PREFATORY NOTE. This document is supplementary to Senate Document_122, "Notes on Tariff Revision, 1913," which was an analysis of H. R. 3321 as it passed the House of Representatives May 8, 1913. The additional observations in the present document are based upon the changes made in the bill as it has been reported to the Senate. The paragraphs and sections of the bill are printed herein in the form in which they were reported by the Committee on Finance, the portions stricken out by the committee being indicated by a line drawn through, and matter added or substituted being printed in italics. The work is limited in its scope to Section I of the bill, comprising Schedules G to N, inclusive, and the free list. The matter descriptive of the changes made by the House bill is retained, and is followed by an explanation of the changes made by the Senate Committee. Prepared under the direction of minority members of the Committee on Finance by Thomas J. Doherty, Esq., special attorney, Customs Division, Department of Justice, compiler of "Compilation of Customs Laws and Digest of Decisions Thereunder" (Treasury Department, 1908), and of "Notes on Tariff Revision" (Committee on Ways and Means, 60th Cong., 1908). 3 NOTES ON TARIFF REVISION. [H. R. 3321, Sixty-third Congress, first session, Report No. 80.] [Omit the part struck through and insert the part printed in italic.] AN ACT To reduce tariff duties and to provide revenue for the Government, and for other purposes. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That on and after the day following the passage of this Act, except as otherwise specially provided for in this Act, there shall be levied, collected, and paid upon all articles when imported from any foreign country into the United States or into any of its possessions (except the Philippine Islands and the islands of Guam and Tutuila) the rates of duty which are by the schedules and paragraphs of the dutiable list of this section prescribed, namely: DUTIABLE LIST. SCHEDULE A-CHEMICALS, OILS, AND PAINTS. 1. Acids: Boracic acid, 34 cent per pound; citric acid, 5 cents per pound; formic acid, 12 cents per pound; gallic acid, 4 7 cents per pound; lactic acid, 11⁄2 cents per pound; oxalic acid, 2 1/2 cents per pound; pyrogallic acid, 10 15 cents per pound; salicylic acid, 21⁄2 cents per pound; tannic acid and tannin, 45 cents per pound; tartaric acid, 32 cents per pound; all other acids and acid anhydrides not specially provided for in this section, 15 per centum ad valorem. 397. Acids: Acetic or pyroligneous, arsenic or arsenious, carbolic, chromic, fluoric, hydrofluoric, hydrochloric or muriatic, nitric, phosphoric, phthalic, prussic, silicic, sulphuric or oil of vitriol, and valerianic. [Free]. 1909 Paragraphs 1, 482. Acetic or pyroligneous, chromic, and sulphuric acids are transferred to the free list. Benzoic and picric or nitropicric acids, being dropped from the free list and not mentioned elsewhere, become dutiable at 15 per cent as acids n. s. p. f. Formic and pyrogallic acids, now dutiable as acids n. s. p. f. at 25 per cent, are separately provided for in H. R. 3321 at 11 cents per pound and 10 cents per pound, respectively. Acetic anhydrid is made the subject of a separate paragraph, 2, without change in the rate of duty. A provision for acid anhydrides n. s. p. f. is incorporated in paragraph 1, H. R. 3321, at |