St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-10-04
Now Come Republican Sena-
tors With a Substitute
Tariff Bill.
1t Conforms Closely to the
Party Platform Adopted
at Chicago.
Which, Stated Succinetly,
Means Free Whisky and
Dearer Clothing.
Projections Principles Stick
Out at Every Point Of the
Substitute.
Special to the Globe.

Special to the Globe.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 3.-In the senate,
Immediately after the journal was read
this afternoon, Senator Allison, from
the committee On finance, reported the
Republican substitute for the Mills tar
if bill, which was passed by the house
of representatives last July.
The written reports prepared by the
majority and minority (the Republican
and Democratic members of the COM
mittee) will be formally presented to
the senate tomorrow or Friday, the
views of the minority not being yet
quite ready. In presenting the bill SEN
ator Allison stated that he would call it
UP for consideration on Monday
next. Speaking of the merits of
the bill, Senator Aldrich, who pre-
pared the majority report, said
1--WE are confident that a careful
analysis of the measure in comparison
with that prepared by Mr.. Mills, and
adopted in the house, will argue to the
interest of the Republican party. Our
aim has been to conform closely to the
wishes of the Republican party as ex-
pressed in the platform adopted at Chi
cagO. While we have reduced the rev.
enueS as largely as the surplus and the
expenses OF the country will admit, we
have laid stress upon a retention of
every essential feature of our prOtec-
tive system. The reductions are
ABOUT HALF AND HALF
on customs duties and internal taxes.
In round numbers we reduce the in
come of the government $4,000, 900.
We cut the sugar duty as nearly one
half as we could figure, and make the
reductions there aggregate $27, 759. 900.
Tobacco releases S24, 100000; free
alcohol for the arts, s7,000,000. The free
list is given $500, 600 and the other re-
auctions about $4,000 900.
The changes proposed by the bill in in
ternal revenue and tariff taxes are to take
effect on and after the first day of February
1889. The Internal revenue tax on cigars,
cheroots and cigarettes weighing less than
three pounds per thousand is fixed
aG 80 cents per thousand. II
repeals all laws restricting the sale of
repeals the taxes OH manufactured tobacco
and snuff, the special taxes required to be
paid by manufacturers and dealers in leaf to-
bacco and retail dealers in leaf tobacco,
/ manufactured tobacco, snuff and cigars.
Alcohol used in the industrial arts under
certain regulations by the commissioner
of internal revenue is to be ex-
empt from the payment of the
internal revenue. In Schedule A, covering
chemical products, the duty on alcoholic
perfumery, cologne water, and other toilet
waters is fixed at 81 per gallon and % per
cent ad valoiem. Backing of all kinds, %
per centum: sulphate of "copper" = cents per
pound; refined camphor, cents per pound;
bOrax, crude, 3 cents; refined, ) cents per
pound: cement cents per hundred pounds;
chloroform, 80 cents per pound; sulphuric
ether, 80 cents per pound; morphine 80
cents per pound castor oil, 80 cents per gal
Ion; medicinal preparations, essences, medi-
Gated wines, etc, 40 cents per pound; Cos
metics and toilet preparations, % per cent
um ad valorem. In the
EARTHEN AND GLASSWARE SCHEDULE
duty on common earthernware and stone
ware is fixed at 20 per centum ad yalorem;
PLAIN glass bottles from l to ll-2 cents per
pound; rough plate glass from "a TO = cents
per square foot In the metal schedule iron
and steel railway bars or bars made in part of
OF steel, L rails and punched iron or steel
fiat rails 40 of cent per pound. The
Mills bill fixes duty of S1I per ton on iron
and steel railway bars weighing more than
twenty.ive pounds to the yard. and S14 per
ton on iron or steel Il rails, and SIS per ton
on iron or steel flat rails weighing not over
twenty-five pounds to the yard. Iron ore
and sulphur ore in the senate committees
bill are taxed 70 cents per ton: pig iron,
spiegeleisen, wrought and scrap iron and
as under existing law; beams, Orders and
all structural steels. Ito cents per pound:
boiler and plate iron or steel, from to 3l2
cents per pound, and if valued above IS
cents per pound, ID per centum ad yalorem:
hoop iron from l to ! LILO cents per pound:
cut nails, cent per pound: iron or steel
wire from "A TO 5 cents per pound; copper
ore, Y cents per pound; copper plates and
bars, cents per pound; lead ore. 1l2 cents
per pound; nickel ore, cents per pound;
zinc in blocks, ia cents per pound; in
sheets, 2l2 cents per pound. In the wood
| and wooden schedule the duty on hewn and
sawed timber is 20 per centum ad valorem;
sawed boards. planks, ETC., 81 per thousand
feet. In Schedule l., covering sugar, all
sugars not above Is, ID. S., 40 of cent per
pound; present rates are l 40 cents per
pound; while the Mills bill proposes l 10 100
cents per pound; sugars above number
IL and not above IT, d. s., Iss
cents per pound: in the Mills bill
it is 20l00 cents per pound; above No IL
and not about 20, ID. s., l5s cents per pound
against 4O-1OO cents per pound in the Mills
against $40 cents per pound in the Mills
bill. In the tobacco schedule. the duty on
cigars and cigarettes is fixed at $3.50 per
pound: leaf tobacco not stemmed 70 cents
per pound; stemmed' 81 per pound; unman-
ufactured leBf tobacco, 20 cents per pound /;
if stemmed % cents; snuff. so cents per
pound In the provision schedule the duty
on figs is fixed at 2 cents per pound; raisins
cents per rice, L cent per
pound; unclaimed, u OF cent per pound {;
broken rice, "A of a cent per pound In the
Mills bill the duty on cleaned rice is fixed at
1c per pound, and Oh Inclealed rice Y of u
cent Ter pound.
THE DUTY ON SALT
in bags, sacks and barrels, is fixed at q
cents per 100 pounds. in bulk cents per
100 pounds, the same as at present. Wheat,
20 cents per bushel; wheat flour 20 per
eentum ad valorem: brandy, 81 per proof
oil hoo in .
cents per gallon; otherwise than in bottles,
20ecnts per gallon. In the cotton manufact-
urers' schedule, cotton threads, warps, etc.,
are taxed from 10 cents to AZ cents per
pound; cotton cloth from 2Ie to ga cents
per square yard: stockings, hose. gloves,
Shirts, drawers, 80 per centum ad valorem,
ad Yalorem. The duty on lax straw
is fixed at at 50 ~ per -. ton; fax
present. In the Mills bill they are put on the
free list Hacked fax in the senate bill is
taxed $40 per ton; in the Mills bill Sl0 Tow
of flax or hempis taxed $40 per ton; in the
Mills bill it is on the free list. Hemp. $50
per ton. Burlaps not exceeding sixty inches
in width, except such as may be suitable for
cotton bagging, 80 per centum ad valOrem:
this. in the Mills BILL is on the free list. Hemp
or jute carpeting, q cents per square. yard;
cotton bagging and gunny cloth suitable for
covering cotton, q of cent pei, pound;
gunny cloth, not bagging, is taxed 10 per
eentum ad valorem in the Mills bill. Oil
cloth. linoleum. corticene, 10 cents per
square yard, and Is cents ad valorem. In the
wool and woolens schedules the duty on
FIRST AND sEcoND-CLAss WOODS,
clothing woods and combing woods Is fixed
| at IL cents per pound. The present duty on
these woods is 10 cents per pound. If valued
at less than 80 cents per pound, and IL cents
pound if valued at more than 80 cents per
pound The duty on carpet woods, or woods
of the third class valued at IL cents q pound,