Democratic Sentinel, Volume 18, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 March 1894 — BACK IN THE SENATE. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

BACK IN THE SENATE.

WILSON TARIFF BILL IS AGAIN REPORTED. Safar Tax Increased, Reciprocity 8 pec I flee Uy Repealed and the Hawaiian Treaty Left Standing—A Number of Chnngwa in Administrative Feature*. Many Alterations Made. The Democratic members of the Finance Committee have completed consideration of the tariff bill, and in its revised and completed form it was submitted to the full committee, Republicans and Democrats, Tuesday. After the Senate was called to at noon, Mr. Voorhees, chairman of the committee, reported from that committee the bill, introducing it in a few words. The most important change made in the bill is in the sugar schedule, a change being made by which an additional duty of one-eighth of 1 per cent, a pound is given on all sugars testing above 98 degrees by the polariscope test, or which are above No. 16 Dutch standard in color. The text of the sugar schedule as now agreed upon is as follows: “All sugars, tank bottoms, syrups of cane juice or of beet juke, me lad a, concrete and concentrated molasses testing by the polariscope not above

80 degrees shall pay a duty of 1 cent per pound, and for every additional degree or fraction of a degree above 80 and not above SO degrees shown by the polariscope test, shall pay one one-hundredth of a cent per pound additional, and above 90 and not above 98 degrees, for every additional degree or fraction of a degree shown by the polariscope tost, shall pay a duty of two one-hundredths of a cent par pound additional, and upon all sugars testing above 98 degrees by the polariscope test, or above No. 16 by the Dutch standard in color, there shall be levied and collected a duty of oneeighth of 1 cent per pound in addition to the duty imposed upon sugars testing above 98 degrees. Molasses testing not above 56 degrees by the polariscope shall pay a duty of 2 cents per gallon. Molasses testing above 56 degrees shall pay a duty of 4 cents per gallon.”

The provisions abrogating the Hawaiian reciprocity treaty are struck from the revised bill, and the clause of the section repealing that part of the MfKinlev act providing for reciprocal treaty has been amended to read as follows: ',?,7T7 That sections 3, 15 and 16 are repealed and all agreements or arrangements made or proclaimed between the 'tlnited States and foreign governments under the provisions of said sections jare hereby abrogated, of which the President shall give such notice to the of foreign governments as may be required by the terms of such agreements or arrangements. - *"* **-*■*. —■ '<l • J w«I Some Important Changes.

The most important change in the administrative features of the bill is the action of the committee in striking out the words “highest duty" as found in the House bill, and regulating the rates of duty on all goods coming in similitude clause and substituting the words ‘‘lowest duty.” This was the subject of a long argument in full committee, in which Secretary Carlisle indorsed the provisions of the House bill. The committee, therefore, hade made the change and all goods unenumerated or coming in under the similitude clause will pay the highest insteak of the lowest rate of duty. Other changes made in the revised bill from the bill as agreed upon by the sub-committee are as follows: Glycerine changed back to the rates fixed In the House bill, which are 1 cent a pound for the crude and 3 cents for the refined, instead of 20 per cent ad valorem In the Senate sub-committee bill; licorice, 4 per cent a pound. Instead of 25 per cent ‘ad valorem in the Senate sub-committee bill and 5 cents a pound In the Wilson bilk Lime is placed at 15 per cent ad valorem, instead of 20 per cent in the Senate subcommittee bill and 10 per cent in the Wilson bill, and the duty is made to include the value of the covering or barrels. Plaster of parh, which was not changed in the Senate sub-committee bill from the Wilson rate of 10 per cent ad valorem on the ground article. Is to pay a duty of SI per ton; calcined plaster of parts, JI 25 per ton, Instead of 15 per cent ad valorem in the Wilson bill; cast polished plateglass, finished or unfinished, and unsilvered, not exceeding 24 by 60 inches square, 20 cents per square foot Instead of 18 cents as In the Wilson bill; all above the dimension given, 35 cents per square foot instead of 30 cents aa In the Wilson bill. All sheets of iron or steel, common or black, thinner than Na 25 wire gauge, are changed from 9-10 of 1 cent per pound to % of 1 cent per pound, and the provision which the House bill carried, but which was stricken out of the original Senate bill, that this change shall take effect after Oct. 1. 1894, is restored; tin-plate, terne-plate, and taggers tin, 1 cent per pound instead of 1 1-5 cents, as In tbs Wilson bill, the Senate sub-committee not having before changed the Wilson rate. In this paragraph the Wilson bill provision that the rate shall take effect Oct 1, 1894 is restored. Cast-iron pipe of every description is to pay 22% per cent ad valorem Instead of 25 per cent In the Wilsop bill and 20 percent in the Senate sub-committee bill; cross-cut saws, mil), pit and' drag saws 15 per cent ad valorem instead of 25 ter cent, the Wilson bill rate; aluminum in crude form .13 per cent, ad valorem Instead of 25 percent, the Wilson bill rate. No Change in Lead, Iron or Coal. The lead and lead ore duties are left unchanged from the Senate sub-committee rates, as are the iron ore and coul duties. Oatmeal pays 15 per cent ad valorem instead of 20 per cent, the Wilson bill rate. Castor beans are restored te the Wilson rate of 25 cents per bushel. The paragraph in the Wil«on bill relating to “cans or packages, made of tin or other metal, containing shell-is struck out entirely. Collars and cuffs are left unchanged from the Senate sub-com-mittee rate, but shirts and all other articles of every description, not specially provided for, composed wholly or In part of linen, will pay 50 per cent ad valorem instead of 85 per cent, the Wilson bill rata Playing cards are restored to ths Wilson rate of la cents ear pack Instead es 2 cents

ptt pack ai Ixad by Um lab-eotm miuae. On plpM, pip*-bo win, and all aaoken* articles not specially provided for in this act, Including clfsrette books, cigarette book covers, poachee for smoking or chewing tobacco and cigarette paper In all WlUoe rate M per cent, ad valorem is restored, the Senate sub-com-mlttee rate baring been 40 per cent, ad valorem, and the remainder of this paragraph is made to read as follows: “And pipe-bowls of clay. It per cent, ad valorem." Toe provisions of the Senate sab-com-mittee bill to a doty of 20 per cent, ad valorem on bananas and pineapples is stricken oat. The following articles are restored to the free list: Cocoanots and horn strips and born tips. Tax on Cigars Remains as It Is. In the internal revenue schedule the committee strikes ont the provision which the Senate sub-committee inserted taxing cigars and cigarettes weighing more than three pounds >5 per 1,000 and cigarettes in paper not weighing more than three pounds fl per 1.000 and wrapped in tocacco 50 cents per 1.000, thus leaving the taxes on these articles unchanged from the present law. The provisions of the income tax amendment relating to a tax on -building and Joan associations, which a ere exempted by the House, but which exemption wax stricken out when the Senate sub-com-mlttee reported the bill, has been restored with the proviso that the tax shall not be levied upon those institutions which make no loans except to share-holders for the purpose of enabling them to build homes.

SENATOR VOORHEES