St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-09-27
FALSE IN PRINCIPLE.
McKinley's Iniquitous Tariff
Bill Revamped in Confer
ence Is Reported.
1t Will Make the Rich Richer
and the Poor Man
Poorer.
Senator Davis Scheme for
Free Binding Twine Is
Knocked Out.
Horny-Handed Farmers Get
Nothing, But the Capital
ist Is Remembered.

WASHINGTON, Sept. 26.-After ten
days hard work the conference commit
tee on the tariff bill completed its work
late this afternoon. and reported the re-
suit to the house. The committee had
to deal with 464 amendments, many of
them involving cardinal differences of
principle in treatment, and many the
subject of bitter controversy between
conflicting interests. In the more i'm
portant items Of this kind the result of
the committees action YVES as follows:
The conference report provides that the
new law shall go into effect Oct. 5, 1890.
The senate reciprocity feature is pre-
served in the bill, but the date for its
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 standard, all
tank bottom, all sugar DRAWINGS and
sugar sweepings, sYrups of cane,
juices, melada, concentrated meleda and
concrete and concentrated molasses and
mOlaSses shall be placed on the free
list. This is the house provision, sub
ject. however. to the restriction of the
reciprocity feature which empowers the
the president 10 suspend the free adj
mission of sugar, molasSes, coffee,
tea and hides under certain
conditions. The conference changed
the time for the bonded period to go
into effect Feb. /. 1891. The provision
merchandise deposited prior to Oct. /,
1890, to be Withdrawn at the pres
ent rates of duty before the
time the period goes into effect.
In the internal revenue features of the
bill nearly all the house provisions of
the bill are restored. The provision re-
moving all
Restrictions Oh Farmers
and growers of tobacco in regard to the
sale of leaf tobacco are restored and
proviSo added that the farmer shall fur
niSh on demand of any internal revenue
officer statement of his sales, etc. A
fine of $500 is provided for violation of
this provision. The conference committee
struck out senate amendments providing
for tariff commission. The tax on
smoking and manufactured tobacco and
on snuff is placed at six cents per
pound. Opium manufacturers are taxed
$40 per pound upon opium manufact.
ured in the United States for smoking
purposes, and only persons who are
citizens of the United States are per-
mitted to engage in its manufacture.
The senate amendment providing that
all special internal revenue taxes shall
become due July l, 1891, is retained.
In the free list a number of
changes, most of them of no mate
ial interest. were made. Raw and un-
manufactured briStleS were stricken
from the free list in conference. The
house provision placing OH the free
list American-caught fish, except sal
mon caught by American vessels, ETC.,
is relnserted. The senate provision
concerning pure mineral waters is
allowed to remain. The paragraph COW
ering ores of gold, silver and nickel and
nickel matte is retained with proviso
that the duty on the copper contained in
them shall be one-halT cent per pound.
Among the other senate agreements
that were agreed to by the conference
committee are those covering plas-
ter of Paris and sulphate of lime,
ungrOund potaSheS, seeds and sulphuric
acid, not over one and three hundred
and eighty thouSandths specific CAVITY
The conference amended number of
the free provisions, inserting in the bill
paragraphs providing tor the free adj
mission of feathers and downs for beds.
peltrieS and other usual goods of
Indians passing the boundary lines of
the United States, tin ore, cassiteTite
and tin in bars, blocks. pigs or granu-
lated until July l, 1898. and thereafter
as otherwise provided for; works of art
by American artists residing tempo
rarily abroad. The sugar schedule is
amended so as to grant bounty of ~
cents per pound Oh sugar testing be-
tween so and 80 degrees polariscope
test, and 2 cents Oh sugar test
from July /. 1891, to July 1, 1905. The
bill, as passed by the house and senate,
granted a bounty of two cents pound
to sugar testing so degrees and over.
The conferrees agreed to the senate
amendments 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 fiye-tenths of a cent pound
duty and tenth of cent additional il
the country exporting or producing it
Charged an Export Duty.
Machinery for the manufacture of
beet sugar is to be admitted free until
July 1. 1892, and any duty collected on
such machinery imported since Jan. /,
1890, shall be refunded. Glucose is re-
tanned at the house rate, % of cent
per pound. The sugar schedule is
made TO take effect on April l, 1891,
with proviso that during the month of
March sugars may be refined IN bond
without payment Of duty, and trans
ported in bond and sold in bonded
warehouses under the provisions of eX-
listing laws. The schedule covering
imported tobacco and manufactures of
tobacco is left as it passed the senate.
In the earthenware and glass
ware schedule the house con-
ferrees succeeded in retaining nearly
all of the house items in the act.
Fancy glass is made dutiable at 60 per
cent advalorem; colored glass bottles
at cent per pound for pints, " cents
for quarters, and so cents per gross for
bottles holding less than quarter of a
pint. Most of the house provisions re-
Iating to the metal schedule are also
retained. The cutlery schedule re-
mains substantially the same as
it passed the house, with unimpor-
tant senate amendments. The reduced
rates of the senate Oh fire arms are re-
tanned, as are also the reduced rates of
the senate on copper. In the spirit
schedule, brandy, cordialS, liquors, etc.,
and spiIltuous beverages or bitters con-
tanning spirits are made dutiable at
&. 80 per proof gallon; bay rum, s1.50
per gallon; champagne and all other
sparkling wines. IS per dozen
IN quart bottles; ale, porter and
beer in bottles, 10 cents per gallon.
Tne rate OIL undresSed flax is fixed at
one cent per pound on tow of fax or
hemp, one-half cent per pound; on ca