The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1894-03-17
THE TARIFF BILL
In Its Amended Form Has
Come

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Come
FROM THE SENATE FINANCE COMMITTEE.
The Changes Made From the Original
Wilson Bill Which the Senate will
Debate Upon-Likely 10 Be-
come Law rs il Is
The Wilson tariff bill, which pass.
ed the House of Representatives the
| first of February, was laid before the
full membership of the Finance Com
mittee of the Senate BY the sub com
mittee last Thursday IN the amended
form upon which that committee fla
ally agreed, after one whole month
of consideration, and with. alsa.
many changes of front upon the
more important objects of taxation.
The bill as now reported is in the
form in which it is quite certain to
become law, and the NEW DOMINION
makes the following resume of its
provisions for the benefit of its read
ers The chief features upon which
public interest centered we're the
provisions in regard to the tariff on
sugar, iron, ore, lead, wool and its
manufactures, cotton manufactures
and the internal revenue taxes on
whisky and tobacco. The sugar pro
vision is as follows: All sugars, tank
bottoms, syrUps of cane. Juice or
hest juice, melada, concentrated me
lada, concoct and concentrated mo-
Iasses testing by the polariscope not
above eighty degrees shall pay du-
ty of one cent per pound, and fer ev-
cry additional degree or fraction of
degree above eighty and not above
ninety degrees shown by the polaris-
cope test, shall pay one one hundredth
Of cent per pound addition al. and
above ninety and not above ninety.
six degrees, for every addit onal de
gree or fraction of degree shown by
the polariscope test shall pay a duty
of two one hundredths of cent per
pound additional, and above 90 de
9rees by polariscope test, shall pay
a duty of one and four tenths cents
per pound; molasses testing not
above fifty six degrees by the polar
iscope shall pay duty of four cents
per gallon,
IRON ORE AND COAL.
Iron ore, including manganiferous
iron ore, also the dress or residium
from burnt pyrites, forty cents per
ton. Coal is taken from the free list
and made dutiable also at forty cents
a ton and coke at | 5 cents. Lead ore,
which in the Wilson bill, was l5 per
cent ad yalorem, lead ore and lead
dross, three fourths of one cent per
pound; provided, that silver ore and
all other ores containing lead shall
pay duty of three fourths of one
cent per pound on the lead contained
therein, according to sample and as
say at the port entry.
Raw wool is left on the free list
exactly as in the Wilson bill, the
provision to go into effect August 2,
1894. In manufactures of wool the
valuations as given in the Wilson
bill are stricken out, and the SEIZED
ules now read as follows. Wool of
the sheep, hair of the camel, goat,
alpaca and other like animals in the
form of slubbing, waste, rowing
waste, mungo, shoddies, garnetted or
carded waste. carbonized noiles or
other waste product any of which is
composed wholly or in part of wool,
the hair of the camel. goat, alpaca
and other like animals which has
been improved or advanced beyond
its original condition as waste by the
use of machinery or the application
of labor or both, and carbonized wool,
shall be subject to duty of fifteen
per centum ad valorem
WOOL SCHEDULE
On wool of the sheep, hair of the
camel, goat, alpaca or other like ami
mails, in the form of rowing, roping
or tops, twenty-five per centum ad
valorem. On wooden and worsted
yarns thirty per centum ad valorem.
On wooden and worsted cloths, shawls,
KNIT iaorics, manufactures OF every
description made wholly or in part
of wool, worsted, the hair of the ca
mel, goat, alpaca, or other animals
ana any OF the above having india
rubber as component material, not
especially provided for in this act,
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