The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-06-30
ADMINISTRATORS
 TARIFF MEASURE
 IS MADE PUBLIC
Unofficial Estimates Place Expected Return Under Bill as High as 700 Mil-
 lion Dollars a Year
By Associated Press

Washington, June 29.--The admin istrations permanent tariff bill was introduced today in the House of representatives and for the first time was made public.
 No explanatory statements accom- panied the introduction of the :aeas- ure, as heretofore has been custom ary. and no official estimate was made of the revenue it is expected to return.
 Unofficial estimates by members of the ways and means committee placed the expected return as high as sT00,00O, 900 a year The Payne-Al- drich law in the normal pre-war years produced a little more than $30,000,000 a year. Examination of the bill, which covers 346 printed pages, shows that in some cases the rates proposed are higher than cor responding rates of the Payne-Al- drich law, while others are corre- spondingly lower
 An estimate of how the whole bill CDTDpd1GS Niln the 1dy law would only be possible by .tariff experts making a detailed study be- cause the schedules of the new bill are in many cases not framed in parallel with the schedules of the Payne law, but are differently con- structed.
 Large Free List
 In comparison with the Underwood tariff law of the Wilson administra- tion, the new bill removes many ar ticles from the free list, although 1t leaves 8 large list free of duty, in csuding print paper, wood pulp, leather and harness and agricultural implements. It raises the duties on the great bulk of imports already being taxed l. has made no notable additions to the free list.
 Comparison of the wool schedule with Schedule K of the Payne-Al- drich bill, over which a bitter fight was waged in Congress, showed ma terial reductions in number of in- stances. In the item of hose and gloves, the duty fixed by the com mittee was 30 cents a pound and 25 per cent ad valoreum duty in addi- ton, while in the Payne bill the rate was A cents pound and 60 per cent ad valorem. Clothing, as fixed in the bill. carries 20 cents a pound and 25 per cent, as against A cents pound and SO per cent in the Payne measure.
 The same degree of shading was made by the committee in knit fab rics, at 25 cents pound and 20 per sscnt ad valoren, against the former republican rate of SS to A cents a pound and 50 to 55 per cent adva- lorem.
 Democrats Studying Bill
 Republican members of the com l mittee. refusing heretofore to give any intimation as to the exact pro- fvisions of the measure, declared to- yday that the rates on wool were much below the Payne -AIdrich sched- sule. Democratic members of the committee did not get access to the bill until late today, and they were at work tonight in an effort to find cut just how it compared
 In the rush to get the bill to the I House the committee had not time to submit report, but it is sub ject to change, it was said by a re- publican caucus. Only a few changes were made at the meeting today. the most important being a turn about on the question of oil. After voting l down last week a proposal to tax crude petroleum, the committee, at the eleventh hour, put a tax of s5 cents a barrel on crude and 25 cents barrel on fuel oil.
 Cut to Pieces
 The lumber schedule, ast originally drawn, was cut to pieces last night by the committee which finally heed ed the appeal of republicans to have finished lumber kept on the free list.