New-York tribune., 1921-06-30
Measure Introduced and
Made Public for First
Time; Usual Report of
Committee Is Lacking
Many Reductions
In Wool Schedule
Print Paper, Wood Pulp
and Finished Lumber
ON Free List; Tax ON Oil

tion's permanent tariff bill was intro
duced to-day in the House of Repre-
sentatives and for the first time was
made public. No explanatory state
ments accompanied the introduction of
the measure such as heretofore have
been customary and no official estimate
was made of the revenue it is ex-
pected to return.
Unofficial estimates by members of
the Ways and Means Committee. how
ever, placed the expected return as
high as $7OOOoo,oo0 a year. The Payne
Aldrich law in the normal pre-war
years produced q little more than
$300,o0o,o00 year.
Examination of the bill, which covers
BAG printed pages, shows that in some
cases the rates proposed are higher
than corresponding rates Of the Payne
Aldrich law, while others are CORE
spondingly lower.
Comparison Estimate Not Made
An estimate of how the whole bill
compares with the Payne-Aldrich law
would only be possible by tariff experts
making detailed study, because the
cases not framed in parallel with the
schedules of the Payne law, but are
differently constructed.
In comparison with the Underwood
tariff law of the Wilson Administra-
tion the new bill removes many articles
from the free list, although it leaves
largo list free of duty, including print
paper, wood pulp, leather and harness
and agricultural implements. 1t raises
the duties on the great bulk of imports
already being taxed. 1t has made no
notable additions to the free list.
Comparison of the wool schedule
with Schedule X of the Payne -Aldrich
bill, over which bitter fight was waged
in Congress, showed material reduc-
tions in a number of instances. In the
items of hose and gloves the duty fixed
by the committee was 80 cents pound
dition, while in the Payne bill the rate
was AZ cents pound and so per cent
ad valorem. Clothing, as fixed in the
bill, carries 20 cents pound and 25
per cent, as against Al cents pound
and go per cent in the Payne measure.
Shading in Knit Fabrics
The same degree of shading was
made by the committee in knit fabrics,
at 25 cents pound and 20 per cent ad
valorem, against the former Republican
rate of 33 to 40 cents a pound and
80 to 55 per cent ad valorem.
Republican members of the commit
tee, refusing heretofore to give any in
timation as to the exact provisions of
the measure, declared to-day that the
ofrc ILL
Payne-Aldrich schedule. Democratic
members of the committee did not get
access to the bill until late to-day
and they were at work tonight in an
effort to find out just how it compared
In the rush to get the bill to the
House the committee had no time to
submit a report, but it is subie"i to
change, it was said, by a Repu1 C n
caucus. Only a few changes were
made at the meeting to-day, the most
important being a turn about on the
question of oil. After voting down
last week proposal to tax crude petro-
leum the committee at the eleventh
hour put tax of 35 cents a barrel on
crude and 25 cents barrel on fuel oil
The lumber schedule as originally
drawn was cut to pieces last night BY
the committee, which finally needed the
appeal of the Republicans to have fin
ished lumber kept on the free list.
Shingles, however, were taxed in the
lumber schedule, but many other items
were not. There was no lumber
by name, the numerical system being
followed.
Retaliation Provided For
In deciding to drop the retaliatory
tariff proposal the committee pro-
vided in the bill that if any country
imposed duty on any of the free list
lumber exported from the United
States the President might enter into
negotiations with it to obtain removal
of the tax, and, failing i'll his efforts,
would be empowered to declare equal
rates on tho product imported from
such country.
Tax on Shingles Brings Complaint
Most of the talk around the Capitol
in the last week has been over lumber,
which was expected to be the real bone
of contention at the first party caucus
But the leaders in the fight to have it
remain on the free list indicated that
such other differences as might exist
OH the subject would be adjusted The
tax of SO cents thousand on shingles
brought some complaints from mem-
bers who had been urging that no duty
be imposed on any products needed at
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