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HOUSTON DAIIOST a aUBSDAX MpDHIlIG. rli AKCU 10. .ICCfV
PAYNE TO RUSH TARIFF BILL
Qark Wants to Amend the Measure and Will
Ask for Longer Tinja
SENATORS OBJECT SERIOUStlO CHANGES
Full Membership of Ways and Means Committee Democrats and Re-
publicans Will Meet Today to Consider Act Petroleum Placed
on Free List Inheritance Tax Proposition Is Important.
" (AssociJtiJ Frett Rtferl.)
WASHINGTON. March 17 The full
. ' membership of the house committee on
ways and mean. Including democrats a
' well as republicans. wlK meet at 10 o'clock
tomorrow morning for the formal consld-
erntlon of the Payne tariff bill which saw
" ' the light for the first time In the house
1 today. The senate committee qu finance
will at the name time liegln an Informal
. discussion f the matter. The house com.
mlttee will prohnbly have only one slt-
.. ting on the measure that the bill will be
' reported to the house Immediately after
It convenes tomorrow and that Its formal
reading In committee will soon begin
tlenerel debate will be postponed until
"Monday If Mr. rayne s present program
V Is followed and after that time the hill
will be before the house from ten days
to two weeks.
This plan of operation Is slightly dif-
ferent from that which lias been followed
In the consideration of other tariff bills
of recent years and it had been expected
that the democratic members of the com-
mittee would be afforded more time tluin
Is now contemplated for the consideration
of the bill In committee. It is still pos-
sible that if they insist upon delay and
succeed in presenting good reasons for
their request thev nnv be accommodated.
Mr. Clark said today tliat he would
make every effort In the committee aa
he would on the floor of the house to
have the bili amended and for tliat rea-
son would ask for longer time. He added
however that he would not press for
more time for the preparation of a mi-
nority report an tliat could be formulated
aa well after the bill had been reported
as before. Mr. lavne's inclination is to
get the bill into the house at the earliest
practicable moment ami his plans are s
complete that It is not believed he wi I
yield to a plea merely to offer amend-
ments which the minority as well as
' tlie majority know- wil: not be accepted.
A compromise will probably be reached
and that the democratic memlier will
accept a proposition which will allow
them to present their amendments on the
floor. Mr. Clark indicated today that his
principal plea would be for that prlvl-
lege. He said he did not consider gen
eral debate as or nearly so raucn impor-
tance as the discussion of the bill with
the opportunity to suggest changes in the
various schedules. It is therefore prob-
able that if Mr. Payne and his fellow
republican members of the committee
. concede this privilege the democrats will
accept It In lieu of similar privileges of
the committee and make no serious pro-
- test against the immediate reporting of
the blU.
LENGTH OF DEBATE.
No announcement as to the length of
lme-that will be given for debate has
. been made and Mr. Payne is quite wary
On this paint. The Dingley bill was un--
der discussion In the house for only ten
day and of that time four days were
devoted to general debate. It was cou-
- sidered under a rule fixing the hours of
' meeting: limiting the time of debate and
prescribing the method ofV offering
amendments. The democrats still remem-
bar that under the regulation- concerning-
amendments they found bo opportunity
v'i'to force test votes on any particular
mOiaHiiI Tt im f - 1 n v-...' o nlniu . -.
begin the general debate before askiiur
to have a rule brought in. and whether
any will ha ordered probably will depend
.... on circumstances. He expects also to
give some more time for the considera-
tion' of the bill by the house than was
. given the Dingley measure.
Senator Aldricti chairman of the sen-
ate committee on finance who will deal
with the bill in the senate announced
today tliat he would call a meeting of
the republican members of the commit-
tee for tomorrow with the idea of im-
mediately beginning consideration of the
house measure. The finance committee
suffered seriously from the defeats In
the recent elections and as a consequence
the republican membership numbers only
four senators. They are Messrs. Aldrich
of Rhode Island Burrows of Michigan.
Penrose of Pennsylvania and Hale of
Maine..
Mr. Aldrich says however they can
take up the bill as a subcommittee and
lie hopes to do so.
SENATORS OBJECT TO CHANGE.
As soon as the republican vancancles
are filled the new memoers will be In-
vited in and the consideration of the
measure will proceed with the hope tliat
the senate committee may be prepared
to make its report soon after the receipt
of the bill from the house. Mr. Aldrich
said today that he had not looked at the
house bill and he declined to make any
comment upon it. It is known however
that many senators make serious objec-
tion to the changes in the present law.
