Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-04-07

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sections. These, in addition to the
changes of Importance in the existing
law not specified at that time, are indi-
Gated below, the present rates of duty
being inclosed in parentheses IN cases
where comparisons are necessary:
Glue go per cent? ranges from ~
cents per pound TO 80 per cent. ad va
loren, according to value. Sulphur, re-
fined rolls $50, IS per ton; sublimed
$500. So Glycerine, crude @ cents) :,
! cent a pound; refined 6 cents, AZ
cents. Cotton-seed oil Us cents, 10
cents per gallon. Soda, bi-carbonate
az cents l cent per pound.
The schedule covering earthenware
and glassware has been re-arranged
somewhat, and the changes of import
ance not already noted are:
Fire brick go cents), SI.25 per ton,
plain; As per cent. ornamented or glazed.
Other brick, plain (20), % per cent; or
namented, As per cent. Cement, Roman,
Portland and hydraulic GO per cent +,
8 cents per 100 pounds; lime 90 per
cent. G cents per 100 pounds; plaster of
paris ground GO per cent. 81 per ton;
calcined go per cent. Sl.75 per ton.
Glass bottles between one-quarter pint
and pint DO per pound) 115o; less
than one-quarter pint, SOC per gross;
flint and lime-pressed glassware (40
per cent }, I0o per dozen
and So per cent; decorated glass
ware AS per cent. 10c a pound and so
per cent thin blown glass, 10c dozen
and 40 per cent; heavy blown glass, sc
a pound and 40 per cent; porcelain or
opal glassware, from 25c 80 75c per dozen
and 80 per cent. The foregoing are new
classes. Unpublished cylinder, crown and
common window glass (l3$o to 218o
pound &c to Sc pound; unpublished
cylinder and crown glass, sizes less than
l6x24 now 21ao per FOOT, are not pro-
vided for specifically, and will pay
cents The same Is true Of cast
polished plate glass (now SO per
foot, below 10xl5), which viii pay 5
cents. So in plate looking glass the
small size (now 40 a FOOT will pay
cents. Schedule (metals) allows
pvrites con tanning more than % per
cent. of sulphur to enter free and pro-
hibits allowance for moisture. The
other important changes in this schedule,
railway iron, tin-plate aud wire fencing,
have already been noted. Pen knives
and pocket cutlery (now so per cent?
show q sharp increase to from u cents
to s. per dozen and so cents per dozen
and 80 per cent. In wooden schedules
timber is cut 80 per cent; sawed white
boards 50 per thousaud) is placed at
81 30 and g safeguard against export
duties on logs is provided to equal
the excess in that duty. Sugar
stands, as already noted, at So
per cent. below number sixteen and 10
per cent. above that number, which
amounts to so per cent. reduction on
some grades and more than that on
others. Molasses above 56 degrees g
cents q gallon) is placed at 25 per cent.
with a safeguard against an export duty.
Cigars, cigarettes and cheroots (S2 so per
pound and % per cent are placed at So
and % per cent. The clause fixing the
duty on leaf wrapper (unstemmed, Is
cents; stemmed, 81 a pOund) establishes
rates of 81 and S2.75, respectively, and
las proviso that if any portion of a bale
is suitable for wrappers the entire bale
shall pay wrapper duty. The liquor
schedules remain substantially as
at present, with the addition of efferves-
cent mineral waters, natural and i'm ita-
ton, which are made dutiable at %
cents and 90 cents a dozen bottles, ac-
coTding to size. Cotton manufacturers
are practically as fixed in the senate bill
Of last congress. In the hemp, fax and
iute schedules, cables, cordage and
twine of manila, including binding
Irvine, (2l2 cents), is made ! p cent q
pound. Under the silk schedule a boun-
.y clause, to operate for ten years,
provides for the payment of 81
per pound on silk produced and reeled in
the United States, and cents per pound
nd l,n 81
paper and pulp, wood pulp 90 per
Sc for bleached, and 81 for
Dleached chemical pulp.
Leather, betting and sole (15 per
,ent. 20 per cent; calf skins, dressed
20 per cent 20 per cent; kangaroo,
heep and goat skins, dressed GO per
cent % per cent. skins for morocco,
AIMED but unfinished 90 per cent. Is
)er cent; gloves, kid or leather, in
Whole or part, in any stage of manufao-
uTe 60 per cent?, valued at So per
,ozen, 81. so and 20 per cent; between
$ and SIS in value, 81 per dozen and %
,er cent; above that. 80 per cent.
Pianos new class % per cent.
Following the dutiable schedules and |
rec lists in the bill are administrative !
ections, mainly reiterative, Of existing
aw.
THE INTERNAL REVENUE PROVISIONS.
The internal revenue provisions make |
p the remainder of the measure. They |
Lbolish all special taxes upon dealers in
saf tobacco, dealers in tobacco, manu-
acturers of tobacco and cigars, and |
but these persons are required
0 register their names and addresses as
t present. All restrictions upon tobac-
o growers in regard to the sale of their
ob9cco is also removed. The tax on |
moking and manufacturing tobacco and
huff is reduoted from to cents
ound. Provision is made for q rebate
D manufacturers and dealers on original
actory packages Of smoking and manu-
lctured tobacco and snuff, cigars, che
DOTS and cigarettes held at the time the
NV goes into effect of the full amount of
he reduction made by the bill.
Section 80 of the bill repeats all laws
flowing the distillation of fermented
guilds, except in an authorized dis
Ilery, and the laws allowing the use OF
lcohol vapor in the manufacture of
inegar: Section 40 confers upon pro-
ucers of sweet wine, who are also dis
Hers, the right to use wine sDirits IN |