Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1890-06-26
EHE TARIFF BILL
las Reported in the Senate by the
Committee on Finance
Sodiffeations and Changes Tending in the
Direction of Reduction of Duties
With Exceptions in Cases of
Undesirable Articles.


bill was reported 20 the Senate from the
committee on finance yesterday. No re-
port has been prepared by the commit
tee and 10 estimate of the increase in
the revenue resulting from the changes
made. The understanding is that the
bill will not be called up for discussion
until about July l. 4 member of the
committee stated this morning that the
bill, as reported, with the exception OF
the agricultural and wool and woolen
schedules, was the same, substantially as
the finance committees bill of 1855
The tobacco schedule is unchanged.
In the sugar schedule the bounty of two
cents per pound is extended to maple
sugar. No bounty is to be given for less
than 5000 pounds of sugar annually. A
penalty of $1,000 fine, or less. or not
more than five years imprisonment, or
both, is provided for fraudulent appli-
cations for bounty. \ duty OF $40 cents
per pound is put on sugars between No.
Is and No. Is Dutch standard free in
the House bill), and the duty on sugars
above No. 16 is increased from 4-iO to
Clio per pound. The chief changes are
in the earthenware, metal, agriculture
and sundries' schedules, and the
schedule of flax, hemp and jute. The
duty on boxed oranges, lemons and
lines is reduced one-half (from the rate
in the House bilD; barley from 80 to 25
cents hushel; barley malt from IS to
40 cents; cabbages from 8 cents to
cent each; rice flour from IA cents a
pound to Il cent; dried peas from 40
cents a bushel to Is cents; chocolate
from cents to > cents pound; cleaned
rice from 2 cents to IL cents a pound
uncleaned rice from l 4 cents to l cent
pound.
The earthenware schedule, unenu-
merated, covered by six paragraphs n
the House bill, is consolidated into one
paragraph, including mirrors (small)
and lenses, wholly or partly manufact-
ured, and the duty on them is fixed at
45 per cent ad ralorem. This is in
the nature of Z general redUcti ON.
Unpublished cylinder, crown and COM
mon window glass is reduced one
eighth cent per pound throughout.
Decorated china is cut from 63 per
cent. ad valorem to 55 per cent; plain
china from 80 per cent. to so per cent;
earthern-stone and crockeryware, emu
merated from % per cent. and 60 per
sent, to so per cent.
In the wool and wooden schedule the
specific rate on the lowest class of
cloths and yarns is raised Ito correct
acknowledged inequalities in the House
BILL" as member of the finance COM
.mittee phrases it.
In the metal schedule iron or steel
rails are reduced from S13.4 A to SLIGO
per ton; cold polished iron or steel
from IA cents per pound to 4
cent; copper in iron ore ICON
tanning more than per cent. of
copper from "a cents to = cent per
pound; anvils from 20 cents per pound
to cents; cast hollowware from 3 cents
per pound to , cents; gold watches and
gold watch chains from 10 per cent ad
valorem to p per cent. The duty on
shOtguns and revolvers, 30 and 40 per
cent. adj valOrem, is changed to specific
duty of 40 cents to So each and 81 per
cent ad vGlorem. Nickel and nickel al
10y is reduced from - cents to 3 cents
per pound
IN the wood schedules wood boards
are reduced from 81. 80 to 81 per LOCO
feet.
In the flax. etc, schedule, binding
twine is raised from Il 20 1 = cents per
pound; cotton bagging is reduced from
L Clio cents and l $40 to l $40 and
Il $40 cents. Sisal, or MANILA yarn, is di-
Vided into two classes, one valued at five
cents per pound, or less, on which the
duty is 2 cents per pound: the other, of
greater value, on which the duty is 40
per cent. ad valorem. In the House
R3ili both classes paid 80 cents. Vegeta- |
Pile hair and ramie, dutiable at 81 per
ton and Is per cent. ad valorem re-
Spectively. are put on the free list.
In the sundries schedule jewelry is |
reduced from 80 per cent. ad valorem |
to 40 per cent; dressed feathers and |
downs from so per cent to 40 per cent:
osiers prepared for basket-makers from |
DO per cent to % per cent; clay pipes |
40 per cent TO 35 per cent; silk and |
alpaca umbrellas from IS per cent. to 30
per cent; other umbrellas. IS per cent. |
to 40 per cent: cork bark, 10 cents per |
pound to cents: manufactured corkS, |
Is cents per pound to 12]sc.
minimum duty of 80 per cent. is |
provided for in the glove paragraph.
Paintings and statuary are taken |
from the free list and made dutiable at |
thirty per cent. Pearl and she'll but |
tons are fixed at ; cents per tin, |
and 25 per cent, instead of |
cents per tin, and all other buttons Tex
cept agatel pay duty according to the |
material composing them.
Among the articles added to the free !
list are natural mineral waters: blue |
clay for crucibles from Sl.50 per tom; |
mica from 81 per cent. ad valorem): |
spOngeS from 20 per cent. ad va |
loreIn); sulphur unenumerated; pitch of |
coal tar, tapioca, and plants for forcing |
under-glaSs.
The duty on steel biliets valued at |
! $40 cents per pound and less, is re-
duced l Ito cents on each class. The |
duty on fax not hacked is made $50 per |
ton, instead of y cents per pound. The |
duty on hacked flax is made $40 per ton !
instead of cents per pound.
The other changes made by the Sem |
ate finance committee from the bill as
1T passed the House are as follows:
In the chemicals schedule: Tannic
acid or tannin, so cents per pound ire
iaced from 81; logwood, sumac. hem
lock and other bark dyes, q of a cent
{reduced from 1 cent?; glycerine (crude),
IL cents per pound (reduced from ,
cents); extract of licorice. 5 cents ire
duced from q centS); alzarine assistant,
containing less than fifty per cent. of
castor oil, Is cents per gallon (reduced
from 40 cents); flaxseed and popy-seed
oil. 81 cents per gallon (reduced from