Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1890-06-19
THE TARIFF AGAIN.
Result of the Senate Commit
tees Deliberations.
MANY CHANGES MADE IN THE BILL


Sugar and Wool, However. Are steered
in tho Other Direction-Speaker Reed
Shelves the silver Bill for Awhile
What the President Would Probably Do
with q Free Coinage Measure-Omciai
Miscellany.
WASHINGTON CITY, June 19.-The senate
seems to shave it in" for the house all
along the line. The way the upper
house, sat down on the silver bill was a
caution, and now the tariff bill comes in
for treatment which, though not so radi-
cal, will nevertheless give both houses a
good deal of trouble when it gets into con-
ference, unless the senate shall refuse to
indorse the many changes made. The knife
has been applied all through the bill and
duties reduced in large percentage of the
cases where changes have been made.
The reductions, however, are generally
small, but in many cases may be effect
i've In blocking an agreement as if they
were large. The tobacco schedule is left
as it was in the house bill. Almost all of
the internal revenue features introduced
by the house were struck out by the COM
late to the tax on tobacco the manufae-
ture of vinegar from the evaporation of
alcohol and the fertilization of wines.
Changes That Make an Increase.
In the sugar schedule the bounty of
cents per pound is extended to maple
sugar. No bounty is given for less than
500 pounds of sugar annually. A duty of
0S cent per pound is put on sugars be
tween No. Is and No. 10 Dutch standard,
free in the house bilD, and the duty on
sugars above No. l6 is increased from GA
cent to 06 cent per pound. This is one
of the most important increases in the
bill, and the wool schedule presents some
more changes in the direction of increase.
The Duties on Wool.
In the wool schedule the duty on wooden
and worsted yarns, valued at not more
than 80 cents per pound, is to be two and a
half times the duty imposed on pound of
unwashed wool of the first class, instead
of twice that duty; and on WOODEN and
worsted cloths, knit fabrics, and manu-
features of every description made wholly
or in part of wool valued at not more than
30 cents the duty per pound is to be three
times the duty imposed on pound of un-
washed wool of the first class instead of
vice that duty. On blankets, hats, and
flannels for underwear, valued mt not
more than 80 cents per pound the duty is
to be the same as that imposed on IL
pounds of wool of the firlt-class, instead
of pound.
The Tax on Earthenware.
In the earthenware schedule, glass and
glassware, unenumerated, covered by six
paragraphs III the house bill, are CONSOLE
dated into one paragraph, including mir
rors (smalD and lenses, wholly or par
TALLY manufactured and the duty on
them is fixed at As per cent. ad valorem.
This is in the nature of large general
reductiOn.) Unpublished cylinder crown and
common window glass is reduced 1Scents
per pound throughout Decorated china is
cut from TO per cent ad valorem to So per
cent; plain china from IS per cent to 50
per cent; esrthenstone and crockery ware
unenumerated from s. per cent and 80
per cent to so per cent.
Reductions In the Metal Schedule.
In the metal schedule iron or steel rails
are reduced from s1344 to S1l 20 per ton;
cold polished iron or steel from 4 cents
per pound to 4 cent; copper in iron ore
containing more than per cent of cop
per- from u cents 10 x cent per pound;
anvils from 2l6 cents per pound to cents;
cast hollow ware from cents per pound
to cents. The duty on steel billets val
ued at Is cents per pound and less is
reduced IL cent on each class Glass No.
of hoop-iron or Steel dutiable at IL
cents per pound, is made TO include iron
from 10 to 90 wire gauge, and class
No. B. dutiable at l3 cents per
pound is made to include iron thinner
than twenty wire gauge The additional
duty imposed on iron plates and hoop
iron is made 4 cent per pound instead of
q cent. The provision that after July l,
1891, manufactures of which tin plate is
the chief part shall pay in addition to the
rate of duty upon tin plates an ad valorem
duty of 81 per cent. is struck cut The
provision making As per cent. ad valorem
the minimum duty on chains is struck
out.
Miscellaneous Changes.
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