The Oskaloosa herald., 1913-09-11
TARIFF BILL WINS
i IN SENATE AZ TO 81
Administration Measure Now
h. Goes to the House.
TO CONFERENCE THIS WEEK
Two Democrats Of Louisiana Cast Bal
lot Against Act-La Toilette and
Poindexter for It-conferees
Named by Marshall.

Washington. Sept 10.-By a vote of
~ to 81 the senate passed the Under.
wood.Simmons tariff bill Senators
Thornton and r, lsdell of louisiana
were the only ID mocrats to vote
against the bill, while Senator Poin.
dexter. Progressive. and Senator La
Toilette, Republican, voted for the
measure. Senator Lewis was paired
with Senator Gronna. but announced
that he intended to vote for the bill
anyway. and did SO.
The bill now will go to the house
and probably win be sent to confer
ence this week.
Conferees Are Named.
Vice-President Marshall announced
as conferees on the bill Senators Sim
mons, Shiyely, johnson and Williams,
Democrats; Penrose. Lodge and La
Toilette, Republicans.
Among the articles placed on the
free list were raw wool and sugar at
the end of three years; cattle, sheep,
meats, wheat, -four, print paper val
ued at less than IN cents a pound,
wood pulp, pig iron steel ingots,
blooms and slabs, cast iron pipe, pho
tographic and moving picture films,
exposed, steel fails, cement. milk and
cream, ferro-manganese, lard, fax,
hemp, jute, eggs, corn, cornmeal, cash
registers, sewing machines, type set
ting machines, lumber and hair of the
angora goat. ....
Aims to Prevent Gambling.
The senate placed in the bill a tax
on cotton futures, aimed to prevent
gambling. 1t provids for tax OF one
tenth Of one cent per pound on all
sales of cotton futures, with refund
when actual delivery is made
The senate amended the house bill
by striking out the anti-dumping
clause which would prevent foreign
manufacturers from dumping into the
American market surplus of their
goods at lower prices than are charged
for the goods abroad. The senate also
struck out OF the bill the provision
which would give reduction of FIVE
per cent. in all the duties charged up
on goods imported in American bot
toms. II inserted provision which
prohibits lawyers from taking Gus
toms appeals cases on the contingent
fee plan, in an effort to reduce the
amount of litigation over the customs.
In the chemical schedule the senate
has made a great number of amend
ments. the reductions and increases
being about equally divided. In the
glass and earthen ware schedule, ce-
ment, upon which the house placed a
duty of five per cent. ad valorem, was
placed on the free list. The senate
adopted a new classification for mica,
making the duties specific instead of
sd yalorem and slightly increasing the
rates. ...s
Pig Iron on Free List.
The house had a duty of eight per
cent. on pig iron, and the senate put II
on the free list. The house also had a
duty of eight per cent. on iron slabs.
blooms, etc., and the senate added
them to the free list. The senate re-
duced the duties of automobiles val
ued at LEI than $500. 1t also re-
duced the X lty on motorcycles from
40 per cent. All yalorem to % per cent.
Slight increases in the duties on zinc
ores were made by the senate.
The same provisions for reducing
sugar free at the end of three years
as In the house bill. were retained by
the senate, but an amendment was
adopted providing that the new re-
duced duties shall not go into effect
until March /, 1914.
In the agricultural schedule, the sen.
ate free listed cattle and sheep, which
the house taxed ten per cent. ad va
loren. II reduced the duties on oats
from ten cents bushel, the house
rate. to six cents. 1t reduced the duty
on beets from ten per cent. to five per
cent. ad valorem, 1t reduced the duty
on peas from fifteen cents to ten cents
q bushel, and 1t placed wheat, which
the house had taxed at ten cents a
bushel, on the free list. The senate
reduced the duty on Zante currents
from two cents per bushel to one
cent
The senate placed a duty of one.
tenth of one cent a pound on bananas.
They have always been free in the
past.
The liquor schedule remained about
the same. although the senate placed
. tax Of $1,10 per gallon on brandies
ased in the manufacture OF wines.
Slight Increases In Yarns.
The senate made slight increases In
yarns and tops. 1t reduced the rates
somewhat on cotton stockings, Many
large reductions were made in the
max, hemp and jute schedule, includ'
ing the free listing of fax, hemp and
tnte. In the wool schedule the senate
reduced tops from fifteen per cent ad
yalorem to Ave per cent, and on yarns
from 20 per cent to 10. Wooden blank
sts valued At less than 40 cents per
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