The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1913-04-11
PROVISIONS OF THE
NEW TARIFF BILL
Congressman Underwood Ex-
plains What 1t Means to
the Country.
REDUCE REVENUE $50, 900, 900
Places Raw Wool on the Free List,
and Heavily Reduces the Sugar
Duty-Rajses Rates on Sew
eraI Items.

tariff from many articles of food and
clothing, broad reductions in the rates
of duty on all necessaries or 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 1916,
the bill proposing an immediate rs 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-
duction in the tariff ON all woolen
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
2H2 cents q pound. typewriters, sewing
machines, typesetting machines. cash
registers, steel rails, fence wire, cot
ton%sties. nails, hoop and band iron,
fish, sulphur, soda, tanning materials,
acetic and sulphuric acids, borax, lum
Der products. including broom handles,
clapboards, hubs for wheels, posts,
l;iths, 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 I cent to cents per
pound.
The new rates are estimated to re-
duce the customs revenue approx
mately $4,000, 600 a 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
cent. 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 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:
I'm 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 35.06 per cent. to
1929 per cent and red lead from 60.35
per cent to 25 per cent. Moderate re-
auctions have been made on medicinal
preparations, which are cHt from 25
per cent to IS per cent, backing from
25 per cent. 70 Is per cent, drugs
from 1856 per cent. to 10 per cent,
and olive oil from 35.1S per cent to
LOS per cent The schedule contains
number of articles on which either
10 reduction has been made or an adj
vance provided for.
Rates on all brick have been cut
on the average from 1923 per cent.
to 1928 per cent, tile from 47.84 per
cent to 1885 per cent, asphalt from
3705 per cent. to 9.62 per cent. Or
binary earthenware, which was al
ready relatively low, being subject
to an average duty of 24.67 per cent,
has now been cut to Is 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
a luxury, still retains a duty of nearly
40 per cent, the average being 38.45
per cent, in place of the duty of $685.
per cent. in the law.
Pig Iron and Forgings Hit.
Pig iron and slabs, which were
1886 per cent. and 1919 per cent,
have been cut to per cent. in each
case: beams. from 1920 per cent. to II
per cent, and forgings from 80 per
cent. to Is per cent On the other
| hand. bicycles, a much more highly
manufactured product, are dutiable ct
| Is per cent. as against As per cent,
and razors at 35 per cent. as against
| 1853 per cent.
The idea Of the large extension of
| the free list for the manufactured
! DrOQucJS mas D6on the 1uuOduSuIdi
conception. while the effort has been
made to improve the status of the
manufactured lumber. Thus, sawed
boards, other than cabinet wood, have
been carried to the free list, while
sawed cabinet woods, which were
| 1915 per cent. in 1912, are now 10 per
cent; casks, barrels, ETC.. which were
80 per cent, are now 14.77 per cent.
! and house furniture, which was 50 per
| cent, is now 10 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 to 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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Influence of Environment.