Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1922-04-11
REWRITTEN TARIFF
BILL Is PRESENTED
TO SENATE TO-DAY
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SaSOiy AACcb UpOH lOAlNor lllaO0 from
cattle hides n the various leather
manufactures, such az shoes and har-.
ness. The rates on shoes were fixed
at from 6 cents a pair to IL emit a
pair and v per cent al valorem.
Could Continue Embargo.
Under a last minute change made
in the dye pr0vision-the president
could continue the present embargo
with a licensing system for one year
beyond the period Of. one year from
the q OF the signing Of the measure
as originally provided. Rates on dyes
were fixed at Z cents a pound, and
sixty Per cent on finished dyes. The
dye interests had asked for 8. flve-year
embargo, arguing that this was
necessary to protect the war time in
dustry from German competition.
Duties proposed In the silk and silk
goods schedule is said by officials to
be about at the level of those In the
Payne-Aldrich' law The average
slightly below the Fordney bill rates
and considerably higher than those
in the Underwood act.
Tobacco Rates Higher.
Rates on tobacco in the new bill are
much higher than those in the Ford
ney measure and the Payne-Aldrich
and Underwood laws. The duty pro-
posed on unstemmed wrapper and
nller is Sass a pound compared with
500 in the Fordney and $l.s5 in
the Payne-Aldrich and. Underwood.
On Nstemmed filler and wrapper the
duty would be So a pound, while the
Fordney rate was SETS and the
Payne-Aldrich and Underwood $3.50.
The duty Of - a pound and Is per
cent I'D valorem proposed on cigars
and cigarettes is the same as that in
the Fordney and Payne-Aldrich, and
Underwood act.
In the case Of metals, the commit
tee agreed on averaging along with
in the Underwood bill. The Payne
Aldrich duty Of TAO of a cent per
pound on steel rails was agreed upon.
Under the Underwood bill such rails
are free. The rs per cent rate on
automobiles, bodies and parts and
motorcycles, compared with the As
per cent in the Payne-Aldrich law
and the rs per cent to As per cent
rate in the Underwood act.
The glass provisions in the Fordney
bill were rewritten and the majority
report said "the necessity of main
tanning and strengthening the new de-
veloped glass industries including the
manufacture OF optical and chemical
glass, has een met by writing in du-
ties that should encourage research
n expansion Of the domestic indus
try"
These duties, the report added,
are not higher than actually requir-
ed to prevent waste of the capital now
invested in these new industries"
Taken on Free List.
Aside from hide and shoes and a
large number. of agricultural products
important articles taken from the free
list, include sewing machines and cash
cocoanut oil, soya bean oil and cot
tonseed Oil, crude magnetic, lawn
mowers scythes and sicles. Tin in
bars, blocks and pigs was restored to
the free list from the Fordney bill, as
were shingles and bananas. PetrOle-
um crude and refined also was left on
the free list Original Fordney bill
proposed a duty, but the house struck
Out the. provision. Other important
items On the free list include agri-
cultural Implements. linotype and
all t~ypesstting machines; typewriters,
shoe machinery, anti-toxins, v~accines,
serums. bibles, binding Irvine, books,
printed and bound more han 20
years. bullion, gold or silver chalk,
unmAnufactured; coal, coke, cocoa
and cocoa beans; coffee, coins OF gold,
silver or other metals; copper ore
grasses and fibre; guano gums and
resins; gun powder, ice. crude India
rubber and gutta .percha; asphalt,
newspapers and periodicals.; oil cake
n oil cake meal; ores Of gold, silver,
nickel. parchment and vellum; moth
err OF pearl and shells in natural state;
crude phosphates. platinum in ingots.
bars or. plates: .quinine ,sulphate. rag
pulp; una nsls shrtmps, Holsters ana
other shell hsh; raw silk, silk cocoons
and silk waste; sulphur tar and mitch
wood; tea. turpenune and rOsin; wax,
board, timber, round unmanvfactured,
newn, sided or squared otherwise fheh
by saving; sawed boards. planks.
deals and other lunber not specifically
provided for.
The original plan was to make tho
tariff bill public late today. for publ
cation in morning papers OF tomorrow
but tho committee mot this morning
and this plan was altered. the time Of
IL introduction in the senate being
advanced seyeral hours. b