The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1890-06-26
THE TARIFF BILL
AS Reported In the Senate by the
Committee on Finance
Notifications and Changes Tending In the
Direction Of Reduction OF Duties
with Exceptions In Cases of
Undesirable Articles.

WASHINGTON, June 19.-The Tariff
bill was reported to the Senate from the
committee on finance yesterday. No re-
port has been prepared by the commit
tee and no estimate of the increase in
the revenue resulting from the changes
made. The understanding is that the
bill will not be called up for discussion
until about July /. A member of the
committee stated this morning that the
bill, as reported, with the exception Of
the agricultural and wool and woolen
schedules, was the same, substantially as
the finance committees bill of 1888.
The tobacco schedule is unchanged.
In the sugar schedule the bounty of two
cents per pound Is extended to maple
sugar. No bounty is to be given for less
than 5000 pounds of sugar annually. A
penalty of $1,000 fine, or less, or not
more than five years imprisonment, or
both, is provided for fraudulent appli-
cations for bounty. A duty of $40 cents
per pound is put on sugars between No.
Is and No. 16 Dutch standard free in
the House bilD, and the duty on sugars
above No. 16 is increased from 4-l0 to
10 per pound. The chief changes are
in the earthenware, metal, agriculture
and sundries' schedules, and the
schedule of fax, hemp and jute. The
duty on boxed oranges, lemons and
lines is reduced one-half (from the rate
in the House bilD barley from 80 to 25
cents hushel; barley malt from 45 to
an 70 70
cent each; rice flour from IA cents a
pound to Il cent; dried peas from 40
cents a bushel to Is cents; chocolate
from cents to cents pound; cleaned
rice from cents to Ia cents pound;
uncleaned rice from II cents to l cent
a pound.
The earthenware schedule, unenu-
merated, covered by six paragraphs in
the House bill, is consolidated into one
paragraph, including mirrors (smalD
and lenses, wholly or partly manufact-
ured, and the duty on them is fixed at
As per cent. ad valorem. (This is in
the nature of a general reducti ON.
Unpublished cylinder, crown and COM
mon window glass is reduced one
eighth cent per pound throughout.
Decorated china is cut from SO per
cent ad valorem to So per cent; plain
china from 55 per cent. to so per cent;
earthern-stone and crockeryware, emu
merated from IS per cent. and go per
cent, to so per cent.
In the wool and woolen schedule the
specific rate on the lowest class Of
cloths and yarns is raised Ito correct
acknowledged inequalities in the House
bill" as a member of the finance COM
mittee phrases it.
In the metal schedule iron or steel
rails are reduced from S1S.4 to SLIGO
per ton; cold polished iron or steel
from IL cents per pound to 4
cent; copper in iron ore (con-
tanning more than 2 per cent. of
copper) from II cents to q cent per
pound; anvils from "a cents per pound
to cents; cast hollowware from cents
per pound to cents; gold watches and
gold watch chains from 40 per cent ad
valorem to 25 pcr cent. The duty on
shotguns and revolvers, 35 and 40 per
cent. ad valorem, is changed to specific
duty of 40 cents to Sc each and S5 per
CbHU du NdlOlSnl' ANiOhCi apo hANhOl oA-
loy is reduced from Is cents to cents
per pound.
In the wood schedules wood boards
are reduced from 81. so to 81 per 1000
feet.
In the fax, ETC., schedule, binding
twine is raised from 1 Il to l q cents per
pound; cotton bagging is reduced from
1 6-1O cents and $40 to 1 $40 and
1 $40 cents. Sisal, or MANILA yarn, is di-
yided into two classes, one valued at five
cents per pound, or less, on which the
duty is cents per pound: the other. of
greater value, on which the duty is 40
per cent. ad valorem. . In the House
bill both classes paid 80 cents. Vegeta-
BILE hair and ramie, dutiable at 81 per
ton and Is per cent. ad valorem re-
spectiyely, are put on the free list.
In the sundries schedule jewelry is
reduced from so per cent. ad valorem
to 40 per cent; dressed feathers and
downs from so per cent to 40 per cent;
osiers prepared for basket-makers from
40 per cent. to 25 per cent; clay pipes
20 per cent. to 35 per cent; silk and
alpaca umbrellas from 55 per cent. to so
per cent. other umbrellas, As per cent
to 40 per cent; cork bark, 10 cents per
pound to 5 cents; manufactured corks,
Is cents per pound to 1870.
A minimum duty of so per cent is
provided for in the glove paragraph.
Paintings and statuary are taken
from the free list and made dutiable at
thirty per cent Pearl and she'll but
tons are fixed at Q cents per tin,
and 25 per cent, instead of 4
cents per tin, and all other buttons lex
cept agate) pay duty occording to the
material composing them.
Among the articles added to the free
list are natural mineral waters; blue
clay for crucibles (from S1.50 per toni;
mica (from IS per cent. ad valorem);
sponges from 20 per cent. ad va
lorem); sulphur unenumerated; pitch of
coal tar, tapioca, and plants for forcing
upder-glass.
The duty on steel billets valued at
$40 cents per pound and less, is re-
duced / 1-10 cents on each class. The
duty on fax not hackled is made $50 per
ton. instead of IL cents per pound. The
duty on hackled fax is made $40 per ton
instead Of cents per pound.
The other changes made by the Sem
ate finance committee from the bill as
it passed the House are as follows:
In the chemicals schedule: Tannic
acid or tannin, so cents per pound ire
duced from sly; logwood, sumac, hem