The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1893-11-28
by one.balf the duty on refined sugar
and to repeal the bounty one eighth each
year, leaving raw sugar untaxed as at
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and to repeal the bounty one eighth each
year, leaving raw sugar untaxed as at
present.
THE TOBACCO SCHEDULE
In thu tobacco schedule those rates
were sought which would bring the
most revenue. The present taxes Of SO
and S2.75 u pound on wrapper leaf have
plotted out many small establishments
and actually impaired revenue. The
new rates are 81 and sizes per pound on
wrapper leaf and 35 cents and so cents
per pound on filler tobacco, unstemmed
and stepmed in each case. Manufac.
tured tobacco is put at 40 cents. Cigars
arc reduced from Sd so per pound and 25
per cent. sd valorem to So per pound
and % per cent, which is believed 10 be
the most productive revenue rate, and is
higher than the law of 1885,
Live animals are put at 20 per cent
Barley is reduced from 80 cents per
oushel to 20 per cent, which is about
IL cents. Breadstuffs, Of which we are
Immense exporters, are made FREQ ex-
cept when imported from countries
putting duties. on our like products, in
which case the duty is 90 per cent.
Fresh vegetables, fruits, eggs, and
like food products are untaMed for the
benefit OF our consumers, largely the
working people of the cities. Salt in
bulk is free; in packages the salt is free
but the covering is dutiable at rates
prescribed for like articles. The tariff
on spirits Is put at double the internal
revenue rates on like spirits and some
slight reduction is made on still wines,
malt liquors, ginger ale, and like bever-
ages in the interest Of increased reve-
nue.. The duty on sparkling wines is
likewise slightly reduced for the same
reasons, that on champagne being put
at " per dozen quarts, as against So in
the Mckinley bill and SO in the law of
1888
In cotton manufactures substantial
reductions are made, especially on
cheap cloths and prints and the exist
ing system Of taxing by count Of threads
in the square inch is retained. Hemp
and flax are made free; on the finer
lines of hemp and flax are put cent
and N cents respectively. Burlaps
per cent, but when imported for
covering articles to be exported are
duty free.
WOOL MADE FREE.
Wool is made free. This takes the
stills from under wooden manufacturers
and begets the hope that they may re-
cover from the laDguishing condition in
which they have boon for a quarter OF
century and that wo may get WOODEN
goods at reasonable rates instead OF at
duties that on the common grades ire.
quenty reach 100 per cent. and in cases
two or three times that merciless figure
Cloths and dress goods are put at 40 per
cent Clothing ct As per cent, rates
higher than the committee desired, but
deemed porarily necessary because
our manufacturers have so long been
excluded from two thirds of the woods
of the world that they will have to
learn the art Of manufacturing with
free wool.
a sliding scale is therefore added by
which the rates in the WOODEN schedule
are to come down five per cent, with
the lapse OF five years.
Carpets, an industry in which we will
sooR be independents of ompetition, are
put at thirty five per cent. for Aximjn-
lister, MoQuette and Wilton, thirty per
cent. for Brussels, while common grades
go down to twenty per cent. The bill
provides that the duties shall be re-
moved from wool on March /, and re-
duced on WOODEN goods July 1. In the
silk schedule the reduction OF rates is
smaller than in cotton or wooden fabrics
Sole leather is reduced from 10 to
per cent. Leather gloves are classified
according to material and length, and
are uniformly rerated at specific duties,
which average not over % per cent. on
the common varieties and nearly 40 per
cont on the fine lamb and kid gloves.
In the schedule OF sundries many ar
ticles like hatters' plush are put on the
free list. The duty on cut diamonds,
pearls and other precious stones is in
creased. Works of art are put back on
the free list.
Among the principal additions to tho
free list are the following: Bacon and
hams, beef, mutton, pork and meats of
all kinds not specially provided for.
binding Irvine, camphor, bituminous
coal, coke, copper in all crude
forms, cotton, ties iron ore, cot
ton seed oil, agricultural implements
Cotton gins named), SALT soap, build
ing material, except marble, lumber.
timber and wood in all but few con-
ditions which are named.
Following are some OF tho principal
articles named in tho bill and tho rates
of duty imposed: Alcoholic perfumery,
two dollars a gallon and 25 per cent
Chloroform, rs cents per pound.
Morphia, 90 cents per ounce. Opium,
aqueous extract and tincture, 25 per
cent. Opium containing less than nine
per cent. of morphia and opium pre-
pared for smoking, six dollars a pound
Varnishes. 25 per cent, and dollar and
80 cents additional on the alcohol in
spirit garnishes. Sponges, 10 per cent.
Sulphur, go per cent.
Brick, 80 per cent; decorated 80
Tiles, plain, 25 per cent; glazed, 40
per cent. Marble, rough, 40 cents per
cubic foot; dressed, rs cents per cubic
foot Free stone, granite and other
building stones not especially provided,
dressed. 90 per Conf