Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1894-05-08

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in the Former Bills, Though the
Average Of Duties in This Bill
and the Former Senate Bill are
About the Same.
WASHINGTON, D. c., May The
changes made in the tariff bill by the
amendments introduced In the Senate
as the resalt OF the Democratic compro-
mise, are as follows: The new sugar
schedule provides that on and after Jan-
uary first, 1895, there shall be levied,
collected, aud paid on all sugars not
ABOVE number sixteen Dutch standard
in color and on all tank bottoms, SyrupS
of cane Juice or OF beet juice, melada,
concentrated melada, concrete aud
concentrated molasses duty Of forty
per centum ad valorem, and upon ali
standard in color, there shall be levied,
collected, and paid duty Of one eighth
Of one cent per pound in addition 70 the
said duty Of forty per centum ad valor-
|. EN-; and all sugars, tank bottoms, syrups
Of cane juice or Of beet juice, melada,
concentrated melada, concrete or con-
centrated molasSes, which are imported
from or are the product OF any country
which al the time the same are export
ed therefrOm pays, directly or indir-
ectly, bounty on the export
thereof, shall pay duty Of Ons-tenth
Of one per cent. per pound In addition
TO the foregoing rates: Provided, that
nothing herein contained shall be so
construed as 70 abrOgate or In any man
>-ner impair or affect the provisions OF
the treaty Ct commercial reciprocity
concluded between the United States
and the King OF the Hawaiian Islands,
on the thirteenth day OF January, 1875,
or the provisions OF any act Of Congress
heretofore passed for the execution OF
the same. That on and after January lst,
1895, there shall be levied, collected,
aud paid on mOlaSses testing forty de-
grees or less by the polariscope and
containing more than twenty per cen
tum OF moisture aud on mOlaSseS test
ing above forty degrees and not above
ffty-six degrees po.RriscOpe, duty Of
two cents per gallon; If testing above
ffiy-six degrees polsriScope, duty or
foNr cents per gallon.
THE GLASS SCHEDULE.
A portion OF the glass schedule is
changed so as TO read as follows:
Green aud cOlored, nodded, or pressed,
and hint and lime glass bottles holding
more than one pint. and demij johns and
carboys, covered or uncovered, and
other nodded or pressed green and col
orsd and flint or line bottle glassware,
not specially provided for in this act,
fve-eights OF one CenJ per pound.
Green and colOred, nodded, or
pressed and flint and lime glass
bottles, and vials, holding not
more than one pint and not
less than one quarter OF pint, three
f0urths Of one cent per pound; II hold
ing less than one-iourth OF a pint,
thirty-fve cents per gross. whether
filed or uL6lIed. whether their contents
be dntiable or free" The Senate rate
On the above is forty per cent; the
House rate thirty per cent Another
change In glass is as follows: "UnpOl-
ished cylinder, crown, and common
window glass not exceeding ten by ti-
teen inches square, one ceut per pound,
above that, and not exceeding six
teen by twenty-fOur inches square,
one and One-fOurth cents per
Mound; above that and not exceeding "a
$50 inches square, one and thTee-eig ghths
cents per pound; above that aud not
exceeding 24x36 inches square, one aud
fve-eighths cents per pound; all above
that. one and three-fourthS cents per
pound
Provided, that unpublished cylinder,
crown and common window glass, im-
ported in boxes, shall contain fifty
square feet, as nearly as sizes will per-
mIt. aud the duty shall be computed
thereon according TO the actual weight
oi TOE glass.
There is a change OF sizes as well as
rates, aud comparison cannot be made.
Plate glass 24x6 inches % cents per
square foot: Senate and House bill, 20
cents. all plate glass above these dimen-
sons - cents per square foot; Senate
and House, So cents
:. L00kiug-g'ass plates are added 10
glasses dUtisble al ten per cent ad
vlIJrpm in addition 10 other rates
chargeab.e thereon.
THE PIG IRON PARAGRAPH
is amended 10 read as follows; Iron In
pigs, iron kentlege, spiegeleisen, fer
romanganese, ferro silicon, wrought and
cast scrap IRON and scrap steel 81 per
ton, but nothing shall De deemed scrap
iron, or scrap steel except waste or
refuse iron or steel fit only TO be manu-
factured.
Beams, girders, ioists, angels, chan
nelS, car truck channels, TT columns
and posts or parts or sections of COL
umnS and posts, deck and bulb beams,
and building forms, together with all
other structural shapes Of iron or steel,
whether plain or punched, or fitted for
use, $40 Of a cent per pound; Senate
bill IS; House bill 80 per cent.
Railway bars, made OF iron or steel,
and railway bars made In part of steel,
Il rails and punched iron or steel fat
rais 7-2O Of q cent per pound; Senate
twenty-five and One-half per cent ad
valorem; House bill twenty per cent
TIN plate, one and one-6ith cents per
pound. restoring the House rate; Senate
bill one per cent.
THE CUTLERY SCHEDULE
is changed to read as follows: Pen
knives, pOeket-knives, or erasers of al