Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-03-09
THE TAX REDUCTION BILL
FEATURES OF THE MEASURE AS
PASSED.

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Revenue RegulatiOns-The Modifiea
tions in the Several Tariff Schedules
The Substance of the Conference Com
mIttee's Report.
The internal revenue part of the bill
provides for the repeal of the taxes on
banks and bankers, whether State OF
National, except the tax ION the circula
ton Of national banks. That remains as
heretofore. The stamp tax on bank checks
and drafts and on matches, perfumery
and patent medicines are also to be aboi
lshed. The tax ON dealers in tobacco is
largely reduced, and no change has been
made in the provision that producers NAV
sell tobacco at retail to an amount not eX.
ceeding 800 annually. The tax on to-
Dacco 1t Is proposed to reduce from IG
cents to cents per pound, and the same
proportional reduction is proposed of the
present tax upon cigars and cigarettes.
A change has been made providing that
| the act, so far as tobacco is concerned.
shall go into effect on the 1st of May in
stead of the 1st of July.
The tariff changes made in the bill by
the conference committee are in the items
| given below, upon which the committee
recommended the following rates and
| classifications:
Schedule A, Chemical -Products-GIue
20 per centum ad yalorem; alumina, alum,
|
OF alumina, and aluminous cake and alum
IN crystals or ground, 60 cents per hun
dred pounds; baryta, sulphate of or ba-
| rytes manufactured, u of | cent per
! pound; oil or essence of rum, 80 cents
per ounce.
! Schedule B-Earthenware and glass
ware, china, porcelain, parian and bisque
ware, earthen, stone and crockery ware,
| including plaques, ornaments. charms
vases and statuettes, painted, printed or
| gllded or otherwise decorated or Orna-
mented in any manner, 60 per cent. ad
Yalorem; all other earthen, stone and
| crockery ware, white, glazed, or edged
printed, dipped or cream-colOred, COM
posed OF earthly or mineral substances.
not specially enumerated or provided for
| in this act, 80 per centum ad yalOrem:
| green and colOred glass bottles, Vials,
demlJ0hns and carbOyS Covered or un-
coyered), pickle or preserve Jars and
other plain moulded or pressed green and
cOlored bottles, glass not cut, engraved
or painted and not specially enumer-
ated or provided for in this act, l cent
per pound, if filled and not other
wise in this act provided for, said
articles shall pay 80 per centHm ad valo-
rem in addition to the duty on contents.
All glass bottles and decanters and other
like vessels of glass shall, if filled, pay the
same rates of duty In addition to ana duty
chargeable on the contents as if not filed
except as in this act otherwise specially
provided for; cylinder and crown glass
and polished, not exceeding 10x15 inches
square, ~ cents per foot; above that and
not exceeding l6X24 inches square, A cents
per square foot; above that and not ex-
ceeding 24X30 inches Squire, 6 cents per
square foot; above that and not exceed.
ing 24X60 inches SQUARE, go cents per
square tootS all above that, 40 cents per
square foot.
Schedule c, Metals-Iron ore, including
manganiferOuS iron ore, also the drOss Of
! residuum from burnt pyrites, IS cents per
ton; sulphur ore as pyrites or sulphuret
OF iron In its natural state, containing
not more than 81 per centum copper, rs
cents per ton; provided that ore contain
ing more tsaa per centum copper shall
| pay III addition thereto % cents per
pound for copper contained therein; iron
in slugs, iron kentledge, spiegeleizen,
wrought and cast, scrap iron and scrap
steel, 3-10th of l cent psr pound, but moth
ing shall 10 deemed scrap iron or scrap
| steel except waste or refuse iron or steel
that has been in actual use and is fit o0Iy
to be remanufactured; steel railway bars
| and railway bars made III part of steel.
