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

THE TARIFF.

The Senate Committee Completes Work on the Wilson Bill. It Makes Many Alterations, All of Them In the Direction of Increased Unties— Synopsis of the Most Important Changes. THE COMPROMISE MEASURE. Washington, May a—For the thixxi time the senate committee on finance has revised the Wilson tariff bilL The latest changes in the measure are completed, and they are final so far as the committee is concerned. They include all the so-called “compromise” amendments which have been agreed upon. Most of them are in the nature 6f changes from ad valorem to specific duties. This is a radical change of the provisions of the Wilson bilL That measure changed most of the duties from specific to ad valorem, the McKinley law being mainly specific duties throughout. The specific duties imposed by the amended bill range from 25 to 30 per cent, lower than the corresponding duties imposed by the McKinley law. The latest changes which have been agreed upon as a result of the compromise are generally in the direction of higher rates than were at first reported by the finance committee. Sugar and Income Tax. The provisions of the sugar schedule as agreed upon have already been printed. An ad valorem duty of 40 per cent, wilt be imposed upon raw sugar, and the retined article will be given an additional specific duty of oneeighth of a cent All sugars 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 rales. Provided that nothing contained in the bill shall be 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 ot the Hawaiian islands on January 30, 1875. The amendments to the income tax provision have been announced, and that feature of the bill is to last only five years. No change is made in the coal schedule from that already reported. There are several changes in the free list.

The following are the principal changes which will be Included In the compromise bill: Drags anrl Perfumery. Alcoholic perfumery, including cologne water and other toilet waters and alcoholic compounds not specially provided for in this act, 12 a gallon and oO per centum ad valorem; senate and house bills, 32 a gallon and 25 ad valorem. All coa' 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 paragrups inserted are as follows: •‘Drugs, such as barks, beans, berries, balsams, buds, bulbs, bulbous roots, excrescences, fruits, flowers, dried libers, dried insects, grains, gums and gum resin, herbs, leaves, lichens, mosses, nuts, roots and stems, spices, vegetables, seeds (aromatic), seeds of morbid growth, weeds and wood 3 used expressly for dyeing, which are not edible, advanced In value or condition by refining or grinding or by other process or manufacture, and not specially provided for In this act 10 per cent ad valorem.” Epsom salts are made dutiable at 1-5 of a cent per pound. Other changes are: Morphia or morphine salts thereof, 50 cents per ounco. Flaxseed and poppy oil 20 cents per gallon instead of 15 cents In former bills. On olive oil for salad purposes the house rale of 35 cents per gallon is restored instead of ihe senate committee rate of 25 per cent The Ulan Schedule. A portion of tho 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, covered or uncovered, and other molded or pressed green and colored and flint or lime glass bottleware not specially provided for in this set, five-eighths of 1 cent per pound. Green and colored; molded or pressed and flint and lime glass bottles and vials noldmg not more than one pint and not less than one-quarter of a pint, three-fourths of a cent per pound; if holding less than one-fourth of a pint 'io cents per gross, whether filled or unfilled, whether their contents be dutiable or free." Tne senate rate on the above is 40 per cent; house rate, 30 per cent Another 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 10 by 24 iuobes square, 1)4 cents per pound; above that, and not exceeding 24 by 3j inches square, 1% cents per pound: above that, and not exceeding 24 by 36 inches square, cents per pound; all above that 134 ceuts per pound. "Provided that unpolished cylinder, crown and common window glass imported in boxes shall contain 60 square teetas nearly as s:zes will permit, and tuat duty shall be computed thereon according to the actual weight of tho glass.” There is a change of sixes as well as of rates, and comparisons cannot be made Plate glass. 24 by 36 inches, is taxed 23 cents per square foot; senate and house bills, 2l> cents: all plate glass above these dimensions, 38 cents per square loot; senate and house bills, 86 cents. Lo,o king glass plates are added to glasses, dutiable aa U per cent, ad valorem, iu addition toother rates chargeable thereon. Changes in Iron Duties. The pig Iron paragraph is amended to read as follows: "Iron in pigs, iron Kentledge, Spiegeleisen, ferro mangenese, ferro silicon, wrought ami cast scrap iron and scrap sieel, J 4 per ton; but nothing shall be deemed scrap iron or scrap steel except waste or refuse iron or slum, Ut only to be manufactured. “Reams, girders, joists, augies, channels, curtruck channels, T columns or posts, or parts or sections of columns or posts, deck and buib beams and building forms, together with all other structural shapes ot iron or steel, whether plain or punctured or fltteu for use, 6-10 of a cent a pound.” Senate bill 35, house bill 30 per cent. "Kailway bars, made 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 2314 cents a pound, restoring the house rate; senate bill 1 per cent. Cutlery Schedule. The cutlery schedule is changed to read as follows: “Penknives, pocketknives or erasers of all kinds, valued at not more than 3J cents per dozen, 25 per cent ad valorem; valued at more than 30 cents per dozer, and not exceeding 50 cents per dozeu, 12 cents per dozen; valued at more than 50 cents per dozen and not exceeding 81 per dozen, 25 cents per dozen; valued at more than II per dozen and not exceeding 81.50 per dozen, 40 cents per doten: valued at more than U 50 per dozen and not exceeding S 3 per dozen, 75 cents a dozen: valued at more than S 3 a dozen, 60 per cent ad valorem, and in addition thereto, on all the above valued at more than 30 cents a dozen, 25 per cent ad valorem; provided t'hat blades, handles or any other parts of any or either of the articles named in this paragraph, imported' in any other manner than assembled in penknives, pocketknives or erasers, shall be subject to no less duty than herein provided lor penknives, pocketknives or erasers valued at more than 30 ceuts a dozen.” The senate and house bills 15 ceius.