Senator Hale chairman of the repub-
lican caucus is among those who find
the bill objectionable.
'It absolutely murders the wood pulp
and paper industry of Maine." he said.
This is the most important industry In
our State and we shall resist the change
with the utmost possible vigor."
Mr. Hale authorized this statement but
while he found many of the other fea-
tures of the bill to be objectionable from
his point of view he declined to speclfv
them. He predicted that the bill would
be before congress for the next three
months or more.
The committee on finance wall not
grant any hearings but will consider any
written or printed statements which
may be presented to it.
The probabilities are tliat when the
Jiouse begins the debate on the bill the
hours of the sessions will be extended.
The sittings will probably begin at 10 In
WHY do thousands take
the Bitters in preference
to anything else for Stomach
DIs? They know from ex-
perience that it is always
safe and reliable. We guar-
antee it so.
af
HOSTETTER'O
CELEBRATED J
STOMACH
BitterS
should be the first choice
of everybody suffering from
Poor Appetite Flatulency la
dajjestioa. Dyspepsia Bilious-
Bess Grippe Colds and Gen
eral Debility.
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I the morning and last until 10 or 11 o'clock
I at nlvhf
NEW DRAWBACK PROVISION.
One of the most significant features
of the bill is the new drawback provision.
It extends this privilege so that an Amer-
ican manufacturer may not use the ma-
terial whk'h he imports In order to secure
the refund of the duties which he paid
on the material. If he uses materials
produced In thla country in equal amount
of those which he has Imported he will
be entitled to the drawback provided
that materials axe made of equal pro-
ductive and manufacturing quality and
values.
The legal deduction of 1 per cent on
the drawback is provided nut the ex-
portation upon which the manufacture
proposes to collect the drawback must be
made within three years after the Im-
portation of the foreign material used or
checked against It. The secretary of the
treasury is authorised to prescribe the
regulations under which the drawback Is
paid.
PETROLEUM OX FREE LIST.
Petroleum is placed on the free list and
the counter-vailing duty provision is re-
tained. The inheritance tax provision
exempts from taxation any property be-
queathed to any religious educational
ctiaiitable. missionary benevolent hos-
pital or Infirmary corporation. Personal
property other than money or securities
bequeathed to a corporation or associa-
tion organijed sect exclusively for the
moral and intellectual Improvement of
men or women or for scientific patriotic
or similar purposes is made exempt from
tax. A discount of 7 per cent is provided
tor If the tax is paid within six months
from the time it Is due. Interest will be
charged and collected at the rate of 10
per cent per year. If the tax is not paid
within eighteen months from the time
it accrues. If an estate is tied up in
necessary litigation t per cent interest
will be charged. A special agent to con-
duct Investigations to secure efficient in-
formation for the inheritance tax is pro-
vided for at a salary of fK a year.
In order to prevent the confusion which
attended toe enforcement of the Dingley
bill on the day it became a law. the
t Payne bill is not to take effect until the
day after It is enacted. Two provisions
of the bill are new in exempting from
payment of duty on merchandise received
from a vessel which has been raised after
having been sunk for two years in any
waters within the Jurisdiction of the
l'nlted States and has been abandoned
by the owners; another which extends to
vessels of war of any nation in our ports
the privilege of buying supplies free of
duty when such countries reciprocate
such privilege toward American vessels.
MR. PAINE'8 STATEMENT.
Representative Payne of the ways and
means committee. In introducing the tar-
iff bill gave out the following statement:
One problem that confronted the com-
mittee was the question of revenue. The
business of all commercial nations baa
been depressed for nearly two yean and
this has affected our commerce and
greatly reduced our revenues so that we
have a large deficit but the revenues
under the present law art Im Droving from
month to month aa business conditions
are becoming better.
The last normal year of imports was
l tie fiscal year ended June 3ft. IMS; 1907
was act unusually prosperous year and
the revenues from customs exceeded
those of IMS by S32.f4n.00O. The commit-
tee therefore has taken 1806 as the basis
to form their estimate of the revenue-
producing qualities of the' new bill
Should the next fiscal year prove pros-
perous and the normal conditions of IMS
return on account of the large increase
in population the revenues for 110 would
show a considerable increase over the
estimates of the committee.
