Democratic Sentinel, Volume 18, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 May 1894 — CHANGES IN TARIFFS. [ARTICLE]

CHANGES IN TARIFFS.

MANY ALTERATIONS HAVE BEEN MADE IN THE BILL. Result of the Compromise Between the Democrats in the Senate—Duties Are Increased—Schedules In the Measure Which Sult the Majority. Mutilate Wilson's Measure. During the executive session Monday Senator Jones presented, the amendments to the tariff bill, which have been considered ana agreed to by the Democratic Senators, known as the compromise committee. ’ There are over 400 of them, and it makes a new bill, or a measure greatly differing from the Wilson bill and from the Senate bill in any form in which it has been presented. The amendments heretofore presented by Senator Vest and reported from the Finance Committee are indorsed by the compromise committee.. There is a general increase in the bill, and in some schedules the increases are very marked. The new sugar schedule provides: On and after Jan. 1, 1895, there shall be levied, collected and paid on all sugars not above Na 16 Dutch standard in color and on ail tank bottoms, sirups of cane juice or of beet, juice, melada, concentrated melada, concrete and concentrated molasses a duty of 40 per centum ad valorem, and upon all sugars above Na 16 Dutch standard in color there shall bo levied, collected and paid a duty of oneeighth of 1 cent per pound in addition to the said duty of 40 per centum ad valorem; aud all sugars, tank bottoms, sirups of cane juice or of beet juice, melada, concentrated melada, concrete or concentrated molasses which are Imported from or are the product of any country which at the time the same are exported therefrom pays, directly or indirectly, a bounty on the export thereof, shall pay a duty of one-tenth of 1 cent per pound In addition to the foregoing rates. Provided that nothing herein contained shall bo so construed as to abrogate or in any manner Impair or affect the provisions of the treaty of commercial reciprocity concluded between the United States and the king of the Hawaiian Islands on Jan. 30, 1875, or the provisions of any of Congress heretofore passed for the execution of the same; that on and after Jan. 1. 1895. there shall be levied, collected and paid on molasses testing 40 degrees Or less by the polariscope and continuing 20 per centum of moisture, and on ■toolatoes'testing >ubove 40 de trees and not above 56 de trees polariscope, a duty of 2 BaHpn;B a Hpn; if testing above 56 degreed- a duty of 4 cents per gallon.- " . •

Changes in Other Schedules. Other changes in the bill are; . Tartaric acid. 20 per cent, ad valorem; 10 in Senate. 20 in House bill. Alcoholic perfumery. Including Cologne water and .other toilet waters and' alcoholic compounds not specially provided for In this act. 82 a gallon and 50 per centum ad valorem; Senate and House bills, $2 a gallon-and 25 ad valorem. All coal-tar colors or dyes by whatever name known and not specially provided for in this act. 25 per cent.; Senate and House bills, 20. New paragraphs Inserted as follows: Drugr, such as barks beans, berries, bhlsams, buds bulbs, bulbous roots, excrescences. fruits flowers dried fibers, dried Insects grains, gums and gum resin, herbs, leaves, lichens, mosses, nuts, roots and stems, splcot. vegetables, seeds (aromatic). seeds of.morhtd growth, weeds and woods used express! z for dyeing, which are not edible, advanced In value or condition by refining or grinding or by other process of manufacture, and not specially provided for In this act, 10 per cent ad valorem. In the paragraph relating to fish the word “prepared” is stricken out and the rate of 20 per cent ad valorem is made to apply to all fish oils. Epsom salts are rpade dutiable at 1-5 of a cent per pound. Other changes are: Morphia or morphine salts thereof, 50 cents per ounce. Flaxseed and poppy oil, 20 cents per gallon instead of 15 cents in former Dills.

On olive oil for salad purposes the House rate of 35 cents per gallon Is restored. Instead of the Senate Cjmmlttee rate of 25 per cent. Glass Schedule Changed. A portion of the glass schedule Is changed so as to read as follows: Green and colored, molded or pressed, and flint and lime glass bottles holding more than one pint and demijohns and carboys. coveted or uncoryered, and other molded or pressed green and colored and flint or lime glass bottleware pot specially provided for in this act, five-eighths of 1 cent per pound. Green and colored, molded or pressed and flint and lime glass bottles and vials holding not more than one pint and not less than one-quarter of a pint, threefourths of one cent per pound: If holding less than one-fourth of a pint 35 cents per gross, whether filled or unfilled, whether their contents be dutiable or free. The Senate rats,on the above Is 40 per cent; Hotjse change in glass is as follows: ’ Unpolished cylinder, crown, and cotton Window glass, not exceeding 10 by 15 inches square,, I cent per pound; above that, and not exceeding 16 by 24 Inches square, 1)4 cents per pound: above that, auid not exceeding 24 by 30 Inches square, 1% cents per pound; above that, and not exceeding 28 by 36 inches square, 1% cents per pound; all above that, IJ4 cents per pound. Provided, that unpolished cylinder, crown, and window glass, imported in boxes, shall,contaln fifty square feet, as nearly as sizes will permit, and that duty shall be commuted thereon according to the actual weight of the glass. There is a change of sizes as well as of rates, and comparisons cannot bo made Piate-glaSs, 24 by 35 inches, Is taxed 23 cents per square foot; Senate and House bills, 20 cents; all plate-glass above these dimensions, 38 cents per square foot; Senate and House bills. 36 cents. Lookingglass plates added to glasses, dutiable at 10 per cept. ad valorem, in addition to other rates chargeable thereon. Changes in Iron Duties. The plg-lron paragraph Is amended to read as follows:

