The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1890-06-27
The TARIFF BILL.

Changes Made In the House Bin BY the
Senate Finance Committee-Many Re-
auctions Made.
WASHINGTON. June IA full meet
ing of the Senate Finance Committee has
been held, at which the chairman, Mr..
Morrill,, was authorized by strict party
vote to report the Tariff bill with
amendments. A member Of the COM
mittee says that, with the exception Of
the wool and agricultural schedules, the
bill is almost identically the same as
the bill of the Senate Finance Commit
tee reported in 1888. No formal re-
port accompanied the bill, nor is.
it certain that any will be pre-
pared. A statement will be reported
to the Senate as soon as it can be-
prepared, showing the effects of the pro-
visions of the bill upon the receipts Of
customs, as compared with the receipts
under the present law and those esti-
mated under the House bill. 1t is the
understanding that the debate on the,
bill will not begin until about July 1,
so that ample time may be given for
study of the bill. A member of the FL
nance Committee says that The Demo-
Gratis animated that If opportunity
were given in advance to study the.
schedules, the debate would be materi--
ally curtailed. The principal changes
made by the committee were in the.
esrthenware, metal, agricultural, fax,
hemp and jute and sundries schedules
The tobacco schedule alone was IN
changed.
The following are the principal
changes made by the Senate Committee,
in the Tariff bill: The glassware classi-
fcations are changed and a large gen.
eral reduction made; steel rails are re-
duced from s1S.44 to S11. 20 per ton; mica
and crude nickel are put on the free.
list; sawed boards, 81 per 1,oOO, instead
of S1.5o; no bounty is to be gwen for
less than 500 pounds of sugar annually,
and sugars between Is and IS
Dutch standard pay a duty of $40,
of a cent per pound; sugars above
Is pay Clio instead of 4-1O of cent.
per pound. Tobacco is unchanged.
Slight reductions are made in many
items in the agricultural schedule, and
exporters of meat are not allowed re-
bate on salt used in curing meats. Nat
ural effervescing mineral waters are en-
tered free. The duty on cotton manu-
features is reduced all through the
schedule, also in the lax, hemp and jute-
schedule. Only slight changes are made,
in wool, the principal one be-
ing to correct a typographical
error that the House refused to.
correct. The bounty for silk and silk
cocoons raised and reeled in the United
States is stricken out. All buttons ex-
cept agate, pearl and shell are made,
dutiable as manufactures of the mater
ial of which they are ,composed-a large,
reduction. Works of art are taken from
the free list and made dutiable at 80
per cent ad valorem. The limitation
of $500 as the value of wearing apparel
a person may bring into the United
States, is stricken out.
The committee struck out all the
changes made by the House bill in the
revenue regulations respecting
the tax on tobacco. the manufacture Of
vinegar from alcoholic vapor and the.
fertilization of wines, leaving the law
as it stands at PRESENT. The internal
revenue tax on opium prepared for
smoking was increased from So to $40
per pound. Artists water color paints
are made dutiable according to class,
instead of so per cent. ad valorem.
Birthstone and sulphur mot otherwise
provided for) are transferred to the free,
list instead of being made dutiable at
cS nor TON