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Show 1W0 TARIFF I Reciprocity andFree I . List on 100 Articles I Favored iji Washington, April 12. Two of the H tariff measures which the Democrat- IH ic house expects to pass in advance. IH of any general legislation were Intro- H duced today by Chairman Underwood H of the committee on ways and means. H They are Canadian reciprocity, follow- H ing the identical lines of the McCall H bill passed last session, except for a H clause authorizing the President to H continue negotiations for reciprocity H with Canada on articles not covered H by the pending agreement, and a bill H to put on the freo list about 100 arti- H clcs now dutiable under tho general H tariff. Both will receive early consid- H eration. H The free list bill is designed to pla- H cate farmers for agricultural losses H which they will sustain under the H Canadian agreement, but it contains H also some foodstuffs and boots and H shoes. The list is as follows: H Plows, harrows, headers, harvest- H ers, reapers, agricultural drills and M planters, mowers, horse rakes, culti- jH vators, threshing machines, cotton H gins, farm wagons, farm carts and H all other agricultural implements, in- H eluding repair parts. H Bagging for cotton, gunny cloth and H fabrics suitable for baling cotton; bur- H laps, and bags for sacking agricul- M tural products, hoop or band Iron or H steel for baling cotton; wire for baling H hay; straw and other agricultural H products; grain, leather buff, split, H rough or sole leather, bend or belting H lenthcr, boots and shoes, harness, sad- H dies and saddlery and leather for man- H ufactured articles. H ! Barbed fence wire, wire rods, wiro H j strands or wire rope, wire woven or M manufactured wire fencing. H Meats of all kinds, fresh, salted, H pickled, dried, smoked, dressed or un- H dressed, prepared or preserved in any H manner; bacou. hams, shoulders, lard, H lard compounds and lard substitutes) H sausage, buckwheat flour, corn meal, M wheat and ryo flour, bran, middlings M and other offals of grain, oat meal and H rolled oats, and all prepared cereal H foods, biscuits, bread, wafers and sim- H Mar articles not sweetened, timber, H hewn, sided, or squared, round timber H user for spars or building wharves, H shingles, laths, fencing posts, sawed H board, planks, deals and other lum- M ber. rough, or dressed except ebony, H mahogany, rosewood, and all other mM cabinet woods. H Sewing machines and salt complete H the free list. H oo H |