Iron In pigs. Iron Kentledge, Spiegeleisen, ferromanganese, ferro-slllcon, wrougut and piuit scrap-iron and scrap steeL $4 per ton; but nothing shall be deemed scrapiron *r scrap steel except waste or refuse iron'or steel, -fit only to be manufactured. 1. Beams, girders. joists, angles, channels. W|-track champ's, “T” columns or posts, op parts or sections of columns or posts, dedk tfnd bulb'beams and building forms. togeftidP with alt other structural dbapes of Iron .or steel, whether plain' or punctured ,or fitted for us“„6-lu of H cent a pound. Senate bill 35, House bill 80 per cent • Railway bnrs, m,ade of Iron or steel, or railway bars made in part- of steel, “T" rails, and punched iron or steel flat rails. 7-20 of a cent a pound. Senate bill 22)4 per cent ad valorem. House bill 20 per cent Tin plate 1 l-sxents a pound, restoring the House rate; Senate bill 1 per cent Cutlery Schedule. The cutlery schedule Is changed to read as follows: Pan-knives, pocket-knives or erasers of all kinds, valued at not more than 30 cents pet.dozen. 25 per cent ad valorem; valued at more than 30 cents per dozen and not exceeding 50 cents pgr dozen, 12 cents per dozen; valued at more than 50 cents per dozen and not exceeding Si per dozen. 25 cents jier dozen: valued at more than SI per dozen and not exceeding 51.50 per dozen. 40 cents per dozen: valued at more than 51. 50 per dozen and not exceeding $3 per dozen. 75 cents per dozen; valued at more than S 3 a dozen, 50 per cent, aa valorem, and in addition thereto, on all the above valued at more than 30 cents a dozen, 25 per cent ad valorem; provided that blades, handles or any other ; arts or any or either of the articles named in this paragraph. Imported in any other manner than assembled in pen-knives, pocket-knives or erasers. shall be subject tt> no less duty than herein provided for pen-knives; pocketknives or erasers valued at more than 30

cents a dozen. The Senate and «oom bill* 15 cents. T<\bacco Schedule. Wrapper toßacco. unstemmed, imported In any bale, box or package, or In bulk, $1.50 per pound; if Hemmed, H 24 per pound. Hoqm and Senate bill* *1 and $1.25 respectively on above articles. V Snuff- and snuff flour manufactured of tobacco, ground, dry. or damp and pldcled, scented or otherwise, of all descriptions, 50 cents a pound; Senate and House bills, 40 cents Tbe cigar paragraph Is amended to read a* follows: Cigars, cigarettes, cheroots of all kinds, $4 a pound and 25 per cent ad valorem; and paper cigars and cigarette*, including wrappers, shall be subject to the same duties as are herein Imposed on cigars. The duty ‘on cigars in the House and Senate bills is $3 per pound aud 25 pftcent Dairy and Farm Products. Butter and substitutes therefor. 4 cents per pound, which is tbe House rate; Sen-1 ate bill, 20 per cent. Cheese, 4 cents per pound; Senate and House bills, 25 per ceut Milk, fresh, 3 cents per gallon; Senate and House bills, free. Broom corn, $6 per ton; Senate and House bills, free. Cabbages, 2 cents each; Senate and House bills, free. Eggs. 3 cents per dozen; Senate and House bills, free. Hay, $2 per ton, the House rate; Senate, 20 1 er cent Honey, 10 cents per gallon, the House rate; Senate bill, 2u per cent

