Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1888-10-11
THE TARIFF.
The Senate Substitute for the Mil Is
Tariff Bill.
Synopsis OF It's Provisions. Together with
Comparisons with Those of the
House Bill-A Minority Report
to Be Presented

bill. which was passed by the House o
Representatives last July. The written
reports prepared by the majority anc
minority (the Republican and Democratic
members Of the committee) will be for
mally presented to the Senate tomorrow
or Friday, the views Of the minority not
being yet quite ready. In presenting the
bill Senator Allison stated that he would
call it up for consideration on Monday
next. Speaking of the merits of the bill,
Senator Aldrich, who prepared the ma
jority report, said to a representative OF
the United Press: 1--WE are confid ent
that careful analysis of the measure in
comparison with that prepared by Mr..
Mills, and adopted in the House, will
augured to the interest OF the Republican
party. Our aim has been to conform
closely to the wishes of the Republican
party as expressed in the platform
adopted at Chicago While we have re-
duced the revenues as largely as the
country will admit, we have
laid stress upon a retention of
every essential feature of our protective
system. The reductions are half-and-
half'on customs duties and internal taxes.
In round numbers, we reduce the income
of the government SO, 900, 900. We cut
the sugar duty as nearly oue-half as we
could figure and make the reductions there
aggregate $27. 759, GOD. Tobacco releases
$4, 500, 900: free alcohol for the arts. ST.
100000 The free list is given S., 800, 900,
and the other reductions about S. 600. 900. 4"
The changes proposed by the bill in internal
revenue and tariff taxes are to take effect on
and after the first day of February, 1899. The
internal-revenue tax on cigars, cheroots and
cigarettes weighing more than three pounds
per 1000 is fixed at $3.50 per 1000; less than
mn En
law restricting the sale of tobacco by farmers
and producers, repeats the taxes on manu-
featured tobacco and snuff the special taxes
required to be paid by manufacturers and deal
ers in leaf tobacco and retail dealers in leaf to-
bacco, manufactured tobacco, snuff and cigars
Alcohol used in the industrial arts, under certain
regulations, Is to be exempt from the payment
of the internal revenue. In schedule A cover
ing chemical products, the duty on alcoholic
perfumery. cologne water and other toilet wa
tiers is fixed at % per gallon and
twenty-five percentum ad valorem. Black
ing OF all kinds twenty-five percentum.
Sulphate OF copper, cents per pound ;
refined camphor, cents per pound borax
crude. cents, refined. cents per pound. &C.
ments, cents per 100 pounds; chloroform, 80
cents per 100 pounds: sulphuric ether 30 cents
per 100 pounds; morphine, 80 cents per pound:
castor oil, 50 cents per gallon. Medicinal prep
arations, essences, medicated wines. etc., 40
cents per pound, and cosmetics and toilet prep
arations, fifty per cent ad valorem.
In the earthen and glassware schedule b,
duty on common brown earthenware and stone
ware is fixed at twenty percentum ad valorem;
plain glass bottles from ! to IL cents per
pound; rough plate glass, from y to cents
per square foot.
In the metal schedule, iron and steel railway
bars, or bars made in part steel, .sTn' rails and
punched iron steel fiat rails, 7-10 of a cent
per pound The Mills bill fixes duty of s1i
per ton on iron and steel railway bars weigh
ing more than 25 pounds to the yard and
Sl4 per ton on iron steel ST. rails,
and SIS per ton on iron steel fiat rails weigh
ing not over 2o pounds to the yard. Iron ore
and sulphur ore in the Senate committees bill
are taxed IS cents per ton. Pig iron wrought
and scrap-iron and scrap-steel, $40 of a cent
per pound, the same as under the ex listing law
Beams, girders and all structural steels, Ito
cents per pound; boiler and plate, iron or steel,
from to 81 cents per pound, and IL valued
above ID cents per pound. fortys1ve percentum
ad valorem: Hoop iron, from to 1 1-1O
cent per pound. Cut nails, cent per pound.
