Delaware City press. (Delaware City, Del.) 1913-19??, 1913-10-10
NEW TARIFF
LAW PASSED
Epitomized Account Of the Observation-Disclosures Measure
as Agreed to By Conferees
SENATE ENLHRGES
HOUSE FREE LIST

WASttlNOl ON.-lne twenty years
tariff war reached its final stage in Con-
gress, when Chairman Underwood of
the Ways and Means Committee laid
before the House the report of the con-
ferees and announced that the differ
ences between the Senate and House
bills had been compromised.
1t is the second low tariff measure
that has been passed in more than 65
years.
The average ad valorem rate of the
present bill is very much lower than
that of the Wilson-Gorman act The
average rate of the latter was 39.45 per
cent, while the estimated rate of the
present bill ranges from 81 to 20 per
cent. The average for the present
Payne-Aldrich law is 40.12 per cent.
Senator Simmons said, after report
from the Treasury experts, that for the
first full fiscal year the measure would
yield a surplus of $1s000,000
Among the 675 amendments made in
the Senate, many related merely TO YER
biage The House yielded on 427 and
the Senate abandoned ISL. Compro-
misses were effected on 81.
The general trend of the Senate
amendments was in the direction of re-
duced duties. Expressed in. percentage
the Senate bill when reported reduced
duties 27.64 below the existing law and
4,22 per cent. below the House bill as it
had come to the Senate.
The result of the conference report
has been slight increase of the ad
valorem rate of duty carried by the bill
but the net result is below the average
ad valorem rate OF the House bill. Thus
for the first time in the history of tariff
legislation the Senate has gone on rec.
ord in favor of lower duties in tariff
bill than those adopted by the House.
The most important features of tht
new bill are those which led to thu
greatest struggle in both the Senate ant
House Democratic caucuses. They re
lated to the free listing of wool anc
of sugar. Except for the strong in
sistence of President Wilson it is likel,
that the Senate would have restored
revenue duty on both wool and sugar
Raw wool will go on the free list De
cember l and sugar will be free afte
May 1, 1916
The existing duties on sugar unde
the Payne-Aldrich law will continue I'm
iii March l, 1914, then the lower rate
carried by the new law will become ef
after which date sugar will go on tn
Ere IL autesse $$;;eaill ys-.4n btihel rate
in the bill will cd into effect as soon a
1t is signed
In restoring to the free list alizarin
lead or creosote oil, anthracine and an
thracine oil, the Senate followed tn,
existing law, which gives to the manu-
facturers of certain textiles the benefit
of free dyes used in the industry. TIL
House had made them dutiable TO
revenue purposes. The Senate mad
them free on the theory that the textil
products had been made to pay less dut,
and that the manufacturers should hav
the raw material free.
The Cyanides were transferred 10 tn
free list because they are used Target,
in mining and are raw material 70
other American industries Both tn
Senate and House agreed that tanninl
materials, such as extracts. should q
upon the free list because the product
oil, the tanneries, sole leather and othe
feathers OF the coarser kind that ente
into the manufacture of boots AM
shoes, harness and saddles were all fire.
listed.
The Democrats put cements and othe
building material including lumber an,
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