The Dickinson press., 1894-03-17
REVISED TARIFF BILL
1T IS PRESENTED TO THE FULL
FINANCE COMMITTEE.

1T IS PRESENTED TO THE FULL
FINANCE COMMITTEE.
4 Duty of Forty Cents Per Ton Is
Placed ON Iron Ore and Coal ana
One Cent Per Pound ON Sugur-The
Income Tax RetnineL.
Washington, March 0.-The tariff bill
hts been submitted to the finance COM
m;ttee. The more important items in
the tariff bill just presented to the full
committee are as follows. Sugar not
above 50 degrees polariscope test 1 cent
per pound; for every additional degree
or fraction not above 50 degrees, .O1
cent additional, above 90 end not above
2G, .O2 per degree ind above W lie.
grtes, duty Of Ia cents per pound;
nolasses, testirg not above 56 degrees
by the polariscope, shall pay duty of :.
cents per gallen; mol, sses, testing Sc
degrees, shall pay duty of cents Per
gallon.
Whisky ut $1.1O pei gallon, and the
bonded period extended from thr.a to
eight years.
AaoA oAC, ~ cc-itS per tOII. 4<edU OEts,
;4 cent per pound, including lead mixed
with silver ores. Coal, bituminons and
shale, 40 cents per ton. Coal or slack or
culnI, Is CENTS per ton; coke, 15 per cent
I'D valOraln.
Sugar Schedule - The portion of the
hill repeating the snG r bounty is left in.
tact and the following provision is in
serted: All sugars, tank bottoms, syr-
ups Of cane juice or of beet juice, mclada,
| concentrated melada, concrete, ,nti-con-
crete molasSes testing by the polariscope
not above sd degrees, shall pay duty
Of cent per pound. end for every nd-
ditional degree or fraction of degree
above 50 and not above so degrees.
shown by tho .'olariscopc test shall pay
.Ol cent per pound additional, and above
so and not above 9G degrees for every
additional degree shown by the pola7i.
scope test shall pay a duty cf .O2 cents
FER pound additional, and above 9G de-
grees by polariscope test shall pay
duty of IA ce-lts per po'nl; :rclasses
testing not above sc degrees by the
rclariscope shall pay duty of 2 cents
per gallon; mclo. srs testing above SO
degrees Ivy the polariscopc shall pay
cents per gallon. No other changes are
made.
The internal revenue section of the
| bill covers the income tax with many
verbal but few essential changes; makes
n tax of cents Oh every pack of play
ing cards, similar to the provisions in the
Wilson bill; tax on all tobacco cigars
and cigarettes weighing over three
pounds per thousand of SIS per thousand.
Paper cigarettes weighing less than three
pounds per thousand pay 81 per thou
sand and those wrapped in tobacco 50
cents per thousand.
A new provision is added directing the
president to Immediately notify the Ha-
waiian government that the United
States will terminate in twelve months
the treaty made with Hawaii in 1875.
No change is made in the rates fixed by
the Wilson bill OH imported tobacco.
The senate bill changes the Wilson bill
rates OH cigars and cigarettes. The Will
son bill provided that from and after
July 1, 1894, there shall be collected an
| internal revenue tax ON all cigarettes
wrapped in paper weighing not more than
three pounds a thousand, manufactured
for sale or offered for sale in the United
States, of 81 per thousand" This sec
tion is changed in the senate bill to read
as follows: ''That from and after July,
1891, there shall be levied and collected
an internal revenue tax OH cigars of all
des crptions, including cigarettes weigh
ing more than thr2c pounds per thousand
II nde of tobacco or any substitute there
of, 50 per thousand; on cigarettes,
wrapped III paper, weighing not more
! hon, >l,n
factured for sale in the United States.
81 per thousand: on cigarettes wrapped
in tobacco, weighing less than three
pounds per thousand, 80 cents per thou
sand.
The income tax retains the rete of
per cent on the amo'.l,t of inccne over
$4,000, as prescribed n the Wilson bill.
The classes Of income re broadened by
adding to rents. prof:s S, laries. etc, the
words ''or from any source whatever"
the persons to whom the tax applies are
"every citizen of til. United States, and
every person residing therein"
The section covering the tax on spirits
is new throughout and is substitute
for the house section struck out. The
main section of the senate bill is as fol-
lows: THAT on and after the first day
of the second calendar month after the
passage of this act there shall be levied
and collected on all distilled spirits in
bond ut that time or that have been or
MY be then or thereafter produced in
the United States in which the tax is not
paid before that day, tax of $1.1O on
each proof gallon. or wine gallon when
below proof, and IL proportionate tax at
like rate on all fractional nnrto nf
such proof or wibe gallon; r-ovided.
that in computing the tax on ally pacE-
age of spirits all fractional parts Of a
gallon less than one-tenth shall be ex-
cluced." The bonding period is changed
to eight years.