The Globe-republican., 1890-06-25
THE TARIFF BILL.
Changes Made In the House Bill BY the
Senate Finance Committee-Many Re-
duetions Made.

Changes Made In the House Bill 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, tho
bill is almost identically the same as
the bill of the Senate Finance Commit
tee reported in 1883. 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
ander 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 IF the bill. A member of the FL
nance Committee says that the Demo-
Gratis intimated that if opportunity
were given in advance to study the
schedules, the debate would be ma .eri-
ally curtailed The principal changes
made by the committee were in the
earthenware, metal, agricultural, flax,
hemp and jute and sundries schedules.
The tobacco schedule alone was un-
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. A to SLIGO per ton; mica
and crude nickel are put on the free
list; sawed boards, 81 per 1000, instead
of s1.5O; no bounty is to be gwen for
less than 500 pounds of sugar annually,
and sugars between Is and 16
Dutch standard pay a duty of $40
of a cent per pound; sugars above
16 pay 6-1O instead of 40 of a 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 fax, 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 80
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 transferred to the free
list instead of being made dutiable at
CO ton