Sacramento daily record-union., 1888-10-04

law. There is no change in the schedule.
Following is the sugar schedule in full.
1t is intended to reduce the revenue from
sugar 80 per cent. All sugars not above
No. 13, Dutch standard, in color, shall pay
a duty on their polariscopic test as follows,
namely: All sugars not above No. Is.
Dutch standard, IN color all tank bottoms,
sirups of cane juice or beet Juice, Melada,
concentrated Melada, concrete and coneen-
trated molasses, testing by the polariscope,
not above 75o, 7-10 CT cent per pound,
and for every additional degree, or fraction
| of degree. shown by the polariscopic test,
2-100 of l cent per pound additional. All
sugars above No. 13, Dutch standard, in
color, shall be classified by the color, and
pay duty as follows, namely: All sugar
| above No. 13 and not above No. 16, Dutch
Standard OF color, IL cents per pound all
sugar above No. 16, and not above No. 20,
Dutch standard of color, IL cents per
pound all sugars above No. 20, Dutch
standard of color, 2 cents per pound.
Molasses testing about $50 4 cents per
gallon, provided that if any export duty
shall hereafter be laid upon sugar or
molasses by any country from which the
same may be imported, such sugar or
molasses so imported shall be subject TO
duty as provided by law prior to the pas
sage of this Act.
Schedule D, relating to wood and wooden
ware is re-enacted entire, with the follow
ing additions: Sawed boards, planks, rails
and blocks, or posts of mahogany, red
wood, satinwood, grandilla or other cabinet
wood, 10 per cent. ad yalorem; veneering
and briar-root or briarwood and similar
wood, unmanufactured or not, further man
utactured than cut into forms or shapes
suitable for articles into which they are in
tended to be converted, 20 per cent. ad
valorem.
The tobacco schedule is practically un-
changed. One clause only is inserted,
which provides that if any portion of any
tobacco imported in any package or in bulk
shall be suitable for wrappers, the entire
quantity of tobacco contained in such i'm
portation shall be dutiable; if not stemmed,
at rs cents per pound, and if stemmed at 81
per pound.
The rates in the provision schedule are
increased. The rate is fixed on live horses
and mules at $40 per head; cattle more
than one year old, $5 per head; hogs, so
cents per head.
Dates, grapes, plums, prunes, raisins
and figs are maintained at the present rate
of duty. Zante currants are on the free
list.
Following is a paragraph i'll the bill:
Oranges, lemons or lines, in packages of
capacity of II cubic feet or less, 10 cents per
package; in packages of a capacity ex-
ceeding q cubic feet, 20 cents per package;
in packages of a capacity 2! cubic feet and
not exceeding 8 cubic feet, for every addi-
| tonal cubic foot or fractional part thereof
s cents; in bulk, 81 so per 1000 All rate
nuts are maintained at existing rates, ex
cepting filberts and walnuts OF all kinds
which are reduced from 3 to cents Der
pound.
The duty on salt is placed in the bill as it
stands in the existing law. The Mills bill
placed salt on the free list.
The duty on still wines, including ginger
wine or ginger cordial and vermouth in
casks, is increased from so 10 60 cents per
gallon; cherry juice and prune Juice or
prune wine, and other fruit juice not
specially enumerated or provided for in
the Act, containing not more than "a per
cent. OF alcohol, 60 cents per gallon; if con-
tanning more than "a per cent. of alcohol
81 per gallon.
The rates on carpets are unchanged
The changes in the cotton and silk
schedules, while numerous as TO classifica-
ton and simplification, are not materially
changed.
Flax straw, fax not hacked or dressed.
flax hacked and known as dressed like
flax or hemp tow, placed on the free list in
the Mills bill, are restored to the existing
| rates of duty. All manufactures of flax,
hemp, iute or other vegetable fiber, except
cotton, or of which fax, hemp, jute or
other vegetable fiber, except cotton, is the
component material of chief value, not
specially enumerated or provided for in
this Act, valued at 5 cents per pound or
less, cents per pound and in addition 40
per centum ad valorem. Bagging for cot
ton or hemp 1ute or lute butts, valued at
not less than 3 cents per pound, three
quarters of cent per pound. Burlaps,
not exceeding sixty inches in width, for
fax, jute or hemp or of which flax, jute
or hemp, or either of them, shall be the
component material of the chief value lex
cept such as may be suitable for bsgging
for cotton), 80 per cent. ad valorem.
THE bill in full is of extreme length, and
only some of its provisions are given ahnve