The morning call., 1890-09-27
THE TARIFF BILL.
LaborS Of the ConferreeS Finally
Completed.
a Humber Of Important Changes Made in
The Various Schedules.
The House Rate on Oranges and Lemons
Restored Sugar Bounty-ReCi-
prOcity Agreed Upon.
Special Dispatches to THE MORNING CALL.

WIZ A"i III oiii SOiuPlCIOu lto WOlh lutC WHO
afternoon and reported the result to the
House. The committee had to deal with AGA
amendments. In the more important items
the result of the committees action was as
follows: The date when the bill shall take
effect is made October 9th; February 1st
next is fixed as the ultimate date upon
which goods deposited in bond before Oc.o-
ber 1st may be Withdrawn at the old rates
of duty.
In the case of sugar the conference, in
place of a uniform bounty of cents on
grades of so and above, provided by the
House. included maple sugar and adopted
the following provisions: On and after
July l, 1891, and until July /, 1905, there
shall be paid from any
MONEY IN TIE TREASURY
Not otherwise appropriated under the pro-
visions of Section 36S9, Revised Statutes,
to the p oducers of sugar, testing not less
than 50 degrees by polariscope, from
beets, sorghum or sugar-carr, grown
within the United States, or from maple
sap produced within the United States,
bounty OF cents per pound and upon such
sugar testing less than 80 degrees and not
less than so degrees bounty of ~ cents
per pound, under such rules and regulations
as the Commissioner of Internal Revenue,
with the approval of the Secretary of the
Treasury, may prescribe.
IMPORTED SUGAR.
In case of imported sugars the House line
of 16 Dutch standard, below which sugar is
made free, is adopted, but on the higher
grades the result was compromise, as fol-
lows: All sugars above Ii in color shall
pay duty OF five-tenthS of / cent per
pound, provided that all sugars above No. 10
in color shall pay one-tenth of l cent per
pound in addition to the rate herein pro-
vided for wnen exported from or the prod
ucts OF any country, when and so long as
such country pays, or shall hereafter pay,
directly or Indirectly, bounty on the eX-
portation of any such sugar which may be
included in this grade, which is greater
than is paid on raw sugars of lower saechar-
inc strength. and the Secretary of the Treas
ury shall prescribe.
SUITABLE RULES AND REGULATIONS
To carry this provision into effect; aud pro-
vided further, that all machinery purchased
abroad and erected in beet-sugar factories
and used in the production of raw sugar in
the United States, from beets produced
therein, shall be admitted duty Tree until
the 1st day of July, 1892 Provided, that
dly uuty CUllcCtCu Ou any VI tilc duONt ut-
scribed machinery purchased abroad and i'm
ported into the United States for the uses
above indicated, since January l, 1890, shall
be refunded.
THE DUTY ON GLUCOSE.
On glucose, the House rate of q of cent
a pound is retained. Whereas the Senate
provided that the sugar schedule and the
bounty provision was TO take effect March
1st next, the conference fixed upon April 1st
as the date of operation, with the proviso
that No. Is sugar may be in the 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 q of a cent per pound.
BINDING TwINE.
There was split between the House and
Senate rate on binding twine. The rate is
fixed at seven-tenths of cent, but on other
Manila cordage the rate is advanced from
* to ~ cents per pound more than was
agreed upon by either House.
All of the paragraphs inserted by the
Senate providing Tor customs commission
were stricken out by the conference.
In the case of glass bottles where the
Senate reduced the rates, the conference
adopted medium, fixing the rates on sizes
above one. pint and more at l cent per
pound, and on smaller sizes down to one
quarter pint at u cents. and on sizes below
at 80 centS gross.
PRESSED GLASSWARE.
On plain pressed glassware a single rate
of GO cents is adopted. instead of the higher
compound House rate. and the same is done
in the case of cut and decorated glassware
the 40 per cent House rate struck out by
the Senate on che mical glassware is rein
stated. Sixty per cent Is fixed for thin and
heavy blown glass, instead of the House
struck ON nv the Sapata in,
the case of porcelain glasses a uniform so
per cent rate is established. On unpublished
cylinder, crown and window glass, where
the Senate made an average reduction of a
quarter OF cent, the conference adopted
medium of one-eighlh Of cent reduction,
as well as the Senate provision that each
box shall contain fifty square feet.
On pyrites. the Senate rate Of u cent per
pound is retained.
IRON AND STEEL,
On boiler and other plate iron and steel.
new grades are established, valued at 2 cents
OF less per pound, on which the rates run as
follows: Steel ingots and blooms, the Sem
ate rate is retained on grades below $40
cents i'll value, ana above that the higher
House rate prevails. On iron and steel bars
or plates, c0ld-rolled ur blued, the higher
House rates are retained.
In the case of sawed boards and lumber of
white pine, the Senate rate of 81 is adopted
and the provision for the retention of the
old duty to cover the foreign export duty is
retained.
Nickel in matte or other crude forms is
restored to the free list; nickel oxide or
alloy in which nickel is of the chief value,
10 cents pound zine. in blocks or pigs, ~
cents pound; manufactures not specially
provided for, composed wholly or in part Of
iron, steel, lead. copper, nickel pelter, zinc,
gold or any other metal, 40 per cent ad
valOrem.
TIN PLATE
In tin plate the House rate of three-qur-
tiers of cent per pound, above sheet iron,
to July 1st next and 2-1O cents after that
date, is retained. The Senate rate of a
further additional duty of 80 per cent on
manufactures OF tin plate is replaced by an
absolute duty OF 30 per cent, and the stipu-
lation for free tin after 1886, in case OF the
failure of domestic works to produce one
third of the consumption, is retained.
INTERNAL REVENUE.
In the internal revenue features of the bill
nearly all the House provisions were re-
stored. The provisions removing all re-
strictions on farmers and growers Of to-
bacco in regard to the sale OF leai tobacco
are restored, and the pr0ylS0 added that
farmers shall furnish on demand of any in
ternal revenue officer statement of their
sales, etc. A fine of So is provided for vio-
lation of this provision.
The Conference Committee struck ont the
senate amendments prOVlulnS I0r tarlU
commission. The tax on smoking and
manufactured tobacco and on snuff is placed
at cents per pound. Opium manufacturers
are taxed $40 per pound upon opium manu-
factured in the United States for smoking
purposes, and only persons who are citizens
Of the United States are permitted to engage
in its manufacture.
THE WOOL SCHEDULE.
The rates established in the wool schedule
where amendments we're made were as fol-
lows: WOOlen or w0rsted goods from the
hair of the camel, goat, alpaca or other ami
mails, valued at 80 cents pound, two and q
half times the duty on unwashed wool Of
the first class; on woolen or worsted cloths,
valued above 80 cents pound, three
times the duty On unwashed wopl of
the irst-class; on clothing ready made and
articles Of wearing apparel Of every descSip-