The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1890-06-28
TARIFF CHANGES.


Result of the Senate Finance Commit
tees Work on the Mckinley Bili-Prln-
cipal Parts OF tho Measure In wbioh
Reductions Have Been Made.
WASHINGTON, June 10. The tariff
bill was reported TO the Senate from tho
committee on finance yesterday. No
report has been prepared by the COM
mittee, 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 1.
In the sugar schedule the bounty OF cents
per pound is extended to maple sugar. No
bounty is TO be given for less than 800 pounds
OF sugar annually. penalty OF 5000 fine, or
less or not more than five years imprisonment,
or both, is provided for fraudulent applications
for bounty. a duty OF 3.l0 cent per pound is put
on sugars between No l3 and No 10 Dutch
standard Qree In the House bilD, and the duty
on sugars above No. 10 is increased from 4l0 TO
6i0 cent per pound.
The chief changes are in the earthenware,
metal, agricultural 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 bill barley, from 30 to % cents
II bushcl; barley malt, from 45 TO 40
cents: cabbages. from cents to cent each;
rice -four, from a cent a pound to d cent;
dried peas from 40 cents n bushel to 10 cents;
chocolate from cents to cents pound;
cleaned rice, from cents to IL cents pound;
ancleaned rice, from Ia cents to cent
pound.
In the earthenware schedule glass and
glassware, unenumerated, covered by six para.
gr lphs in the House bill, are consolidated into
one paragraph including mirrors (smalD and
lenses, wholly or partly manufactured, and
the duty on them is fixed at 10 per cent.
nd vaorem. Crhis is in the nature of
large general reduction). Unpolishcd cylinder
crown and common glass is reduced "a cent per
pound throughout Decorated chinais cut from
60 per cent ad valorcm to So per cent: plain
china, from 80 per cent 10 so per cent; earthen.
stone and crocRery ware. unenumerated. from
So per cent. and 60 per cent. to 80 per cent
In the metal schedule iron or steel rails are
reduced from sl3A to sli.2o per ton; cold
polished iron or steel, from Ia cents per
pound to 4 cent; copper in iron ore con-
tanning more than per cent. OF copper, from
Ia cents to u cent per pound; anvils,
from 2is cents per pound to 9 cents;
cast hollow ware from cents per pound tc
cents; gold watches and gold watch cases,
from 10 per cent ad valorem TO p per cent. The
duty on shotguns and revolvers, 35 and 40 per
cent ad valorem, is changed to specific duty OF
from 40 cents TO 60 each and 80 per cent. ad
valorem. Nickel and nickel alloy is reduced
from Is centsto cents per pound.
In the wood schedule, sawed boards are re-
duced from Sl.50 to 81 per 1000 feet. In the
flax etc, schedule, binding twine is raised frop
"a cent to IL cent per pound cotton bagging is
reduced from 6l0 cent and S-l0c to 3-l0 and
b iOc. Ssal or MANILA yarn is divided into
two classes: one valued at sc 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 30 per cent. Vegetable hair
and ramie dutiable at 81 per ton and 10 per
cent. ad valorem respectively, are put on tho
free list.
In the sundries schedule jewelry is reduced
from 80 per cent ad valorem to 30 per cent;
dressed feathers and downs, from 80 per cent.
TO 40 per cent. osier, prepared for basket maxi
ers from 10 per cent to % per cent; clay pipes
from 20 per cent 10 - per cent. silk and ALPACA
umbrellas, from IS per cent. to 30 per cent;
other umbrellas from ~ per cent to 10 per
cent; cork bark from 10 cents per pound
to 8 cents; manufactured corlis from
l5 cents per pound TO IA cents.
Among the articles added TO the free list are
natural mineral waters, blue clay for cruel.
bles from slj0 per tom, mica from 30 per
cent. ad valorem), sponges drom 20 per cent.
ad valorem), sulphur unonumerated, pitch or
coal tar tapioca, plants used for forcing under
glass
The provision fish, the product of American
fisheries, and fresh or frozen fish caught in
Fresh fish caught by citizens of the United
States in the high seas or in the open waters OF
the lakes forming u boundary between the
United States and the Dominion of Canada"
The limitation in value to $500 OF wearing up
parcl and personal effects OF persons arriving in
the United States which may be admitted free
Of duty is struck out.
Works of art, etc, brought by professional
artists, lecturers or scientists for temporary
use or exhibition and not for sale, and now ad
mitted free OF duty for the term OF six months
may be detained in the country an additional
period of six months in the discretion OF the
Secretary Of the Treasury.
The Senate finance committee struck out all
the changes made by the House bill in the in
ternal revenue regulations respecting the tax
on tobacco the manufacture OF vinegar from
alcohol vapor and the fortification of wines,
leaving the law as it stands AT present. The
internal revenue tax on opium prepared for
smoking was increased from s. to $40 per
pound.
There are many other changes OF minor i'm
portance.