The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1894-05-08
HERE THEY ARE.
Over Four Hundred Changes in
Tariff Bill,
As the Result of Democratic
Compromise.
NEW SUGAR SCHEDULE.
An Entirely New Rate On That
Article.

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changes made in the tariff bill by the
amendments introduced in the senate,
as the result of the Democratic COM
promise, are as follows:
The Sugar Schedule.
The new sugar schedule provides:
On and after January l, 1895, there
shall be levied, collected and paid on
all sugars, not above No. 16, Dutch
standard, in color, and on all tank
bottoms, syrups of cane juice, or of
beet juice, melada, conee n trated
melada, concrete and conce ntrated
molasses, a duty of 40 per cent ad va
loren; and upon all sugars above No
16, Dutch standard, in color, there
shall be levied, collected and paid a
duty of one-eighth of 1 per cent per
pound in addition to the said duty of 40
per cent ad valOrem. and all sugars,
tank bottoms, syrups of cane juice or
of beet Juice. melada, concentrated
melada, concrete or concentrated
molasses, which are imported from or
are the product of any country which
at the time the same are exported
therefrOm pays directly or Indirectly
a bounty on the export thereof shall
pay duty of one tenth of a cent per
pound in addition to the foregoing
rates Provided, that nothing herein
contained shall be so construed as to
abrOgate in anv manner impair or
affect the provisions of the treaty of
commerce al rec procity concluded be-
tween the United States and the king
of the Hawaiian islands on June 80,
1875, or the provisions of any act of
congress heretofore passed for the
execution of the same
On and after June /, 1895, there
shall be levied, collected and paid on
molasses testing forty degrees or less
by the polariscope, and containing
more than 20 per cent Of moisture, and
on molasses testing above forty de-
grees and not above fifty-six degrees
pOlariscOpe, a duty of cents per gal
lon; if testing above ffty-six degrees
polariscope, a duty OF cents per gal
lon.
Tartaric acid, 20 per cent ad val
orem, 10 in the senate, 20 in the house
bill.
Alcoholic perfumery including
cologne water and other toilet waters
and alcoholic compounds not specially
provided for in this act, 81 per gallon
and SO per cent ad valorem; senate
and house bills 81 per gallon and 25
ad va1Orem-
All coal-tar colors or dies, by what
ever name known, and not specially
provided for in this act, IS per cent
ad valOrem: senate and house bills 20.
New Paragraphs inserted.
New paragraphs are inserted as fol-
lows: Drugs, such as barks, beans,
berries, ba1sams, buds, bulbs, dubious
roots, excresences, fruits. flowers,
dried fibres, dried insects, grains,
gums and gum resin, herbs, leaves
1ichens, moss, nuts roots and stems,
spices, vegeta bles, seeds aromatic,
seeds of morbid growth, weeds and
woods used expressly for dyeing which
are not edible, advanced in value or
in condition by refining or grinding,
or W of
and not specially provided for in this
act, 10 per cent ad valorem- In the
paragraph relating to fish the word
''prepared'' is stricken out and the
rate of 2s per cent ad valorem is made
to apply to all fish oils.
A number of changes are made in
the glass schedule. raising the duty
over the Wilson bill about 10 per cent.
The Iron Schedule.
The pig iron schedule is amended
to read as follows: Iron in pigs, iron
kentledge, spiegleisen, ferromanga-
nese, ferrosilicon, wrought and cast
scrap iron and scrap steel, 81 per ton,
but nothing shall be deemed scrap
iron or scrap steel except waste or re-
fuse iron or steel, fit only to be man
ufactured. Beams, girders, joists,
angles, channels, car channels, rs,
columns, or posts, or parts or sections
Of columns or posts, deck and bulb
beams and building forms, together
with all other structural shapes of
iron or steel, whether plain or pune
tured or fitted for use, six-tenths of a
cent per pound; senate bill IS, house
bill, 30 per cent
Railway bars, made of iron or STEEL
or railway bars, made in part of steel,
T rails, and punched iron or steel fat
rails, seven twentieths of a cent per
pound; senate bill, 22M per cent ad
valorem: house bill, 20 per cent
Tin plate, 1 is cents per pound, re-
storing the house rate; senate bill, 1
per cent. A number of slight changes
are made in the cutlery schedule,
from ad valorem to specific duties
Tobacco Schedule Changed.
The tobacco schedule is changed to
read as follows: Wrapper tobacco,
unstemmed, imported IN any bale,
box or package, or in bulk 81. so per
pound; if stemmed, So. 25 per pound;
house and senate bills, 81 and S1.25
respectively on above articles. Filler
tobacco, unstemmed, imported in any
bale, box or package or in bulk, IS
cents per pound; if stemmed, SO cents
pound; no change in rates.
Snuff and snuff flour manufactured
of tobacco, ground dry, or damp and
picked, scented or otherwise of all
descriptions, so cents per pound; SEN
ate and house bills, 40 cents" per
The cigar paragraph is amended to
read as follows: Cigars, cigare ties,
cheroots of all kind 81 per pound and
IS per cent ad valOrem; and paper CT
CARS and cigaret ties, including wrap