The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-03-21


Icratic members of the finance commit
tee have completed the consideration
of the tariff bill and it was submitted
to the full committee of Republicans
and Democrats today
The most important change is in the
sugar schedule, a change being made
by which an additional duty of 1s cent
per pound is given on sugars above 9S
degrees by the polariscope test, or
which are above No. Z Dutch stand
ard in the color test. The schedule as
now agreed upon is as follows: 'Au
sugars, toki, bottoms, syrups of cane
juice or beet juice. melada, concen-
trated melada, concrete and concen-
trated molasseS testing by polariscope
not above so degrees, shall pay a duty
OF l per cent per pound, and for every
additional degree or fraction of de-
gree above so and not above 80 de
grees shown by >the polariscope test,
snail pay and 1-100 of a cent per
pound additional above 80 and not
ABOVE W degrees, for every additional
degree or fraction of a degree shown
! by the polariscope test, there shall be
paid duty of 2 and LOO of cent
per pound additional, and upon all
sugars testing above 98 degrees by the
!
Dutch standard in color, there shall
! be levied and collected duty of "a of
+ l cent per pound in addition to the
duty imposed upon the sugars testing
above SO degrees; molasses testing not
above 56 degrees by polariscope shall
pay duty Of cents per gallon; mo-
lasses testing above Sc degrees shall
pay duty of cents per gallon.
Other changes agreed upon by the
subcommittee are: Lime, Is per cent
ad valorem, instead of 10 per cent in
the Wilson bill. the duty to include
the value of covering or barrels: plas-
ter Of paris, which in the Wilson bill
ground article, is taxed 81 per ton !;
calcined plaster of paris is $1.25 per
ton, instead of Is per cent. ad valorem
lin the Wilson bill; cast polished plate
glass, finished or unfinished and unsil-
Vered, not exceeding 24x60 inches
square, 20 cents per square foot, in
stead Of IS cents; all above the dimen-
sion given, So cents per square foot,
instead of 30 cents; all sheets of iron
or steel, common or black, thinner
than No. % wire gauge, and black tag
gers iron or steel, picked or cleaned,
is changed from $40 of g. cent per
pound to q of a cent, and the pro-
vision stricken out of the original Sen
ate bill that this change Shall take
, effect after October 1, 1894, is restored;
tin plate, terne plate and taggers tin, l
cent a, pound, instead of l 1-15 cents,
, and the provision that the rate shall
take effect on October 1, 1894, is re-
| stored; cast iron pipe, every descrip-
ton, 2212 per cent, instead of 25. The
lead and lead ore duties are unchanged
from the Senate subcommittee rates
as ore, iron ore and coal duties. The
provisions abrogating the Hawaiian
; reciprocity treaty are stricken out and
a specific declaration inserted repeal
) ing the reciprocity treaties negotiated
under the Mckinley act
Oatmeal is Is per cent. instead of 90
, Collars and cuffs are unchanged, but
. shirts and all other unprovided for ar
ticles, partly of linen, 50 per cent. in,
stead of 80.
Smokers articles, so per cent, as in
the Wilson bill, except clay pipe bowls
10 per cent. Bananas, pineapples ano
cocoanuts are restored to the free list
. In the internal revenue schedules
the present taxes on cigars are substi
tuted as TO cigars weighing more thar
three pounds and cigarettes not weigh
ing more than that
The provision in the income tay
amendment relating to building anC
e loan associations which were exempted
by the House, and which the Senat
subcommittee struck out, has beer
e shall not be levied on such as maxi
= no loans except to shareholders t
\ build homes A new paragraph is in
a serted. broadening the definition of tn
: | term tobacco manufacturer, and bring
i ing within the purview of the revenue
regulations various methods of tobacco
treatment, but exempting the grower
: of tobacco from the definition.
. The bill reported today provide
- specifically. for the reDeal of section
three of the Mckinley act the reel
procity section, and inserts the follow
4 ing:
And the agreement or arrangement
6 made or proclaimed between the Unite
. States and the foreign government
: under the provisions of said section ar
hereby abrogated, of which the presi
dent shall give such notice to the au
thorities of the said foreign govern
ments as may be required by the term
" of such agreements or arrangements
The following section which was in
:, serted in the bill by the Senate sub
d committee has been eliminated fror
the bill, the effect being to leave tn
. Hawaiian treaty in full force an
! effect:
: THAT the president of the Unite
} States shall Immediately upon the pas
sage of this act give notice to the gov
It eminent of the Hawaiian island tina
= the United States intends to terminal
r the treaty of June 8, 1875, made be
L tween the United States and hi
e majesty, the king of the Hawaiia
o islands, as provided in the fifth articl
II of said treaty; and 1t is hereby turtle
e enacted that after the expiration
% twelve months from the time of givin
$, such notice said treaty shall be tel
: minated and if provisions ceased to
IS obligatory upon the contracting partie
q thereto
When the bill was first reported b
the Senate subcommittee, gree
many changes Were made in the wore
ing of the administrative portion of tt
= Wilson bill. Some additional change
have been made since then.
In section 4, the House bill provide
a that the levying duty upon two article
tie of similar material, quantity and te.
n ture and upon such articles, the higl
IS est rate of duty under this act shoul
be levied. The Senate sub-committt
= struck out highest" and inserte
q lowest" This had been changed BAG
70 again and it is the same as in the Wi
81 son bill.
SC In section 5, relating to the deliver
o. of imported packages to the importe
+ it is provided that such delivery sha
IN plainly marked, and the words sc.
if cept under such regulations as Il
m secretary of the treasury may dee
proper" are stricken out.
In section %, the sub-committ
struck out of the Wilson bill the folloy
! ing: And provided, further, that Il
u drawback on any article allowed und
On existing laws shall be continued at Il
to rate herein provided" This is restor,