With a return to anything like normal
conditions during the next fiscal year. It
is safe to predict that the deficit would
be entirely wiped out but In case It is
not. the bill provides for the Issue of
Panama canal bonds to reimburse the
treasury for the M0. 000 000 paid out In
the original purchase of the canal. This
would more than make up any probabla
deficiency. There Is also re-enacted the
provision for the issue of certificates to
run one year to replenish the treasury
raising the amount from 1100000.000 to
IJ50.000.000. an amount sufficient to pro-
vide at any time against two or three
years of depressed business conditions.
The statement gives the rate In the
.present law. the Dingley tariff and
shows the changes that the Pavne bill
proposes. The abstract of the bill con-
tinues: SOME TRANSFERS MADE.
The committee have transferred some
articles from the free list to the dutia-
ble and have increased duties on others
for the sole put pose of Increasing; the
revenue. Most "of the articles on which
duties have been Increased are luxuries
which have been Increased as follows:
Perfumeries and toilet articles' from 60
to SO per centum ad valorem: fancy soap
from 15 to 30 cents per pound ; chlckory
root raw not dried from 1 to 2Vt cents
per pound; roasted from 3Vi to t cents
per pound.
Cocoa crude transferred from the free
list to the dutiable at 4 cents per pound:
prepared or manufactured increased 3
cents on each classification except that
valued above 35 cents per pound which
remains the same. Ten per centum is
also added to the duties assessed on that
valued between Is and 26 cents per pound.
Powdered cocoa from S to cents per
pound.
Cocoa butter from JV4 to 6 cents per
pound. Dandelion root and articles as a
substitute for coffee cents to 4 cents
per pound.
Spices which are now largely on the
free list are assessed an average duty
of 30 per cent ad valorem. Feathers are
increased from 10 to 20 per cent ad va-
lorem and dressed or colored feathers
receive an increase of M per cent. Furs
dressed on the skin are assessed 27 V4 per
cent ad valorem.
Duties on the following articles (have
been increased because the committee
found that there was not sufficient pro-
tection under the present law continued
Mr. Payne:
Coal tar dyes or colors now bearing a
duty of 30 per cent to X per cent ad va-
lorem to 1 cent per pound for the zinc
contents contained therein.
Peas split peas from 40 to 45 cents
per bushel. Figs from 2 to 2V4 cents per
pound. Lemons from I cent to lt cents
per dozen. Pineapples from $7 per thou-
sand to 28 per thousand.
COTTON SCHEDULE INCREASES.
Increases In the cotton schedule are:
An additional duty of 1 cent per yard on
mercerized fabrics (a new process of
manufacture Invented since the present
law was enacted).
Also a small additional duty on lappets.
There Is also an increased duty on stock-
ings fashioned and shaped wholly or In
part on knitting machines. 'f
Changes in the paper schedule which
Include those recommended by the special
committee on wood pulp and print paper
investigation are:
Hurfae mhim nanera. niimI with
metal from 1 cents and 30 per cent Sol
awrrm is cents ana 30 per cent ad
valorem ; other surface-coated panara
from ZMj cents per pouno ana pwyuw
ad valorem to I cents per pound.
Lithographic prints from cents per
pound to cents; card boajxl front
to K cents per pound. Other paper M to
X cents per pound with small Increases
on various alses of other paper. Utho-
nraphio cigar labels from ente per
n i Mnifl tier iMiund: orlhted In
colors less than eight from eents to J
. ' 1 . than etorht- n
from cents to cents. Pr pound;
printed In metal leaf from cente per
pound to US cents per pound; paper
hangings from ft per cent to 30 per cent
ad valorem: paper not specially provided
for from J8 per cent to 3S per cent ad
valorem. f .
Plain paper envelopes from per cent
The recommendations of the committed
were to permit the free entry ui w
pulp not Imposing export duty and to
'reduce printing paper valued at not above
iU cents per pound from three-tentha to
one-tenth of 1 cent per pound: valued
not above SH cents a pound from four-
tenths to Iwo-tenths of 1 cent per pound.
REDUCTION IN DUTY.
The reductions In duty are much more
numerous than the Increases. In tha
schedule on chemlwals. oils and paints
they are:
Boric acid borax from S cents to 3
cents per pound ; reductions of S oents
per pound are made on gallic and tartaric
acids borate of lime.
Reductions of (0 per cent are made in
the duly on sallclllc acid chloroform
fruit ethers oils or essences peppermint
oil. whiting and parts white and dry;
bichromate and chramate of potash and
santonin. . '
Borate of lime and other borate mate-
rial is reduced from 4 cents to IS cents
per pound and from 3 cents to 1 cent
Kr pound according to the per cent Of
raic acid used. .
