The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1892-02-16
COIN FOR THE COLUMBIA RIVER.
Tho Astoria Protest Seems to Be
Needed Very Little.
ALGER BooM STARTED IN SEATTLE
Condition of DcLesseps--Editor Wilcox
Elected tt Parliament--CrueIty in
Russia--Other News.

WASHINGTON, Feb. 16.-The majority
of the committee aways and means-to-
day agreed upon the full text of the bill
prepared by Chairman Springer, to ad
nit. wool free of duty, and to reduce the
tariff on manufactured wooden goods. 1t
is as follows:
:sThat on and after the first day of
January, 1898, the following articles
when imported shal be exempt from
duty: Allwools, hair of the camel, goat,
alpaca, and other like animals, and all
wool on the skin, all top waste, slubbing
waste, rowing waste, ring waste, yarn
waste, bur waste, rags, nois and tiocks,
including all waste rags, composed
wholly or in part of wool.
Sec 2.-That on and after the 1st day
Of January, 1898, the articles enumerated
described, and provided for in the para
graphs hereinafter named, of ian act to
reduce the revenue" and equalize duties
on imports, and for other purposes, -ap-
proved October L, 1890, shall, wiren i'm
ported, be subjected to the duties here
inafter provided and no others: That is
to cay, upon the articles enumerated in
paragraph S91 of said act, the duties
shall be 35 per cent ad valorem. Upo
the articles enumerated in paragraph
392, the duty shall be 40 per cent. ad
valorem. Upon the articles enumerated
/ in paragraph 393 the duties fixed therein
at 80 per cent. ad valorem, shall be re-
duced to % per cent. ad valorem the
duties fixed at So per cent. ad valorem,
! shall be reduced to 80 per cent ad valorem,
and the duties fixed at 40 per cent ad
yalorem, shall be reduced to So per cent
/ ad valorem. and no duty per pound, or
per square yard, shall be imposed upon
| the articles enum Grated in said paragraph
Upon the articles enumerated in para
graph 1874. the duties shall be 35' per
cent ad valorem. Upon the articles
enumerated in paragraph 395 and 39S,
the duties shall be 40 per cent ad valo-
rem. Upon the articles enumerated in
paragraphs 396 and 397> the duties shall
be 10 per cent ad yalorem. Upon the
articles named in paragraphs 399, down
to and including paragraph 40S, the dut-
les shall be 80 per cent ad valorem
and all imported articles enumerated,
described and provided for in said para
graphs respectively, which may be in
public store, or in warehouse on the said
first day Of January, 1893, shall be sub
| jected to the same duties when with
drawn for consumption and no others, as
if said articles had been imported on or
after SAID first day of January, and only
the ad valorem as herein provided shall
hereafter be levied, collected and paid
upon the articles mentioned in said par
agraphs.
Sec. 3.-That the articles mentioned
in paragraph 800 OF said act, and like
wise all mungo, shoddies, garnetted or
carded waste, or other waste product,
and of, or both, shall on and after the
} said 1st day of January, 1893, be sub
jected to duty, of 35 per cent ad valorem.
} Sec. 4.-That all acts and parts of acts
in conflict with the provisions of this
. act, be and the same are hereby re-
pealed. But this section shall not take
effect until the first day of January
1898. -.4-----,---.----