Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1894-03-08
NATIONAL NEWS.
phe Wilson Bill at Last Before the
Full Committee-Changes the
sugar, Wool and Lead
schedules.

washington, March line DehocIatlc
members of the senate finance committee
laid before the full committee to-day at
II o'clock the Wilson bill as they amend
ed IL. Previous to the meeting Of the
committee Secretary Carlisle was in the
room of the committee on finance and
cons ulted with the members of the COM
mittee. The following are some of the
changes made by the Democratic mem
bers Of the committee in the house bill:
Gold and silver leaf 30 per cent, Wilson
bill 35 per cent; lead ore and lead dross,
q of one cent per pound; provided that
silver ore and all other ores containing
lead shall pay duty of a of cent per
pound on the lead contained therein, ac-
|cordiAg to sample and assay at the port
of entry; pens, metallic, except gold pens,
30 per cent ad valorem; the Wilson bill
charged .35 per cent; manufactured arti
cles, or wares, not specially provided for
in this act, composed wholly or in part
of any metal, and whether partially or
wholly manufactured, 80 per cent ad val
olrem, the Wilson bill charged 35 per cent.
SUGAR AND WOOL.
The other more important items of
the tariff bill presented to the full COM
mittee are as follows: Sugar, not above
80 degrees, polariscope test, ] cent per
pound; for every additional degree or frac-
tion thereof not above 80 degrees,
1-15 of a cent; above so and not above
SO degrees, 2 1-15 of cent per degree,
and above 96 degrees the duty shall be
/ 4-10 of hundred weight per pound.
Molasses testing not above 56 degrees by
polariscope, shall pay duty of cents a
gallon. Molasses testing above Sc de-
grees, shall pay duty of cents per gal
Ion. Whisky is taxed at $1.10 per gallon,
ard the bonded period extended from
three to eight years. Iron ore is taxed 40
cents per ton, lead ore u cents per pound,
including lead mixed with silver ores.
Coal, bituminous or shale, 40 cents per
ton, coal or slack, Is cents per ton, coke
Is per cent advalorem.
OTHER CHANGES.
In the internal revenue section is a
new provision directing the president to
Immediately notify the Hawaiian govern
ment that the United States will termi-
nate in twelve months the treaty with
Hawaii made in 1875. No change was
made in the rates fxcdS by the Wilson
bill on imported lots of sugar.
The wool and manufactures of wool,
paragraph 279, on wool of sheep, hair of
camel, goat, alpaca and other like ami
mails in the Wilson bill is changed so as
to make only one rate of % per cent ad-
valorem. like change is made in the
paragraph relating to wooden and worstea
yarns, made wholly or in part Of wool or
worsted, hair of the camel, goat, alpaca,
or other animals and the whole put at 30
per cent advalorem.
THE INCOME TAX.
The internal revenue section of the
bill covers the income tax with many
verbal but few essential changes and
makes tax of cents on every pack of
playing cards, similar to the provisions
in the Wilson bill. tax is put on all
tobacco, cigars and cigarettes, weighing
over three pounds per thousand, of $5
per 1000. Paper cigarettes weighing
less than three pounds per 1000 pay 81
per 1000 ard those wrapped in tobacco
so cents per 1000.
A ROW IN CAMP.
One of the United States senators from
New York, who insisted that his name be
not used in connection with the matter,
has stated that the angry words of Senator
Voorhees, in the Democratic caucus few
days ago, when he accused certain Demo
cratic senators with having formed COM
bination to defeat the Wilson bill, was
literally true.
"You may assert he said, "that it is a
fact that ten Democratic United States
senators have signed an agreement to op-
pose the Wilson bin so long as one of the
ten is dissatisfied with the provisions OF
the bill, or till changed to the satisfaction
of all ten"
The senator from whom this lnforma.
tion comes is one of the ten signers Of
the agreement. It need hardly be stated
that such condition of affairs In the sen
ate would mean almost certain defeat oi
the bill, unless coal, iron, sugar, wool
collars and cuffs and number of other
items of the bill over which lively con.
test was waged in the house, are restored
to protective tariff basis.