Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1894-05-17
Mutnate Wilson's Measure.

nave Deon considered and agreed TO Dy
the Democratic Senators, known as the
compromise committee. There are
over 400 OF them, and 1t makes q new
bill, or q measure greatly differing
from the Wilson bill and from the SEN
ate bill in any form in which 1t has
heretofore presented by Senator Vest
and reported from the Finance Com
mittee are indorsed by the compromise
committee. There is q general in
crease In the bill, and in some sched-
ules the increases are very marked.
The new sugar schedule provides:
On and after Jan. /, 1895, there shall be
levied. collected and paid on all sugars
not above No l6 Dutch standard In color
and on all tank bottoms, sirups Of cane
juice or OF beet juice, melada, concen-
trated melada, concrete and concentrated
molasses duty OF 40 Fer centun ad valo-
rem, and upon all sugars above No 16
Dutch standard In color there shall be
levied collected and paid q duty OF one
eighth OF cent per pound In addition to
the said duty of 20 per cont um ad valorem;
and all sugars, tank bottoms, sirups Of
caAs Juice or OF beet juice. melada, con-
centrated melHda, concrete or concen-
trated molasses which are imported from
OF are tho product OF any country which
1t the time the same are exported there
from pays directly or Indirectly, u bounty
on the export thereof, shall pay q duty OF
ons-tenth of cent per pound In addition to
the foregoing rates Provided that nothing
herein contained shall be so construed as
to abrogate or In any manner impair or
AFFECT the provisions OF the treaty OF COM
mercial reciprocity concluded between the
United States and the king OF the Hawaiian
Islands on Jan. 30. 1878, or the provisions
Of any act OF Congress heretofore passed
for the execution of the same; that on and
after Jan 1, 1895. there shall be levied,
collected and paid on molasses testing 20
degrees or less by the polariscope and con-
tanning 20 per centum of moisture, and on
molasses testing above 40 degrees and not
above 30 derrees polariscope, q duty OF 2
cents per gallon; II testing above Sc de-
grees polarlscope duty of cents per
gallon.
Changes In Other Schedules.
Other changes In the bill arei
Tartaric acid. 20 per cent ad valorem;
10 In Senate. 20 In House bill
Alcoholic perfumery. including Cologne
water and other toilet waters and aIco-
holfc compounds not specially provided
for In thts act ~ gallon and so per
centum ad valorem; Senate and House
bills. s2 q gallon and 25 ad valorem.
All coal-tar colors or dyes by whateve er
name known and not specially provided
for In this act. rs per cent; Senate and
House bills, 20.
New paragraphs inserted as follows:
Drugs, such as barks, beans. berries.
balsams. buds, bulbs, bulbous roots, ex =
crescences. fruits flowers, dried nbers
dried insects. grains, gums and gum resin.
herbs leaves. lfchens mosses nuts, roots
and stems, spices, vegetables. seeds (aro-
matic), seeds of morbid growth, weeds and
woods used expressly for dyeing, which
are not edible, advanced In value or con-
dition by refining or grinding or by other
process OF manufacture and not specially
provided for In this act, 10 per cent ad
valorem
In the paragraph relating to fish the word
spreparedr Is stricken out and the rate of
20 per cent ad valorem Is made to apply to
all fish oils
EPSON salts are made dutiable at les of
q cent per pound. Other changes are |:
Morphia or morphine salts thereof, so cents
per ounce FlRxseed and poppy oil. 20
cents per gallon instead OF Is cents in for :
mer billa
On olive oil for salad purposes the House
rate Of 35 cents per gallon Is restored, in
stead of the Senate Committee rate of rs
per cent
GLASS Schedule Changed.
portion OF the glass schedule is changed
30 as to read as follows:
Green and colored, nodded or pressed,
and nint and lime glass bottles holding
more than one pint and demijohns and car
boys, covered or uncovered, and other mold
ed or pressed green and colored and flint
or lime glass bottleware not specially rro-
vided for In this act i've eigbths of 1 cent
Der pound. Green and colored. nodded or
pressed and flint and lime glass bottles and
vials holding not more than one pint and
not less than one quarter of q pint three
fourths Of one cent per pound; II holding
less than one fourth OF pint 30 Is per
gross. whether filed or untitled, whether
their contents be dutiable or free
The Senate rate on the above is 20 per
cent; House rate, 30 per cent Another
change In glass is as follows:
Unpublished cylinder, crown, aud cotton
window glass, not exceeding 10 by is
inches square, cent per pound; above
that and not exceeding 10 by ~ inches
square, IN cents per pound; above that,
and not exceeding "a by 90 inches square.
1x cents per pound; above that and not
exceeding 20 by 80 inches square, ~ cents
per pound; all above that, ~ cents per
pound.
Provided, that unpublished cylinder,
crown, and window glass, imported In
boxes. shall contain ffty square feet. as
nearly as sizes will permit, and that duty
shall be commuted thereon according to
the actual weight OF the glasa
There Is q change of sizes as we'll as of
rates, and comparisons cannot be made
Platc-Rlsss, "a by 80 inches, is taxed %
cents per square foot; Senate and House
bills. 20 cents; all plate-glass above these
dimensions, 3s cents per square foot; Sem
ate and House bills. 80 centa Looking
glass plates are added to glasses. dutiable
at 10 per cent ad valorem, In addition 10
other rates chargeable thereon.
Changes in Iron Duties
The pig-iron paragraph is amended to
read as follows:
Iren in pigs. Iron Kentledge, spiegelei-
sen. ferromanganese ferro- silicon. wrong ht
and cast scrap-iron and scrap steel. "a per
ton; but nothing shall be deemed scrap
iron or scrap steel except waste or refuse
iron or steel At only to be manufactured
Beams. girders, joists, angles, channels.
car-truck channels, sTr columns or posts,
or parts or sections Of columns or posts,
deck and bulb beams and building forms,
together with all other structural shapes
of iron or steel. whether plain or punc-
tured or fitted for use, clio of q cent a
pound. Senate bill IS, House bill 30 per
cent
Railway bars, made OF iron or steel, or
railway bars made In part OF steel. 1T"
rails, and punched iron or steel fat rails.
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