Huntsville gazette., 1890-04-05
THE TARIFF QUESTION.


An Estimated Reduction of Fifty Mill
ion Doliars-The Free List.
WASHINGTON, March 31.-Thc new
tariff bill was submitted TO the full
ways and means committee this morn
ing and passed upon by the committee.
The minority were given ten days to
prepare amendments in committee and
to prepare their views on the bill. lis
estimated that the bill makes total
annual reduction in the revenues of
about S50,oO0, 900. The sugar and to-
bacco senetalas are greatly changed.
The duty on the former is greatly re-
duced. Under the sugar schedule the
standard is changed from No. 13 to No.
16. 1t is provided that all sugars above
No. 16 Dutch standard in color, also all
tank bottoms, sugar DRAWINGS and sugar
sweepings, sirups of cane juice or of beet
juice, melada, concentrated melada, and
concrete and concentrated molasses,
shall pay duty of 35 per cent. ad
valorem, instead of a specific duty as
under existing law. All sugars above
No Is Dutch standard are placed at
40 per cent. ad valorem. The existing
law provides that these sugars shall
pay duty at the rate of 294 cents and
3 cents per pound.
Molasses testing above 56 degrees is
made dutiable at 25 per cent, change
from the specific duty OF eight cents
per gallon. 1t is also provided that if
an export duty shall hereafter be laid
upon sugar or molasses by any country
whence it is imported, it stall be sub
ject to duty as provided by the present
tariff law. No change is made in the
duty on sugar candy and glucose.
Grape sugar is made dutiable at % of a
cent per pound.
The duty on leaf tobacco suitable for
cigar wrappers, stemmed and un-
stemmed, is considerably increased.
Under existing Law the stemmed quail
ty is dutiable at 81 per pound, and this
is increased in the Mckinley bill to
S2.75 per pound. The duty on un-
stemmed is increased from IS cents to
81 per pound. A proviso is inserted to
the effect that if any portion of any to-
bacco imported in any package or in
bulk shall be suitable for cigar wrap
pers, the entire quantity of tobacco con-
tanned in such package or bulk shall be
dutiable, if not stemmed, at 81, and
if stemmed at 81. IS per pound. No
change is made in regard to all other
tobacco in leaf, manufactured and
not stemmed, but stemmed tobacco is
made dutiabsa at so cents per pound.
Tobacco manufactured, and of all de-
or;, +oI
provided for, is placed at 40 cents per
pound, change from the present duty
of 30 per cent. ad valorem. No change
is made in regard to snuff and snuff
-four made of tobacco. Cigars, cigar
cites and cheroots of all kinds, are made
dutiable at So per pound and 25 per
cent. ad valorem. Under existing law
they are dutiable at 49, so per pound and
25 per cent. ad valorem.
Hides, raw oRuncured, whether dry,
salted or picked, and other skins ex-
cept sheep skins with the wool on, are
taken from the free list and made duti-
able at fifteen per cent. ad valorem,
with the proviso that there shall be al
lowed on leather or skins manufactured
duty has been paid, when exported, a
drawback equal in amount to the duty
paid on these hides or skins.
In the wood schedule, hewn and
sawed wood and timber used for spars
and building wharves, is reduced
from 20 to 10 per cent ad valorem.
Squared and sided timber not specially
provided for, is increased from one cent
to cent and half per cubic foot. No
change is made in sawed boards, plank,
deals and other lumber of hemlock,
white wood, sycamore and Eastwood,
but white pine is reduced from 81 to 81. so
per thousand feet. Sawed lumber not
specially provided for is made dutiable
at 50 per thousand feet instead of 20 per
cent, as at present, but when lumber of
any sort is planed or finished it shall be
dutiable, in addition to the regular rate,
at so cents per thousand feet for each
side so planed. This is a reduction of
SO cents. If planed on one side and
tongued and grooved, it is to pay 81 per
thousand feet additional, and if planed
on both sides and tongued and grooved,
81. so per thousand. 1t is provided that
in case any foreign power shall place
an export tax upon pine, spruce, elm or
other logs, exported to the United
States in excess of the equivalent per
thousand feet board measure of the
duty fixed by the bill upon sawed lum-
Der, the duty upon the sawed lumber
provided for in the bill shall be in
creased to an amount equal to the tax
imposed by the foreign country upon
the exports of such logs to-the United
States. Sawed cabinet woods unmanu-
factured veneering and wood are
changed from 81 per thousand to 20 per
cent. ad valorem. With the exception
of chair cane, manufactured but not
made into finished articles, which is
made dutiable at 10 per cent, the rest
of the wood schedule is unchanged.
The duty on nearly every article in
the cotton manufacturers schedule is
increased. Cotton thread, yarn and
wraps, are increased cents per pound.
Spool thread bears the present duty. A
new standard for cotton cloth is estab-
lished. one hundred threads to the
l. l.