Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1890-03-13
REPORT ON THE TARIFF
THE COMMITTEE WILL SOON COM
PLETE IT'S LABoRs.

The Agricultural Features OF the Biu
win BE In the Nature OF n Surprise =
The Wool Schedule = The Sugar Ques-
tion.
Washington dispatch: The tariff
bill will be reported to the House from
the ways and means committee about
March Is. 1t is now so nearly complete
that correct general idea of its scope
may be obtained. One of the surprises
OF the bill will be its agricultural feat
ures There are to be duties OF 80
per cent. on barley and malt, 20 cents
pound on hops, 20 cents a bushel on ap-
pies, and larger proportional duties on
other fruits, dried and fresh, and an Inn
post OF l0cents dozen on eggs, of which
Ia, 200, 00O dozen, valued at about 81, $780,
600, are annually imported from Canada
and Scotland. The present duty on but
ter is left as IL Is.
The wool schedule as at present con-
stituted land IL will probably remain un-
changed) providing that on frst-class or
clothing woods the duty shall be IL cents
a pound; on second-class, or combing,
IL cents pound; OH third-class, or
carpet wools, 211 cents a pound on woods
worth at place of export Is cents a
than Is cents. This is an increase on
the present rate, which provides for a
duty OF ~ cents on carpet woods worth
IL cents or less at the place of export
and cents on carpet woods worth more
than 12 cents.
The present rate on clothing woods is
10 cents pound when worth 30 cents or
less and IL cents when worth more than
30 cents On woolen and worsted yarns
the new bill imposes duty per pound of
three and half times the duty on a
pound Of unwashed wool of the first
class and In addition thereto 40 per cent
ad valorem.
The sugar question has given the COM
mittee great deal of trouble The duty
OF from to 81 cents now imposed upon
sugar win be reduced II IL were not
for the fact that parties interested in
the production o. sugar from sorghum
or beets are confident of the rapid de-
velopment OF these industries in the
United States the committee would
make a much larger cut I'm sugar than
they have, IL not to place IL on the free
list. Mr.. McKenna, the California
member of the ways and means com
mittee, says there are several beet-sugar
factories on which construction has been
suspended in his State, awaiting the ac-
tion OF the committee on the schedule.
The subcommittee on sugar has de-
cided to make sugar below No. 16 po-
lariscope test, dutiable at Is cent per
pound. This is reduction OF nearly rs
per cent, and, to make up for IT, the
committee proposes bounty of cen
per pound on sugar produced here. 1t
Is also understood that the refncrs are
10 have II cent nor pnnpd rafna
raw sugar up to and including No. t6,
polariscope test, then a cent per pound
added on refined sugar.
The Western members were so deter
mined in favor of a radical reduction
that the committee was obliged to make
compromise. 1t is said that Major
Mckinley favored a straight cut Of so
per cent and no bounty. That would
have left sugar at about 40 per cent. The
duty on steel rails will be about S13 a
ton, as against the present duty OF S17,
although the Western members OF the
ways and means comm ee have en-
deavored to have it cut down to $40.