Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1888-10-04
THE SENATE'S BILL.
An Abstract of the Republican
Tariff Revision Measure.
A s75,OoO,oOO REDUCTION.
The Changes Proposed Are About Equally
Divided Between the Internal Reve-
nue. Taxes and the Customs
Duties-The Free List.

WASHINGTON, Oct. Ain the senate, inn
mediately after the journal was read, Sena-
tor Allison, from the committee ON finance
reported the Republican substitute for the
Mills tariff bill which was passed 10y the
house of Representatives last July.
The written reports prepared by the ma
jority and minority lthe Republican and
Democratic members of the committed win
be formally presented TO the senats soon, the
views of the minority not yet being quite
ready.
In presenting the bill Senator Allison
stated that he would call it up for considera-
tion on Monday next.
Speaking of the merits of the bill, Senator
Aldrich, who prepared the majority report,
said to a representative of the United Press:
"We are confident that careful analysis
of the measure, in comparison with that pre-
pared 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 Republi-
can party as expressed in the platform
adopted at Chicago While we have re-
duced the revenues 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 protective system,
The reductions are about half and half on
numbers we reduce the income of the gov
ernment So, 000 We cut the sugar duty
as nearly one-half as we could figure, and
make the reductions there aggregate S27,-
10000 Tobacco releases $24, 800, 900; free
alcohol for the arts, s7,0O0,OO0 The free list
is given S6,500,000, and the other reductions
amount to about $S, 600, ,000n
The changes proposed by the bill in inter
nal 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 more than three
pounds per thousand is fixed at $1.50 per
thousand, less than three pounds to the thou
sand fifty cents 1t repeals all laws restrict
ing the sale of tobacco by farmers and pro-
ducers; repeals the taxes on manufactured
tobacco and snuff, the special taxes required
to be paid by manufacturers and dealers in
leaf tobacco and retail dealers in leaf tobacco,
manufactured tobacco, snuff and cigars.
4 Alcohol used in the industrial arts under
certain regulations by the commissioner of
internal revenue, is to be exempt from the
payment of the internal revenue tax
In schedule A, covering chemical products,
the duty on alcoholic perfumery, cologne
water and other toilet waters is fixed at 80
per gallon and % per centum al valorem
i Backing of all kinds, % per centum; sui
phate of copper, 2 cents per pound; refined
camphor, 4 cents per pound: borax, crude,
cents; refined, 5 cents per pound; cements,
cents per hundred pounds; chloroform, so
cents per pound; sulphuric ether, so cents
per pound; morphine, so cents per ounce;
castor oil, so 0cents per gallon; medicinal prep
! arations, essences, medicated wines, ETC., 40
! cents per pound; cosmetics and toilet prepa-
tions, 80 per centum ad valorem
Int ftafac urff,
duty ON common brown earthen ware and
stone ware is fixed at 20 per centum ad va
loren; plain glass bottles from to II cents
per pound; rough plate glass from 81 to Q
cents per square foot.
! In the metal schedule iron and steel railway
bars or bars made in part of steel, 'T' rails,
| punched iron or steel fat rails, 7-10 of cent
| per pound. The Mills bill fixes a duty of $11
| per ton on iron and steel railway bars,
/ weighing more than . pounds to the yard,
! and $14 per ton on iron or steel rails and SIS
! per ton on iron or steel fiat rails, weighing
not over 25 pounds to the yard
Iron ore and sulphur ore in the senate
committees bin are taxed 75 cents per ton:
pig iron, spiegeleisen, wrought and scrap iron
/ and scrap steel, $40 of cent per pound, the
| same as under existing law; beams, girders
and all structural steels, l 1-10 cents per
| pound; boiler and plate iron or steel, from
to 81 cents per pound, and if valued above
Is cents per pound, 45per centum ad valorem;
hoop iron, from to / 1-1O cents per pound
Cut nails, cent per pound; iron or steel
| wire, from II cents to cents per pound; /;
copper ore, II cents per pound; copper
| plates and bars, 2 cents per pound; lead ore,
IL cents per pound; nickel ore, 5 cents per
| pound; zinc in blocks, III cents per pound; /;
/ in sheets 21Z cents r,ar mound
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 E, covering sugar, all sugars
above B., d. s., 40 of cent per pound:
| present rates are l 40 cents per pound.
while the Mills bin proposes duty of l l5-1OO
cents per pound; sugars above number Is
and not above 16 d. s., l3k cents per pound:
in the Mills bin it is 220 cents per pound.
Above No. 10 and not above % ID. S.. ~
cents per pound, against 2 20 cents per pound
in the Mills bill All above No. 20 ID. s.. 2
cents per pound, against 2.S cents per pound
| in the Mills bill
In the tobacco schedule, the duty on cigars
and cigarettes is flxed at $3.50 per pound.
leaf tobacco not stemmed T5 cents per pound,
stemmed 81 per pound; unmanufactured leaf
eeo ees,a~eo - - S~1-eS ~ kr1 pouhu, stemmed .
cents; snuff 20 cents per pound
In the provision schedule, the duty on figs
is fixed at 2 cents per pound; ra;sins, cents
per pound; cleaned rice, cent per pound: :
uncleaned y cent per pound; broken rice
/ Il of cent per pound In the Mills bill
the duty ON cleaned rice is fixed at
| cent per pound, and on uncIeaned rice
| y cent per pound The duty ON
salt in bags, sacks and barrels e fxed at Ia
csnts PER huldrsd pounds; IN bulk, osut1