Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1890-09-30
rates agreed to were seyen-teaths of ono
cent per pound.

SILK.
The senate struck ont the bounty PRO-
visions proposed in the silk schedule of
the bill as passed by the house. Other
amendmenGs to res5ofe ths laltlage
and rates OF the present law were made.
In these your committee concurred.
Paper.
In the paper schedule the changes
made are not material and relate to
classification rather than to rates.
SunIr e4.
A number of changes have teen made
in the sundries schedule. but with one
exception these are Of sdch character as
not to require special mention. The
one exception is that relating to paint
ings and statuary, which the honse
placed on the free list, and which the
senate restored to the dntiable list at 30
per cent. nd valorem. The conferees,
after an earnest contention, decided to
retain paintings and statuary on the
dutiable list at IS cent. ad valorem
which is one-half the present duty.
Sugar.
In the sugar schedule the senate
struck out the house provision making
sugar up to and including No. Is
Dutch standard free of duty, and sub
stituted No. 13 as the liae of free sugar.
The senate made sugar above 13 to is
dutiab.e ut three tenths Of cent n
pound, and above No. 18 Dutch sand
ard dutiable at six-tenths of q cents u
pound The house bill made sugar
duLiable at four-tenths of a cent a
pound The house conferees main
tanned No. 16 as the line for free sngar
above No. l6, and the senate confere1s
receded.
The conferees agreed and recon-
mended to their respective houses that
s agar above No. III Dutch standard
shall be dutiable ut -iive-tentlis of u cent
a pound, ald an ud Iitionnl one-tenth of
a cent u pound upon all sugars imported
from countries which pay an export
bounty on sugar above No, is Dutch
standard
Ihe houcc conferees agreed to the fol-
lowing amendment of thu senate:
"Q0D Sec. 3. That. with II view to Sc
cure reciprocal trade with countries pro
ducing the following articles, and for
tni5 purpose, on and after the lst day OF
July, 1891, whenever, and So Oftel ~
the president shall be satisfied that the
government of any country producing
and exporting sugars, molasses, coffee,
tea, hides, raw and uncufed, or any OF
such Il: ticles, imposes duties or other
products Of the United States, which, in
view of the free introduction OF such
sugar, he deems to belreciprocally I'M
equal aud unreasonable, he shall have
the power, and it shall be his duty to
hy proclamation to that effect
the provisions Of this act relating to the
free intrt duction Of such sugar, molass-
coffee, tea and hides, the production Of
such country, for such time as he shall
deem just and il such case and during
such uspelsim duties shall lie levied,
collected and paid upon sugar, molasses,
coffee, tea and hides, the product Of, or
exported from, such designated country
as follows, namely
"All sngars not above No. 13 Dutch
in color shall ply duty on
their polariscopic tests rs fellows. name
ly: All sngarS not above 70. 13 Dutch
in color. all tank bottoms,
sirups of cane Juice or Of beet juice,
melada concentrated meleda, coAcrete
and conce itrated IN llIse' tejting by
the polaliscope not above Is de grees,
seven tcnths of one cent per pound and
for every additional degree or fraction
of degree shown ly the polariscopic
tet, two one-hhndredthj OF one cent
per pound additional.
"All sugars above No. 13 Dutch
standard i'll color shall he classified by
the Dutch standard of c. lor, and pay
duty as follows, namely: All sugars
above No. i3 and not above No 16 6Dutch
Of color, one and three-eight
cents per pound.
"All sugars above No. 1G and not
above No. 20 Dutch standard of color,
ore aud fivc-eiglt ce It's per p p>und.
"All sugars above No. 30 Dutch stand
ard of color. two cents per pound.
"Molassei testing of 5J degrees, four
cents per gallon.
Sugar draining and sugar SWEEP ing'
shall be subject to duty either as molas-
ses or sugar. ~ the case many be, ac-
cording to polariscofic test.
"On coffee, thr e cents rer pound.
"Cn tea, tea cents per pound.
Hides, raw or uncured, whether dry,
salted or unpickled; Angora goat skins
raw, without the wool. unmanufac-
tured; asses skins, raw and uumanu-
facturel |. and skins. except sheep skins,
with the wool on, one and ouc-half cents
per pound.
Tobacco.
The senate struck out all the prOyi-
sions of the bill as passed by the house
proving for the reduction internal rev.
enue taxes and the abolition of the spe
cial taxes or annual license on dealers
in tobacco, cigars, and p'ddlers of to-
bacco and cigars. i he conference COM
mittee restored these provisions, and
those reducing the tax on manufactured
tobacco and snuff to six cents per pound,
instead of four cents, as provided by the
house bill. The paragraphs relating to
the sale Of tobacco grown 10y small
farmers without being required to pay
a special tax have been restored. BY
the restoration of these paragraphs
nearly zoo. .00) persons are relieved from
the payment of the annoying special
taxes which are now imposed by law.
The reduction which will be made to
the revenue 10y these changes in the in
ternal revenue laws will be over $G. GJ0,-
coo on the lasis of the receipts for the
fiscal year.
sTecial Taxes.
For the year ending June 80, 1890, the
receipts from special taxes on the class
of Iersons to be relieved by the bill
were St.jl5,4Sl; from taxes Oh tobacco,
1882. .4s2. and from snuff, Si31.T3l. BY
the pas age of the hill the reduction IN
revenue from tobacco wouli b. 1881,
$40 and from snuff $lSl, l33, making
from there two sources an aggregate of
81, 16j.SOa
Adding three figures to the reduction
which would follow in the abolition OF
special taxes would make the total re.
duction in the internal revenue receipts