, 1890-10-02
THE WORK COMPLETED
Conference Report on the
Tariff Bill.
CONCESSIONS TO BOTH HOUSES
Principal Changes in the Sugar,
Glass, Binding Twine and
Metal Schedules.

on the tariff DILL completed its work late
this afternoon and reported the result to
the house. The committee had to deal
with 464 amendments.
In the more important items the re-
suit of the committees labors was as
follows:
The date when the bill shall take eff
feet was made October g.
February 1 next is fixed as the ulti-
mate date upon which the goods depos-
ited in bond before October may be
withdrawn at the old rates of duty.
In the case of sugar, the conference, in
place of uniform bounty of 2 cents on
grades of the beet and above, provided
by the house, including maple sugar,
adopted the following provision: On
and after July 1, 1891, and un-
iii July 1, 1895, there shall
be paid from any moneys IN the treas
ury, not otherwise appropriated, under
the provisions of section 8, $3.50 of the re-
vised statutes to the producer of sugar
testing not less than 90 degrees by
polariscope, from beets, sorghum. or
sugarcane grown within the United
States, or from maple sap produced
within the United States, n bounty of 2
cents per pound, and upon such sugar
testing less than 90 degrees, and not
r. less than so degrees, bounty Of 11
cents per pound under such rules and
regulations as the commissioner of in
ternal revenue, with the approval of the
secretary OF the treasury, may pre-
scribe.
In the case of imported sugars the
house line of No. 10 Dutch standard, be-
low which sugar shall be free, is adopted,
but on the higher grades the result was
compromise as follows: All sugars
above No. 10 in color shall pay a duty oi
Cloths of 1 cent per pound; provided,
that all sugars above 10 in color shall
pay l-l0th of l cent per pound in uddi-
tion to the rate herein provided for,
when exported from, or the product of,
any country, when and 80 long as such
country pays or shall hereafter pay,
directly or indirectly, bounty on the
expectation of any such sugar which
may be included in this grade which is
greater than what Is paid on raw sugars
OF lower saccharine strength,
and the secretary of the treas
ury shall prescribe suitable rules
and regulations to carry this provision
into effect; and, provided further, that
all the machinery purchased abroad
and erected in beet sugar factories, and
used in the production of raw sugar in
the United States from beets prod uced
therein, shall be admitted duty free
until the LIST day of July, 1892; provided,
that any duty collected on any of the
above described machinery purchased
abroad and imported into the United
States for the purposes above indicated
since January /, 1890, shall be re-
funded
On glucose, the house rate of u OF
cent a pound Is retained.
The senate provided that the sugar
schedule and bounty provision were to
take effect March 1 next but the con-
ference fixed upon April 1 as the date
of operation. with the proviso that No.
18 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 u of cent per
pound-a split between the house and
senate rates.
On binding twine the rate Is fixed at
ITO of q cent, but on other MANILA
cordage the rate is advanced from l n
cents to ~ cents per pound, more than
was agreed upon by either house.
All of the paragraphs inserted by the
senate providing for a customs com
mission" were stricken out by the con-
ferrees.
In the case of glass bottles, where the
senate reduced the rates, the conference
adopted a medium, fixing the rates on
sizes above one pint and made at | cent
per pound, and ON smaller sizes down to
one-quarter of pint at / a cents, and on
sizes below at 80 cents per gross.
On plain pressed glassware q single
rate OF go per cent. is adopted, instead OF
the higher compound house rate, and
the same Is done in the case of cut and
decorated glassware. The 45 per cent.
house rate, struck out by the senate, on
chemical glassware Is reinstated. The
rate of 80 per cent. is fixed for thin and
heavy globe glass, instead of the house
rates struck out by the senate, and so in
the case of porcelain glasses a uniform
TO per cent. rate is established.
On tin plate the house rate OF u of a
cent per pound above sheet iron to July
next anu S-lo cehtb aAter tuat uate IL
retained.
The senate rate of additional duty on
manufactures of tin plate is replaced by
an absolute single duty of So per cent,
and the stipulation for the free importa-
tion Of tin after 1896, in case Of the fail
ure Of tho domestic works to produce
one-third of the consumption, Is re-
tanned.
On steel ingots the senate rate-lower
by LILO cents per pound-is retained on
grades below 1 $40 cents In value, and
above that higher the house rate pre-
walls.
On iron and steel bars on plates, cold
rolled, or blued, the higher house rates
are retained.
The senate rate of n q cent per pound
on that containing copper Is retained on
boiler and other plate iron aud steel.
New grades are established valued at
2cents or less per pound, on which the
rates run as tollows Below 1 cent,
6.l0 of Icent; below $40 cents,
90. loo OF cent per pound; below cents
e-l0 Of cent per pound.
On the higher grades the rates fixed
are: Above 2 cents, 4-10 cents; above
scents, $40 cents, above cents, 2
cents above cents, $40 cents; above
~ cents, 81 cents; above l3 cents. 40
per cent.
Plates thinner than No. 10 are to pay
duty as sheets.
Inc inner senate gauges for hoop iron
are adopted, and for railway bars of iron
OF steel the house rate of 6-10 cent per
pound obtains.
III the case ofsawed boards and lum-