Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1890-09-27
The Conference report on the Tariff Bill
Submitted TO the House.
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WASHINGTON September 26th.- After
ten days OF hara work the Conference Com
mittee on the Tariff Bill completed its
work late this afternoon and reported the
result to the House. The committee had
to deal with 464 amendments. In the
more important items the result of the
committees action was as follows:
The date when the bill will take effect
was made October 9th. February 1st next
is fixed as the ultimate date upon which
goods deposited in bond before October 1st
may be withdrawn at old rates of duty.
In the case of sugar the conference, in
place of uniform bounty of two cents on
grades of 50, above provided for by the
House, included maple sugar, and adopted
the following provision: On and after
July 1, 1891, and until July /, 1905. there
shall be paid from any money in the Treas
ury not otherwise appropriated, under the
provisions of Section 1853, Revised Stat
utes, TO the producer Of sugar, there being
no less than 80 degrees by the polariscope,
from beets, sorghum or sugar. cane grown
within the United States, or from maple
sap produced within the United States, a
bounty OF two cents per pound; and upon
such sugar testing less than 80 degrees and
not less than so degrees, bounty of one
and three-fourths cents per pound, under
such rules snd regulations OF the Commits
sioner of Internal Revenue, with the ap-
proval of the Secretary of the Treasury,
prescribes.
In the case of imported sugars, the
House line of 16 Dutch standard, below
which sugar will be free, is adopted, but on
higher grades the result was a compromise
as follows: All sugars above 16 in color
shall pay duty of fve-tenths of one cent
per pound; provided that all sugars above
No. 16 in color shall pay one.tenth of one
cent per 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
after pay, directly or indirectly, a bounty
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 regulations to carry this provision into
effect; and provided, further, that all ma
chinery purchased abroad and erected in
beet sugar factories, and used in the pro-
duction of -aw sugar in the United States
from beets produced therein, shall be ad-
mitted duty free until the 1st of July, 1892
provided, that any duty collected on any oi
the above described machinery purchased
abroad and imported into the United
| States, for the uses above indicated since
| January l. 1890 shall be refunded.
| On glucose the House rate of three
fourths of cent pound is retained
Whereas the Senate provided that the
sugar schedule and bounty provision wa:
to take effect March 1st next, the confer.
ence fixed upon April 1st as the date o.
operation, with proviso that No. 13 sugar
may be meantime refined in bond without
duty.
In the case of fresh or frozen fish from
American fisheries, made free by both
houses, the conference has imposed q linl-
| itation that they must be caught by Ameri
can vessels in fresh water. Other fish are
! made dutiable at three-quarters of a cent
! per pound, a split between the House and
Senate rate.
| The binding twine rate is fixed at II of 9
cent per pound, but on other manila cord
age the rate is advanced from one and one.
half cents to one and three-quarters 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 stricken out by the conference.
| In the case OF glass bottles, where the
| Senate reduced the rates, the conference
adopted medium, fixing the rates on sizes
above one pint and more at l cent pel
pound, and on smaller sizes down TO &
quarter of pint at II cents, and on size!
below at 90 cents per gross.
| On plain pressed glassware single ratt
of 60 per cent. is adopted, instead OF tn,
higher compound House rate. and The
same is done in the case of cut and decor
ated glassware.
The As per cent. House rate, struck ou
by the Senate, on chemical glassware, wal
reinstated Sixty per cent. is fixed fol
thin and heavy blown glass, instead of tn,
House rates, struck out by the Senate, anC
SO in the case of porcelain glasses.
A uniform 60 per cent. rate is established
on unpublished cylinder crown and window
glass. Where the Senate made an averag,
reduction of quarter of a cent the confer
ence adopted medium of one-eighth of {
| cent reduction, as well as the Senate pro
vision that each box shall contain fifty
square feet
On pyrites the Senate rate of one-hal
cent per pound on contained. copper is re
| tanned. On boiler and other plate, iroI
| and steel, new grades are established, valued
| at 2 cents or1ess per pound, on which th'
rates run as follows: Below l cent, 5-lt
of cent; below l 10 cents, 65-lO0 of I
cent per pound; below cents, $40 of
cent per pound. On the higher grades tn,
rates fixed are: Above cents, l All
cents; above cents, 80 cents; above
cents, cents; above cents, 2 $40 cents
above 10 cents, 81 cents; above 13 cents, Il
per cent. Plates thinner than No. 10 arr
| to pay duty as sheets.
The finer Senate gauges for hoop iron ar
adopted, and for railway bars of iron o.
steel the House rate of 6.10 of cent pc
| pound obtains.
! In tin plate the House rate of three.
| fourths of cent per pound above tn,
sheet iron rates to July 1st next, and two
tenth cents after that date, was retained
! The Senate rate of a further additiona
duty of 35 per cent. on manufactures of tir
plate is replaced by an absolute single duty
of 55 per cent, and its stipulation of free
63 pound tin after 1896, in case of the fail
ure of the domestic works to produce one
third of the consumption, is retained.
The limit of time within which othel
! Governments may MAKE arrangements fol
entering into reciprocity arrangements witt
! the United States for free importation into
their countries of American agriculture
products was extended until January
1892.
| OF the changes made in the agriculture
schedules, the eonferrees' report says: 'II
the agricultural schedule the House rate i:
mainly retained on oranges, lemons anC
| lines, which the House made dutiable g
! double the present rates. in order 10 afforC
protection and encouragement to the plant
ers of California and Florida. The Senat,
reduced the rates somewhat above tn,
present law. The House confeuees yielded
reluctantly. An amendment was added t
| that of the Senate imposing an additiona
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