San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1894-03-08
Important Items of Tariff Bill.

1mpOrtdut Items OF Iarfu blll.
WASHINGTON, ID. c., March s.
The tariff bill has been submitted
to the Finance committee.
The more important items Of the
tariff bill just presented to the
full committee, are as follows:
Sugar not above so degrees pol
ariscope test, - per pound; for
every additional degree or frac-
tion not above 80 degrees, | LOO;
additional above COS not above
SO, 2-lO0 per degree and above SO
degrees, duty of Ia cents per
pound.
Molasses, testing not above 81
degrees, by polariscope, shall pay
duty of 2 cents per gallon; testing
above So degrees, shall pay duty of
1 cents per gallon.
Whisky at $l.10 per gallon and
the bonded period extended from
three to eight years.
Iron ore, 40 cents per ton.
Lead ore, IL per pound, including
lead mixed with silver ores.
Coal bituminOus and shale, 40
cents per ton; coal or slack or culm,
Is cents per ton; coke, II per cent.
ad valorem.
The metal schedule of iron ore,
including margariferous iron ore
also dress or residium, from a
burnt pyrots, 40 cents per ton.
Wilson bill free iron, in pig iron,
Kentledge Spiegel, eisen ferrO,
silicon, 22@ per cent ad
valorem; Wilson bill 20 per cent.
All iron in slabs, blooms, loops or
other forms is more advanced than
pig iron and less finished than iron
in bars, % per cent. ad valorem ;
Wilson bill 22I per cent. Bar
iron, rolled or hammered,
round iron, in coils or
rods and bars, or the shapes of
rolled iron, 90 per cent ad valorem :;
Wilson bill, % per cent.
Beams, girders, jOists and all
other shapes Of iron or steel,
whether plain or punched or fitted
for use, 30 per cent advalOrem !;
Wilson bill 80 per cent; boiler or
other plate iron or steel, except saw
plates hereinafter provided for, not
thinner than No. 10 wire guage,
sheared or unsheared, and skelp
iron or steel, sheared or rolled on
groves, 30 per cent. ad ValO-
rem; Wilson bill, 90 per
cent. Forgings of iron or
steel or forged iron or steel COM
binings, 30 per cent advolOrem !;
Wilson bill Is per cent. Roll iron
or steel, 80 per cent advOlem Will
son bill % per ceut. Railway bars
made of iron or steel and railway
bars made in part of steel "T"
rails and punched iron or steel,
fiat rails 22f per cent advolOrem !;
Wilson bill 20 per cent. Lead pro-
ducts remain as in the Wilson
bill.
No change is made in the rates
fixed by the Wilson bill on i'm
ported tobacco.
The wooden schedule shows few
changes. These are about 3 per cent
reductions. No change in cotton
schedules. The collars and cuffs
increased from 80 to A. per cent ad
vaiorem.
The date for the going into effect
of the tariff bill is changed from
June to June 30, and a duty is
levied on articles imported or with
drawn for consumption.
There is no change in lumber.
The internal revenue section
of the bill covers the income tax
with many verbal, but few essen
tial changes, making tax Of two
cents on every pack of playing
cards, similar to the provisions
in the Wilson bill tax, on all
tobacco, cigars and cigarettes,
weighing over 30 pounds per thou
sand, of S. per thousand. Paper
cigarettes, weighing less than 30
pounds per thousand, pay 81 per
thousand, and those wrapped in
+obooco tiftXr pnntS nor tbOuSoDH