The Irish standard., 1894-05-12
HE Z a IF i BILL.
Result Of the Senate Commute
Work on the Measure. J,
The Alterations Made Are in tho Nature
a of an Increase In Duties from
- Those Provided by the
Wilson Measure.

4 nature
of an Increase In Duties from
= Those Provided by tho
Wilson Measure.
REVISED THREE TINES.
WASHINGTON, May s-For the third
time the senate commute e 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 inn
posed by the amended bill range from
25 to 80 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 the sugar schedule as
agreed upon have already been prin ted An
ad valorem DUTY OF 10 per cent will be imposed
upon raw sugar, and the refined article will
eighth Of q cent All sugars which are
imported from or are the product OF any
country which at. the time the same are ex-
ported therefrom pays directly or indirectly, q
bounty on the export thereof, shall pay duty
OF cne-tenth Of cent per pound In addition to
the foregoing rates Provided that nothing
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 reel
procity concluded between the United States
and the king OF the Hawaiian islands on Janu-
ary 81, 1878
The amendments to the income tax provision
have been announced, and that feature OF the
bill is 10 last only Ave 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 PerfuDlery.
Alcoholic pertumery, including cologne water
and other toilet waters and alcoholic COM
pounds not specially provided for in this act.
u gallon and 90 per cenlum ad valorem; SEN
ate and house bills u . gallon and Is ad
Valorem.
All coal tar eolors or dyes by whatever name
known and not specially provided for In this
ACT, - per cent; senate and house bills 70
:New,paragraphs inserted are as follows:
"urugs, such rs barks, beans, berries, bal.
Sans, buds, bulbs, dubious roots, excrescences,
fruits, towers, dried hbers, dried insects,
grains, gums and gum resin, herbs, leaves,
lichenS. Inosses, nuts. roots ana stems, spices,
vegetables seeds taromatic} seeds OF morbid
growth, weeds and woods used expressly for
dyeing, which are not edible, advanced In value
or condition by refining or grinding or by other
process OF manufacture, and not specially pro-
stded fox in this ect 10 per cent I'D yalorem."
EPSON salts are made dutlable at l-5 OF
cent per pound Other changes are: Morphia
Or morphine salts thereof, 30 cents per ounce.
t'laxseed and poppy oil 70 cents per gallon in
stead OF Is cents in former bills
On olive oil for salad purposes the house
rate OF S5 cents per gallon is restored instead
OF lhe senate committee rate Of rs per cent
- The Glass Schedule.
portion Of the glass schedule Is changed 80
RS to read as follows:
Green ana colored, nodded or pressed and
flint and lime glass bottles holding more than
one pint AID demijohns and carboys, covered
OF uncovered. and other nodded or pressed
Sreen and rclored and flint or lime glass
bottlewars no. specially provided for in this
act, hve-eighths Of cent per pound Green
amt cologed, nodded or pressed and flint and
line glass bottles and walls holding not more
than one pint and not less than one quarter Of
). pint three four,hs of cent per pound; il
holding less thar ne-fourth OF q pint b cents
per gross, whether filled OF untitled, whether
tleir contents he dctisble or Free
+ The senate rate on the above is 20 per cent;
house rate, 30 ger cent Another change in
glaes Ia ~ follows; !:
e. unpublished cylinder, crown and cotton win
dow glass, not exceeding 10 by Is inches square,
cent per pound; above that, and Is not exceed
ing l6 by "a inches square, IN cents per pound;
above that, and not exceeding "A by 81 inches
square. Is GEMS per pound; above that and
not exceeding ~ by S6 inches square, ~ cents
per pound: all above that, ~ cents per pound
provided that unpublished cylinder. crown
and common window glass imported In boxes
shall contain 50 square feet as nearly AZ si2es
will permit, and that duty shall be computed
tseregp according to the actual weight OF the
glass
E There is change Of sizes Is we'll as OF rates,
and comparisons cannot be made i
Plate glass. "a by So inches, is taxed q cents
per square foot; senate and house bills 20
cents; all plate glass above these dimensions
80 cents per square foot; senate and house bills,
IS cents. Looking glass plates are added to
Ridi zion to other rates charkeable thereon.
changes In Iron Duties.
The pig iron paragraph is amended to read as
follows:
Iron In pigs, iron kentledge Spiegeleisen
rerro manganese, ferro silicon, wrought 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 tit
only to be manufactured.
Beams, orders, joists angles, channels, car
truck channels, ~ columns or posts, or parts
or sections OF columns or posts deck and bulb
beams and building forms, together with all
other structural shapes O. iron Or steel, whether
plain or punctured or fitted for use, $40 of a
cent pound, Senate bill S.. house bill 80 per
cent.
Railway bars. made OF iron OF steel or rail-
way bars made in part Of steel, II rails, and
punched iron or steel fiat rails, 40 of q cent
pound" Senate bill 22h cents a pound, restor-
ing the house rate; senate bill per cent
Cutlery Schedule.
The cutlery schedule is changed 70 read a.
follows: