The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1921-07-02
TARIFF AIDS
GOODS MADE
IN RICHMOND
Adequate Protection Pro-
vided for More Important
Products With Exception
of Farm Implements.
may GET TAX OFFICES
PALLADIUM NEWS BUREAU

PALLADIUM NEWS BUREAU
WASHINGTON, July 2.-The per-
manent tariff bill in the form it has
been presented to the house of repre-
sentatives provides adequate protec-
tion for the products of all the more
important manufacturing industries Of
Richmond, Indiana, with the excep-
ton of the products of the citys i'm
plement factories. Farming machin-
cry continues on the free list
Under the provisions of the new
tariff measure a duty of 35 per cent
ad valorum is established for lawn
mowers. Under previous tariff laws,
including the present Underwood law
! lawnmowers have been included on
| the free list, but in recent months
! federal court has handed down a rul-
! ing that lawnmoWers are not farming
implements. In consequence these
! products, not being specifically men
toned in the new bill, are included in
the so-called basket paragraph
which provides a duty Of So per cent
ad valorum for such articles and
wares composed wholly or in chief
value of iron, steel, lead, copper and
other common metals, whether partly
or wholly manufactured, and not def
initely referred to in the measure.
Gloves Protected
Richmond's glove making industry
is provided for in schedule 9 of the
new bill. Gloves composed wholly or
in chief value of cotton or other
vegetable fibre, made of fabric knit
on warp knitting machines, have a
duty of 40 per cent ad valorum; gloves
made of fabric knit on other than
warp knitting machines, SO 1-3 per
cent ad valorum; made of woven fab
ris, % per cent ad yalorum.
i Under the same schedule duties
ranging from 121a to 40 per cent ad
valorum are provided for cotton un
derwear. Schedule IL establishes a
sliding scale of duties for woolen knit
underwear, finished or unfinished
Knit garments made of wool or OF
which wool is a component part
whether or not constituting chief
value, and valued at not more thar
$3.50 per pound, duty of 80 cents
per pound and in addition thereto, q
per cent ad valorum; valued at more
than $3.50 per pound, duty of 81
. cents per pound and, in addition
thereto, 25 per cent ad valorum.
Duty on Autos
Richmond's automobile and automo
bile parts manufacturing concerns
= find protection under schedule s.
+, duty of 25 per cent ad valorum is es
: tablished for automobiles, automobile
= bodies, chassis and automobile parts
t not including tires. It is further pro
5 vided that if any other country i'm
Il1+1y fn
: then the United States government
r shall levy an equal duty not to exceed
: so per cent ad valorum.
r Manufacturers of machine tools an
:, parts of machine tools in Richmond
: and their employees, will also be in
t terested in schedule 3, paragraph 37Z
which provides a duty of 35 per cen
ad valorum for such products.
Schedule 4 provides a 25 per cen
ad valorum duty for house and cab
net furniture.
Photographs, which are a produc
of one of the largest manufacturin
= concerns in Richmond, are provide
= with duty of 40 per cent ad valorur
= under one paragraph of schedule l.
Another paragraph of the same scheG
/, ule provides a duty of 35 per cent a
< valorum for another product of tn
t. same concern-pianos.
e If congress takes favorable actio
t, upon the recommendation of Secrt
S tary of Treasury Mellon that the nun
is Der of internal revenue collecting di
il tricts in the United States be il
t. creased. it is quite probable that Ii
e diana will be given an additional di
d trict. 1t now has only one, with o
l. fices at Indianapolis. 1t has bee
n suggested that in the event of til
creation of a second district in Ind
ana its offices would be located eitl
n er in Richmond. Evansville, Teri
q, Haute, South Bend or Ft Wayne.
n, Mr. Mellon has represented to col
e gress that there is a great need fC
S the creation of a number of addition;
n interna! revenue districts throughol
q the country. He points to the fat
ot that only a few years ago there wei
"a Approximately 600, 600 federal taXpa
0. ers, but at the present time owe
"a ,0Oo, 900 people pay federal taxes an
81 that the machinery for the collectio
'e of this greatly increased taxation
inadequate.
| Representative Hickey, of Indian
| expects to introduce within a sho
! time a bill to provide an addition
federal judge for the district of
:. diana. His measure will not autho
ize the creation of two federal cou
- districts in the state. II would mer
Z ly provide an assistant to Judge A
y. derson, and the junior federal juds
would hold federal court in five su
districts, located throughout the stat
es throughout the year.
o. 1t is quite probable that the cou
le of one of the proposed subdistric
would be located in Richmond in Il
eevent of the enactment of Mr.. Hic
D2 ey's bill. 1t is understood that 1t
63 a common complaint of Indiana {
torneys that they are required to
go to Indianapolis to conduct all feder
u court business. This would be OBJ
h- ated under the Hickey measure.