People's Pilot, Volume 3, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 May 1894 — Tobacco Schedule. [ARTICLE]

Tobacco Schedule.

The touucco schedule Is changed to read as follows: “Wrapper tobacco, unsteromcd, imported in any bale, box or package, or in bulk, il SO per pound; if stemmed. i!!3 per pound." House and senate bills, 11 and iI.SS respectively ou above article*. “Filler lobacoo, uasteauacd. imported to any

bale, box. package or 1b bulk, ft cents per pound; if stemmed, SO cents per pound; no change in rates. “Snuff and snuff flour manufactured of tobacco, ground, dry or damp and pickled, scented or otherwise, of all descriptions, 50 cents a pound:” senate and house bills, 40 cents. Duty on Clears. The cigar paragraph is amended to read as follows: “Cigars, cigarettes, cheroots of all kinds, 84 a pound and 25 per cent, ad valorem: and paper cigars and cigarettes, 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 13 per pound and 25 per cent Hairy Products, Etc. Butter and substitutes therefor are taxed 4 cents per pound, which is the house rste: senate bill 20 per cent; cheese, 4 cents per pound: senate and house bills. 26 per cent; milk, fresh, 3 cents per gallon; senate and house bills free; broom oorn, *6 per ton; senate and house bills free: eabbage, 2 cents each: senate and house bills free: eggs, 8 cents per dozen; senate and house bills free: hay, 82 per ton (house rate), senate 20 per cent; honey, 10 cents per gallon (house rate), senate bill, 20 per cent.; hops, 8 cents per pound (house rate), senate bill, 20 per cent: onions, 20 cents per bushel (house rate), senate bill, 20 per cent Leather and Lumber. Leather and the manufacturers of leather are to be treated substantially as provided for In the house bill, except that the duty is changed from ad valorem to specific. All through the revised edition of the bill the ad valorem duty has been stricken out in favor of the specific duty. Lumber remains about the same as it came from the house. The Cotton Schedule. It Is provided that on all cotton cloth not exceeding IU‘J 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 yard. 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 39 per oent ad valorem. Duties on Woolen Goods. On blankets, wool and flanDels 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, valued at no more than 30 cents per pound, the duty will be 25 per centum ail valorem; 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 The women’s and children's dress goods, ' coat lining, Italian cloth, bunting or goods of similar description or character "or all manufactures, including such as have any rubber as a compenent 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, 36 per cent, and the following words added: i “Valued at not over 81 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 51 a pound, 59 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 I outside garments for ladies’ and children’s ap- ; parel, and goods of similar description or used 1 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, ;ho rate is changed trom 45 to 50 per centum ad valorem. "Brussels carpets, figured or plain, all carpet of like character or description, 35 per cent i ad valorem. House and senate bills 30 per | cent "Velvet and tapestries, velvet carpets, fig- ! ured or plain, printed on the warp or otheri wise, and all carpets or carpeting of like char- ; acteror inscription, 35 per cent ad valorem; j house and senate bills, 30 per cent I Tapestry Brussels carpets, figured or I plain, and all carpets and carpeting of like character or description, printed on tha warp or otherwise, 35 per cent ad valorem; : house and senate bill, 30 per cent. Treble ingrains, three-ply and all the Venetian carpets, 35 per cent, ad valorem; house and senate bills, 30 per cent Wool. Dutch and two-ply Ingrain carpets. 30 per cent; house und 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 io the manufacture of hatters’ fur. “Molasses testing not above 40 degrees potariscope test and containing 20 per centum of ; moisture. "Opium, crude or manufactured and not adul- ' terated, 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 in> poses a duty on the same exported from the United States, then there shall be levied, paid and collected upon such petroleum, crude or refined. the rate of existing duty prior to the passage of this act.” The inflowing is added to the paragraph ia i the free list relating to agricultural imple- : ments: i "Provided, that all articles mentioned by this ’ paragraphs, if imported from a country which lays an import duty on like articles imported from the United States, shall be subjected to the duties existing prior to the passage of this : act.” i Lodge's Amendment. Senator Lodge (rep., Mass.) intro* : duced an amendment to the tariff bill ! in the senate Monday, of which he Rave notice some time ago, providing ; that as against Great Britain :or any of her colonies, a duty ; double the amount imposed in ! the proposed tariff bill shall ba : levied, and a duty of 35 pe” cent, on all articles on the free list, such duties to eon tin ud until Great Britain shall as- ■ sent to take part in an international agreement with the United States for ! the coinage and use of silver.