Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1894-05-10
The Alterations Made Are in the Nature
of an Increase in Duties from
Those Provided by the
Wilson Measure.
REVISED THREE TINES.


WASHINGTON, May S-For the third
time the senate committee on finance
has revised the Wilson tariff bill The
latest changes in the measure are
completed, and they are final so far as
the committee is concerned. They in
clude all the so-called compromise"
amendments which have been agreed
upon. Most of them are in the nature
Of changes from ad valorem to specific
duties.
This is radical change of the pro-
visions of the Wilson bill. That meas
ure changed most of the duties from
specific to ad valorem. the Mckinley
law being mainly specific duties
throughout The specific duties i'm
posed by the amended bill range from
% ~ SO per cent. lower than the cor
responding duties imposed by the Nc
Kinley law. The latest changes which
have been agreed upon as result of
the compromise are generally in the di-
rection Of higher rates than were at
first reported by the finance committee.
sugar and Income Tax,
The provisions of tire sugar schedule as
hBEStu uIou udNC diEcdNg Dtt1 pTlDUeu All
ad yalorem duty of 70 per cent viii be imposed
upon raw sugar, and the refined article will
be given an additional specific duty Of one
eighth of a cent Ali Sugars which are
imported from or are the product of any
co1ntry which at the time the same are ex-
ported therefroni pays, directly or indirectly,
bounty on the export thereof, shall pay duty
of one-tenth of l cent per pound in addition to
the foregoing rates Provided that nothidg
contained In the bill shall be so construed as to
abrogate or In any manner impair or affect the
provisions Of the treaty of commercial reci-
proeity concluded between the United States
and the king OF the Hawaiian Islands on Janu-
airy 3D. 1873
The amendments to the income tax provision
have been announced, and that feature OF the
bill is 10 last only five years No change is
made in the coal schedule from that already re-
ported There are several changes in the free
list
The following are the principal changes which
will be included In the compromise bill;
Drugs and Perfumery.
Alcoholic perfumery, including cologne water
and other toilet waters and alcoholic COM
pounds not specially provided for in this act,
S2 gallon and % per centum ad valorem; SEN
ate and house bills, q a gallon and % ad
valorem
All coal tar colors or dyes by whatever name
known and not specially provided for In this
act, % per cent; senate and house bills, 20
New,paragraps inserted are as follows:
Drugs, such as banks, beans, berries, bal
sans, buds, bulbs, dubious roots excrescences,
fruits, flowers, dried hbers, dried insects,
grains, gums and gum resin, herbs, leaves,
Hchens mosses nuts, roots and stems, spices,
vegetables. seeds (aromaticl, seeds of morbid
growth, weeds and woods used expressly for
dyeing, which not edible, advanced In value
or condition by refining or grinding or by other
process OF manufacture, and not specially pro-
vided for in this act, 10 per cent ad valorem.
EPSON salts are made dutiable at 10 OF
cent per pound. Other changes are Morphia
or morphine salts thereof, so cents per ounce.
Flaxseed and poppy oil 20 cents per gallon in
stead of Is cents in former bills
On olive oil for salad purposes the house
rate of IS cents per gallon is restored instead
of the senate committee rate OF % per cent
The Glass Schedule.
portion of the glass schedule is changed so
as to read as follows:
"Green and coiored nodded or pressed, and
flint and lime glass bottles holding more than
one pint and demijehns and carboys, covered
or uncovered, and other nodded or pressed
green and colored and flint or lime glass
bottleware not specially provided for in this
act. fve-eighths of cent per pound. Green
and colored nodded or pressed ana flint and
lime glass bottles and Walls holding not more
than one pint and not less than one quarter of
pint, ihree-fourJhS of Q cent per pound; If
holding less than one-fourth of pint 50 cents
per gross, whether filled or untitled, whether
their contents be dutiable or free"
The senate rate on the above is 40 per cent;
house rate, 80 per cent Another change in
glass Is as follows:
unpublished cylinder, crown and cotton win
dow glass. not exceeding 10 by 10 inches square.
/ cent per pound; above that, and not exceed
ing 10 By "a inches square, III cents per pound:
above that, and not exceeding "a by 81 inches
square, l9s cents per pound; above that, and
not exceeding "a by SO inches square, ia cents
per pound; all above that, Ia cents per pound.
provided that unpublished cylinder, crown
and common window glass imported in boxes
shall contain so square feet as nearly as sizes
will permit, and that duty shall be computed
thereon according to the actual weight OF the
glass.
There is ia change of sizes as well as of rates,
and comparisons cannot be made
Plate glass, "A by 50 inches is taxed % cents
per square foot. senate and house bills, 20
cents; all plate glass above these dimensions,
81 cents per square foot; senate and house bills,
30 cents looking glass plates are added to
glasses, dutlaple at ID per cent al valorem in
addition to other rates chargeabe thereon.
Changes in Iron Duties.
The pig iron paragraph is amended to read as
follows:
Iron in pigs, iron Kentedge Spiegeleisen,
ferro manganese, ferro silicon, wrought and
cast scFbb IRON dHt SSfdp stccA, ~ ptE tOas Uut
nothing shall be deemed scrap iron or scrap
steel except waste or refuse iron or steel fit
only to be manufactured
Beams, orders, joists, angles, channels, car
truck channels, IT columns or posts, or parts
or sections of columns or posts, deck and bulb
beams and building forms, together with ali
other structural shapes of iron or steel, whether
plain or punetured or fitted for use, $40 Of a
cent pound" Senate ball d, house bill 50 per
cent
Railway bars made Of iron or steel or rail
way bars made a part OF Steel II rails, and
punched iron or steel FAT rails 7-eO Of cent q
pound" Senate bill 251 cents pound restor-
ing the house rate; senat e bill per cent