Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1883-03-14

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snuff and smoking tobacco s cents a
pound. The tariff portion of the bill is
the result of compromise between the
high tariff republicans and the low
revenue democrats. Each house passed
a bill OF its own, but the measure finally
agreed upon, with alterations by con-
ference committee, originated in the SEN
ate. The senate bill left the duty On
silk, tobacco, hemp and fax, and liquors
practically unchanged; it reduced the
duty on chemicals from rs to 30 per
cent; reduced the duty On iron and
steel 20 per cent; made reduction on
sugar Of from Is to % per cent; oncot-
tons, excepting fine work, IS per cent;
books in foreign Languages were placed
on the free list and on others reduction
OF SO per cent. was made. The total re-
duction by the senate bill was estimated
at 30 per cent. from the existing tariff.
A conference was had, however,
and report agreed upon recon-
mendiDg the adoption Of the SEN
ate bill with few changes Of general i'm
portance except ia the metal schedule.
The changes recommended were: On
steel valued above 4 cents and not above
Z cents per pound, specific duty of 2
cents per pound; on steel valued at not
less than cents and not more than IL
cents per pound, a specific duty of p
cents per pound; on steel valued above
IL cents per pound, specific duty of 81
cents per pound; on steel rails duty OF
$17 per top; on iron ore rs cents per ton
instead OF so cents, and on pig iron
3.10ths Of cent per pound (the rate
proposed by the tariff commission), In
sugars an incrcsseof q cents per pound
was recommended on grades above No.
13 and not above No. 16 Dutch standard.
The senate had fixed this duty at p
cents per pound. The only change made
in the woolen schedule was to impose
duty of As cents per pound, and 40 per
cent. 0d v0lorena upon women's cloaks.
In the glass and earthenware schedule
tho committee recommended a specific
duty of centper pound on glass bottles,
and transferred printed and painted
crockery to the china clause, thereby in
creasipg the duty from so per cent. Gd
Valorena to 60 per cent.
The bill modifying the postal money
order system so asto authorize postmas-
ters of money order Offices upon author
ity of the postmaster general to issue
postal notes in determinations Of SIS and
under. It authorizes the issue of money
orders without corresponding advices of
s. and less, to be on engraved paper,
and known as postal notes, payable to
bearer, such notes to be invalid after
three months, but the holder can after
that time get the par value o: the note
by applying to the postofice department.
at Washington. For issuing a postal
note q fee of three cents shall be
charged. It also authorizes the issue OF
money orders in denominations of $1O0
or less, but none for more than $lOO can
be issued. The following fees are fixed
to be charged for money orders: For
orders not exceeding $40, 8 cents; from
$40 to $l5, 10 cents; $15 to $50, Is cents;
$50 to $40, 20 cents; $40 to $50, 25
cents; $50 to $50, 80 cents; $50 to $40,
IS cents; $40 to $50, 40 cents; $50 to
800, As cents.
The bill granting an increase Of PEN
sion to all union soldiers who lost foot,
hand, leg, or arm, or were otherwise
equivalently disabled while in the SER
vice. It provides that all soldiers Low
on the pension rolls, or who may here
after be granted pension, who lost a
foot or hand, or were otherwise equally
incapacitated for the performance of
manual labor while in the service, shall
receive pension of $24 month, and
that all soldiers who lost an arm
above the elbow, or leg above the
knee, or were equivalently disqualified
for manual labor shall receive $50 a
month, This act increases the monthly
compensation of the first class mentioned
above SO and of the second class $6 q
month. According to the official re.
ports furnished in 1870, the total
number of soldiers who suffered ampu.
tations during the war was in the neigh.
borhood Of Is, 600. OF those nearly one
half are now dead, the mortality among
the men who lost limbs in the service
having been appalling. The number o1
those who suffered disabilities equivalent
to the loss of foot or hand ia, how.
ever, very large, and it is therefore esti
mated that it will require from 81 ,5OO,'
600 to 81, ,000, 900 additional to carry ou
the provisions of this bill.
The bill providing for the appointment
Of civil service commission with q com
petent chief examiner, whose salary il
to be 5000. go.
The river and harbor bill appropriat
ing $8, ,O47, 600, was strangled in the sen
ate. by motion to lay it on the table
upon the last day Of the session.
h Under the head of ' Bills from thl
Isenate, on the first and second reading,
there are ninety ty-fve bills unacted on thaa