Salt Lake Tribune | 1913-02-07 | Page 12 | Radical Reductions Made in Schedule B

RADICAL REDUCTIONS MADE IN SCHEDULE B WASHINGTON, Feb. 6. The majority of the house commlUo. on ways and means, who are framing tariff revision legislation for the coming- extra session of congress, agreed today upon radical reductions In the customs duties on mica, asphalt and various klndB of chlnawaro and glassware of tho cheaper varieties. The committee completed its consideration considera-tion of schedule H, tho earths, earthen-warp earthen-warp and glasware soiled ule of the tariff, and will take up tomorrow the rates on wood nnd manufactures of wood. Scluxlulc C. tho big Iron and stool schedule, which ranks with tho textile schedules as a storm cciitor of Democratic Demo-cratic revision plans, was passed over until Monday because of tho absence of Representative A. Mitchell Palmer, the Pennsylvania member of tho committee, whose stato largely is affected by tho metal schedule. Crude bauxite, the raw material for the aluminum Industry, now taxed 51 a ton. was shifted from schedule 13 to tho metal schedule. The reported admission of the Aluminum Company of America that It is In world-wide agreements, make it doubtful. .Democratic leaders say. whether wheth-er reduction of bauxite duties would help or benefit that so-called monopoly of tho American aluminum field.