Sulphuric acids are reduced 3 cents per
pound: spirits of neltrua .ether to 1 cent
per pound. .
Iodoform from $1 to 75 cents per pound
flax seed linseed and poppy seed oil re-
duced to U cents per gallon.
Vanishes reduced trom i"
centum ad valorem and spirit varnishes
from $1.M per gallon and 35 percentum to
2i percentum ad valorem.
Iad. acetate of. white from 3 cenfa
to t cents per pound; brown gray or
yellow from SVi cents to l cents per
pound: nitrate of. from 3V to 2tf cente
per pound: litharge from 2S to Ft cents
per pound. '
Potash chlorate of. from 21- cents to
3 cents per pTuind.
Plasters healing etc.. from 35 percentum
to 26 percentum ad valorem; hydrate of
or caustic smla. from to W cent per
pound: nitrate of soda 21 cents to J cents
per pound; hypoosulphate of soda from
m cents per pound to 30 percentum ad
valorem. .
Sulphate of soda or salt rake or niter
cake from $1.26 per ton to $1.
Sponges and manufactures of. from 40
percentum to SO percentum ad valorem.
Strychnine from to 36 cents per
ounce. .
Refines flours from $8 per ton to $S
pet ton.
Vanillin from $ cents per ounce to U
cents per ounce.
ARTICLES ON FREE LIST.
Articles In each schedule pfceed on the
free list are:
Sulphite of ammonia copperas licorice
and cotton seed oil and croton oil.
The statement gives the following re-
ductions: Schedule on earths and earthenware:
Fire brick and other brick of glazed
and enameled from 4i to 35 percentum
ad valorem.
Plaster rock or gypsum crude from
S0c to 40c per ton if ground or calcined
from $2.25 to $1.75 per ton.
Unpolished cylinder crown and com-
mon window- glass above 24 by 36 inches
square reduced l-8c per pound; n all
sixes cylinder and crown glass above 24
by 30 and not exceeding 24 by SO inches
square reduced from 15c to 12 per square
foot; sixes above that from 20c to 15c
per square foot.
Onyx in block from $1.50 per cublo
foot to $1 per cubic foot.
Cast polished slate glass silvered ex-
ceeding 24-by 30 Inches. 25c per square
foot which is a reduction on most sties
from $c to 25c per square foot. I
Mosaic cubes of marble onyx or stone
not less than 2 cubic inches in size if
loose from lc per pound to V4o and same
ad valorem: if attached to paper or other
material from $0c to 10c and same ad
valorem.
Freestone and other building or monu-
mental stone except marble and onyx
unmanufactured from 12c to Sc per cubic
foot.
Mica cut or trimmed from 12c per
pound and 20 percentum ad valorem: un-
manufactured from c per pound and 20
percentum ad valorem and mica cut or
trimmed from 12c per pound and 20
percentum ad valorem all to 30 percent-
um ad valorem; mica plates or built up
mica. 35. percentum ad valorem.
On marble sawed the reduction is
about one-sixth and the additional duty
if nibbed In whole or In part" is 're-
duced from 3c to 2c per superficial foot.
METAL SCHEDULE.
Iron ore and baste slag from 40c
per
ton to free. list.
Pig iron iron kentlldge and spiegel-
eisen from 14 per ton to $2.30.
St rap iron and steel from 4 per ton
to 50c per ton.
Dar iron from 6-10c to 4-10c per pound.
Round iron less than 7-18 of one inch
In diameter from 8-10c to 6-10c per
pound.
Slabs blooms loops or other forms
less finished tlian bars from 6-10c to
4- lOc per pound.
Charcoal iron from $12 to IS per ton.
Beams girders joists angles etc..
from S-lOc to S-loc per pound.
Anchors from Hie per pound to lc.
Iron and steel forgings from 35 percent-
um to 30 percentum ad valorem.
Hoops band or Bcroll Iron or steel not
thinner than No. 10 wire gauge from
5- lOc to 3-lOc per pound; thinner than
No. 10 and not thinner than No. 20 from
-10c to 4-10c per pound; thinner than
No. 20. from 8-10c to 6-10c per pound.
Steel bands or strips untempered.
suitable for making band saws from 3c
per pound to He; If tempered from 6c
per pound and 20 percentum ad valorem
to 3c per pound and 20 percentum ad va-
lorem. '
Cotton ties from S-lOc per pound to
-10c . . .
