The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1890-10-01
The Tariff Bill.
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measure in many particulars. On some
points-as, for instance, that Of binding
twine-the representatives of the two
houses agreed to "split the difference"
AS to binding Irvine, the house had
fixed the duty at one and one-fourth
cents per pound, while the senate
proposed to admit it free. The con-
ference report fixes the duty at seven
tenths of a cent. In their gen.
era lines of placing duties, the senate
and house positions did not differ
greatly. Each was highly protective.
The senate had merely taken the house
bill and looked it over carefully, making
what amendments seemed to be needed.
| There has been difference of opinion
among the republican senators, and, to
less extent, among members OF the
house, on many important points. But
it is gratifying to observe that this was
not carried to the extent of negative
votes in the senate, and in the confer
ence committee there was an evident
disposition to look at differences of
opinion in a candid and reasonable
way, with the idea uppermost of get
ting bill which should strike as nearly
as possible the average republican SEN
timent. The bill to-day is as good an
expression of average republican senti-
ment as could have been framed by any
man or any committee.
A glance at some of the provisions
that directly affect Vermonters will be
worth while. First, as to granite. For
the manufactured stone, the duty is
placed at eleven cents per cubic foot.
When hewn, dressed or polished, the
rate is forty per cent. Marble, rough or
square, has duty of sixty-fve cents
per cubic foot. Veined marble, sawed
or dressed, is protected by S1.10 on the
cubic foot, and all other manufactures
of marble have an dd rdlOrem duty of
fifty per cent. On lumber the schedule
is as follows: Timber. hewn and sawed,
ten per cent; squared or sided, per
cubic foot, one-half cent; sawed boards,
deals of hemlock, white wood, syca-
more, white pine and Eastwood, per
thousand feet, 81; sawed lumber, not
provided for, per thousand feet, 81;
sawed lumber, if planed for each side,
per thousand feet, fifty cents; if planed,
tongued and grooved, per thousand
feet, 81; planed on two sides, tongued
and grooved, per thousand feet, S1.50.
To the duties on miscellaneous agri-
cultural products we have already re-
ferred in discussing the bill at an early
stage in its progress. These remain
substantially the same. A few of the
items of this schedule are given, to il
lustrate its scope: Horses and mules,
per head, $50; horses valued at over
$3.50, thirty per cent; cattle over one
year, per head, so; cattle less than
one year, per head, 50; sheep, one
year old, per head, $3.50; sheep less
than one year old, per head, seventy
five per cent; corn, per bushel, fifteen
cents, oats, per bushel, fifteen cents;
butter and substitutes, six cents; cheese,
six cents; beans, per bushel, forty
cents; cabbages, each, one cent; cider,
per gallon, five cents; eggs, per dozen,
five cents; hay, per ton, "a; onions
per bushel, twenty-five cents; garden
seeds, twenty per cent; straw, thirty
per cent; beef, mutton and pork, two
cents; lard, two cents; poultry, live
, three cents; poultry, dressed, five cents
vinegar, per gallon, seven and one
half cents. The three classes into
which woods are divided have the fol
: lowing duties Glass one, which in
. cludes woods of Merino blood, clever
cents per pound; class two, twelve
cents; class three, value of thirteel
cents or less per pound, thirty-two pc
, cent; class three, camePs hair, valu
Y of thirteen cents or less, thirty-tw,
per cent; class three, value over thir
teen cents, fifty per cent. Maple suga
: comes out side by side with cane, sor
ghum and beet sugar. The bounty i
y of two grades. Sugar testing not les
4 than ninety degrees by the polariscop
t is to receive bounty of two cents pc
i pound, while that testing between
o eighty and ninety degrees is to receiv
e one and three-fourths cents per pound
g Maple syrup has duty of twenty cent
o per gallon. The provisions of tn
" schedule which must be complied wit
8 to secure the bounties are as follows:
The producer of said sugar to be entitle
e to said bounty shall have first filed, prior I
a July OF each year, with the commissions
OF internal revenue notice of the place
d production, with general description
n the machinery and methods to be employe
by him, with an estimate of the amount
J. sugar proposed to be produced in the curreI
A. or next ensuing year, including the numb,
Of maDle trees 10 he taDDad and an ami