax hemp and tow of hemp;
emp hacked, known as line of hemp"
mber in chips valued at not more thar.
, cents per pound. Colors obtained
rom indigo.
Pig iron, iron kentledge, speigeleisen,
'rought iron. and scrap and scrap steel;
but nothing shall be deemed scrap iron
r scrap steel except secondhand or
aste or refuse iron or steel fit only to
G manufactured: ferro-manganese;
on in slabs, blooms, loops, or other
'rms less finished than iron bars, and
lore advanced than pig iron, excep.
astings.
Sole leather, leather board or compress s
leather. grain, buff, and split leather. I
Il dressed and upper leather including II
atent, Japanned. vanished or enamelec s
pper leather and shoe lining leather; all (
the for hnat ana ,h1o =