Railway bars and steel rails from
7 -10c per pound to 7-40c; railway fish
plates from 4-10e per pound to 2-10c.
Iron steel sheets valued at 3c per
pound or less thinner than No. 10 and
not thinner than No. 20 wire gauge from
7 -10c to 5-10c per pound; not. thinner
than No. 20 from S-lOc to -10c: not
thinner than 3 from 1 l-10c to 8-lOc;
thinner than No. 32. from 1 2-lOc to
-10c; corrugated or crimped from 1 l-10c
to 8-10c per pound.
Sheets polished planished or glanced
from 5c to 1 3-4c per pound: if pickled
or cleaned. 2-10c per pound In addition.
Tin plates from lttc to 1 2-10c per
pound.
ADVANCE87n TARIFF.
Round or steel wire not smaller than
Np 3 wire gauge from l'.i cents per
pound to 1 cent; not smaller than No. 16
from m cents to 1V4 cents per pound;
smaller than No. 15 from 2 cents to Xy
cents per pound.
That all -the foregoing valued at more
than 4 cents per pound shall pay not less
than 40 per cent ad valorem.
Steel bars or rods cold rolled cold
drawn or cold hammered or polished
from '4 to 1 cent per pound In addition
to the above rates to of 1 per cent per
pound: on strips plates or sheets of
Iron or steel other than polished where
cold rolled and so forth from 1 cent
per pound In addition to the rates on
plates to S-10 of 1 cent per pound.
Bolts with or without threads or nuts
from m cents to 14 cent per pound.
Cast Iron pipe from 4-10 of 1 rent to
of 1 cent per pound.
Cast hollow wsre. coated glazed or
tinned from 2 cents to li cents per
pound.
Chains not less than three-fourths of
an inh in diameter from 1U to "t of a
cent per pound: not less than three-
eighths of an inch in diameter.' from IS
cents to m rents; not less than five-sixteenths
from ls to 1-4-fl of 1 cent. But
no chains will nay less than 46 pet cent
ad valorem.
Lap welded but Irelded seamed or
jointed Iron or steeboiler tubes. If not
less than three-eig5ths of an inch in
diameter from cents to 1 cent per
pound: not leaithan one-fourth from 2
cents to 1 nil per pound: If leas than
one-fourth to M cents per pound; welded
cylindrical fuAacea from 1 la J cents
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AND CONTINUE EACH DAY AT THESE HOURS UNTIL
ENTIRE STOCK IS SOLD
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1007 PRESTON AVENUE r.
per pound; other steel tubes from 35 to
3 per cent ad valorem. v
KNIFE St'HKDCLE LOWERED.
Table butchering caning and so forth
knives with pearl shell or ivory handles
from 16 cents c:ni to 14 cents each; han-
dles of deer horn from 12 cents to 10
cents each: with handles of hard rubber
bone celluloid and so forth from 6 cents
each to 4 cents each; with other handles
from lVi cents c;u-h to 1 cent each with
the same ad valorem In addition to the
15 percentum jir.nided that none of the
above shall pay at a less rate than 40
percentum ad valorem instead of 45 In
the present law.
Files were rdirced from specific rales
the equivalent of SO percentum ad va-
lorem to V) percentum ad valorem.
Cut nails spikes from 1-16 of 1 cent
to 5-10 of 1 cent per pound.
Horseshoe nails and hobnails from 2fe
cents to 1'a cents ier pound.
Wire nails not lighter than No. 16 wire
gauge from tj of 1 cent to t of 1 cent
per pound; lighter than No. IS from 1 cent
to cent per pound.
Spikes nuts washers and horse mule
or ox shoes from 1 cent to ? of 1 cent
per pound.
Cut tacks not exceeding sixteen ounces
to the thousand from 1H cents to S of
1 cent per thousand; exceeding sixteen
ounces from V - cents to of 1 cent
per pound.
Steel plates en graved and sd forth
from 25 to 20 percentum ad valorem.
Rivets from I to cent per pound.
Crosscut saws from to 5 cents per
foot; mill saws from 10 cents per linear
foot to $ cents per linear foot; pit and
draw saws from cents per linear foot
to $ cents per linear foot; circular saws
from 25 percentum ad valorem to 20 per-
centum ad- valorem; steel band saws
from 10 cent per pound to 6 cents per
pound and 20 ; en entura ad valorem re-
maining; all others reduced from 30 per-
centum to percentum ad valorem.
