Morning journal and courier., 1890-04-01
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FROM ALL QUARTERS,
EEV0 ALL SUhhl GNOs
THE TARIFF SCHEDULES.
A Reduction Of Forty-Five
Million Dollars.
FIRES IN The EAST AND WEST
Passage Of The Dependent
Pension Bill.
THE FLOODS IN THE SOUTH.
A Mysterious Murder In
New York State.
FIRES IN The EAST AND WEST
THE FLOODS IN THE SOUTH.

A Mysterious Murder In
New York State.
THE TARIFF BILL.
The Measure Reported at a Special
Meeting OF the WAYS and Means
Committee Yesterday By Chairman
McKinIey-A Reduction of Forty
Five Million Dollars In the Revenues
some of the Articles Placed on tho
Free List-Arsicles Restored TO the
Dutiable List.
WASHINGTON, March 81. - At a special
meeting of the ways and means committee
to day Chairman Mckinley presented the
republican tariff bill. The minority will be
allowed ten days in which to offer amend
ments and prepare their views upon the bill
and such amendments as may be made be-
fore the bill is reported to the house. The
bill, according to Chairman Mckinley. will
effect reduction of $40, 0eO, 600 in the reve-
nues. Some of the addition to the free list
are as follows:
Wearing apparel and other pereonal effects
mot merchandise) of persons arriving in the
United States not exceeding $500 in value,
but this exemption shall not be held to ex
clude articles not actually In use and neces-
sary and appropriate for the use of such per-
sons for the purposes of their journey and
present comfort or convenience, or which are
intended for any other person or persons, OF
for sale, provided, however, that all such
wearing apparel and other personal effects as
may have once been imported into the United
States and subjected to the payment of the
duty and which may have been actually used
and taken or exported to foreign countries
by the persons returning Herewith
to the United States shall. if not advanced
in value or improved in condition by
and means since their expectation from the
United States, be entitled to exemption from
duty upon their identify being established
under such rules and regulations as may be
prescribed by the secretary of the treasury.
Molasses testing not above ffty.six de-
grees by the polariscope, provided that if an
| export duty shall hereafter be laid upon mo-
| lasses by any country from whence the same
| shall be imported 1t shall be subject to duty
.. rravided by law at the date of the passage
| OF this act.
Newspapers or periodicals, but the term
periodicals." as herein used shall be under-
stood to embrace only unbouAa nr paper
covered publications, containing CURRENT
literature of the day and issued regularly at
stated periods, weekly, monthly, or quar-
| terly.
Manufactured tobacco exported without
payment of internal revenue tax must pay
the tax before transportation.
Paper stock, pulp of grasses and poplar or
other woods fit only to be converted into
paper. :,
The clause pesmitting the free entry of arti-
cles of growth, produce or manufacture of
the Uni ed States after having been exported
is amended by providing that it shall not
apply to articles which have been advanced
| in value or improved in condition by any
process of manufacture or other means while
or bottles of either domestic or foreign
manufacture which shall have been export
ed are also to be admitted FREQ when
they return to this country. II Is further
provided, however, that this paragraph shall
not apply to any article upon which an al
lowanoe of draw back has been made the re-
importation of which is prohibited, except
drawbacks allowed. or to any article manu-
featured in bonded warehouses under any
provision of law.
The following articles now admitted free OF
duty have been placed by the provisions of
the new bill on the dutiable list:
Hides, except sheepskins with the wool on,
! IS per cent. ad valorem.
| Mica, So per cent. ad Yalorem.
Aluminium, manufactured or the crude, 35
| per cent. ad valorem, or ten cents per pack
age of one hundred leaves.
Straw, 50 per ton.
| Macaroni or vermicill or similar prepara-
lions, two cents per pound.
Eggs of hens or other poultry, five cents
per dozen. Eggs. yolks, 20 per cent. sd va
made up into finished articles, ten per cent.
ad valorem. Other items are fixed as fol-
lows:
In the wooden schedules timber i cut afty
per cent Sawed Witt p h and 9s1 s.fsousrd
against export duties on logs 10 provided to
equal the excess in that duty.
Sugar stands as already noted at 30 per
cent. below number 10, and 40 per cent.
above that number, which amounts to q
ifty per cent. reduction on the same grades
and more than that on others. Aolasses
above SO degrees e cents q GALLON l. place.
at as per cent, with . safeguard sgainst An
export duty.
Cigars, cigarettes and chsroots az. % per
pound and 25 per cent.) are placed at ~ Ar
IS per cent. The clause fixing the dut, VI
leaf wrappers, unstsmmed ,(75 cents) ste1p1 ~
81 q pound), establishes rates of 90 Al 800
respectively, and has proviso n.rs ~
portion of bale il suitable for wapPsrS 'ne
entire bale shall pay. wrapper duty;
Tho LIQUOR schedules remains suostannally
=. At present with the addition OF sfer-
vescent mineral waters, natural and lmlta'
ton. which are made dutiable at 20 cents
and so cents dozen bottles, according to
size.
Cotton manufactures are practically as
6xed In the senate bill Of last congress. In
the hemp, fax and jute schedules cables,
oordsge. twine of MANILA, including binding
twiue (21S cents), is made ~ cents pound.
On wool the duties are on frst-olass and IL
cents per pound second class Ia cents, third
class (oarpet wools) 10 cents on values OF
IL cents per pound and less and cents
above that valuation. Carpets ara increas-
, cd a. follows: Aubussen, Administer,
} mouauette and chenille, woven whole
for rooms as cents per yard and ~
, Der coent) go cents and 40 per cent Saxton.
Wilton and Tourney velvets as cents and ~
? Der cent?, so cents and 40 per cent; Brus.
sells go cents and 80 per cent?, A cents and ND
; cents and so per cent?, 20 cents and Az POI
cent tapestry Brussels go cents and 50 PEI
cent. !. az cents and 40 per cent. treble IN.
grain. three-ply and chain Venstians III
cents and 80 per cent.), 10 cents and AZ POI
| cent. % .,
Wool, Dutch and two-ply ingram q cent.
and 3O, IA cents and Az Per 90 Son nsns sad q
!, per cent. Under the silk schedule we pounty
I clause. to operate for ten years, provides 1ol
the payment of 81 per pound OF silk pro,
duced and 1seled in the United states anu
= cents per pound on cocoons.
> Following the dutiabls schedules and ire
, list in the bill are administrative sections
|. mainly restorative of existing laws. In
internal revenue provisions make up the re
msinder of the measure. They abol
ish all special taxes upon dealer
st in leaf tobacco, dealers In tobacco
e manufacturers of tobacco and cigars an
8 q peddlers, but these person.. are required
d. register their names and addresses 81
Is present. All restrictions upon Tobacco
T. growers in regard to the sale OF their Tobacco
IN sre Also removed. The tax on smoking an
st manufactured tobacco and snuff is reduce
On from eight to four cents pound. Provislo
is made for a rebate to manufacturers ar
, dealers on original factory packages
smoking and manufactured tobacco an
z; snuff. cigars and cheroots and cigarettes he
" Al the time the law goes into effect of t!
full amount of the reduction made by Il
bill. ~
s,stion SO of the bill repeats all laws
lowing the distillation Of fermentsd liquo'l
except in an authorized distiilsry, and I
laws allowing the use Of alcoholic vapor
. the manufacture of vinegar.
Station 40 oonfers upon producers OF 6W'