Morning journal and courier., 1894-03-21
THE REVISED TARIFF BILL.

THE REVISED TARIFF BILL.
 Reported to the Senate From Com-
 mittee-To be Called Up on April | -Rectprocity Repealed.
 WASHINGTON, March 20.-The democrat.
 io members of the finance committes this
 morning submitted the tariff bill In Its re.
 vised and completed form to the full oom-
 mittse, republicans and dsmocrats, and
 when the senate met, Mr. Voorhees,, chair
 man of the committee, reported the bill, giving notics that it would be called up on April 9.
 Mir. Morrill,, one of the republican mem
 bsrs of the finance committee, said he had
 no objection to the bill's being reported to
 the senate, but he was opposed not only
 to the income tsI, but also to the change from specific to sd valorem duties.
 The most important change made by the
 bill Is in the sugar schedule, by which sn
 additional duty of of 1 per cent. per
 pound is given on all sugars testing above
 eS degrees by the polariscope or which are
 above No. 18 Dutch standard In color.
 The provisions abrogatins the Hawaiian
 reciprocity treaty are struck from the re-
 vised bill and specific declaration is in-
 serted repeating the reciprocity treatise
 negotiated under the Mckinley act.
 The lead and lead ore duties are left un- changed from the senate subcommittee rates, ss are the iron ore and coal duties-
 Oat meal has duty of 15 per cent. ad valorem, instead of 20 Der cent, the VII son bill rate; castor beans are restored to the Wilson rate of % cents per bushel.
 The following paragraph In the Wilson bill is struck out entirely:
 Cans or packages, made of tin or other metal, containing rhellhsh, admitted free of duty, not exceeding one quart in con- tents. shall be subject to duty of eight cents per dozen cans or packages, ! and when exceeding one quart, shall be subject to an additional duty of four cents per dozsn for each additional half quart or fractional part thereof.
 The whiskey schedule remains as pre- viously agreed upon by the finance com mittee, the tax being q. 10 and the bonded period eight years.
 The provision in the Income tax amend ment relating to c tax on building and by the house and stricken out when the senate sub committee reported the bill, has been restored, with the provlso that the tax shall not be levied upon those in- stitutions which make no loans except to shareholders for the purpose of enabling them to build homes.
 The following, which was not In either l the house bill or the bill as framed by the | senate subcommittee, is inserted:
 Every person whose business 1t Is to | manufacture tobacco or snuff for himsslf, or who employs others to manufacture to- | bscco or snuff, whether such manufacture | be by cutting, pressing, grinding, crushing | or rubbing of any raw or leaf tobacco, or | preparing raw or leaf tobacco, or manufactured or partly manufactured | or snuff, or the putting up for use | or consumption of scrsps, waste, clippings, | stems or deposits of tobacco resulting from | any process of handling tobacco, or by the working or preparation of leaf tobacco, to- bacco stems, scraps. clippings or wsste, by sitting, twisting, screening or any other process, shall be regarded as e manufsct- ursr of tobacco.
 Every person shall also be regarded as a of tobacco whose business 1t Is to sell leaf tobacco in quantities less than the original hogshesd. case or bale; or | who cells directly to consumers, or to psr- sons other than duly registered dealers in leaf tobacco, or to duly registered deslers la manufactured tobacco, snuff or cigars. or to persons who purchase in original packages for export; and all tobacco so cold by such person shall be regarded as msnu fsctured tobacco, and such manufactured tobacco shall be put up and prepared by | such manufactures In such packages only | as the commissioner of internal revenue, with the approval of the secretary of the | shall prescribe; providing that farmers and growers of tobacco who sell Il leaf tobacco of their own growth and rsis- | Ing shall not be regarded as manufacturers of tobacco; and SO much of section 3244 of the revised statutes of the United States and acts amendstory thereof ss are in con- aict with this act are hereby repealed.
 The language of the clause repeating the Mckinley act has been modified to con- siderable extent. The house bill provides for the repeal of Call acts or parts of acts herewith" The senate cub committee bill when first reported struck bill by title and repealed 1t outright ss we'll | ss all acts inconsistent with the present bill. The bill reported to-day provides specifically for the repeal of section 8 of the Mckinley act, the reciprocity section, and inserts the following sbregating the | treaties made under this section:
 All agreements or arrangements made or | proclaimed between the United States and | foreign governments under the provisions | of said section are hereby abrogated, of | which the president shall give notice to the | authorities of said foreign governments as may be required by che terms of such agree ments or arrangements.
 Sections 15 and 16 of the Mckinley law | are repealed specifically.
 These sections provide that the produce | of the forests upon the St. John and St. | Croix rivers In Maine and their tributaries | may be resdmftted free of duty