Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1890-09-27
THEIR LABoRs CompIErrn.

| THEIR LABORs CoMPLETED.
The Tariff BiM Reported to the House
by the Conference Committeeman
the Bill II to Take Enect-The sugar
Schedule-TObaeeo- DUTY ON
Wool.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 28.-The conference
committee on the tariff bill completed it's
work late this afternoon. The committee
had to deal with 484 amendments, many of
them involving cardinal differences of prin-
ciple in treatment and many the subject of
bitter controversy between conflicting in
terests. In the more important items of
this kind the result of the committees act
was as follows:
The date when the bill is to take effect
was made October 6. February next is
fixed as the ultimate date on which goods
deposited in bond before October may be
withdrawn at the old rates of duty.
In the case of sugar the conference, in
place of the uniform bounty of two cents
on grades of 80 and above provided by the
house, included maple sugar and adopted
after July 1, 1891, and until July 1, 1905,
there shall be paid from any moneys in the
treasury not otherwise appropriated under
the provisions of section $3.50 of the re-
vised statutes, to the producer of sugar
testing not less than 80 degrees by
the polariscope, from beets, sor-
ghum or sugar cane grown within
the United States, or from maple sap pro-
duced within the United States, bounty of
two cents per pound. and upon such sugar
testing less than 80 degrees by the polari-
scope, and not less than so degrees,
bounty of Il cents per pound, under such
rules and regulations as the commissioner
of internal revenue, with the approval of
the secretary of the treasury, shall pre-
scribe
In the case of imported sugars the house
line of 16 Dutch standard, below which
sugar is to be free, is adopted, but on
higher grades the result was compromise
as follows: All sugar above No. 16 Dutch
standard in color shall pay duty of FIVE
that all sugars above No. 16 Dutch stand
ard in color shall be one-tenth of
one per cent. in addition to
the rate herein provided for when export
ed from or the product of any country
when and 80 long as such country
pays or shall hereafter pay d.
rectly 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 secre-
tary of the treasury shall prescribe suita-
BILE rules and regulations to carry this
provision into effect. And provided fur
Their, 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 July !, 1892:
Provided, That any duty collected on any
of the above described machinery pur-
chased abroad and imported into the
United States for the uses above indicated
since January 1, 1890, shall be refunded
On glucose, the house rate of cent a
pound is retained. Whereas the senate
provided that the sugars schedule and
bounty provision was to take effect March
1 next the conference fixed upon April
as the date of operation with a provision
that No. 10 sugar may be meantime refined
in bond without duty.
Of the changes made in fhe internal rev.
enue sections, the conference statement is
as follows:
The senate struckout all the provisions
of the bill as passed by the house providing
for the reduction of internal revenue taxes
and the abolition of special taxes or annual
licenses on dealers in tobacco, cigars and
peddlers of tobacco and cigars. The confer
ence committee restored these provisions
and those reducing the tax on manu-
pound instead of four cents as provided by
the house bill. The paragraphs
relating to the sale of tobacco grown by
small farmers without being required to
pay a special tax have been restored By
the restoration of these paragraphs nearly
zoo, 900 persons are relieved from the pay
ment of the annoying special taxes which
is now imposed by law. The reduction,
which will be made to the revenue by
these changes in the internal revenue laws
will be over six millions on the basis of
the receipts of the fiscal year ending June
80, 1890, and six millions on the basis of
the receipts for the preceding year.
Tl-o ...Ivs established In the wool sched-
aa follows: One or weEs Fsfe
made from hair of the camel, goat, alpaca
or other animals valued above 80 cents a
pound 81 times the duty on unwashed
wool of the first class; on WOODEN or
worsted cloths valued above 80 cents a
pound, three times the duty on unwashed
wool of the first class; no clothing
ready made and articles of wearing ap-
parel of every description made up or
manufactured wholly or in part not spe-
cially provided for in this act, felts
not woven and not specially provided for
in this act and pushes and other pile
fabrics, all the foregoing, composed who'll
ly or in part of wool, worsted, the hair of
the goat, alpaca or other animals be four
and half times the duty imposed by this
act on unwashed wool of the first class
and go per centum ad valorem; carpets,
or carpeting of wool, flax or cotton, not
specially provided for, 80 per cent. ad
valorem; spun silk 80 per cent. ad valor-
EN-, velvets pushes, or other pile fabrics,
containing, exclusive of selvedges less than
IS per centum in weight of silk $3.50 per
nonnd and Is ner centum I'D Yalorem.