The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-09-27
TIE TARIFF BILL.
The Conference Committee Has
Agreed ON it.
THE MOST IMPORTANT CHANGES.
The Duties on Woods aud Woolens-Paint-
ings and Statuary Will Pay Il Tax
of Fifteen Per Cent.

WASHINGTON, Sept. 26.-After ten days.
hard work the conference committee on the
tariff bill completed its work late this
afternoon and reported the result to the
House. The committee had to deal with
49, amendments
liz the more important items the result of
the committees action was as follows:
The date when the bill takes effect was
made October g; February l next is fixed
as the ultimate date upon which goods de-
posted in bond before October l may be
Withdrawn at the old rate of duty. In the
case OF sugar the conferees, in place of
uniform bounty of 2 cents on grades of so
degrees and above that provided for by the
House. included maple sugar and adopted
the following provision:
On and after July /, 1891, and until idly
l, 1905, there shall be paid from any moneys
IN the treasury not otherwise appropriated,
under the provisions of section $3.50 of the
revised statutes, to the producer of sugar
testing not less than so degrees by the po-
larlscope, from beets, sorghum or sugar
cane 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 30 de-
grees and not less than 50 degrees, a bounty
OF n cents per pound, under such rules
and regulations as the commissioner of
internal revenue, with the approval of the
secretary of the treasury shall prescribe
In the case OF imported sugars the House
limit OF 10 Dutch standard below which
sugar shall be free, is adopted, but on the
higher grades the result was compromise
as follows: All sugars above 16 in
color shall pay duty of fve-tenths of l
cent per pound, provided that all sugars
above Number 10 in color shall pay one
tenth OF l cent per pound in addition to the
rate herein provided for when exported
from or the product of any country which,
and so long as such country pays or shall
hereafter pay, directly or indirectly,
bounty on each portion Of any such sugar
which may be included in this grade, which
is greater than is paid On raw sugar of
lower saccharine strength, and the secretary
of the treasury shall prescribe suitable
rules and regulations to carry this provis-
ion into effect. And provided further, that
ali machinery purchased abroad and erected
in beet sugar factory and used in the pro-
duction of raw sugar in the United States
from beet produced therein, shall be ad-
mitted duty free until the 1st day of July,
1890. Provided that any duty collected on
any OF the above described machinery pur-
chased abroad and imported into the United
States for the use above mentioned, since
January l, 1890, shall be refunded On glu-
cose the House rate of ID of cent pound
is retained. Whereas the Senate provided
that the sugar schedule and the bounty
provision were to take effect March next,
the conference fixed upon April l as the
date of operation, with the proyiso that
No. ID sugar may be in the meantime re-
fined in bond without duty
In the case OF fresh or frozen fish from
American fisheries made free by both
houses, the conference has imposed limi-
tation that they must be caught by Ameri-
can vessels in fresh waters. Other fish
are made dutiable at % of cent per
pound, a split between the House and
Senate rates.
On binding Irvine the rate is fixed at
seven tenths of cent, but on other manila
cordage the rate is advanced from u
cents to II cents per pound, more than
was agreed upon by either House. All of
the paragraphs rserted by the Senate pro
viding for "a 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 mere at 1 cent per
pound, and on smaller sizes down
to 4 of a pint at IL cents,
and on sizes below, at so cents per
gross. On plain pressed glassware single
rate of 90 per cent is adopted instead of
the higher compound House rate, and the
same is done in the case Of cut and decor
ated glassware. The Is per cent. House
rate was struck out by the Senate on chem
erical glassware and 60 per cent is fixed
for them and heavy globe glass instead of
the House rates struck out by the Senate.
AVID or toa f.aC Of mn oIoi,, r.l--
uniform per cent. rate is established on un-
polished cylinder crown and window glass.
Where the Senate made an average reduc-
ton of q of d cent the conference adopted
medium of Il of cent reduction, as well
as the Senate provision that each box
shall contain 80 square feet.
q On pyrites, the Senate rate of "a cent
per pound is retained.
On boiler and other plates and steel new
grades are established, valued at cents or
less per pound. on which the rates run as
follows: Below 1 cent, 8 10 of cent; be-
low $40 OF a cent, Co 100 of cent per
pound; below 3 cents, $40 of cent per
pound. On the higher grades the rates
fixed are: Above 2 cents, l 40 cents:
above cents, / 3 10; above cents, 2 cents
above Z cents, = s 10; above 10 cents, BIZ
cents; above Is cents, 45 per cent
Plates thinner than No. 10 are to paw
duty as sheets. For the Senate gauge for
hoop iron, and for railway bars of iron or
steel the House rate of LILO of cent
poCnd obtains.
In steel ingots and blooms the Senate
rate dover by one-tenth of a cent per
pound) is retained On grades below $40
cents in value and above that the higher
House rate prevails.
On iron and steel bars or plans cold-rolled
or blued, the higher House rates are re-
tanned.
In the case of sawed boards and lumber
OF white pine the Senate rate of 81 is
adopted, and the provision for tho reten
ton the old duty to cover the foreign export
duty is retained,
In tin plate the House rate of rate of 81
OF a cent per pound on sheet iron to July
next and 2-l0 onts after thst date. is re-
tanned The Senate rate of further ad-
ditional duty of 81 per cent on manu-
features OF tin plate is replaced by an alb
solute single duty of 55 per cent. and a
for free sixtv-Jhree pound tin
after 1886 in case of the failure of domestic
works 10 produce ne-third of the con-
is retained.
The rates established in the wool sched
ules where amendments were made as fol-
lows: Wooden or wors Led yarns, from the
hair of camel, goat, alapaca or other. animals
valued above 30 cents a pound two and
a half times the duty on unwashed wool of
the first class
On wooden or worsted cloths, valued at
30 cents pound, three times the duty
on unwashed wool of the first class. On
ready made and articles of wear
ing APPAREL of every description made up or
wholly or in part and not
specially provided for, and pleshes and other
pile, fabrics all the foregoing composed
wholly or IN part of wool worsted hair of
camel goat, alapaca or other animals, four
and one-half times the duty imposed by
this act of unwashed wool of the first class
and GO per cent. ad valorem. Carpets and
OF wool. flax or cotton not speci-
ally provided for, 80 per cent. ad valorem.
The Senate struck out the bounty provi-
siOns prOpOsed in the silk schedule In tho