The state republican. (Jefferson City, Mo.) 1871-1896, 1890-06-26
THE TARIFF BILL
Ae reported in tho Senate by the
Cofnmittoe on Finance
Notifications md Changes Tending In the
Direction of Reduction OF Duties
with Exceptions In Cases of
Undesirable Articles.

WASHINGTON, June 10--The Tariff
bill was reported to the Senate from the
committee on finance yesterday. No re-
port has been prepared by the commit
tee and no estimate OF the increase in
the revenue resulting from the changes
made, The understanding Is that the
bill will not be called up for discussion
until about July /. A member of the
committee stated this morning that the
bill, as reported, with the exception OF
the agricultural and wool and woolen
schedules, was the same substantially as
the finance conmittcp's bill of 1883.
The tobacco rchedule is unchanged.
In the sugar schedule the bounty of two
cents per pound is extended to maple
sugar. No bounty is to be given for less
than 5000 pounds OF sugar annually. A
penalty of S., 900 fine, or less, or not
more than five years Imprisonment, or
both, is provided for fraudulent appli-
cations for bounty. A duty Of $40 cents
per pound is put on sugars between No.
II and No. is Dutch standard free in
the House billy, and the duty on sugars
above No, Is is increased from 40 to
Clio per pound. The chief changes arc
in the ~earthenware, metal, agriculture
and sundries' schedules, and the
schedule of flax, hemp and jute. Tho
DUTY on boxed oranges, lemons and
lines is reduced one-half from tho rate
in the House billy; barley from 80 to %
cents a hushcl; barley malt from As to
40 cents; cabbagcs from 3 cents to l
cent each: rice flour from ~ cents a
pound to cent; dried peas from 40
cents a bushel to Is cents; chocolate
from 3 cents to . cents a pound; cleaned
rice from . cents to ~ cents a pounds;
uncleaned rice from ~ cents to | cent
u pound.
Tho carthcnware schedule, unenu-
meratod, covered by six paragraphs in
the House bill, is consolidated into ono
paragraph, including mirrors (small)
and lenses, wholly or partly manufact-
urcd, and the duty on them is fixed at
40 per cent. ad valorcm. Crhis is in
the nature of a general reduction).
~lTnpolishod cylinder, crown and COM
mon window glass is reduced ne
eighth cent per pound throughout.
decorated china is cut from G3 per
cent. adj valorem to 81 per cent; plain
china from IS per cent. to 30 per cent;
carthern-stone and crockeryware, emu
mcrated from 30 per cent. and 60 per
cent, to 30 per cent.
In the wool and wooden schedule the
specific rate on the lowest class of
cloths and yarns is raised ''to correct
acknowledged inequalities in the House
BILL" as a member of the finance com
mittcc phrases it.
In the metal schedule iron or steel
rails are reduced from Sl3.4 a to SLIGO
per ton; cold polished iron or steel
from IL cents per pound to u
tanning more than . per cent. of
copper from IL cents to !! cen per
pound; anvils from ~ cents per pound
10 cents; cast hollowware from 8 cents
per pound to . cents; gold watches and
gold watch chains from 40 per cent. ad
yalorcm to % per cent. The duty or
shotguns and rcvolvcrs, 81 and 40 per
cent. ad yalorem, is changed to a specific
duty of 40 cents TO 50 cach and 50 per
cen ad valorcm. Nickel and nickel al.
10y is reduced from - cents to 3 cents
per pound.
In the wood schedules wood boards
are reduced from 81. 80 TO 81 per 1,OO(
feet.
In the fax, etc, schedule, binding
Irvine is raised from II to IL cents per
pound; cotton bagging is reduced from
G-IO cents and l $40 to / $40 and
/ 5-l0 cents. Sisal, or MANILA yarn, is di
vidcd into two classes, one valued at five
ccnts per pound, or less, on which tho
duty is > cents per pound: the other, o
greater value, on which the duty is A
per cent. ad valorcm. In the lIous,
bill both classes paid so cents. Vcgeta
bic hair and ramie, dutiablc at 81 pei
ton and 10 per cent. ad valorem re
spectivcly, are put on the free list.
In tho sundries schedule jcwclry /
reduced from 80 per cent. ad v~alorcn
to 40 per cent; dressed feathers an,
downs from 80 per cent, to 40 per cent.
osicrs prepared for basket-makers fror
40 per cent. to 25 per cent; clay pipe
20 per cent. to 81 per cent; silk an,
alpaca umbrellas from 80 per cent. to
per cent; other umbrellas, As per cent
to 40 per cent; cork bark, 10 cents pc
l'hilA W y NShNS, lhiluliNbultu NoIhs
Ii cents per pound to l2llc.
A minimum duty of 80 per cent.
provided for in the glove paragraph.
Paintings and statuary arc take,
from the FREQ list and made dutiable n
thirty per cent. Pearl and shell but
tons are fixed at . cents per tir
and % por cent, instead of
cents per tin, and all other buttons lex
cept agato) pay duty according to tn
material composing them.
Among the articles added to the fire.
list are natural mineral waters; blu
clay for crucibles from S1.50 per Ton,
mica (from s. per cent. ad valorem)
sponges from 20 per cent, ad va
lorem); sulphur unenumerated; pitch G
coal tar, ~tapioca, and plants for ~forcinI
under-glass.
The duty on steel billets valued q
l $40 cents per pound and less, is re
duced l Ito cents On each class. Th
duty on fax not hacked is made $50 pc
ton, instead of ~ cents per pound. TIL
duty on hackled fax is made $40 per to
instead of 4 cents per pound.
The other changes made by tho Sci
ate finance committee from the bill 6
IT. passed the House are as follows:
In the chemicals schedule: Tam
acid or tannin, so cents per pound (r
ducod from 81; %logwood, sumac, hen
lock and other bark dyes, q of a Gel
(reduced from / cent?: glycerine (crudc
~ cents per pound (reduced from
~cents); extract of licoricc, 3 cents (r
duced from 8 %cents); alzarine assistan
Containinr less than 0ftv nar cent.