Los Angeles herald. [volume] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1890-1893, 1890-09-27
THE TARIFF REPORT.
The Result Of the Confer
ence's Labor.
The Bill Will Take Effect on
October 1st.
The Bonded Period Extended to Feb
ruary 1, 1891.
The Duty on Citrus Fruits Reduced From
The Liberal Rates Prescribed
By the House Bill.
Associated Press Dispatches.


tee on the tariff bill completed its work
late this afternoon and reported the re-
suit to the house. The committee had
to deal with 464 amendments. In the
more important items the result of the
committee action was as follows:
The date when the bills to take effect
is made October 9th.
February 1st, next, is fixed as the ul-
innate date upon which goods deposited
in bond before October 1st, may be
withdrawn at the old rates of duty.
In the case of sugar the conference, in
place of uniform bounty of two cents
on grades of 80 and above, as provided
by the house, included maple sugar and
adopted the following provision: On
and after Julyl1, 1891, and until July l.,
1905, there shall be paid from any
money in the treasury, not otherwise
appropriated under the provision of Sec
tion 36S9 Revised Statutes, to the pro-
ducer of sugar, there being not less than
80 degrees polarioscope, from beets, sor-
ghum or sugar cane grown within the
United States. or from maple sap produc-
edwithin the United States, bounty of
two cents per pound. and upon sugar
testing less than 80 degrees, and not
less than so degrees, bounty of one
and three-fourth cents per pound, under
such rules and regulations as the COM
missioner OF internal revenue, with the
approval OF the secretary of the treasury
may prescribe.
Tn tho pocn of iroportaJ currore +bo
house line OF No. 16 Dutch standard, be-
low which sugar shall be free, is adopt
ed; but on higher grades the result was
a compromise as follows: All sugars
above No. 16 in color shall pay duty OF
hve-tenths OF Zone cent per pound,
provided, that all sugars above No. 16
in color shall pay One-tenth of one cent
pound in addition to the rate herein
provided for, when exported from, or the
products OF any country, when and so
long as such country pays, or shall here's
after pay, directly or indirectly, boun-
ty on the expectation of any such sugar
which may be included in this grade,
which is greater than is paid on raw
sugars of lower saccharine strength
and the secretary of the treasury
shall prescribe suitable rules and regu-
lations to carry this provision into
effect; and provided further, that all
machinery purchased abroad and
erected in beet sugar factory and used
in the production of raw sugar in the
United States, from beets produced
therein, shall be admitted duty free
until the first day OF July, 1892. Pro-
vided that any duty collected on any of
the above described machinery pur-
chased abroad, and imported into the
United States for the uses above indi-
Gated since January 1st, 1890, shall be
refunded.
Whereas, the senate provided that
the sugar schedule and bounty provis-
ion was to take effect March 1st, next,
the conference fixed upon April 1st, as
the date, with the proviso that No. 13
sugar may be in the meantime refined
in bond without duty.
The duty ON binding twine is fixed at
seven-tenths of cent, but on other
manila cordage the rate is advanced from
IL cents to Ia cents per pound, more
than was agreed upon by either house.
All of the paragraphs inserted by the
senate providing for customs commits
sion were striken out by the confer
ence.
In tin plate, the house rate, q cent
per pound above sheet iron rates to July
tanned. The senate rate of a further ad-
ditional duty of 35 per cent. on manu-
factures of tin plate, is replaced by an
absolute single duty of 55 per cent and
its stipulation for free 63-pound tin,
after 1896, in case of the failure of do
mestic works to produce one-third of
the consumption, is retained.
In the internal revenues features of
the bill, nearly all the house provisions
are restored. The provisions removing
all restrictions on farmers and growers
of tobacco, in regard to the sale of leaf
tobacco, are restored, and the proviso
added that farmer shall furnish, on
demand of an internal officer, state
ment of his sales, etc. A fine of $500 is
provided for the violation of this provis-
ion.
The conference committee struck out
the senate amendments providing for
tariff commission.
The tax on smoking and manufactur.
ed tobacco and on snuff is placed at 6
cents per pound. Opium manufacturers
are taxed $40 per pound upon opium
manufactured in the United States for
smoking purposes, and only persons who
are citizens OF the United States are per-
mitted to engage in its manufacture.
The rates established in the wool
schedule where amendments are made,
are as follows: Woolen or worste1 yarn
from the hair of the camel, goat, al
paca or other animals, valued above 80
cents pound, 21s times the duty on un-
washed woods of the first class; wooden
or worsted cloths, valued above 80 cents
a pound, three times the duty on un-
washed wool of the first class; on
clothing ready made, and articles of
wearing apparel of every description
made up or manufactured wholly or in
part, not specially provided for, and
plushes and other pile fabrics, all the
foregoing composed wholly OF, in part OF
wool, worsted of the hair of the camel,
goat, alpaca or other animals, four and
one-half times the duty imposed by this
act on unwashed wool of the first class.
The conferees agreed to the senate
reciprocity and retaliation amendment,
making but one change, which was in