The Dickinson press., 1890-03-22
AGREED ON A TARIFF BILL
The LnbOrs of the Ways and
Means Sub.C Ommtttec Near.
~ Ended.
A Reduction in the Revenue of
Probably $50, 900, 900 Will
Result.
Some Of the More Important Changes
Recommended - Agricultural
Interests Favored.

Recommended - Agricultural
Interests Favored.
WASHINGTON, March 19.-The Repub-
lican members of the ways and means
committee have agreed upon every point
of division on the tariff schedules and
the reductions to be made from internal
revenue. and will present the bill to the
full committee for its consideration in a
few days. The clauses relating to car
pet woods, Mexican lead ores, and one or
two other articles have not yet been
finally and definitely passed upon.
While the bill is not absolutely COM
pleted and will, of course, be subject to
revision, it is believed to be substantially
q finish as far as a majority of the COM
mittee is concerned.
The internal revenue features of the
bill are as follows: The entire abolition
of all special taxes upon dealers of all
kinds, commonly known as licenses; the
tax upon snuff will be repealed; farmers
and planters growing tobacco will have
the liberty to sell to whomsoever they
please without restraint in the same
name as any farmer a dispose of
any other of the products of of his land.
The tax upon manufactured tobacco will
be reduced from = cents to 4 cents a
pound. cigars, cheroots and cigarettes
will carry the same tax as is imposed
under the present law. Alcohol used in
the arts is free under substantially the
same restrictions as are prescribed in the
senate bill. The reductions in the reve-
Tue from these sources will, in round
numbers, amount to between SIT, OO0, 600
and SO, 1000, 900. The following are the
principal provisions in the tariff sched-
ules:
The earthenware and glassware sched-
ules remain substantially as in the exist
ing law.
The sugar schedule is reduced from so
to 60 per cent.
There are a number of important
changes in the metals schedule. Exist
ing rates are maintained upon iron ore
and pig iron. Barbed wire for fencing
is made dutiable at 6-10 of a cent per
pound, which is below the duty upon
that kind of iron entering into other
uses. Beams. .girders and structural
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per pound, which is a reduction below
that of the senate bill. Railway iron is
reduced to Clio of a cent a pound, the
present rate being SIT a ton, a reduction
of about 81 q ton and a reduction in the
rate fixed by the senate bill. The duty
on steel rails is reduced 81 a ton. The
duty or tin plate has been increased
22-10 cents a pound. Pig tin remains
free. There is an increase in the duty
upon pocket cutlery.
In the lumber schedule, the duty on
sawed boards, planks and finished lum-
Der is reduced 50 per cent. from the pres
ent rate. There is a special provision in
serted that in case Canada lays an ex-
port duty on lumber, then duties shall
be collected according to the rates UNI
der existing law.
Increase on Farm Products.
The duty on Summarize tobacco is in
creased to $2.75 per pound. There is an
increase generally all along the list Of
the duties upon agricultural products.
The duty on barley is raised to 80 cents
a bushel; hops to 15cents a pound; buck
wheat to Is cents a bushel; oats 10 cents
a bushel. The duties on agricultural
seeds are increased. Butter and substi-
tutes therefor have the duty increased to
6 cents a pound. The duty on eggs is
raised to S cents a dozen; potatoes to
25 cents a bushel. Hides, which are now
on the free list, are made dutiable at 1 10
cents a pound. There is a small increase
in the duty on fruits. Spirits, wines and
other beverages have been left as found
in existing law. Salt, also, has not been
touched.
Cotton Manufactures
are left substantially as in the senate
bill. Jute, MANILA and sisal grass are
put upon the free list, as is wool degras
which enters into the finishing of
leather. A reduction is made in the
duty on binding Irvine.
In the wood schedule, woods of the
first class, known as clothing woods II
cents a pound; woods of the second
class known as combing woods, 10 cents;
carpet woods, valued at IL cents or less,
3 1-2 cents per pound; valued at over IL
cents, 8 cents a pound. This is a reduc-
ton of one.half a cent a pound from the
senate bill, and an increase of / 1-2 cents
from the present law.
The bill also repeals that section Of the
statutes which gives to the United
States, and contractors under it, the
right to import supplies into this coun-
tended to require the United States and
all of its officers and contractors to be
bound by the laws which it establishes
for its citizens.
The bill, it is thought, will reduce the
revenues about $50, 00O, 900, and of this
reduction about SCI, 0O0, 900 will be Sc
cured by the cut on sugar and from S17,-
900, o to $40, 00e, 900 by the internal
revenue features of the bill. The free
list. which contains, with few excep-
tions, all the items of the senate bill and
a few others which were not in the SEN
ate bill, will. it is thought, make a re-
duction of between So 900 and ST.
800, 900. The rexisions made throughout
the tariff schedules are expected to make
up the difference between the sums
named md $50, DOC, 1000.