The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1894-03-09

coming from the United States
shall be subject to duties, under the ex-
listing law.
Tobacco and Other Schedules.
The schedule of the Wilson bill levylng
tax of 81 per thousand on cigarettes
wrapped in paper is stricken out, and
there is substituted a tax on cigars OF
all descriptions including cigarettes
weighing more than three pounds per
thousand, five dollars per thousand; on
cigarettes wrapped in paper, one dollar
per thousand and on cigarettes wrapped
in tobacco, fifty cents per thousand.
Butter is changed from four cents per
pound, to 90 per cent preserved milk from
20 per cent ad valorem to five cents per
pound; hay from 81 per ton to 20 per
cent; honey from ten cents gallon TO
| 90 per cent ad valoPem hops from eight
| cents pound to 20 per cent ad vaiofem
| onions from twenty cents bushel TO ~
| per cent advalorem; peas from speclnc
| duty to 20 per cent; potatoes from ten
Genus a bushel to 80 per cent; castor
| beans from twenty cents hushel to ~
| per cent ad valorem; smoked hsh from
| three-quarters of a cent pound to ID per
cent ad valorem. Apples and other fruits
! taken from the free list are taxed ~ per
| cent ad valorem. Peanuts are changed
valorem. Fresh beef, mutton and PORK
are taken from the free list and taxed 20
per cent ad valorem. Poultry is changed
from two cents pound to 10 per cent
ad valorem; chocolate is changed TO lV
per cent ad valorem. cocoa changed TO
five per cent ad valorem ana cocoa butter
| to IS per cent ad valorem.
Collars and cuffs, composed wholly or
| in part of linen, are increased from 80 to
45 per cent ad valorem. Sole leather IS
| increased from 5 to 10 per cent; cali
| skins from 25 to so PERCENT and piano
| forte leather reduced from 20 to ~ per
cent. Pearls are reduced from Is to ~
| per cent and roofing states increased
from 10 to 20 per cent
The Income Tax
An important clause added PROVIDES
that dividends or interest accruing to
| states, counties or municipalities, and
dividends, interest or annuities accruing
| to corporations or associations and or
CARNATIONS conducted solely for chair
table, religious or educational purposes
! or to any trustee or other f1duciary on
| stocks, shares, funds or securities held
solely for charitable purposes, OF
| salaries due the state, county or NUM-
| cipal officers, shall not be subject TO the
income tax or deduction. The House
bill made it obligatory upon all corpora.
lions paying any employe a salary o.
more than $4,000 to pay the tax and
charge il to such employe. The Senate
bill directs the corporation to report the
salary paid, but give the employe the
right to act as his own financial agent IN
| this transaction. The provision making
payments of prize money the same as in
comes from salaries isseliminated.
The Hawaiian Treaty.
The treaty with Hawaiissis to be termi-
mated by the terms of this bill, section
105 reading as follows; "That the Presi'
dent of the United States sbalI immedi,
aJely upon the passage of this act give
notice to the government of the
| Hawaiian Islands that the United States
intends to terminate the treaty of June,
| 1875, 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 here
| by further enacted that after the eXplra
tion of twelve months from the time Of
| giving such notice, said treaty shall bt
Terminated and its provisions cease to bt
| obligatory upon the contracting parties
| thereto"
The date when the law goes into effec1
is changed from June to ) une 80, 1894
| and this date is made to affect not only
! articles imported, but articles withdrawn
for consumption, except of course where
otherwise specified
In the administrative feature of the
bill an important change is made in one
particular. If any non-enumerated
article equally resemb les two or more
| enumerated articles in which different
rates of duty are chargeable, the duty te
be levied is that chargeable Oh the
article it resem bles1 that pays the lowest
rate of duty, not the highest, as in the
| House bill If Two or more rates are
applicable to any imported article, it
| must pay the lowest duty.