The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1894-05-11
CHANGES IN TARIFFS.
MANY ALTERATIONS HAVE BEEN
MADE IN THE BILL.
Result of the Compromise Between tho
Democrats In tho senate-Duties Are In
Schedules In the Measure Which
Suit the Majority.
Mutiiate wilson's Measure.


amendments to the tariff bill, which
have beon considered and agreed to by
the Democratic Senator'S, known as the
compromise committee. There arc
over 400 of them, and it makes a new
bill, or me asure greatly Offering
from the Wilson bill and from the SEN
ate bill in any form in which 1t has
been presented. The amendments
heretofore presented by Senator Vest
and reported from the Finance Com
mittee are indo sed by the compromise
| committee. There is general in
crease In the bill, and in some sctei-
| ules the Increases are very marked.
The new sugar schedule provides:
On and after Jan. l. 1895. there shall DO
| levied collected and paid on all sugars
| not above No 16 Dutch standard In color
and on all tank bottoms. sirups OF cane
juice or OF beet juice. melada, concen-
trated melada, concrete and concentrated
| molasse' duty OF 40 er centum ad valo-
| rem, and upon all sugars above No is
Dutch standard In color there shall DO
levied, collected and paid duty OF one
eighth or cent per Found In addition to
the said duty OF 40 per centum ad valorem;
and all sugars, tank bottoms, sirups Of
cane juice or Of beet juice melada, con-
trated molasscs 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, a bounty
On the export thereof shall pay duty OF
one-tenth OF cent per pound In addition TO
the foregoing rates Provided that nothing
herein contained shall be so construed "a
TO abrogate or In any manner impair or
affect the provisions OF the treaty OF COM
mercial reciprocity concluded be- ween the
United States and the king OF the Hawaiian
Islands on Jan. 80. 1873, or the provisions
or any act OF Congress heretofore passed.
for the execution OF the same; that on and
after Jan I, 1898, there shall be levied.
collected and paid on molusses testing 40
degrees or less by the polariscope and con-
taining 20 per centum OF moisture, and on
molasses testing above 40 dc trees and net
above 90 de rees polarlscope, n duty OF 9
| cents PER gallon; IL testing above Sc de-
grees lo'arIscope duty of cents per
| gallon.
Changes In Other Schedules.
Other changes in the bill are:
Tartarlc acid. 20 per cent. ad valorem;
| 10 in Senate. 20 In House bill
Alcoholic perfumery, including Cologne
water and other toilet Wa ers and a!co-
holic compounds not specially provided
| for in this act, GO gallon and so per
centum ad valorem; Senate and House
| bills. % n gallon and % ad valorem
All coal-tar colors or dyes by whatever
name known and not specially provided
| for In this act 20 per cent. Senate and
| House bills. 20.
New paragraphs inserted as follows:
Drugs, such as barks, beans. berries,
| balsams, buds. bulbs, dubious roots, ex-
| crescences. fruits. flowers, dried fbers,
| dried inserts grains, gums and gum resin,
| herbs, leaves. lichens, MOSES. nuts, roo 5
and stems. spices. vegetables. seeds (aro-
| matic) seeds OF morbid growth. weeds and
woods used expresslJ for dyeing which
| are not edible. advanced I'm value or con-
| dition by refining or srindiny or by other
| process OF manufacture, and not specially
| rovided for In this act, 10 per cent ad
| valorem.
In the paragraph relating TO fish the wcrd
| sprepared" Is stricken out and the rate OF
| 20 per cent ad va'orem Is made to apply &
! all fish oils.
EPSON salts are made dutiable a LIS OF
| a cent per pound Other changes are:
| Morphia or morphine salts thereof, so cents
| per ounce Fiaxseed and poppy OIL 20
| 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 Is restored, In
| stead OF the Senate C ,mmittee rate OF p
! per cent
| Glass Schedule Changed.
| A portion of the glass schedule is changed
! so as to read as follows:
Green and colored, nodded or PROSE- ],
and flint and lime glass bottles holdln ,
| more than one pint and demijphns and car
| boys. covered OF uncovered, and other mold
| ed or pre- ;sed green AMI colored and flint
| or lime glass b ,ttleware not specially FRO =
yided for In this act five eighths of l cent
| per pound. Green and colored, nodded or
pressed and flint and limo glass bottles and
| walls holding not more than one pint aud
| not less than one-quartcr OF pint three
| fourths OF one cent per pound; II holding
! less than one fourth OF pint 35 cents per
| gross whether filed or untitled, whether
| their contents be dutiable or free
| The Senate rate on the above is 40 per
cent House rate, 80 per cent Another
| change in glass Is as follows:
Unrolished cylinder, crown. and cot on
| window glass, not exceeding 10 by Is
| inches square, l cent per pound; above
that, and not exceeding 10 by % inches
! square, Ia cents per pound; above that.
| and not exceeding - by 81 inches square,
| ia cents per pound; above that, and not
! exceeding % by 80 inches square. rs cents
| per pound; all above that. Ia cents per
FOUND.
Provided, that Unpublished cylinder
| crown, and window glass, imported In
| boxes shall contain fifty square feet. rs
| nearly as sizes will permit, and that duty
| shall DO committed thereon according TO
the actual weight OF the glass
There IL change OF sizes Us we'll as OF
rates, and comparisons cannot DO made.
Pate-glasS. - by 80 inches, Is taxed %
cents per square foot; Senate and House
| bills. 20 cents; all plate-glass above these
dimensions, 80 cents per square foot; Sem
ate AMI House bills. SO cents Looking
glass plates are added to glasses. dutiable
at II per cent. al valorem. in addition 30
other IA ties charyeable thereon.
Changes In Iron Duties.
The pig-iron paragraph is amended to
read as folloas:
Iron In pigs. iron Kentledge, spiegelel-
sen. fcrromanganese, ferro- silicon, wrought
and cast scrap-ir, and scrap steel. "a per
tom but nothing shall be doomed scrap
iron or scrap steel except waste or refuse
iron or steel nt only to be manufactured.
Beams. girders, joists. angles channels.
car-truck channels, "Tn columns CT posts,
or parts or sections Of columns or posts.
deck and bulb beams and building firms.
together with all other structural shapes
OF ircn or STEEL whether plain or pune
tured or fitted for use, clio OF cent n
pound. Senate bill IS, House bill 80 per
cent
Railway bars. made OF iron or steel. or
railway bars made In part Ct steel. "Tn