The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1890-09-27
cen, per pound on that co ontaining copper

raVs run as iolloWss DelDW L cent, 5-lU OF
a cent; below $40 cents. 65-l00 Of n cent
per pound; below 2 cents, $40 OF a cent
per pound. On higher grades the rates
liked are: Above 2 cents, i-l0 cents !;
above = cents, 3-l0; above 4 cents, 3
cents; above Z cents, $40; above 10
cents, 81 cents; above Is cents. 45 per
cent. Plates thinner than No. 10 are To-
pay the same duty as finer sheets. The
senate guagcs for pop iron are adopted
and for railway bars Of iron or steel the
house rate of 6-l0 of cent per pound OBJ
tains.
Nickel in matte or other crude form is
restored 10 the free list. Nickel. nickel
oxide, alloy in which nickel is Of the chief
value, 10 cents pound; zinc in blocks or
pigs, Ia cents a pound; manufactures
not specially provided for. composed
wholly or in part Of iron, steel, lead, cop
per, nickel, pewter. zinc, gold, or any
other metal, i5 per cent ad valorem.
In steel ingots and blooms the senate
rate is retained on grades below $40
cents in value and above that the higher
house rate prevails.
On iron aud steel bars, or plates cold
rolved or 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 reten-
ton ot the old duty TO cover foregn ex.
port, is retained.
In the internal revenue features Of the
bill, nearly all the house provisions are
restored. The provisions removing all
restrictions on farmers and growers Of to-
bacco, in regard To the sale of leaf to-
hacco, are restored aud n proviso added
that farmer shall furnish, on applica-
ton of any internal revenue officer, a
| statement Of his sales, etc. A fine Of $500
is provided for violation Of this pro-
vision.
The conference committee struck out
the senate amendments providing for a
tariif commission.
The tax on smoking and manufactured
tobacco aud on snuff, is placed at cents
| per pound.
Opium manufacturers are taxed $40 per
pound upon opium manufactured 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 senate amend
ment providing that all special internal
revenue taxes shall become due July /,
1891. Is retained.
| The rates established in the wool
| schedules where amendments were made
were as follows: Woolen or worsted
yarns, from the hair Of camels. goats or
other animals, valued above thirty cents
a pound, two and half times the duty on
unwashed wool OF the first class; on
woolen or worsted cloths valued at B
cents a pound, three times the duty on un.
washed wool Of the first class; on cloth.
ing ready made and articles Of wearing
apparel Of every descriptions, made up OF
manufactured wholly or In part, not
specially provided for aud plushes and
other pile fabrics, all the foregoing com
posed wholly or In part Of wool, worsted
hair OF cAmels goats or other animals
uE spa ap n ~ 'sS ssSr Sq'Y " %HeY,es ,Hse ne
class and GO per cent. ad valorem
carpets and carpeting Of wool, fla,
or cotton. not specially provided for, u
per cent. al valorem.
Other amendments were made in the
liquor schedule. The senate made in
creases on various forms of wines ant
liquors, leaving still wines and NAL
liquors at the existing rates OF duty. A few
verbal changes were made for the purpose
OF insuring additional security to th,
revenue.
Jute yarns, S per cent. al valorem
bagging for cotton, gunny cloth aud al
similar materials suitable for covering
cotton. composed in whole ol
in part Of hemp, flax, jute ol
jute butts, valued at six cents ol
less per square yard, lG-l0 q
yard; at more than cents, $40 cents 4
yard. All manufactures of flax or hemp
80 per cent. ad yalorem; provided. tina
until January I. 1894, such manufacture
of flax, containing more than 100 threads
10 the square inch, shall pay 35 per cent
ad yalorcm instead Of the above duty.
The confcrees agreed 90 the senate re
ciproci,y and retaliation amendment
making but one change, which was in th,
date. IL was made January, 1892, insteat
OF July next.
OF the changes made in the agriculture
schedules, the confprees' report says I'll
the agricultural schedule the house rate i
manly retained on oranges, lemons
and lines, which the house made duti
able at double the present rates, in orde
to afford protection apd encouragement
10 the planters of California aud Florida
The senate reduced the rates somewha
below the present law. The house con
ferees yielded reluctantly. An amend
ment was added 10 that Of the senate i'm
posing an addition of 20 per cent. ol
| packages in which oranges, lemons an,
lines are imported.
The paragraphs inserted by the senat
imposing discriminating duty Of 10 pe
cent. on tea when the product of coun
tries east Of the cape Of Good Hope wa
struck out.
The senate struck out the bounty pro
! visions proposed in the silk shedule of tn
bill passed by the house.
Paintings and statuary, which the hous,
placed on the free list, the confer,cs de
cidcd to return To the dutiable list at |
per cent ad valorem. The present ad
ministratiye section relative to importe'
articles being forbidden entry where ia
| business mark Of domestic manufacturer
, is simulated, reads as follows. as adopte,
in the conference: ''On and after Marc
| 1, 1891. no article of imported merchandis
which shall copy or simulate the nam
or trade mark of any domestic manufaC
ture or manufacturer, shall be admittc
to entry at any custom house in th
, United States"
. The conferces, speaking OF the effect o
the bill on revenues, say the
do not believe there is any mat.
rial difference between the house an
! senate bills in the matter OF the estimate,
: reduction made in the dutiable schedules
, namely, SsOOOO,O0O, and their action la
I noI materially affected the estimat
given except in the restoration of Oh
, internal revenue provisions of the hous,
Z and on that point they say that f.
, the year ending June 80, 1890, the receipt