The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1890-10-03
THE TARIFF BILL.
How 1t Stands as Reported From
Conference.
Bounty on Certain Binding Irvine
Must Pay Duiy-"imItation" Articles
Excluded Eff ct of the Bill on
the Revenues


the result to the House. The commit
tee had to deal with 4e4 amendments.
many Of them involving cardinal differ
ences OF principle in treatment and
many the subject of bitter controversy
between conflicting interests
The date when the bill is to take
effect was made October g. February
next is fixed as the ultimate date upon
which goods deposited in bond before
October may be withdrawn at the old
rates of duty.
In the case of sugar, the conference,
in place of the uniform bounty of two
cents on grades of so and above pro-
yided by the House, included maple
sugar and adopted the following pro-
vision: THAT on and after July 1,
1891, and until July 1, 1905, there shall
be paid from any moneys in the Treas
ury, not otherwise appropriated under
the provisions of section 1859 of the
Revised Statutes, to the producer of sugar
testing not less than 90 degrees by the
polariscope from beets. sorghum or sugar
cane grown within the United States,
or from maple sap produced within the
United States bounty of cents per
pound; and upon such sugar testing less
than 90 degrees by the polariscope and
not less than 50 degrees bounty of ~
cents per pound under such rules and
regulations as the Commissioner of In
ternal Revenue, with the approval of
the Secretary of the Treasury, shall
prescribe"
In the case of imported sugars the
House line of 10 Dutch standard, below
which sugar is to be free, is adopted,
and on higher grades the result was
compromise as follows: "All sugars
above No. 16 Dutch standard in color
shall pay duty of fve-tenths of one
cent per pound; provided that all sugars
above No. 16 Dutch standard in color
shall pay one-tenth of one cent per
pound in addition to the rate herein
provided for when exported from. or the
product of any country when and so
long as such country pays or shall here
after pay, directly or indirectly,
bounty on the expectation of any such
sugar which may be included in this
grade which is greater than is
paid on raw sugars of lower character
and strength; and the Secretary of the
Treasury shall prescribe suitable rules
and regulations to carry this provision.
into effect And, provided further, that
all machinery purchased abroad and
erected in beet sugar factory and used
in the production of raw sugar in the
United States from beets produced
therein shall be admitted duty free I'M
til the first day of July, 1892, provided
that any duty collected on any of the
above described machinery purchased
abroad and imported from the United
States for the uses above indicated since
January l, 1890, shall be refunded
On glucose the House rate of three
fourths of cent pound is retained.
Whereas the Senate provided that the
sugar schedule and bounty provision
was TO take effect March next the con-
ference fixed upon April 1 as the date
OF operation, with proviso that No. Is
sugar may be meantime refined in bond
without duty.
In the case of fresh or frozen fish
from American fisheries made free by
both. houses the conference has imposed
the limitation that they must be caught
by American vessels in fresh water.
Other fish are made dutiable at three
fourths of cent per pound, split be-
tween the House and Senate rate.
On binder Irvine the rate is fixed at o Z
cents, but on other MANILA coriage the
rate is advanced from ~ cents to "a
cents per pound more than was agreed
on by either house.
Ali of the paragraphs inserted by the
Senate providing for a customs COM
mission" were stricken out by the con-
ference
In the case of glass bottles, where the
Senate reduced the rates, the confer
ence adopted medium, fixing the rates
on sizes above one pint and more at l
cent per pound and on smaller sizes
down to one-quarter pint at IL cents
and on sizes below at so cents per gross
Spectacles and eyeglasses or frames
are to pay 66 per cent instead of so
cents and 80 per cent-a compromise.
Reductions were made on the internal
revenue duties on tobacco
In the case OF tin-plate the House rate
of a cent per pound above sheet iron
rates up to July next and 2 2-1O cents
after that date is retained.
The Senate rate of a further addition
al duty of IS per cent on manufactures
of tin-plate is replaced by an absolute
single duty of SIS per cent, and its stip-
Ulaticn for free xty-three pound tin
after 1896 in case of failure of domestic
works to produce one-third of the con-
sumption is retained.
In the case Of sawed boards and lum-
Der OF white pine the House recedes
from its 81 50 rate, the Senate rate of 81
is adopted and the provision for the re-
tention of the old duties to cover for
eign export duty is retained
The Senate struck out the bounty pro-
visions proposed in the silk schedule of
the bill as passed by the House. Other
amendments which restore the language
and rates of the present law were made
In these the committee concurred.
In the liquor schedule the Senate
made increases on the various forms of
wines and liquors The House rates
were restored except on champagne and
spirits, leaving still wines and malt
liquors at the existing rates of duty.
The conferees agreed to the Senate
reciprocity and retaliation amendment
making but one change, which was in |
the date-uade January, 1892. instead |
of July next
On the changes made in the agricult- |
ural schedules the conferees' report |
says: In the agricultural schedule the |
House rates are mainly retained Garden |
seeds have been reduced from 20 per
cent, as proposed by the House, to 20 |
per cent. the rate substituted by the |
Senate, and t1rnip seed. which the Sem