Screws more than two Inches in length
from 4 cents to 24 cents per pound; over
one inch and not more than two Inches
from 6 to 1 cents per pound; over half an
Inch and not over one Inch from 8H
cents to 6 ent per pound; one-half Inch
and less from eents to 8 cents per
pound.
Wheels for railway purposes or parts
thereof from l'j cents to 14 cents per
pound; Ingots blooms or blanks' or the
same from l1 cents to 1 cent per pound.
Aluminum In crude from $ cents to 7
rents per pound; In plates from 13 cents
to M cents per pound. l'
liooks and eyes from S cents to 4
rents per pound retaining the additional
15 percentum ad valorem.
Lead dress bullion base bultton and
lead In pigs from 2Si cents to IVi cents
per pountl; in sheets pipes. 'shot from
2Vs cents lo 1T cents $er pound.
Sheet clock or pigs from 1 cents to 1
cent per pound; In sheets from 2 cents
to 'i cents per pound.'
Casii-cegisters electrical apparatus and
machinery jute manufacturing" machin-
ery linotype and all type setting ma-
chines machine toots printing presses
sewing machines typewriter and all
steam engines from 45 percentum to 30
percentum ad valorem. '
Embroidery machines and lace-making
machines the same rate with a proviso
that they may be Imported free until July
1. 1911.
Steel ingots blooms and slabs Valned
at 1 cent per pound or less from (-10 of 1
cent per pound or less from -W of 1
rent per pound to 7-40. and on the other
valuations lhe reductions am 1-10 of 1
cent per pound with the exception of
those valued ah.ive 7 cents and not above
10 cents upon which the duty remains
the same and upon those valued above
90 rents per pound upon which the duty
Is made 15 percentum ad valorem.
15 PERCENTt-MAD VALOREM. !
Lumber schedule: - ' . . ' . '
Timber from lc per cubic foot to 1VC.
Sawed boards planks' of white wood
sycamore and bass srqod from II per
tliousand to 50c. A - '
All othem sawed Ibsnber from 12 to IL '
If furtbf p advance d and manufactured.
E. TLiemann Stock of Jetoelry
To 3e Sold at Public Auction
been rented over our
for us to get another store and we must VACATE
rafrtpr than atnro nnr dnnAa wp will f1nqp tripm
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the same reduction from the present law.
Paving posts railroad ties telephone
poles etc.. from 20 percentum to 10 per-
centum ad valorem.
Clapboards from $1.50 t8 $1 per thou-
sand. Kindling wood transferred to free HstV
I-atlis from 25c per 10ft to 20c.
l'osts. from 10 percentum to the free
list.
Agricultural products:
llarley. from 30c per bushel to 15c.
Karley wheat from 45c to 25c.
Cabbages from 3c to 2c each.
Bacon and hams from 5c per pound to
4c.
Fresh meats from 2c to lHc per pound.
I.ard. from 2c to l?4c.
Tallow from 3-4c per pound to the free
list.
Wool grease from ic to l-4c.
IJextrin. burnt starchy etc. from 2c to
'.ic per pound.
Peas green from 40c to 3c per bushel.
All starch except potato Starch from
to lc per pound.
Sugar refined reduced from 1 95-100c
to 1 KO-lOOc per pound.
Flax hemp and jute:
Flax straw not hackled or dressed to
the free list.
Cables reduced from lc to 3-4c per
pound.
THREAD TARIFF REDUCED.
Thread not finer than lea In number
reduced from 13c to 10c per pound with
i-Sc Instead of 3-4c per pound advance
with each lea In number in excess of five.
Single yams not finer than eight lea
reduced from 7c to Oo per pound.
Flax gill nettings from 25 to 20 per-
centum. Carpets matte etc. from Cc per square
yard and 35 percentum ad valorem to 4c
per square yard and 30 percentum ad
valorem when valued not "above 15c per
square yard; if valued above 15c 10c per
square yard and 35 percentum ad va-
lorem to 8c per square ynrd and 40 per-
centum ad valorem.
Hydraulic hose from 20c per pound to
15c per pound. .
OH cloth including linoleum above nine
feet in width from 20c per square yard
and 20 percentum nd valorem to 12c per
square yard and 15 percentum ad va-
lorem. Shirts collars and cuffs of cotton from
45c per dozen and 15 percentum ad va-
lorem to 35c per dozen and 10 percentum
ad valorem.
WOOL SCHEDULE.
