The daily state chronicle. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 188?-1891, 1890-09-27
THE TARIFF BILL,
SOME OF THE FEATURES OF THE
CONFERENCE REPORT.
Farmers to Furnish Statements of To.
baccO Sales to any Revenue Officer.
$500 Fine for Failure to Do So..The
Sugar Schedule, &c.
iBy United Press. |


$500 Fine for Failure to Do So..The
Sugar Schedule, &c.
BY United Pressl
WASHINGTON, D. c., Sept 26.-The
conference report on the tariff bill CON-
pleted to-day, provides that the new
law shall go into effect October 6, 1890.
The Senate reciprocity feature is pre-
served in the bill, but the date for it to
60 into effect has been changed from
July 1, 1891 to January l, 1892.
The duty on binding twine of all kinds
is put at seven -tenths of a cent per
pound, and the provision for this article
is made to apply to binding twine made
IN part from lstle or Tampico fibre,
Manila, sisal grass or surine
The sugar schedule provides that all
sugars not above No. 16, Dutch stand
ard, all tank bottom, all sugar DRAWINGS
and sugar sWeepings, syrups of cane
juice, melada, concentrated melada and
concentrated molasses, shall be placed on
the free list.
This is the House provision subject,
however, to the restrictions of the recip-
rocity feature which empowers the
President to suspend the free admission
of sugar, molasses, coffee, tea and hides
| under certain conditions.
The conference changes the time for
the bonded period to go into effect to
Feb. /, 1891.
The provision relative to the bonded
| period allows merchandise, deposited
prior to October /, 1890, to be with
drawn at the present rates of duty be-
fore the time the period goes into effect.
| 1t is also provided that when duties
are based upon the weight of merchan-
disc deposited prior to October l, the
duties shall be levied upon the weight of
the merchandise at the time of its with
draWal
In the internal revenue features
of the bill, nearly all the House
provisions of the bill are restored. The
provisions removing all restrictions on
| farmers and growers of tobacco in regard
to the sales of leaf tobacco are removed,
and a proviso added that the farmers
shall furnish on demand of any internal
revenue officer statement of his sales,
&C.
A,fne of $500 is provided for violation
OF this provision.
The most important action of the con-
ference committee Oh the internal reve-
nue. sections was IN striking out all the
Senate amendments providing for the
creation Of tariff commission, and pre-
scribing it's duties.
The taxes on smoking and manufac.
tured tobacco and On snuff is placed a,
six cents per pound.
The sugar schedule, as agreed upon by
the conference, provides that from July
1st, 1891, to July 1st, 1895, there shal
be paid to the producer of sugar testing
not less than 80 degrees by the polari
, scope from beets, sorghum or suga
cane, grown within the United States, Of
from maple produced within the United
| States,a bounty of two cents per pound
) and on sugar between eighty and ninet,
degrees, bounty of one and three
: fourth cents per pound.
The Senate amendment providing
that no bounty shall be paid to any per
son upon any quantity of sugar less thai
500 pounds is retained.
o Sugars above No. 26 D. S. ar
: made dutiable at $40 of a cent pound
in addition to the rate of 10 exporte,
from or the product of any country tina
shall pay bounty on the expectation Q
such sugar. 1t is provided that all ma
e chinery for the manufacture of sugar
from beets shall be admitted free unit
July l, 1892.
4 The sugar schedule is made to take Ell
:, feet on April l, 1891, with a provis
that during the month of March, sugar
e may be refined in bond without payme1
j. of duty, ,and transported in bond and sol
in bonded warehouses under the prov
sions of the existing laws.
e The schedule covering imported tt
~ bacco and manufacturers of tobacco
u left as it passed the Senate.
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