weighing more than % pounds to the
yard, $f7 per ton; bar iron, rolled or
| hammered, comprising flat, not less
eighths of one inch thick, eight-tenths of
one cent per pounds comprising round
iron not less than M-inch in diameter and
square iron not less than A-ineh square,
one cent per pound; comprising flats less
than one inch wide or less than sS-inch
thick; round iron less than M-inch and
not less than 1-16-inch in diameter, and
square iron less than %-inch square
I-lO OF one cent per pound; provided that
all iron in slabs, blooms, loops Gp other
forms less finished than It'0i in bars and
more adXaneea than pig iron, except cast
, 1nggs, shall be rated as iron in bars and
pay duty accordingly, and none of the
above iron shall pay less rate of duty
than 30 per centum ad valoren; provided
further, that al lton bars, blooms,
Dlllets OF sizes or shapes of any kind i'm
the manufacture of which charcoal is
used as fuel, shall be subject to duty of
$22 per ton; iron or steel ''1'' rails weigh
ing not over % pounds to the yard, 9-10 of
l cent per pound; iron or steel fiat rails.
punched, $40 of l cent per pound; round
iron in coils or rods, less than T.18 of one
inch IN diamefer, and bars or shapes of
rolled iron not specially enumerated Or
provided for in this act, 2-l0 of l cent per
pound; boiler or other plate iron, sheared
or unSheared skelp iron, sheared or rolled
IN grooves, ~ cents per pound; sheet
iron, common or block, thinner than one
inch and one-half, and not thinner than
No. 20 Wire gauge, l Ito of l cent per
pound; thinner than No. 20 wire gauge,
and not thinner than No. % wire gauge.
J. 2-lo OF cent per pound; thinner than No,
70 wire gauge, ard not thinner than No.
~ wire gauge 1910 Of 10. per pound;
thinner than No. 20 wire gauge, and ali
iron commercially known as common or
black taggers iron, whether put up in
boxes or bundles, or not, 80 per centum
ad valorem; and provided tbatan all such
iron and steel gheets eli plates aforesaid,
excepting on what are known CONNER
cially as tin plates, teFne plates and tag
gers tin, and hereafter provided for when
galvanized or coated with zinc or spelter
or other metals or any alloy of those
metals p of 1c. per pound addi- !
tiOnal; polished, planished or glanced
sheet iron Or sheet steel, by whatever
name designated, gJzc, per pound; pro.
yIdea that plate or sheet or taggers iron,
the polished, planished or glanced herein
provided for which has been piekled or |
cleaned by acid, or by any other ma
terlaI or process, and which !
is cold-rolled, shall pay Il" Of |
lc. per pound more duty than
corresponding gauges of common or black |
sheet or taggers iron; cast iron vessels. |
plates, stove plates and vions, sadirons, |
OF irons not specially enumerated or pro- |
vided for in this act, II cents per pound: |
iron or steel railway fish plates or splice |
bars, IA cents per pound; anvils, anchors |
or parts thereof, mill irons and mill cranks |
OF wrought iron, and wrought iron for |
ships, and forgings of iron and steel for |
vessels, steam engines and locomotives, |
or parts thereof, weighing each % pounds I
or more, &c. per pOund;I steel ingots,
cogged lngots, blooms and slabs, by What !
ever process made, die blocks Or blanks. |
billets and bars, and tapered or beveTed i
bars, bands, hoops; strips aud sheets, of |
all gauges and Widths, plates Of /
all thickness and widths, steamer.
crank and other shafts, wrists or
crank pins, connecting rods and piston
rods, pressed, sheared or stamped shapes
or blanks or of sheet or plate steel or COM
binatiOn of steel and iron. punched or
swagged steel gun moulds not in bars. al
Toys used as substitutes for steel, tools of
all descriptions and shapes of dry sand,
lOamo or iron moulded steel eastings-alf /
of the above classes Of steel not otherwise /
specially provided for in this act valued /
at cents pound or less, a per eentum
ad yaldrem; above cents pound and
not above 7 cents per pound, cents per
pound; valued above 7 cents and not
above 10 cents per pound, 2A cents per
pound; valued at above 10 cents per
pound, "a cents per pound; provided
that on all iron or steel bars. rods. strips
or steel sheets of whatsoever shane |
and ON all iron or steel bars of I
irregular shape or section, cold rolled
cold hammered or polished In any way hi