Wool of the third class known as car-
pet wool from a duty of 4 cents er pound
on such wool -worth 12 cents or less and
a duty of 7 cents per pound upon such
wool exceeding 12 cents in value to a duty
of S cents per pound on such woool valued
at not more than 10 cents per pound and
If valued at more than 10 cents per pound
and not more than 16 .-cents per pound 3
cents per pound and in addition thereto
one-half of 1 cent per pound for each cent
per pound of value exceeding 10 cents if
valued at more than 16 cents per pound.
Rope waste and roving waste from 30
rents to 26 cents per pound; ting waste
and gurnetted waste from 30 cents per
pound to 26 cents per pound.
Shoddy from 20 cents to 10 cents per
pound noils and other waste from 20 to
18 cents per pound.
Woolen rags from 2 cents per pound
to ( cents perJM.
Sundries Schedule. Bituminous coal and
coke from any country admitting Amer-
ican coal free from 07 cents per ton for
coat and 20 percentum ad valorem for
coke to free list.
Gunpowder valued at 20 cents and less
per pound from cents per pound to 4
cents. :
Cartridges from 35 to JO percentum ad
valorem: biasing caps from one equiva-
lent to (4 percentum ad valorem to DO
percentum ad valorem; mine and blast-
ing fuse from 16 percentum to 25 per-
centum ad valorem.
HIDES ONFREE LIST."
Hides of cattle from IS percentum ad
valorem to free list.
' Band and . sole leather.' from 20 per-
centum ad valorem to free list .
' Upper leather calf Skins chamois skins.
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kangaroo sheep and goat skins and other
leather not provided for from 20 .per-
centum to 15 percentum ad valorem.
Patent leather weighing not over ten
pounds per dozen skins from 30 cents
per pound and 20 percentum ad valorem
weighing over ten pounds and not over
twenty-five pounds per dozen from 30
cents per pound and 10 percentum ad
valorem. weighing over twenty-five
pounds from 25 cents per dozen and 20
cmts per pound and 10' percentum ad
valorem all to 20 percentum ad valorem;
piano forte leather from 36 percentunt
nd valorem to 20 percentum ad valorem;
boots and shoes from 26 percentum ad
valorem to 15 percentum ad valorem; shoe
laces from 60 cents per gross and 20 per-
centum ad valorem to 15 percentum ad
valorem: leather cut into shoe uppers
etc.. from 35 to 30 percentum ad valo-
rem: all other manufactures lot leather
from 35 percentum ad valorem to 30 per-
centum ad valorem.
Agricultural implements plows from 20
percentum ad valorem to 15 percentum ad
valorem and further provision to free
list from any country admitting Amer-
ican agricultural machinery free.
Works of art including paintings and
statutory more than 20 years old from
20 jiereentum to the free list.
The articles mentioned in the remaining
paragraphs are ra.ted substantially at
the same duty as under the present law.
The duties on women's and children's
cloves not over fourteen inches in
length are considerably increased on
"schmaschen" "glace" of sheen origin
"glace" other than of sheep origin "with
exterior grain surface removed" and "kid
or other leather other than skeepskln."
The rate applied to 'these gloves Is 14 per
dozen paid and 36 cents irf addition per
dozen paid for each Inch over fourteen.
PLATE GLASS INCREASED.
Somo further Increases under various
schedules "cast polished plate glass" in-
rceased from 8 cents to 10 cents per square
foot on sizes not exceeding 16x24 Inches
square and on those above that and not
exceeding 24X30 inches from 10 cents to
124 cents per square foot: all above that
22i cents per square foot which Is a re-
duction on nearly all the lareo sizes.
Keene's cement or rather cement In
which gypsum ls the component mate-
rial from 30 percentum to 35 percentum
ad valorem.
Asphaltum and bitumen not refined or
otherwise advanced in condition from its
natural state to fifteen one hundredths
of 1 per cent per 100. '
Flour-spar crude from 10 percentum ad
valorem to 50 cents per ton; crushed or
otherwise manufactured from 20 percen-
tum ad valorem to $1.76 per ton.
pins with ornamental heads with a
new classification Including those set
with precious atones pearls or corals
from 40 to 50 percentum ad valorem.
Watch movements with more than sev-
en lewelH. from 35 cents eah and 2n
percentum ad valorem to 70 cents each. If
more titan seven Jewels and -not more
than eleven from 60 cents each and 2j
percentum ad valorem to 11.36 each; more
than eleven jewels and not more than
fifteen from 76 cents each and 25 per-
centum ad valorem to $1.25 each having
more than seventeen jewels the rates of
dutv remain the same.
