Democratic Sentinel, Volume 18, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 March 1894 — TABIFF BILL IS OUT. [ARTICLE]

TABIFF BILL IS OUT.

IS GIVEN TO THE SENATE FINANCE COMMITTEE. Many Changes Made In the Wilson Me**, ore—Maximum Duty of One and Fourtenth* Cent* on Sujar—Free Iron Oro Killed—Eight Year* for Whlaky. Sugar I* Taxed. The Wilson tariff bill, which passed the House of Representatives Feb. 1, was laid before the full membership of the Senate Committee on Finance Thursday morning, in the amended form upon which the Democratic majority of that committee finally agreed after one month’s consideration. The chief features are the provisions in regard to sugar, iron ore, lead, wool and its manufactures, cotton manufactures, whisky and tobacco. The sugar provision is as follows: • All »u*ar*. tank bottom*, syrup* of canojulce or of beetjuice, melada. concentrated utelada. concrete and concentrated molasse* testing by the polariscope not above 80 degrees, shall pay a duty of 1 per cent, per pound, and for every additional degree or traction of a degree 80 and not above 00 decrees shown by the polariscope test, shall pay. 01 of a cent per pound additional, and above 00 and not above OS degrees, for every additional degree or fraction of a degree shown by the polariscope teat shall pay a duty of .OS of a cent per pound additional, and above 00 degree* by polariscope test shall pay a duty of Lt cents per pound; molasses testing not above 56 degree* by the polariscope shell pay a duty of 2 cents per gallon; molasses testing above 58' degrees shall pay a duty of 4 cents per gallon. Tax on Iron. Coal, and Lead. Iron ore. including manganiferoua Iron ore, also dross or residuum from burned pyrites, is taxed 40 cents per ton. Coal is taken from the free list and made dutiable also at 40 cents a ton, and ooke at 15 cents. Lead ore, which in the Wilson bill was 15 per cent, ad valorem, lead ore, and lead dross are taxed three-fourths of a cent per pound, provided that silver ore and all other ores containing lead shall Ey a duty of three-fourths of a cent r pound on the lead contained therej according to sample and assay at the port of entry. Raw woo) is left on the free list exactly as in the Wilson bill, the provision to go into effect Aug. 2, 1894. In manufactures of wool the valuations as given in the Wilson bill are stricken out, and the schedules now read as follows: Wool of ths sheep, hair of the camel, go»t, alpaca, and other like animal* in the form of alubbing, waste, roving waste, ring waste, uiuugo, shoddies, garnetted. or carded waste, carbonised noils, or other waste product, any of which 1* composed wholly or In part of wool; the hair of the camel, gout, alpaca, and other like animals, which has been Improved or advanced beyond Its Original condition as waste by the use of machinery or the ap-i plication of labor, or both, and carbonised! wool, shall be subject to a duty of 15 per centum ad valorem. On wool of the sheeps hair of the camel, goat, alpaca, or other like animal* In the form of roving, roping, or top*, 25 per centum ad valorem; on woolen and worsted yarns, SO per centum, ad valorem i on woolen or worsted cloths, shawla knit fabrics, manufactures of every description made wholly or In park of wool, worsted, the hair of the camel, goat alpaca, or other ah I matt and Any of the above having India rubber as a componen* material, not specially provided, for In this act, 85 per centum ad valorem. Instead of 40. as tn the Wilson bill On blankets, hats of wool, and flannels.' 25 per centum ad valorem, and If valued at moije than 30 cents par pound 80 per centum ad valorem; on Women's and children's dress goods, oom posed wholly or in part of wool, not specially provided for in this act, 85 per centum ad valorem, instead of 40; on clothing, ready-made, and articles of wearing apparel of every description. and imitations of fur. composed wholly or in part of wool, etc., 40 per centum ad valorem, Insteadof4s; on webbings, gorlngs. suspenders, braces, beltings, bindings, braids, etc., 85 per centum ad valorem, Instead of 4% Carpets remain unchanged. The reduction in the duties for manufactures of wool shall take effect Dec. 2,1894. Oil and on the Free Lis j Articles stricken from the free list are as follows: Apples, green. ripe, and dried, etc.; beef, mutton and pork; bone char; bituminous and shale, and coal slack or culm; ooke, cocoa fiber, floor matting, manufao lured from round or split straw, Including Chinese matting; dates, cocoanuta, Brasil nuts, cream nuts; gambler; guts, salted i horn strip* and tips; iron ore; olive*, green or prepared; orchid*, lily of the valley, assleas, palms, and other plant* used for forcing under glass for cut flower* or decorative purposes; sausage skins; sugar; stained or painted window glass or painted glass; paintings and statuary. The additions to the free list are ae follows: Any cattle, horse*, sheep or other domestic animal* which have strayed across the border to any foreign country, or where such domestic animals have been or may be driven acroe* such boundary by the owner for pasturage purpose; diamonds and other preclou* stones, rough or uncut, including miner*' diamond*; cod liver oil. not specifically provided for in the act; straw, etc., for hats; spermaceti, whale and other fish oils of American fisheries and all fish and other products of such fisheries.