The Portland daily press., 1890-09-27
THE TARIFF BILL FINALLY REVISED.
Changes Made in Some of the PrIn-
cIpal Schedules.
Estimated Reduction CT Revenue OF
SIxty-sIx Millions.
The Law To co Into Effect on the
Sixth of October.

| WASHINGTON, September 26.- The confer
ence committee on the tariff bill completed
its work late this afternoon. The committee
had to deal with AGA amendments. The date
the bill is to take effect is made October 6
and February 1st next is fixed as the ultimate
date upon which goods deposited In bond
before October may be withdrawn at the
old rate of duty. In the case of sugar the
conference. in place of uniform bounty of
two cents on grades Of eighty degrees and
above provided by the House, included ma
pie sugar and adopted the following provis-
ion:
On and after July /, 1891, and until July /,
1895, there shall be paid from any moneys in the
treasury, not otherwise appropriated under the
utes to producer of sugar testing not less than 90
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 pound upon such sugar !;
testing less than 90 degrees by polariscOpe and
not less than 80 degrees, bounty OF ia cents a
pound, under such rules and regulations as the
commissioner of internal revenue with the ap-
proval Of the Secretary OF the Treasury shall pre-
scribe.
In the case of imported sugars the House
line Of No. 16 Dutch standard, below which
sugar is to be free, Is adopted. The report
further provides:
All sugars above No. 16 Dutch standard In color
shall pay duty Of fve-tenths Of cent pound;
standard in color shall pay onetenth Of a cent a
pound In addition TO the rate herein provided for
when exported from or the product of any coun.
try when and so long as such country pays or
shall hereafter pay, directly or indirectly, boun
ty on the expectation of any such sugar which may
be included in this grade which Is greater than
that paid on raw sugars of lower saccharine
strength. The Secretary of the treasury shall
prescribe suitable rules aud regulations TO carry
nj Tod fnRth thnR
that all machinery purchased abroad and erected
In beet sugar factories used in the production of
raw sugar in the United States from Deets pro-
duced therein shall be admitted duty free until
July 1, 1892, and that any duty collected on any
OF the above described machinery purchased
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 of a cent
pound is retained. The Senate provided that
the Senate sugar schedule and bounty provi-
sion should toke effect March next The
conference fixed upon April 1st as the date
of operation with the provision that No. 16
sugar may be meantime refined in bond
without duty.
cent On other MANILA cordage the rate is
advanced from II to II cents pound, which
Is more than agreed upon by either house.
In the case Of tin plate, the House rate of
three-fOurthS Of a cent pound above sheet
iron rates up to July /, next, and two and
two-tenths cents after that date is retained.
The Senate rate.of further additional duty
of 35 per cent ON manufactures of tin plate
is replaced by an absolute single duty of 55
per cent. The stipulation for free 63-pound
tin after 1895 in case of the failure of dOmes-
tic works to produce one. third of the con-
sumption is retained. In steel ingots and
blooms the Senate rate, lower than the |
House rate by one-tenth of cent a pound, |
is retained on grades below one and eight |
tenths cents in value. Above that, higher |
rate than the House rate prevails. On iron |
and steel bars or plates, cold rolled or blued, |
the higher House rates are retained.
In the case of sawed boards and lumber of |
white pine the Senate rate of 81 Is adopted |
and provision for the retention of the old |
duties to cover foreign export duty is re- |
tained. The duty on cedar posts is fixed at |
20 per cent; hard cabinet wood board, 10 |
per cent; veneers 20 per cent. The Senate |
rate of 81 on pine clapboaIds is allowed to |
stand as we'll as its rate on singles of 20 cents |
per 1000 for white pine and 80 cents for 9TH |
ers.
The conferrees agreed.to the Senate reci- |
proclty and retaliation amendment, chang |
Ing the date TO January, l, 1892 instead of |
July next.
Of the changes made In the agricultural |
schedules the conferences report says that In |
the agricultural schedule the House rates |
are mainly retained. Garden seeds are re- |
1uced from 40 per cent as proposed by the |
House to the 20 per cent rate substituted by |
The Senate. Turnlp seed, which the Senate |
placed on the free list, is transferred to the |
1utiabe list. The aggregate reduction Dy |
The bill is estimated at $66, 100000.