The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1894-05-17
CHANGES IN TARIFFS.
MANY ALTERATIONS HAVE BEEN
MADE IN THE BILL.
Result of the Compromise Between the
Democrats in the Senate-Duties Are In
Observation-Disclosures in the Measure Which
Suit the Majority.
Mutilate Wilson's Measure.

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During the executive session Mon
day Senator Jones presented the
amendments to the tariff bill, which
have been considered n agreed to by
the Democratic Senators, known as the
compromise committee. There are
over 400 of them, and it makes a new
OIL, or a measure greatly Offering
from the Wilson dill and from the Sen
ate bill in any form in which it has
been presented. The amendments
heretofore presented by Senator Vest
and reported from the Finance Com
mittee are indossed by the compromise
committee. There is a general in
crease in the bill, and in some scbed-
ules the increases are very marked.
lie new sugar schedule provides:
On and after Jan. /, 1895, there shall be
levied, collected and paid on all sugars
not above No. IL Dutch standard in color
and en- all tank bottoms, sirups Of cane
juice or of beet juice, meiada, concern
trated melada, concrete and concentrated
molasses q duty OF 40 ler centum ad valo-
rem, and upon all sugars above No. IL
Dutch standard in color there shall be
levied, collected and paid a duty of one
eighth OF l cent per POUND in addition to
the SAID duty OF 40 per centum ad yalorem:
and all sugars, tank bottoms. sirups of
cane juice or Of beet juice, melada. con-
centrated meluda. 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. directly or indirectly. u bounty
On the export thereof, shall pay a duty of
one-lenth OF ] cent FER pound In addition to
the foregoing rates. Provided that nothing
herein contained shall be so construed as
10 aDrogate or in any manner i'm pair or
AFFECT the provisions Of the treaty Of COM
merclal reciprocity concluded between the
United States and the king Of the Hawaiian
Islands on Jan. 30, 1873. or the provisions
O. any act OF Congress heretofore passed
for the execution OF the same; that on and
after Jan. l., 1895. there shall be levied.
collected and paid on mOlasses testing 40
degrees or less by the polariscope and con-
tanning 20 per cel.tum Of moisture, and on
,nolasses testing above 40 de ,rees and not
above Sc de 'rees polariscope, a duty of =
cents per gallon: II testing above sc de-
grees ro.ariscope IA duty of ! cents per
gallon.
Changes in Other Schedules.
Other changes In the bill are:
Tartaric acid, 20 per cent. ad valorem;
10 in Senate. 90 in House bilL
Alcoholic perfumery. including Cologne
NatC IL OiiCb Nd cTS Ii aACS-
holic compounds not specially provided
for in this act. 81 Il gallon and 80 per
centum ad valorem: Senate and House
bills. s. a gallon and 25 ad valorem.
All coal-tar colors or dyes by whatever
name known and not specially provided
for in this act. 25 per cent. Senate and
Icouse bills. 20.
New paragraphs inserted as follows:
DrugE, such a. barks, beans, berries.
balsams. buds, bulbs, bulbous roots, eX-
crescences. fruits. flowers, dried fibers,
dried insects. grains, gums and gum resin.
herbs, leaves, lichens. NOSES, nuts. roots
and stems, spices, vegetables. seeds taro-
maticJ, seeds of morbid growth, weeds and
woods used expressly FOR Gyeing, which
are not edible, advanced in value or con-
dit!On by refining or grinding or by other
process of manufacture. and not specially
provided for in this act, 10 per cent. ad
valoren.
in the paragraph relating TO fish the word
"preparedn IS stricken ont and the rate o.
20 per cent ad valorem is made TO apply u
all fish oils.
Epson salts are made dutiable at IL OF
a cent per pound. Other changes are
Morphia or morphine salts thereof, so cents
per ounce. Fl&xseed and poppy oil, 70
cents per gallon instead Of Is cents in for
mer bills.
On olive oil for salad purposes the House
rate Of IS cents per gallon il restored, in
stead OF the Senate committee rate of 2,
per cent
Glass Schedule Changed.
A portion OF the glass schedule is changed
so us to read as follows:
Green and colored, nodded or pressed.
and flint and lime glass bottles HOLDING
more thar one pint and demijohns and car
BOYS. covered or uncovered, and other mold
ed or pressed green and coioied and flint
or lime glas, bottle ware not specially Fro
yided for In this act, tive-eighths OF ! cent
Der pound. Green and colored, nodded OIL
pressed and flint and lime glass bottles and
vials holding not more than one pint anC
not less than one-quarter OF a pint. three
fourths Of one cent per pound; II holding
less than one fourth OF "A pint 80 cents pei
gross, whether filed OF unified. whether
their contents be dutiable or free.
The Senate rate on the above is 40 pc
cent House rate, 30 per cent, Another
change in glass is as follows:
Uni olished cylinder, crown. and cotton
window glass, not exceeding 10 by l.
inches square, | cent per pound; above
that, and not exceeding IL by "a inches
square, Ia cents per pound; above that
and not exceeding - by 80 inches square
~ cents per pound; above that, ana no
exceeding rs by &c inches square. l@s cent
per pound: ali above that, ia cents pc
pound.
Provided, that uni olished cylinder
crown, and window glass, imported il
boxes, shall contain fifty square feet, a
nearly as sizes will permit, and that dut,
shall he mi thereon according I,
the actual weight of the glass.
There is a change of sizes as well as o,
rates, and comparisons cannot be made.
Piate-glass, "a by 36 inches. is taxed q
cents per square foot: Senate and Hous'
bills, 20 cents; all plate-glass above ihes'
dimensions. IS cents per square foot; Sen
ate ana House bil,s. &c cents, Looking
glass plates are added to glasses, Gut!abi
at 10 per cent. I'D valorem. in addition !
other ates char.eable thereon.
Changes in Iron Duties
The pig iron paragraph IS amended t