The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1890-10-02
THE NEW TARIFF LAW.
Some Of the Provisions that Touch the
Pockets of the PEOPLE,

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Pockets of the People.
The following is an outline of the
new tariff bill which became a law last
Saturday and which goes into effect
next Monday, October 9Th.
The Senate reciprocity feature is
preserved in the bill, but the date for
1T to go into effect has been changed
from July 1, 1891, to January 1,
1892.
The duty on binding twine of all
kinds is put at seven tenths of cent
per pound, and the provision for this
article is made to apply to binding
twine made in part from istle or Tam.
pico fibre, MANILA, Sisal grass, or
Surin.
The sugar schedule provides that all
sugars not above No. 16 Dutch stan.
dard, all tank bottom, all sugar drain
ings and sugar sweepings, syrups of
cone juice, melada, concentrated me-
lada, and concrete and coucentrat I'd
molasses and mclasses, shall be placed
Oh the free list. This is the House
provision subject, however, to the re-
strictions of the reciprocity feature,
which empowers the President to sus.
pend the free admission of sugar, mo-
lasses, coffee, tea and hides, under GER
tain conditions
The conference changes the time for
the bonded period to 60 into effect to
Feb. 1, 1891. The provision relative
to the bonded period allows merchan-
disc deposited prior to October 1, 1890
to be Withdrawn at the present rates
Of duty before the time the period
goes into effect. 1t is also provided
that when duties are based upon the
weight of merchandise deposited prior
to Oct. 1, the duties shall be levied
upon the weight of the merchandise
at the time of its withdrawal.
The provision removing all restric-
tion on farmers and growers of tobac
90 in regard to the sale of tobacco are
removed, and proviso added that
the farmers furnish ON demand of any
internal revenue officer, statement of
his sales, etc: A fine of $500 is pro-
vided for violation of this provision.
The most import ant action of the
Conference Committee ON the internal
revenue sections, was in striking out
ali the Senate amendments providing
for the creation of tariff commission,
and prescribing its duties.
The taxes on smoking and manu-
factured tobacco, and on snuff, is
placed at six cents per pound.
The sugar schedule, as agreed upon
by the conference, provides that from
July ], 1891, to July 1, 1895. there
shall be paid to the producer of sugar,
testing not less than 80 degrees by the
polariscope. from beets, sorghum, or
sugar cane. grown within the United
States, or from maple sap produced
within the United States, a county Of
two cents per pound; and on sugar be-
tween eighty and ninety degrees, a
bounty Of one and three fourths cents
per pound. The Senate amendment
providing that no bounty shall be paid
to any person upon any quantity of
sugar less than 500 pounds is retained.
Sugars above No Is Dutch standard
are made dutiable at one half of a
cent pound, 1t is provided that all
machinery for the manufacture Of su-
gar from beets, shall be admitted free
until July l, 1892.
The sugar schedule is made to take
effect on April 1, 1891, with proviso
that during the month of March, su-
gars may be refined in bond without
payment of duty, and transported in
bond and sold in bonded warehouses,
under the provisions of existing laws.
The schedule covering imported to-
bacco and manufactures of tobacco, is
left as it passed the Senate.