Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1890-06-21


WASHINGTON. June ia full meet
Ing OF the Senate Finance Committee has
been held, Mt 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 1855. No formal re-
port accompanied the bill, nor Is
1t certain that any will be pre-
pared. A statement will be reported
| to the Senate as soon as 1t 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 l,
so that ample time may be given for
study OF the bill. A member OF the FL
nance Committee says that the Demo-
Gratis intimated that il 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
earthenware. metal, agricultural, fax,
hemp and jute and sundr!es schedules.
The tobacco schedule alone was I'M
changed.
The following are the principal
changes made by the Senate Committee
in the Tariff bill: The glassware CLASH
fications are changed and large gen.
eral reduction made; steel rails are re-
duced from S13. ~ to Sleeper ton; mica
and crude nickel are put on the free
list: sawed boards, 81 per 1000, instead
Of 81. so: no bounty is to be G ven for
less than 500 pounds of sugar annually,
and sugars between Is and 10
Dutch standard pay duty of $40
OF cent per pound: sugars above
l6 pay 60 instead OF 40 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 flax, hemp and jute
schedule. Only slight changes are made
in wool, the principal one be-
ing to correct 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 she'll 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 30
per cent ad valorem. The limitation
of $500 as the value Of wearing apparel
person may bring into the United
| States, is stricken out.
The committee struck out all the
changes made by the House bill in the
| internal revenue regulations respecting
the tax on tobacco, the manufacture OF
vinegar from alcoholic 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 SIS 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 trans erred to the free
list instead of being made dutiable at
IS per ton.
In the earthenware and glassware
schedule the following changes were
made:
Decorated and plain white china and
earthen stone and crockery ware. not
specially enumerated or provided for
are reduced per cent each. Green
glass bottles, holding not less than
pint, and demiiohns and carboys are as
sessed cent per pound (reduced from
~ cents; bottles holding less than one
pint, ~ cents per pound (redHced from
IL cents per pound and 80 cents per
gross, according TO size). Glass and
glassware not otherwise enumerated,
which in the House bill, covered by six
separate paragraphs, are consolidated
into one paragraph and include mirrors
(small) and lenses, wholly or partly
manufactured and are made to pay q
duty OF As percent ad valorem. Thisisin
the nature OF large general reduction.
Unpublished cylinder, crown and common
window glass is reduced one-e!ghth of
cent per pound, while ground plate
glass is made to pay a duty of 10 per
cent. ad valorem in addition to the other
rate charged; spectacles and eyeglasses,
go per cent ad valorem, instead OF so
cents per dozen, and IS per cent. ad
valorem; lenses costing Sl.5O per gross
pairs or less, 90 per cent. ad valorem, in
stead of 81 nor gross: spectacles and