Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1894-03-14
TARIFF BILL REVISED.
MANY CHANGES MADE BY THE
SENATE COMMITTEE.
The Free List Nearly Out-Only Lumber
and Salt Left on It-Duties on sugar,
Iron Ore, Lead and Coal-TariR Re-
formers Are Disappointed.

formers Are Disappointed.
WASHINGTON, March e.-The Demo
cratic senatorial revision of the Will
son tariff bill as it passed the house
was given to the public yesterday.
Though many of the changes had long
been discounted, TO say that tariff re-
formers were disappointed was draw
ing it very mildly. The free list was
| nearly wiped out-lumber and salt
alone being left-and in nearly every
creased.
The more important items in the re-
vision are as follows:
Sugar not above so degrees polari-
scope test cent per pound. for every
additional degrees or fraction not
above 80 degrees, 1-100 cent addi-
| tional, above 90 and not above 96,
2-1O0 per degree, and above 90 degrees,
a duty of / and 4-IO cents per pound;
molasses testing not above Sc degrees
| by the polariscope shall pay duty of
cents per gallon. molasses testing
| above Sc degrees shall pay duty of 4
! cents per gallon. Under the Wilson
bill sugar was admitted free and under
the 1898 tariff paid "a cents per pound.
| Whisky, S1.lO per gallon and the
bonded period extended from three to
| eight years.
Iron ore, 40 cents per ton.
Lead ore, q cent per pound, includ-
ing lead mixed with silver ores. Coal,
bituminous and shale, 40 cents per ton.
Coal or slack or culm. Is cents per
ton; coke, 15 per cent ad valorem.
The metal schedule is as follows:
Iron ore, including manganiferous
iron ore, also the dross or residum
from pyrites 40 cents per ton. Wilson
bill free.
Iron in pigs, iron kentledge, spiege-
leisen, ferro silicicon. 22H per cent ad
yalorem. Wilson bill 20 per cent.
All other iron in slabs, blooms,
loops or other forms more advanced
than pig IRON and less finished than
iron in bars. % per cent ad valorem.
Wilson bill 2219 per cent.
In paragraph 12s, sheares and scis-
sors are added to the list of articles
on which duty of 45 per cent is lavied.
LEAD ORE DUTIE'
The lead products remain .s in the
Wilson bill.
Gold and silver leaf and wnodscrews
are reduced to thirty per cent, the
Wilson bill being thirty-five.
Lead ore and lead drosS. three
fourths of one cent per pound. Pro
vided, that silver ore and all other
ores containing lead shall pay duty
of three-fourths of ons cent per pound
on the lead contained therein, accord
ing to samples and essay at the port
of entry.
WOOL AND woOLEN CHANGES.
The wool apa -xoolen changes are
as follows:
Paragraph 279"On wool of the sheep, hair
of the camel, goat, alpaca and other like ami
mails in the form of rowing. roping or tops"
the Wilson bill is changed so to make only
one rate of y per cent ad valorcm
A like change is made in the paragraph re-
latlng to woolen and worsted yarns madc
wholly or In part of wool. worsted the hair OF
the camel. goat alpaca or other animals and
the whole put at 30 per cent ad valorem
On wooden or worSted cloths, shawls, Kuit
fabrics, not specially provided for in this act
| 30 per sent ad valoTem Wilson bill, 4) per
cent
wool and fiannels for underwear, and felts for
paper making and prihtin5 machines Is
changed SO as to make only one ciassihcatlon s@
per pound and the duty for all is left at 30 per
cent ad valorem.
On woolens and children s dress goods, CO 1t
linin2s, Italian cloth, bunting and goods of
similar description not specially provided for
in this act. thirty-fve per cent advalorem
On clothing ready made and articles OF
wearing apparel of every description, felts not
woven and plushes and other pile fabrics and
limitations Of fur, forty per cent advalorem
Wilson bill, forty-fve per cent
The paragraph fixing duty OF 45 per cent
on clolks, dolmans, listers, etc, is stricken
out. as these articles provided for in
another paragraph
! On weddings, gorings. suspenders, braces,
beltings, bindings, braids galloons; frin es.
gimps, cords and tassels. dress trimmings,
laces and embroderieS, head nets, buttons or
barrel buttons, or buttons OF other forms. for
tasselS or ornaments, made OF wool or of
worsted, 35 per cent ad valorem Wilson bill,
40 per cent.
Provision in the Wilson bill to the effect
that on rates of duty in the woolen schedule,
except on carpets. there shall be reduction
; Of per cent ad valorem, to take effect July ]:
1896 and thereafter of like amount on 1st of
July, 1897, 1898 and 1899 and 1900 respectively
is stricken out.
The fax, hemp and jute schedule is
: as follows:
Burlaps, not exceeding sixty inches wide,
containing not over forty threads to the
square inch, counting warping and filling, Is
such burlaps, 22l per cent ad valorem Will
son bill 20 per cent Flax gill nettin nets,
webs and seine, IS per cent ad valorem
Wilson bill 80 per cent
The income tax is retained with the
rate of 2 per cent on the amount of in
come over 81, 900 as prescribed in the
Wilson bill. The classes of incomes
are broadened by adding to rents,
profits, salaries, ETC., the words ''or
from any source whatever. The per-
son to whom the tax applies are ''every
citizen of the United States and every
rerSOn reSidiDC therein. -