People's Pilot, Volume 3, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 May 1894 — INCREASED THE DUTY. [ARTICLE]

INCREASED THE DUTY.

Action of the Senate on the Iron Schedule of the Tariff Bill. Washington, May 23.-The senate disposed of seven paragraphs of the metal schedule Tuesday after eight hours of debate. The rates fixed were as follows: Iron ore, 40 cents per ton; pig iron, scrap iron, etc., $4 per ton: rou'nd iron in coils, 8-10 cent per pound; slabs, blooms, less llnish than bars, % cent per pound; Charcoal blooms, sl2 per ton; beams, girders and other structural Iron or steel, 6-10 of a cent per pound; boiler plate, from 5-10 to 25 per cent, ad valorem; forgings of iron or steel. 114 cents; hoop or band iron or steel (cotton ties), 30 per cent, ad valorem. These rates were embodied in an amendment introduced by Senator Jones, and are practically a substitution of the clause in the McKinley bill. When the vote was taken, however, seven democrats and two populists refused to support the Jones substitute —namely: Allen, Berry, Blackburn, Jarvis, Kyle, Mills, Pasco, Lindsay and Peffer.