Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-10-01

warner saved MS goats.
Art rescued from high tax.
The birds may live.
Not all the determined provisions of
a Democratic low tariff bill were toll
Grated by the people. Some things were
so obs ious1y beyond the pale of parti-
san tinkering that ridicule from the
party press restrained the schedule
makers. The bill is likely to become a
law before the week is out. 1t is d
Democratic production, softened some
what and sweetened ii little by deter
mined opposition to some of the most
radical aspects of a political gamble.
In the form IN which the tariff bill
ultimately will go to President Wilson
for his signature, il carries many
changes from the original Underwood
hill passed by the House last May
While the Senate gave way on many Of
It's amendments, in the TIVE weeks fight
in. the conference committee, many
C1dHSeS were tctdltitu anu
the general average of rates of the
House bill was reduced about four per
cent ad yalorem.
The most important of the alteratio
nf the original Underwood House Dill
include a heavy increase in the income
taxes. In conference the House yield
ed on most of the differences. The tax
rate on incomes above $4,000 was in
creased by a graduated scale from
three per cent to seven per cent. and
the income tax exemption reduced from
$4,000 to $4,000 Articles added to the
free list include pig iron. ferro man
ganese ore cheap grades of iron: cat
tie and other food animals, wheat
flour, flax, hemp. sugar refining ma
chinciy, indigo dyes, Photographic mov-
ing picture films, cement asphalt and
many other articles. new classifca-
tion for wooden stockings, gloves and
mittens makes a reduction from the
House rate on these valued at less than
s1.20 a dozen and an increase on those
above. Angora wool and articles made
from /. were given a higher duty than
in the House hill.
The House rate on silk ribbons and
narrow fabrics was increased from
forty to forty-fiye per cent, while the
House rates on common paper box
boards and papers used for photograph
ic prints were reduced. An increased
rate of duty was provided fer lithe-
graphic views of American scenes and
the rate on surface coated papers
suitable for covering boxes was in
creased from thirty-five to forty per
cent. Reduction in the House duties
was made on wearing apparel of cat
tie or goat skins. fur hats rough forms
of dog and goat skins, eamels' hair
press cloth for use in cotton oil mills.
and through Reconsideration rates will
be slightly reduced from those fixed by
the House on fancy grades of cotton
cloth The House rate on cotton stock
ings and half hose was also reduced.
The tariff on automobiles, fixed by the
Houce at forty-five per cent and radi-
CALI cut by the Senate, was finally
compromised by making new classl-
fication of automobiles valued below
s., 000 for which rate of thirty per cent
was fixed. Some of the more important
changes agreed to by the conference
covered the schedule of agricultural
products and provisions. In addition
to putting cattle and sheep on the free
list, the conference agreed to reduc-
tions on oats, butter, beets, extracts II
meat, currants, chocolate and fother
provisions and vegetables.
Reductions in the House rates In the
chemical schedule covered perfumed
ard medicinal soaps. crude chiele, lin
seed oil, chlorate of potash and several
other items, while the House rates were
increased on many kinds of acids ana
on some classes of paints. The Senat e
succeeded in reducing the House rates
on high power lenses, surveying lnsfru-
ments, telescopes and the like. Most
of the Senate changes reducing the
rates considerably lower on the aver
age than those of the original House
bill
The five per cent rebate in tariff made
by the House bill on goods brought IN
American ships was retained In the
conference with the added provision
that it should not be so construed as
to abrogate or in any manner impair
or affect the provisions of any treaty,
the United States now has. The CON
ference also amended that portion oil
the House bill REQUIRING foreign manu-
factpreSs or fxperts( 70 submit Their
booi 70 American customs agents, so
thai Ithe Exporter refuses5to 81 BLOW
SUD eSanIn1 ton, an. afdifippal fariff
du1 Tor ,nftej n-xssspent I'D v.laorem can
be- EbsSed n ffssbprts n
kDI<onffrence a&tteraents repealAs
s4dok[S/Sf the Cuban reciprocity
treaty. which provided %that CUBA
should have preferential rate oil
twenty per cent on sugar, and thai
the general sugar tariff of the United
states should not be reduced below the
figures of the Dingiey tafIn law OF 1885,