The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1890-09-27


zeal with 46i amendments, many OF
them involving cardinal differences of
principle i'll treatment, and many were
the subject OF bitter controversy between
conflicting interests. In the more inn
portant items of this kind the result of
the committees action was as follows:
The date when the bill is to take effect
was maze October q. February neXtis
| fixed as the ultimate date upon which
| goods deposited in bond before October
may be withdrawn at the old rates of
duty: All the paragraphs inserted by
the Senate providing for Il customs com
mission were striker out by the confer
cncc.
The reciprocity provision which was
to take effect July |, next, is changed to
ta&c effect January l, 1892. On binding
Irvine the rate is fixed at 40 cents but
on Other MANILA cordage the ratio is adj
vanccd from = cents to ia cents per
pound, more than was agreed upon by
either house.
Tagging for cotton, gtnny cloth. and
all similar material suitable for cover
ing cotton, composed in whole or part Of
hemp, flax, iutc or jutc butts valued at
six cents or less per square yard, | o. 10
cents yard; more than six cents. $40
Genus Il yard.
In the case OF sugar the conference. in
place of uniform bounty of cents on
grades of eighty and above. provided by
the House, included maple sugar and
adopted the following provisions: That
on and after July |, 1891, and until July
l. 1908, there shall be paid, from any
moneys IN the Treasury not otherwise
| appropriated, to the producer of sugar
testing not less than ninety degrees
from bcets, sorghum or sugar cane.
| grown within tho United States or
from maple sap produced within the
United States, Il bounty of cents per
pound and upon such sugar testing less
than ninety degrees, and not less than
eighty degrees, bounty OF 1sl cents
| per pound
In case OF imported sugars, the House
line of No IL Dutch standard, below
which sugar is to be free, is adopted:
but upon higher grades, tho result was
q compromise as follows: All sugars
above No. Is Dutch standard in c1fTYIr
shall pay duty of $40 of 1 cent per
pound; provided, that all such sugars
above No. III Dutch standard in color
shall pay Ito of cent pee pound in
addition to the rate herein provided for
when exported from any country which
pays bounty on the eXporta ton of any
sugar included in this grade which is
| greater than is paid on raw sugar or
lower strength.
Provided further that all machinery
purchased abroad and erected in beet
sugar factories and used in the produce
ton OF raw sugar in the United States
| from beets shall be admitted duty free,
until the first day of July, 1892 Pro-
vided, that any duty collected on any of
| The abovc-described machinery pur-
! chased abroad and imported into the
United States for uses above Indicated
since January |, 1890, shall be refunded
On glucose the House rate of u cent "a
| pound is retained
The senate provided that the sugar
schedule and bounty provision was to-
take effect March |, next but the con-
ference fixed upon April as the date of
operation, with provision that No. IL
sugar may be meantime refined in bond
without duty
| In the case of frcsh or frozen fish from.
American fisheries, made free by both
Houses, the conference has imposed
inc limitation that they must he caught
| ny American vessels i'll fresh waters.
Other fish are made dutiable at Il cents
| per pound, Il split between House and
| Senate rates.
In case Of sawed boards and lumber of
white pine the House recedos from its
! Sl.oo rate. Inc senate rate OF 81 is
adopted, and provision for the retention
of old duties to cover u foreign EXPORT.
duty is retained. The duty on cedar
posts is fixed at 20 per cent; on hard
cabinet wood board at IL per cent. and
on veneers at 20 per cent. The Senate
rate of 81 on pine clap-boards is allowed
to stand, as well as its rate on shingles
| OF 20 cents per thousand for white pine
and 30 cents for others
| VI changes made in the internal reye-
nue. sections the conference statements
| Is as follows: The Senate struck ont
all provisions of the bill as passed by
tho House providing for reduction of in
| ternal revenue taxes and the abolition
of special taxes or annual license on
dealers in tobacco, cigars and peddlers
of tobacco and cigars. Tho conferences
committee restored these provisions
and those reducing the tax on manu-
| factured tobacco and snuff to six cents
per pound instead of four cents, as pro-
vidcd by the House bill.
| The paragraphs relating to the sale
| OF tobacco grown by small farmers
without being required to pay special
tax having been restored by the re-
storation of these paragraphs nearly
| seven hundred thousand persons are re-
| ueved from the payment of annoying
! special taxes which as now imposed by
| law The reduction which will be made
In the revenue 10y these changes in the
informal revenue laws will be over six
million dollars on the basis of receipts
for the fiscal year ending June 80, 1880.
and nearly six million ON tba ha eli <se 4.