Iron or steel wire, from Ia cents to cents per
pound. Copper ere IA cents per pound. Cop
per plates and bars. cents per pound Lead
ore, " cents per pound. Nickel ore, cents
per pound. Zinc. in blocks, IA cents: in sheets,
2H cents per pound.
In the wood and wooden schedule duty on
hewn and sawed timber is twenty per cent ad
valorem. Sawed boards, planks, etc., % per
!, 900 feet
In schedule E. covering sugar. all sugars not
above 10 d. s., 40 cents per pound. The Mills
bill proposes duty of 15-1OO cents per pound;
sugars above No. ID and not above 16 D. s., Ia
cents per pound; in the Mills bill it is 2O-1O0
cents per pound, Above No. is and not above
20 d. s., is cents per pound, against 40-100
cents per pound in the Mills bill. All above
number 20 d. s., cents per pound, against
2 $40 cents per pound in the Mills bill.
In the tobacco schedule. the duty on cigars |
and cigarettes is fixed at %. 80 per pound; leaf
tobacco not stemmed. IS cents per pound:
81 per pound; manufactured leaf
tobacco, 20 cents per pound-if stemmed, 25 |
cents Snuff. so cents per pound.
In the provision schedule, the duty on figs is |
fixed at 3 cents per pound; rasins, cents per |
pound cleaned rice, l cent per pound un- |
cleaned, u cent per pound: broken rice, u cent |
per pound In the Mills bill the duty |
on cleaned rice is fixed at cent per
pound, and on uncleaned rice u cent per
pound. The duty on salt in bags, sacks and
barrels Is fixed at II cents per 10) pounds; in |
bulk, cents per 10) pounds; the same as at |
present. Wheat, % cents per bushel; wheat |
flour, twenty per cent. advalorem. Brandy, y |
per proof gallon. Cordials and absinthe are
taxed y per proof gallon. Ale, porter and
beer, in bottles. IS cents per gallon, otherwise
than in bottles. 20 cents per gallon.
In the cotton manufactures schedule cotton !
threads, warps, etc., are taxed from 10 cents to
IS cents per pound. Cotton cloth. from 2h to
gloves, shirts and drawers, thirty-fve per cent.
ad valorem- Cotton cords, braids, thirty five |
per cent. ad valorem. The duty on fax straw
is fixed at s. per ton: fax not hacked. SEQ per
ton-the same as at present. In the |
Minis bill they are put on the free
list. Hacked fax in the Senate bill is taxed
$40 per ton; in the Mills bill 80. Tow of fax
or hemp is taxed $40 per ton; in the Mills bill
it is on the free list. Hemp. sa) per ton. Bur
laps, not exceeding sixty inches in width. ex-
cept such as may be suitable for cotton bag
ging, thirty percentum ad valorem- This in
the Mills bill is on the free list Hemp or
tute carpetings, cents per square yard. Cot
ton bagging and gunny-cloth, suitable for
covering cotton, cent per pound. Gunny
cloth, not bagging, is taxed fifteen per centum
advalorem; in the Mills bill oi-cIoth, linoleum,
corticene, 10 cents per square yard, and Is cents
ad valorem.
In the wool and wooden schedules the duty on
FIRST and second-class woods. clothing 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 thirty cents per
pound, and 10 cents IL valued at more than
thirty cents per pound. The duty on carpet
woods woods of the third class, valued at
twelve cents pound. is fixed at 2h cents per
pound; IL valued at more than twelve cents
pound, cents per pound. In the Mills Dill all
woods, hair OF the Alpaca goat and other like
animals, are placed on the free list The duty
on wooden rags shoddy, mungo. focks and wool
waste in the Senate bill is fixed at ~ cents per
pound, the same as under existing law, and
those in the Mills bill are also placed on the
free list. The duty on wooden cloths, shawls
and all manufactures of wool of every descr.p-
ton, not specially enumerated in the Dill, val
ued at not exceeding forty cents per pound, is
fixed at S. cents per pound and 30
per cent ad valorem; IL valued at
above forty cents and not exceeding
sixty. IS cents per pound and 10 per
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