The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1894-03-21
WHEELING DAILY INTELLlGENCER, WEDNESDAY, MARCH q, 1894

list Pine apples, bananas, ~cocoanuts,
norm strips and tips. No articles were
taken from tho FREQ list,
Playing cards aro rcitorol TO tho
Wilson rate OF 10 cents pcr pack, In.
stoad OF . cents per pack, rs lxod by
tho senate sub-committee. PipCs, Pipe
bowls and NIL smokers a~rtiolos not
spGcinlly provided Tor In this net, in.
Guiding cigarette books, cigarette book
covers, pouches for smoking or chew
Ing tobacco. and cigarette paper in nil
forms, tho Wilson ratio OF 3 Dor cent adj.
valorem Is restored, tho subcommittee
ratio having been 10 per cent adyalorem,
and tho remainder OF this paragraph ID
made to road as followa: And Pipe
bowls OF clay, 10 per cont advalorem."
In tho internal revonuo sclledulp tho
committee strikes out tho provision OIL
tho senate subcommittee taxing cigars
and cigarettes Weighing moro thnn
three pounds s. per 1000. and cigarettes
in paper Weighing not more than three
pounds 81 per 1000, and wrapped III
tobacco, 30 cents per 1000, thus leaving
the taxes OH the articles unchanged
from the present law. Tho provision
IN tho income tax amendment relating
TO q tax on building and loan a~ssOCia-
tIons which WIS exempted by tho house
aud stricken out when the senate sub
committee reported tho bill has been
restored with tho proviso that tho INK
shall not DO loviod upon those institu-
tons who mako no loans except TO
shareholders for tho purpose OF enabling
thcm 10 build homes.
MANUFACTURERS or TOBACCO DEFINED.
Tho following which was not in
either tho house bill or tho bill as
framed by the senate subcommittee Is
inserted; Every person whose business
it is to manufacture tobacco or snutf for
himaelf, or who employs others to
manufacture tobacco or snuff, whether
such manufacture be by cutting, press
ing, grinding, crushing, or rubbing'oi
any raw or leaf tobacco, or othrrwie
preparing raw or leaf tobacco, or manu-
featured or partially manufactured
tobacco or snuff, or the putting up Tor
use, or consumption Of SCRAPS, waste,
clippings, stems or deposits OF tobacco
AIohANAhS AliOlA blOSGbd VI LluullAue
tobacco, or by tho working or prepNra-
ton OF leaf tobacco, tobacco stems,
scraps. clippings, or waste, by sitting,
twisting, screening, or any other pro,
cess, shall DO rewarded as q manufac-
turer Of tobacco.
Every person shall also DO regarded
as q manufacturer OF tobacco whose
business it is sell leaf tobacco in ouanti-
ties less than the original hogshcad,
case or bales, or who sells directly to
consumers, or to persons other than
duly registered dealers in leaf tobacco,
or to duly registered dealers in manu-
featured tobacco, snuff, or cigars, or to
persons who purchase in original pack
ages for export; and all tobacco so sold
BY such persons shall DO regarded Us
manufactured tobacco, and such manu-.
featured tobacco shall BIO put up and
prepared by such manufacturer in auch
packages only US the commissioner OF
informal revenue with tho approval OF
the secretary OF the treasury, shall pre-
scribe; provided, that farmers and
growers OF tobacco who sell leaf tobacco
OF their own growth and raising shall
not be regarded rs manufacturers OF
tobacco; and SO much Of section three
thousand two hundred and iorty-four OF
the revised statutes OF the United States
aud acts amenda,ory thereof as are in
conflict with this act arc hereby re-
pealed.
REPEAL OF M'KISLEY DILL.
The language Of the bill repeating
the Mckinley act has been modified to
q considerable extent The house bill
provided for the repeal OF call acts or
parts OF acts inconsistent herewith"
The senate subcommittee bill, whom
first reported, struck out that language
and named the Mckinley bill by title
and repealed it outright, as we'll as all
acts inconsistent with tho present bill.
The bill reported to-day provides spe-
officially for tho repeal Of section
8 OF the Mckinley act, tho reci-
procity section, and inserts the follow
ing %abrogating treaties made in this
section: IAN agreements or arrange.
ments made or proclaimed between the
United States and foreign governments
under the provisions Of said sections
are hereby abrogatod, for which the
President shall give such notice to tho
authorities Of said foreign governments,
rs may DO required by tho terms Of such
agreements.
Sections 10 and 16 OF tho Mckinley
law arc repealed specifically. These
sections provide that the products OF
tho forest upon the St. John and st.
CroiN rivers in Maine and their tribu-
tarics may be readmitted FREQ OF duty.
The following section, which was in
serted III the bill by tho senate sub
committee, has been eliminated from
tho bill, the effect being to leave tho
Hawaiian treaty in full force and effect:
That the President OF the United Statos
shall Immediately upon the passage Of
this act give notice to the government
OF the Hawaiian islands that the United
States intends to terminate tho treaty
ofJuno 3, 1915, made between the United
States and his majesty, the king OF the
Hawaiian islands, as provided in the
fifth article OF said treaty; and it is
hereby further enacted that after tho
expiration Of twelve months from the
time OF giving such notice the said
treaty shall be terminated and ita pro.
visions cease to be obligatory upon the
contracting parties thereto.
Tho. following provision which was
in the Wilson bill and remained in the
senate subcommittee hill whoT fret
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