The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1890-10-09
SOME OF THE CHANGES.

Tariff Bill Conferses.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 27.-The confer
ence report on the tariff bill provides
that the new law shall 60 into effect
Oct. 6, 1890. The senate reciprocity
feature is preserved in the bill, but the
date for it's going into effect has been
changed from July /, 1891, to Jan. l,
1892.
The sugar schedule provides that all
sugars not above No. 16, Dutch stand
ard, all tank bottom, all sugar drain
ings and sugar sweepings. syrups OF
cane, juice, meiada, concentrated me-
lada and concrete and concentrated mo-
lasses shall be placed on the free list,
(this is the house provision) subject,
however, to the
which empowers the president to sus-
pend the free admission of sugar, mo-
lasses, coffee, tea and hides under GER
tain conditions. The conference changed
the time for the bonded period to go
into effect to Feb. 1, 1892. The provis-
ion relative to the bonded period allows
merchandise deposited prior to Oct. 1,
1890, to be withdrawn at the present
rates Of duty before the time the period
goes into effect.
In the Internal Revenue Features
of the bill nearly all the house provis-
IONS of the bill are restored. The pro-
visions renewing all restrictions on
farmers and growers Of tobacco, in re-
gard to the sale of leaf tobacco, are re-
stored, and a proviso added that the
farmer shall furnish on demand of any
internal revenue officer q statement of
his sales, etc. A fine of $500 is provided
for violation of this provision. The con-
ference committee struck out senate
amendments providing for tariff COM
mission. The tax on smoking and man
ufactured tobacco and on snuff is placed
at 6 cents per pound. Opium manufac-
turers are taxed SO per pound upon
opium manufactured in the United
States for smoking purposes, and only
persons who are citizens of the United
States are permitted to engage in its
manufacture.
The senate amendment, providing that
all special internal revenue taxes shall
become due July 1, 1891. is retained.
Little Change in the Free List.
In the free list a number of changes,
most of Thorn Of no material interest,
were made.
The house provision. placing on the
free list American-caught fish, except
salmon caught by American vessels, etc.
is reinstated.
The conference amended number of
the free provisions, inserting in the bill
paragraphs providing for the free ad-
mission of feathers and downs for beds,
peltries and other usual goods of In
dams passing the boundary line of the
United States, tin ore, cassiterite and
tin in bars, blocks, pigs or granulated
until July /, 1898, and thereafter as
otherwise provided for; works of art by
American artists residing temporarily
abroad.
The sugar schedule is amended so az
to grant bounty Of II cents per pound
on sugar testing between 30 and 80 de-
grees polariscope test and Q cents on
sugar testing not less than 80 degrees,
from July l, 1891, to July 1, 1905. (The
bill, as passed by the house and senate,
granted a bounty of 2 cents q pound to
sugar testing 80 degrees and overl
Extend Bounty to Maple Sugar.
The conferees agreed to the senate
amendment extending the bounty to
maple sugar, and providing that no
bounty be paid on less than 500 pounds.
Sugar above No. 16 Dutch standard Is
to pay $40 of cent pound duty, and
10 Of cent additional if the country
exporting or producing it charges an ex-
port duty. Machinery for the manu-.
facture of beet sugar is to be admitted
free until July 1, 1892, and any duty col.
lected on such machinery imported since
Jan. 1, 1890, shall be refunded. Glucose
is retained at the house rate-a Of a cent
per pound.
The sugar schedule is made to take
effect on April 1, 1891, with proviso
that during the month of March sugars
may be refined in bond without pay.
ment of duty, and transported in bond
and sold in bonded warehouses under
the provisions of existing laws.
The Wool Schedule.
Two important changes made by the
senate in the wool schedule were al.
lowed to remain. These provide that
the duty on wooden and worsted yarns
made of wool worsted, or the hairs OF
animals, valued at not more than &c
cents per pound, shall be dutiable at two
and half times the duty imposed on
unwashed wool of the first class, and in
| addition IS per cent. advalorem, and
the duty on wooden OF worsted clothes
| of the same standard shall be three
times the duty imposed on unwashed
| wool of the first class.