St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-04-01
The New Republican Tariff
Bill Exposed to the Pub
lie Gaze.
1t Proposes a Net Reduction
in Revenues of Fifty
Millions.
Increase in the Duty on
Nearly All Necessaries
Of Life.
Paintings, Statuary and Other
Articles Of Luxury on the
Free List.

hA oASAVo Va GuAuIy OA C1O
Free List.
WASHINGTON. D. c., March 31.-The
new tariff bill was submitted to the full
ways and means committee this morn
ing and passed upon by the committee.
The minority were given ten days to
prepare amendments in committee and
to prepare their views on the bill. 1t is
estimated that the bill makes total an
nual reduction in the revenue of about
$5O,0O0OOO. The sugar and tobacco
duty on the former is greatly reduced.
Under the sugar schedule the standard
is changed from No. IS to No. 16. 1t is
provided that all sugars above No. 16
Dutch standard in color, also
all tank bottoms, sugar drain
ings and sugar sweepings, syrups of
cane Juice or of beet juice, melada. con-
centrated melada and concrete and con-
centrated molasses. shall pay duty of
35 per cent ad valorem instead of a
specific duty as under existing laws.
All sugars above No. t6, Dutch stand
ard. are placed at 40 per cent ad
valorem. The existing law provides
that these sugars shall pay duty at the
rate of 2 75-100 cents and 3 cents per
pound. Molasses testing above 6 de-
grees is made dutable at 25 per cent,
change from the specific duty of eight
cents per gallon. 1t is also provided
that if an export duty shall hereafter
be levied upon sugar OF mOlaSseS by
any country whence it Is imported it
shall be
Subject to Duty.
as provided by the present tariff law.
No change is made in the duty on sugar
candy, and glucose or grape sugar is
made dutiable at three-quarters of cent
per pound. The duty on leaf tobacco
suitable for cigar wrappers, stemmed
and unstemmed, is considerably in
creased. Under existing law the
stemmed quality is dutlable at 81 per
pound, and this increased in the Nc
Kinley bill to s2.75 per pound. The
duty Oh unstemmed is increased
from IS cents to SO per
pound. A proviso is inserted to
the effect that If any portion of any
tobacco imported in any package or in
bulk shall be suitable for cigar wrap
pers. the entire quantity of tobacco con-
tanned in such package or bulk shall he
dutiable. if not stemmed, at 80, and If
stemmed, at $2.75 per pound. No change
is made in regard to all other tobacco in
leaf, manufactured and not stemmed,
but stemmed tobacco is made dutiable
at so cents per pound. Tobacco
manufactured and of all de-
scriptions, not specially enumerated or
provided for, is placed at 40 cents
per pound, change from the
present duty of 80 per cent ad valorem.
no change is made in regard to snuff
and snuff flour made of tobacco. Ci-
gars, cigarettes and cheroots of all
kinds are made dutiable at So per pound
aud 25 per cent ad valOrem. Under eX-
istlng law they are dutiable at $3.50 per
pound and 25 per cent al valOrem.
Hides, raw or uncured, whether dry,
salted or picked, and other skins. eX-
cept SheepSkins with the wool on, are
taken from the free list and made duti-
able at 15 per cent ad valorenl, with the
proviso that there shall be allowed on
leather, or skins manufactured of i'm
ported hides or skins on which duty has
been paid when exported. drawback
equal in amount 10 the duty paid on
these hides or skins.
The Wood Schedule
of hewn and sawed wood and timbers
used for spars and building wharves is
reduced from 20 to 10 per cent ad val
orem. Squared and sided timber, not
specially provided for, is increased from
one cent to cent and half per cubic
foot. No change is made in the duty on
sawed boards, plank, deals and other
lumber of hemlOck, whitewood, syca-
l,r,t ,ilif ,r
reduced from So to s1.50 per 1000 feet.
for is made dutiabIe at 50 per LOCO feet
instead of 20 per cent, as at present. but
| when lumber of any sort is planed or
finished it shall be dutiable at an addi-
ton to the regular rate of so cents per
| 1,O00 feet for each side so planed. This
| is reduction of so cents. Ii planed on
one side, tOngued and gr0Oved, it is to
pay 81 per 1000 feet additional, and
if planed on both sides. tongued and
grooved, $3.50 per 1000. 1t is provided
that, in case any foreign pow
er shall place an export tax
| upon pine. spruce. elm or other
logs, exported to the United States in
excess of the equivalent per thousand
| feet board measure of the duty fixed by
| the bill upon the sawed lumber, the
|
for in the bill shall be increased-to to an
amount equal to the tax imposed by the
foreign country upon the exports of
such logs to the United States. Sawed
cabinet woods, unmanufactured veneer
| ing and wood are changed from SO per
thousand feet to 20 per cent ad valOrem.
! With the exception of chair cane, man
| ufactured, but not made into finished
articles, which is made dutiable at 10
per cent, the rest of the wood schedule
is unchanged.
| Cotton and Wooden Tariffs Raised.
The duty on nearly every article in
the cotton manufacturers schedule is
increased: Cotton thread, yarn and
| warpS are increased cents per pound.
Spool thread bears the present duty. A
new standard for cotton cloth is estab-
| lished, 100 threads to the square inch
! being changed as the standard to so
| threads. An increase OF from a to 81
| of cent per yard is made in different
! kinds of cotton cloth. A new item is in
| serted making ready-made clothing COM
posed of cotton or other vegetable fiber,
| dutiabIe at SO pei cent ad valOrem. A
| very heavy increase of duty on woods is
| made'on the whole. Carpet woods worth
| less than 15 cents per pound are taxed
| now at 2115 cents and those above at 5
| cents per pound. This bill puts duty
of 81 cents on those worse than IL cents
| per pound, and cents on those worth
more than IL cents per pound. Woolen
manufactures of the high grades are
greatly increased. The duty on the finest
cloths is fixed at from three to four times
the duty on the wool in them, and 40
per cent ad valorem in addition. I'm the
metal schedule a reduction of about 81
per ton is made in steel rails. The pres
ent duty is $40 of cent per pound, and
the bill proposes to reduce this to clio