Mower County transcript., 1894-03-14
IN FULL COMMITTEE. |.

IN FULL COMM ITTEE.
THE TARIFF, MEASURE FINALLY
COMPLETED 4.
A. Fax as the Subcommittee IL Con-
cerned-susar, Coal and Iron Trans
ferred to tho Dutiable Ltst-The Free
List Not Much Chanred-The Metal
Schedule. ~.
WASHINGTON, March 9.-The senate
finance committee has submitted the
tariff bill to the full committee.
The free list is not so much changed
as had been supposed it would be, and
the distractions from it are far more
numerous than the additions. The date
when the free list shall go into effect is
changed from June /, 1894, to June 80,
1894. Apples of all kinds are stricken
from the free list and placed on the
dutiable list, as are also beef, mutton
and pork and bone char suitable for
use in decolorizing sugar. Bituminous
coal, shale, coal slack and coke are
transferred to the dutiable list, leaving
anthracite on the free list. Cocoa fibre
is made dutiable. Diamonds and other
precious stones rough or uncut are
added to the free list. Floor mating is
made dutiable. Dates, cocoanuts, Bra
zil nuts, peanuts and gambler are also
taken from the free list. Cod oil is
made free of duty. Sailed CUTS disap-
pear from the free list. Iron ore is
taken from the free list and also olives
and orchids. The tax on the more i'm
portant items is as follows:
Sugar, not above 80 degrees polar
iscope test, cent per pound; for every
additional degree or fraction, not above
80 degrees, 1-100 cent additional; above
80 and not above 96, 2-100 cent per de-
gree; above 96 degrees, duty of 40
cents per pound.
Molasses testing not above 56 degrees
by the polariscope, shall pay q duty Of
2 cents per gallon; molasses testing
above So degrees shall pay duty of
cents per gallon.
Whisky at $1.10 per gallon and the
bonded period extended from three to
eight years.
Iron ore, 40 cents per ton.
Lead ore, I'D cents per pound, includ-
ing lead mixed with silver ores.
Coal, bituminous and shale, 40 cents
per ton.
Coal or slack or Gull, Is cents per ton.
Coke, Is per cent ad valorem.
The Metal Schedule.
Metal schedule-Iron ore including
manganiferous iron ore, also the dross
or residuum from burnt pyrites, 40 cents
per ton. Wilson bill free.
Iron in pigs, iron, Kentledge, Spieg-
eleisen, Ferrosilicon, % 10 per cent ad
valorem. Wilson bill, 20 per cent.
All iron in slabs, blooms, loops or
other. forms, more advanced than pig
iron, and less finished than iron bars, rs
per cent ad valorem. Wilson bill, % 10
per cent.
Bar iron, rolled or hammered, round
iron, in coils or rods, and bars or shapes
of rolled iron, % per cent ad valorem.
Wilson bill, 20 per cent.
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or steel, whether plain or punched, or
fitted for use, IS per cent ad valoren.
Wilson bill, 80 per cent
Boiler or other plate or steel, except
saw plates hereinafter provided for, not
thinner than No. 10, wire guage, shared
or unshared, and skelp iron or steel,
sheared or rolled, in grooves, 80 per
~ TNslco~n hi
cent.
Forgings Of iron or steel, or forged
iron or steel combined, 80 per cent ad
valorem. Wilson bill, rs per cent.
Hoops, band or scroll iron or steel, 80
per cent ad valorem. Wilson bill, Is
per cent.
Railway bars made of iron or steel,
and railway bars made in part of steel,
rails and punched iron or steel fat rails,
% IL per cent ad valorem. Wilson
bill, ~ per cent.
The woollen schedule shows few
changes. These are about 5 per cent
reduction.
No change in cotton schedule. Collars
and cuffs increased from 35 to As per
cent ad valorem.
There is no change in lumber.
A New Provision.
In internal revenue section is a new
provision directing the president to inn
mediately notify the Hawaiian govern
ment that the United States will ter
inmate in IL months the treaty with
Hawaii made in 1875.
No change is made in the rates fixed
by the Wilson bill on imported tobacco.
The internal revenue section of the
bill covers the income tax, with many
verbal but few essential changes. It
makes tax of . cents on every pack of
playing cards, similar to the provisions
in the Wilson bill; a tax on all tobacco,
cigars and cigarettes, weighing over 8
pounds per 1000 of IS per 1000; paper
cigarettes, of weight less than pounds
per 1000, pay 81 per 1000, and those
wrapped in tobacco, so cents per 1000.
The date for going into effect of the
bill is changed from June l to June so,
and q duty ia levied on articles irmnorto6