Hops. 8 cents per pound, the Bouse rate; Senate bill, 20 per cent Onions, 20 cents per bushel, the House rate; Senate bill. 20 per cent Tbe House rates In the paragraph devoted to peas are restored so that the paragraph reads as follows: Peas, dried, 20 cents per bushel; spilt peas, 50 cents per bushel of sixty pounds, and peas in cartons, papers or other small packages, 1 cent per pound; Senate. 20 per cent Potatoes, 15 cents per bushel; Senate bill, 30 per cent; House bill. 10 cents per bushel. Meats of all kinds, prepared or preserved, not specially provided for In this act, iO per cent. Lard, 1 cent per pound; taken from free list Poultry. House rates (not. dressed. 2 cents per pound; dressed. 3 cents per pound) are restored; Senate bill. 20 per cent Changes In Cotton ScheduleParagraph 253, relating to cotton cloth, is stricken out aud the following Inserted: Cotton not bleached, dyed, colored, stained, painted or printed exceeding fifty and 100 threads to the square Inch, counting the warped filling, and not exceeding six square yards to the pound, I’4 cents a square yard; exceeding six aud not exceeding nine square yards to the pound, IJ.j cents a square yard; exceeding nine square yards to the pound. P 4 cents a square yard; If bleached and not exceeding six square yards to the pound I’4 cents a yard; exceeding six aud not exceeding nine square yards to the pound 1 ;, 4 cents a square yard; exceeding nine square yards to the pound 2’4 cents a square yards; If dyed, colored, stained, painted or printed and not exceeaing sixsquare yards to tbe pound, 2“4 cents to the square yard; exceeding six and not exceeding nine square yards to the pound,3J4 cents to the square yard; exceeding nine square yards to tbe pound, 3)4 cents per square yard; provided, that on ail cotton cloth not exceeding 100 threads to the square Inch, counting the warp and filling, not bleached, dyed, colored, stained, painted, or printed, valued at over 7 cents per square yard, 25 per centum ad valorem; bleached, valued at over 9 cents per square yjird, 25 per centum ad valorem; and dyed, colored, stained, painted, or printed, valued at over 12 cents per square yard, there shall be levied, collected, and paid a duty of. 30 per cent ad valorem. Duties on Woolen Goods. On blankets, wool and flannels for underwear and felts for paper-makers’ use and printing machines, composed wholly or In part of wool, the hair of the camel, goat or alpaca, or other animals, not more than 30 cents per pound, the duty will be 25 per centum adcvalorem; valued at more than 30 “and not more than 40 cents” per pound, 30 per centum ad valorem: “valued at more than 40 cents per pound, 35 per centum ad valorem;” the change consisting in restoring the quoted words in the. House bill. On women’s and children’s dress goods, coat linings, Italian cloth, bunting or goods of similar description or character “or all manufactures. Including such as have any rubber as a component material,” composed wholly or in part of wool worsted, the hair of the camel, goat, alpaca or other animal, and not specially provided for In this act, the House rate of 40 per cent, is restored. Senate bill, 35 per cent, and the following words added: Valued at not over $1 a pound, 40 per cent, ad valorem; valued at more than 80 cents and not more than $1 a pound, 45 per cent ad valorem; and all of the foregoing valued at more than $1 a pound, 50 per cent

On ready-made clothing composed of any above-mentioned materials the House rate of 45 per cent is restored. Senate bill, 40 per cent. The following paragraph stricken out of the House bill by the Senate Committee is now restored: On cloaks, dolmans, talmas, ulsters or other outside garments for ladles and children's apparel, and goods of similar description or used for like purposes, composed wholly or In part of worsted, hair of the camel, goat or alpaca, or other animals, made up or manufactured wholly or In part, the rate is changed from 45 to 50 per centum ad valorem. Brussels carpets, figured or plain, all carpet of like character or description. 35 per cent, ad valorem. House and Senate bills. 30 per cent Velvet and tapestries, velvet carpets, figured or plain, printed on the warp' or otherwise, and all carpets or carpeting of like character or description, 35 per cent ad valoreirf: House and Senate bills, 30 per cent Tapestry Brussels carpets, figured or plain, and all carpets or carpeting of like character or description, printed on the warp or otherwise, 35 percent ad valorem; House and Senate bill, 30 p< r cent Triple ingrain’, three.-ply, and all Verse-i tian carpets. 35 per cent ad valorem; House and Senate bills, 30 per cent Wool. Dutch and two-ply Ingrain carpets. 30 per cent; House and Senate bills, 25 per cent Changes In the Free List. Added to the free list are the following: Dressed fur pieces suitable only for use In the manufactures of hatters’ fur. Molasses testing not above 40 degrees polariscope test and containing 20 per centum of moisture Opium, crude or manufactured and not adulterated, containing 9 per centum and over of morphia. En Fleurage, pomades. In the free list after the words “petroleum. crude or refined,” Is Inserted the following: Provided, that If petroleum, crude or refined. Is Imported from any country which Imposes a duty on the same exported from the United States, then there shall be levied, paid and collected upon such pretroleum. crude or refined, the rate of duty existing prior to the passage of th,is act The following is added to the paragraph in the free list relating to agricultural Implements: Provided, that all articles mentioned in this paragraph, if imported from a country which lays an import duty on like articles Imported from the United States, shall be subject to the duties existing prior to the passage of this act.

Sponges are being propagated in a cheap way just now. About three' years ago a cute German divided a few healthy specimens of live sponges into a goodly number of parts and placed them in deep watjr, with tho result that he now has a crop of 4,1 00 at an initial expenditure of S2O. Gold leaf, when bjaten into a sheet of the th ckness of but one two-hun-dred-and-flfty-thousandth of an inch, appears to I e of a beautiful green.when held up to the light. Such sheet's tfre really semi-transparent. > A Persian carpet has bsen in use for 200 years in the main hall of the, Shah's palace in Teheran.