Cheraw chronicle. [volume] (Cheraw, S.C.) 1896-2005, 1913-10-09

Commerce to require importers to fur
nish more detailed information on ship
ments for statistical purposes.
differentiation Penalty.
The Senate receded from the amend
ment allowing margin Of per cent.
differentiation without penalty and lim-
iting forfeiture ,of the particular goods
undervalued. The bill imposes an addi-
tional duty of per cent. on under
valued goods.
Offsettting this, the conference
adopted the Senate amendment author
izing the Secretary of the Treasury to
assess the duty on less than the en-
tered value when satisfied that the i'm
porter has in good faith at the time
of the entry certified the entered value
above the market value.
The conference restored the House
provision authorizing the Board Of Cen
eral Appraisers to exercise both judi
cial and inquisitorial functions in GUS
toms examinations, and struck out OF
the Senate amendment the provision ex-
Guiding hearsay evidence. Senate amend
ments were agreed to prohibiting con-
tingent fees in customs cases and strlk-
ing out the provision Of the House bill,
limiting protests to a single article and.
issue.
The House provision, to authorize
collectors of customs summarily to hne
importers for failure to produce books,
and records was stricken out.
The House provision placing the bur,
den of proof on the defendant in suits
for the recovery of the value OF mer-.
chandise fraudulently imported was re-
stored after having been stricken out
by the Senate. :.
House provision requiring shippers
and importers to produce their books
to authorized agents of the government
adopted with an amendment authorizing
the Secretary of the Treasury to impose
additional duties in case OF refusal, IN
stead of the House provision authoriz-
ing him to exclude the merchandise
from entry.
The Senate amendment authorizing
the President to impose countervalling
duties was stricken out.
Reciprocity Feature.
The President is authorized to nego-
tiate trade treaties with foreign coun-'
tries subject to approval by Congress.
By a conference substitute Section
eight of the treaty with Cuba, dealing
with the preferential on sugar, is spe-
cifcally abrogated. With this excep--
ton, the reciprocal trade treaty with.
Cuba stands.
Free importation of articles from the:
Philippines was limited by the confer
ence to such as contain not more than.
20 DER cent. of foreign material, the.
Senate amendment limiting free entry to-
such Philippine goods as are shipped un-
der a through bill of lading being re-
jected.
The Senate, through its conferees, re-
eeded from its amendment prohioiung:
the importation of goods manufactured
principally by children under fourteen
years of age.
|: Other copfslepss.. changes were as
follows:
Importations of models of women's'
wearing apparel for use of manufac-
turers in their own establishments is
permitted.
Foreign material for the construction
of repair of naval vessels of the United
States may be imported free.
Cigars may be manufactured IN a
bonded warehouse and withdrawn for
consumption in the United States upon
payment of the duty on the tobacco. used
in its imported condition and the inter-
nal revenue cigar tax.
Farmers and fruit growers may man.