The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1894-05-19
MANY CHANGES MADE
NUMEROUS AMENDMENTS TO THE
WILSON TARIFF BILL.
The Senate Committee Changes the
Measure in Many Respects-Many
Articles Taxed Which the House
Bill Made Free.

The Senate Committee Changes the
Measure I'm Many Respects-Many
Articles Taxed Which the House
Bill Made Free.
Washington, May 8. The principal
changes made in tie tariff bill by the
en- eEdments introduced in the senate as
the result Of the Democratic compromise
are as follows:
The new 81 gar schedule provides that
en- and after Jan. /, 1905, there shall be
levied, collected and paid on all sugars
not above No. 16 Dutch standard in
color, and on all tank bottoms, syrups
Of cane juice, melada, concentrated me-
lada, concrete and concentrated mo-
lasses, a duty of 40 per cent ad valorem,
eEd upon all sugars above No. 1G Dutch
standard in color there shall be levied,
collected and paid a duty of one-eighth
Of 1 cent per pound in addition to the
slid duty of 40 per cent al valorem; and
all sugars, tank bottoms, syrups of cane
juice, or of beet juice, melada, con-
Ger trated melada, concrete or concen-
trated mOlasses which are imported from
or are the product of any country which
at the time the same are exported there
from pays, indirectly or directly, bounty
on the export thereof, shall pay a duty of
one-tenth of 1 cent per pound in addition
to the foregoing rates, provided, that
nothing herein contained shall be so con-
strued as to abrogate OF in any n
impair or affect the provisions of the
treaty of commercial reciprocity conclud-
cd between the United States and Ha-
waii. Thai on Jan. !, 1895, there shall
be levied, collected and paid on molasses
testing 40 degrees or less by the polari-
scope, and containing more than 20 per
cent of moisture and on molasses test
ing above 40 degrees and not above Sc
degrees, polariscope, a duty of 2 cents
Per gallon; if testing above SO degrees,
polariscope, a duty of 4 cents per gal
Ion
In the paragraph relating to fish the
v'Crd prepared is stricken out ard the
rate Of rs per cent ad valorem is made
to apply to all fish oils.
Tin plate, 11-5c per pound, restoring
the house rate; senate bill 1 per cent.
The tobacco schedule is changed to
read as follows: Wrapper tobacco, un-
stemmed, imported in any bale, box or
package, CT in bulk, $3.50 per pound; if
stemmed, 1926 per pound; house and
senate bills, 81 and $1.25 respectively.
Filler tobacco, unstemmed, imported in
any bale, box, package or in bulk, IS
cents per pound; if stemmed, SO cents
per pound. Snuff and snuff -four manu-
featured of tobacco, ground dry or damp
and picked, scented or otherwise, 50
cents per pound; senate and house bills,
40 cents.
The cigar paragraph is amended as
follows: Cigars, cigarettes, cheroots OF
all kinds, 81 per pound and Is per cent
ad valorem, and paper cigars and cigar
cites, including wrappers, shall be SUBJ
ject to the same duties as are herein i'm
posed on cigars. The duty on cigars in
the house and senate bills is So per
pound and 25 per cent.
Butter and substitutes therefor, 4
cents per pound, which is the house rate;
senate bill, 20 per cent.
Cheese 4 cents per pound; senate and
house bills, 25 per cent.
Milk, fresh, Sc per gallon; senate and
house bills, free.
Broom corn, Sc per ton; senate and
house bills, free.
Cabbages, 2 cents each; senate and
house bills, free.
Eggs, 3 cents per dozen; senate and
mouse DlllS, Tree.
Hay, So per ton; the house and senate
rates, 20 per cent.
Honey, 1Oc per gallon, the house rate;
senate, 20 per cent.
Hops, SC per pound, the house rate;
serete bill, 20 per cent.
Onions, zoe per bushel, the house rate;
senate bill, 20 per cent.
Potatoes, 15c per bushel; senate bill,
80 per cent; house bill. 100 per bushel.
Meats of all kinds, prepared or pre-
served, not specially provided for in this
act, 20 per cent.
Lard, 1c per pound; taken from free
list.
Poultry, house rate, not dressed, &c
per pound; dressed, &c per pound, are
restored; senate bill, 20 per cent.
Alcoholic preparations for medicinal
purposes are relieved from the duty Of
$3.50 per gallon and made dutiable at
U per pound.
In paragraph 276, wooden schedule,
focks, mungo, garnetted waist, en-
broidered noils or shoddy is inserted, and
the rate is made Is per cent ad valorem;
senate and house bills, % per cent.
The date on which the reduction of
rates provided for in manufactures Of
woods shall take effect is fixed for Jan.
1, 1895, instead of Dec. 2, 1894.
Added to the free list are the following:
Dire. sed fur pieces suitable for use IN the
M r u%factures of hatters' fur.
In the free list after the words Pc
troleum, crude or refined, is inserted the
following:
Provided that if petroleum, crude OF
>ef1 ed, is imported from any country
which imposes a duty on the same ex-
rt1ted from the United States, then
there shall be levied, paid and collected
upon such petroleum, crude or refined,
the rate of duty existing prior to the
passage of this act.
The following is added to the para
graph in the free list relating to aHi-
cultural implements: provided that all
articles mentioned in this paragraph, if
imported from a country which lays an
import duty on like articles imported
from the United States shall be subject
to the duties existing prior to the pass
age of this act"
There is a modification of the provis-
ion to the same effect in the senate bill.
The same addition regarding sulphuric
acid is made as the n above mentioned