The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1894-03-15
List of Notifications Submitted to
the Full Committee.
SUGAR ONE CENT A POUND
The Wool Schedule shows Few Changes
While Lead Ore and Lead Mixed
With Silver Is Reduced.

30 degrees, Tooth of a cent additional;
above 90 and not above 90, 2O0ths per
degree; above SO degrees, a cents per
pound. Molasses, testing not above Sc
degrees by polariscope, 2 cents per gal
Ion; above 81 degrees, s cents.
Whisky, Sl.10 per gallon, and the
bonded period extended from three to
eight years.
Iron ore, 40 cents per ton, free under
the Wilson bill, and an advance of ~
to per cent on the products of iron
over the house schedule.
Lead ore u of a cent per pound, in
cluding lead mixed with silver ore.
Coal, bituminous and shale, 40 cents per
ton; coal, slack or culm, Is cents per
ton. Coke, Is per cent advalorem.
The wooden schedule shows few
changes. These are about per cent
reduction.
Burlaps, 16 per cent; grain bags of
barlaps, 2219
No change in the imported tobacco
SCUeuulc Is IHdue.
But few essential changes In the In
come tax portion Of the bill is made.
The income tax retains a rate of 2 per
cent on incomes over 81 900.
The senate bill makes the collectors
of internal revenue the officers in
charge of collection of income taxes,
instead of deputy collectors, as provided
in the Wilson bill. The right of appeal
against the imposition of unjust taxes
is retained, but the final decision rests
with the commissioners of internal rev.
enue, and not with the secretary of the
treasury, as provided in the house bill.
The following exceptions to the tax are
inserted: Provided that dividends or
interest accruing to states, counties or
municipalities, and dividends, interest
or annuities, accruing to corporations
or associations organized and conducted
solely for charitable, religious or educa-
tional purposes. or to any trustee or
other judiciary, on stocks, shares, funds
or securities held solely for charitable,
religious or educational purposes, or
salaries due state, county or municipal
officers, shall not be subject to such
tax or deduction
In ia king the salaries of employees of
corporations, the house bill makes it
the duty of the corporation to pay the
tax of each emploYe and then deduct 1t
from his salary. The senate bill re-
lieves corporations from becoming tax
payers for employees and compels the
latter to make direct payments to the
collector. The time when the income
tax is made operative is changed from
the first day of March to the first Mon
day. The section making it perjury to
falsify any proceeding under the income
tax is stricken out.
/ The Wilson bill is amended also as
follows: Upon all compounds or prep
arations containing alcohol there shall
be levied duty at the rate of 81 80 per
proof gallon upon distilled spirits con-
tanned therein in addition to the duty
provided by law upon other ingredients
contained in such compounds or prep
arations. Ale, porter or beer in bottles
or Jugs, is taxed 30 cents per gallon
but no separate or additional duty shai
be assessed on bottles or jugs; other
wise than in bottles or jugs, 10 cents
per gallon. The Wilson bill is Is pei
cent.
More changes are made from the
Wilson bill in the next schedule than II
any other. They are in part as follows
Colorlng for wine, brandy or othe
liquors reduced FRI m so 10 80 per cent
Olive oil, changed from 35 cents pc
gallon TO SIS per cent. Barley, 30 pc
cent, Wilson bill 35 Butter and sub
stitutes therefor, 20 per cent, Wilson
bill, cents per pound. Hay, 20 pc
cent ad valorem, Wilson bill 20 cent
per ton. Honey, 20 per cent ad valorem
Wilson bill 10 cents per gallon. Hops
20 per cent ad valorem, s cents pc
pound in the Wilson bill. Fish, smoked
dried salted, picked, Is per cent, Wi
son bill q of a cent per pound. Apples
green or ripe, dried, dessicated, evaI
grated or prepared in any manner, 2
per cent, Wilson bill free. Bananas, 2
per cent, not in the Wilson bill. Pla,
ing cards, 2 cents per pack, Wilso
bill 10 cents. Currants, 20 per cen
Wilson bill 10. Dates, 10 per cen
Wilson bill free. Olives, green c
prepared, 20 per cent. Wi
son bill free. Pineapples, 20 pc
A cent, not in the Wilson bill. Plum
i prunes, figs, raisins and other drie
. grapes, including Zlnte currents, 80 pt
9 cent. Silk, partially manufactured an
!. not further advanced than carded {
combed silk, 20 per cent; thrown sill
not more advanced than singles, ira
# or ganzine, sewing silk, twist, floss al
d silk threads or yarn of every desert
h tIon, SWIM silk in skeins, cops, warps
d on beams, 35 per cent.
e Furs, dressed on skin, but not ma
up into articles, 90 per cent.