Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1894-05-10

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executive session today Senator Jones
presented the amendments to the tar
if bill which have been considered
and agreed TO by the democratic sen
ators known as the compromise com
mittee. There were over 400 Of them
and it makes a new bill, or a measure
greatly differing from the Wilson bill
and from the senate bill in any form
in which it has been presented.
The amendmCn,s heretofore pre-
scented by senator Vest and reported
from the finance committee are eli-
dorsed by the compromise committee,
There is a general increase in the bill
and in some schedules the increases
are very marked
The changes made in the tariff bill
in part are as follows:
The new sugar schedule provides
that on and after Jan. /, 1895, there
shall be levied on all sugars not above
10 duties standard and on all tank
bottoms, syrups of cane juice, or con-
cenrated molasSes, a duty of 40 per
centum advalorcm and upon all
sugars above Ii uties standard a duty
of oneeighth OF Il cent per pound in
addition; and all sugars, etc, i'm
ported from or the product of any
country which pays a bounty shall
pay a duty of tenth of a cent per
pound in addition provided nothing
herein contained shall abrogate or i'm
pair the provisions Of the treaty of
commercial reciprocity concluded be-
tween the United States and the King
of the Hawaiian Islands on the CHR
ueth day of January, 1875
on and after January l, 1895, there
shall he levied on molaSSes testing 40
degrees on less polarizcope. and con
tanning more than 20 per centum mois-
mre and ON molasSes testing above 40
degrees and not above 56 degrees. POI
lr5szcope duty Of cents per gallon,
if testing above Is degrees pOlarizcopc |
a duty Of cents per gallon.
The pig iron paragraph is amended
to read as follows:
Iron in pigs, iron kentledge, Spiegel- !
eisen, ferromanganez ferro silicon
steel, 81 per ton All structural shapes |
iron or steel six tenths of a cent per !
pound, The house bill was 80 per cent. !
Railway bars, iron or steel or in part /
steel, # rails, aud punched ZION or steel !
nat rails, sevru-l yentieths of a cent !
per pound; senate bill % IL per cent |
adj valorcm; house biz 20 per cent
Tin plate cne aId a fifth cents per
pound, restoring the house rate; sen
ate bill l per cent.
The tobacco schedule is changed to |
read as follows; wrapper tobacco UNI |
stemmed, S1.5O per pound; if stemmcd, |
S2.25 per pound; house and senate
bills 81 and S1.25 respectively. Filler |
tobacco, Stemmed and mStemmed, no /
change in rates, but the provisions of /
impor ,ation were changed materially. !
Snuff and suuf foUI manufactured of /
tobacco Of all descriptions, 30 cents
per pound; seh& and house bills, 10 |
cents.
The cigar paragraph is amended to |
read as follows:
Cigars, cigarettes, cheroots of all .
kinds, 81 per pound and % per cent,
and paper cigars and Gig
aretteS, including wrappers, shall be
subject to the same duties as herein
imposed on cigars The duty on cigars
in the house and senate bills was SO
per pound and - per cent respec-
lively.
Butter and substitutes therefor
cents per pound, which is the house
rate; senate bill 20 per cent,
Cheese four cents per pound, the
senate and house bill % per cent
Broom corn SO per ton; senate and
house bills free.
Cabbages two cents each; senate and
house bills free.
Eggs three cents per dozen; senate
and house bill free.
Hay 81 per ton; senate rate 20 per
cent
Potatoes fifteen cents per bushel;
senate bill 80 per cent; house bill 10
cents per bushel
Meats of all kinds, prepared or pre-
served not specially provided for in
the act 20 per cent.
Alcoholic preparations for medicinal
purposes are relieved from the duty Of
$50 per gallon and made duiable at
+" cents per pound.
All manufactures of flax. hemp, jute
"r other vegetable fibre except cotton,
not especially provided for, 80 per cent
ouSe and senate bills 80,
in the WOODEN schedule, frocks, mum
so sarnetted Waste and carbonized
a0lls OF shoddy, inserted, the rate is
made Is per cent ad valorem Senate
and house bills - per cent
he paragraph relating to wooden
ana worsted cloths is changed to read
aS follows On knit fabrics, and all
fabrics made on knitting machines or
Tunes not included in wearing ap.
parel and on shawls made wholly or
IN part Of wooden worsted, hair Of the
goat ALPACA or other animals, not
a1c"eding 40 cents per pound, 30 per
ent; valued at more than 40 cents
per pound, 80 per cent. house bill 30.
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