People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 1, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 June 1894 — Free Coal. [ARTICLE]

Free Coal.

Washington, Jnne 20. —On Monday the finance committee’s amendment placing a duty of 40 cents on bituminous coal and shale and 15 cents on coal or culm that will pass through a half inch screen was agreed to in the senate, as was also the amendment to make coke dutiable at 15 per cent.