Watch cases and parts of watches and
clocks the duty remains the same.
Chromic add and Inetlo. acid from S
cents to 2 cents per pound.
Tannic acid or tannine from 50 cents
to 35 cents per pound.
METHODS OF VALUATION.
One of the most Important of the mis-
cellaneous provisions of the bill Is that
providing for the- method of valuation
wlilcfMr. Payne explains as follows:
"The bill adds a new paragraph to sec-
tion 11 of the customs administration act.
which provides for the appraisement of
goods imported by consignment and not
by sale where there Is no market price
at the place of the origin of the goods.
After re-enacting the present provisions
to ascertain the yalue . the bill adds
this paragraph: ' - (
"The actual market value or wholesale
prices arf defined by law of any imported
merchandise which Is consigned for sale
in the United States or which Is not so-
tually sold and freely offered for sale In
usual wholesale quantities In the open
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mit. at PUBLIC
market a country of exportation to all
purchasers shall not in any case be ap-
praised at less than the wholesale price
at which such or similar merchandise is
actually sold and freely offered for sale
in usual wholesale quantities in the
United States In the open market to all
Lasers due allowance by deduction
ng made for estimated duties thereon
t of transportation. Insurance and
other necessary expenses from the place
of shipment to the place of dtilvry and
a reasonable commission not exceeding
10 percentum if any of the same has
Defijpald."
BILL'S FORM EXPLAINED.
The following explanation of the form
of the bill was made by Mr. Payne:
"The new tariff hill is a minimum and
maximum tariff bill. Tho minimum rates
of duty aro contained in the first sec-
tion and the free list for the minimum
rates is In the second section of the bill
The third section contains the maximum
rates which are generally equal to the
minimum rates and 20 per cent in addi-
tion thereto and the articles on the free
list in the transfer to the third section
bear a duty of 20 percentunt nd valorem
as a maximum rate. The maximum does
not go Into effect in event until sixty
days afler the passage of the act By
the fourth-section the minimum rates are
applied to all goods Imported from an--othcr
country which gives the United
States ns good terms bv way of tariff as
that given any other nation and the max-
imum rates are applied to those countries
which discriminate against the trade of
the United States or fail to give the
ITnlted States tariff rates as favorable
as those given any other nation."
MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS.
Regarding the miscellaneous provision '
Mr. Payne says: "
"Tile hill provides for reciprocal fre.
trade with the Philippines on all articles
but limiting the sugar to be Imported free
of duty to 300.000 tons wrapped tobacco
to 300000 pounds and 8.000.000 pounds of )
filler tobacco and laO.000000 clKarn In
any one fiscal year. The exeeBs of sugar
tobacco and cIkuih to pay full tariff rates. '"
This exemption from duty Is confined
to the Krowth of products of the islands
however anil does not admit articles Im- .
ported Into the Philippines from a for-
eign country with the payment of the full
rates of duty on such Importation
A section ia inserted preserving the
Cuban reciprocity provisions of the
present law.
Provision is made to terminate tho
various commercial agreements with for-
eign countries according; to the terms of
agreement.
The provision of section 4 applying to
minimum and maximum rates will take
the place of the sections.
The estimated revenue under the tariff
duties prescribed In the bill amount to
about 1300000.000.
TAX ON TRANSFERS.
The bill provides for a tax on transfers
of property both real and personal by
Inheritance or succession and by will.
It Is believed that this provision when
In full operation will bring in a revenue
of 220000000 though no accurate estl- -: ;
mate can be made. ts j
The tax on cigarettes Is Increased those
weighing over three pounds per thousand J
from to $S and "those weighing! i '
from si to 81.60..
The committee has examined thorough
ly all the decisions of the courts and a'- -'K
the general appraisers Tor the last fifteen) '' v
years Interpreting the meaning of the -language
of the tariff laws and has
framed the langauge to meet these deci- i i !
sion. It Is hoped that It will Dravent ' V
suctf litigation wnd will In.h.'ffiSi
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me out contains a carefullv r
Motion (section i extending the provl- V4.
ion" ff Jwbck n material imported ; ?
on which tariff has been paid and the
products of which are manufactured ta
this country. It Is believed this guards 'M
ine.I?VU J?? t the m tlmeliber' - v '
..publication and w atlmulE
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