The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1890-09-27
TARIFF CONFERENCE.
Report Of the Committee Made
to the House Last Night,
THE COMPROMISE FEATURES
Not so Bad After All-Thc Sugar
se'icdHl' IA Medium Struck on
the Glass provision-.Irun
and Wool Schedules,

and Wool Schedules.
| WASHINGTON, Sept. oG-Aitert ten days
hard work the Conference Commi!te
on the tariff bill completed It's work lat
this afternoon and reported tho result I,
The House. In the more importan
Items the result ofthe committee 3 actio1
WAS as follows:
The date when the bill is to take eirec,
was made October 9th !, February Is,
next 10 fixed as the ultimate date upon
which goods deposited in bond before
October let may be withdrawn at tho
old rate OF duty.
On and after July |, 1891, and until
July I, 1905, there shall be paid to the
producer OF sugar testing mot less than
9O degrees by the polariecope from
Deeta, eorGhum, or sugar caue grown
within tho United States, bounty OF 9
cents per pound; and upon such sugar
!esting less than 90 degrees by the 20.
lariscope, and not less than so degrees, n
bounty OF Is cents per pound under such
rules and regulations as the Commission.
er OF Internal Revenue, with the appro.
val OF tho Secretary Of tho Treasury, shall
prescribe.
In the case OF imported sugars, the
House line Of l6 Dutch standard, below
which sugar is to be free, isadopted, but
on higher grades the result was CON.
promise.
On binding twinc, tho rate is fixed at
I ~ cent, but on other MANILA cordayr
the rate is advanced from II cent to IN
cent per pound more than was agreed
upon by either house.
In the case OF glass bottles, where the
Senate reduced tho rate, the conference
adopted medium, fixing the rates on
sizes above one pint and more ut one
cent per pound, nnd Oh smaller sizes
down to one.quarter pint at IA cents,
and on sizes below at fifty cents per
gross.
On plain pressed glassware single
rate OF sixty per cent is adopted instead
Of the higher compound House rate.
and the same is done in tho case OF Gu,
and decorated glassware. The As Der
cent House rate, struck out by the SEN
nte, on chemical glassware, is reinsta,ed,
Sixty per CENTS fixed for thin and heavy
blown glass instead OF the 10 aud 10, and
5 aud 10 compound House rates struck
outby the Senate; and 60 in the case OF
porcelain glasses, Il uniform 60 per cent
rate ls established instead Of the variable
House rate based on size.
On unpublished, cylinder, crown and
window glass, where the Senate made
an average reduction OF cent, the con.
ferance adopted the medium Of / cent re.
duction as we'll as the Senate provision
that each box shall contain fifty square
feet. Spectacles and eye glasses, or
frames, arc to psy G6 per cent instead Of
80 cents and 80 per cent---a compromise.
On boiler and other plate iron and
steel new grades are established, valued
at two cents or less per pound, on which
the rates run as follows: Below cent,
l.5 cent; below l; 4'l0 cent; q, 5.l0O cent
per pound; below two cents, $40 per
pound. On higher grades the rates are
Above two cents, 4.l0 cents; above 81
cents, l $40; above i cents, . cents
above I cen,e, . $40; above 10 cents, q
cents; above 10 cents, 10 per cent.
Plates thinner than No. 10 are to nay
duty as sheets.
In the case OF tin plate, the House
rate OF ! cents per pound above sheet
iron rates up to July lst next, and . 2.lO
cents after that date, is retained.
The Senate rate of further additional
duty OF 80 per cen: or manufactures OF
tin plate is replaced by IN abaolute sim
gle duty OF 05 per cent, and its stipulation
for free 63.pound tin after 1896 in case
of failure OF domestic works to produce
one.third OF the consumption is re.
tanned.
On iron and steel bars or plates cold
rolled or biued, the higher House rates
are retained.
Ol the changes made in the Internal
Revenue sections, the conferees' state.
nent is as follows: "The Senate struck
out all the provisions OF the bill rs passed
by the House, providing for the reduc.
ton Of internal revenue take, and the
abolition Of the specla! taxes or annual
license OIL dealers in tobacco and cigars,
and pedd!ers Of tobacco and cigars.
The conference committee restored
these provisions and those reducing the
tax on manufactured tobacco and snuff
to cents per pound instead Of / cents,
as provided by the House bill. The
paragraphs relating to the sale
Of tobacco gown by small farmers
without being required to pay special
tax have been restored. By the restora.
tions OF those paragraphs nearly seven
hundred thousand persons are relieved
from the payment OF the annoying
special taxes which arc now imposed by
law.
The rates established in the wool
schedules where amendments were
made we're as follows:
On woolcn or worsted yarns made
from the hair Of the camel, goat, alpaca,
or other animals valued above 80 cents
pound, q times the duty on unwaahed
wool Of the first class; on wooden or
worsted cloths, valued above 80
cents pound, three times the
duty on unwashed wool OF the first.
class; on clothing ready made
and articles OF wearing apparel OF every
description, made up or manufactured
wholly or in part, not specially provided
ior in this act; ielts net woven, and no.
specially provided for in this act, and
pushes aud other pile fabrics, all the
foregoing composed wholly or in part OF
wool, wogsted, the hair OF the camel,
goat. alpaca, or other animals, be four
and one.half the duty imposed by this
act, on UNIV ashed wool OF the first class,
and 60 per centum I'D valorem; carpets
and carpeting Of wool, flax or cotton,
not especially provided for, 5Oper centum
ad valorem.
Pensions G Grnnted.
Special Diapaich 10 the Ia.eiigtac:r.
WASHINGTON, D. G., Sept. 20.-West
Virginia pensions were granted to-day
"a follows: .U..=
Qriginal-Henry Grover, New Mar.
tinsvillel David Laughery, Indepen.
dence; Joseph Evans, Blueneld; Benz.
f. kenney, Wheeling; Wm. Large,