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Show M OF SENATE ON JIFF BILL Committee Decides to Reserve Final Action Upon Certain Important Schedules. MORE GENERAL REVISION THAN MADE BY HOUSE Chairman Payne May Not Know His Measure When the Senate Gets Through. WASHINGTON, April 10. Tho senate sen-ate tariff bill, so f,ar as rates arc concerned, con-cerned, was completed tonight, but it was decided that in making a report Chairman Aldrich will announce a reservation res-ervation on certain important schedules sched-ules for futuro action. Thcso reservations reserva-tions will include hides, steel rails, wood pulp and crudo petroleum. ' Chairman Aldrich asserted tonight that the senate committeo had made a more general revision of rates than was done by the house committee on ways and means, and that reductions had been made on a fnr greater numbov of articles. This did not mean that there would be a reduction of rovenue, but there would bo recommended a bona tide revision downward of tho tariff. The great number of changes which will be recommended ate due largely to the fact that while tho Payne bill revised re-vised rates on certain basic, articles tho revision did not ox tend to rclatod articles. For instance, lead ore was reduced re-duced in tho Payne bill and the several manufactures of lead ore remain unchanged. un-changed. The senate committee mad a general reductions on these manufactures manufac-tures in harmony with the reduction on the unworked" material. To Be Much Amended. Similar changes were mado in man.y other schedules, which will account for the many amendments that will be presented pre-sented in the senate. Iu the report that will bo made to the senate hides will go on the free list as provided by the Payne bill, but the question of fixing a rate in accordance accord-ance with the sont.imeiit of the senate as expressed through a canvass taken by western senators will be taken up in the near future. A similar condition will be reported on steel rails. The Payne rates are $3.92 per ton, which is oue-half tho existing rate. Tho committee was impressed with tho arguments made by tho steel manufacturers that this rate should be increased, but it is known that considerable consid-erable opposition to such action will be .manifested in (ho senate. This item will be discussed later by the committee, commit-tee, and the indications are an increase to about $4.2;) per. ton will bo recommended. recom-mended. No decision has been reached ou the subject of wood pulp and this fact will be announced by Senator Aldrich when ho reports the bill. The same is true" of crude pctroloum. Tho I duties on lumber also promise to occasion occa-sion debate in tho sonato and while aio change from the Pavno bill will bo recommended it. is predicted that a number num-ber of amendments will be offered on the floor, of tho senate. Duty on Co'al. Tho seuato linanco committeo today decided to recommend a reduction from 65 to 4.5 ceuts per ton on bituminous coal. The Payno bill includes slack at tho same rato as fixed for bituminous coal, increasing the duty on this product prod-uct from 15 cents to 07 cents. Tho senate- committee has decided to restore re-store the Dingloy rate of 15 cents per ton. Protests mado by heavy importers of ' gloves and hosiery against tho increase made bv tho Payno bill over the existing exist-ing Dingley rntos, as woll as protests mado by hundreds of women through-nut, through-nut, the p.oimtrv. induced the senate com mittee to agreo to recommend tho continuance con-tinuance of tho Dingley rates. Tho existing rates on woolens, which wore material I v decreased by the Payne bill, will bo recommonded by the sonato committee. Specific duties will be recommended rec-ommended throughout on silks of all kinds, the specific duty being a trifle abovo tho combined ad valorem and specific duties now collected under tho Dinglcv act. This action is taken iu order to meet, probable sevcro competition competi-tion with Japanese silks, which every vear are coming in in larger quantities at a conslautly decreasing cost of manufacture. manu-facture. . , Cotton Men's Claims, The demand for protection for long-staple long-staple cotton, which comes into competition com-petition with Egyptian cotton, used in tho manufacture of mercerized silk goods, has been donied by tho senate committee. This action was taken on the ground that the long staple cotton raised on the sea islands off tho South Atlantic coast now brings a high price in tho American market, and for tho further reason that it would be difficult not to give liko protection to cotton jraised in certain parts of J exas ami Mississippi, which is ol compara-ively compara-ively long staple.. Present indications are that tlio committeo com-mitteo will report tho bill to the senate on Thursday next. Tho administrative lenture of the bill in all probability will not be reported for another week or more. Something of the proposed tariff bureau, bu-reau, which has been the object of a frrcnt deal of study, was learned io-nicht, io-nicht, although plans for the establishment establish-ment of such bureau will not bo completed com-pleted until other administrative lca-tures lca-tures of the bill are roported. Plans for Tariff Bureau. According to prcaout plans the bureau bu-reau will consist of a consolidation of the bureau of manufactures and tho bureau of statistics, which aro under the department of commerce and labor; the bureau of trade relations, under the state department, and the customs division di-vision of the treasury department. It is intended that this consolidation shall bo placed under the head of tho treat-ury treat-ury department and that it shall act . ' . ' . ' ' - - ' 9 in an advisory capacity to the president in tho event of tho adoption of Senator Aldrich 's maximum and minimum provision pro-vision for the application of tho tariff law, As this provision gives considerable discretion to tho president, tho senate coiniiiittoo deems it wise to formulate a bureau that would at nil times be competent com-petent to act in an adviao' capacity m tho matter of administering the tariff law. |