The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1894-03-08

| creased from ~ TO 4O per cent; cut glass,
| increased from IS to 40 per cent: glass bot
| ties. increased from IS to 40 per cent.
STRICKEN FROM FREE LIST.
Articles stricken from free list are as fol-
lows
Apples, green, ripe and dried etc.
| Beef, mutton and pork.
Bone char, suitable for use in decolorizing
sugars.
Bituminous and chale, and coal slack or
| culm.
Coke.
Cocoa fiber, floor mating manufactured
from round or split straw, including Chinese
| mating
Dates, cocoanuts, Brazil nuts, cream nuts.
Gambler.
Cuts, salted.
| Horn strips and tips.
Iron ore.
| Olives, green or prepared.
| Orchids, lily of the valley, azaleas, palms
and other plants used for forcing under
glass for cut flowers or decorative purposes.
! Sausage skins.
| Sugars.
| Stained or painted window glass or paint
| ed glass windows.
| In tine paragraph referring to paintings
| and statuary, articles imported for exhlb1-
| tion by any association authorized by the
| United States or any State.
ADDED TO FREE LIST.
l Inc aQQ1UlOQS TO UQo Ire6 llSU are dS 1Ol-
| lowS:-
| Any cattle, horses, sheep, or other domes-
| tic animals which have strayed across the
| border to any foreign country, or where
such domestic animals have oeen or may be
driven across such domestic animals have
| been or may be driven across such boundary
| by the owner for pasturage purpose, the
same may be brought back to the United
| States free of duty, under treasury regula-
| tions.
| The paragraph pertaining to straws, ETC..
| for hats is changed to read as follows:-
or rattan, in the form of braids, plaits,
laces, suitable for making or ornament
| ing hats, bonnets and hoods; also
when imported for trimming mems and
| boys hats only, hat bands not exceed
| ing two and one-half inches in width, and
when cut in lengths not exceeding thirty
seven inches; that bindings not exceeding one
| and one-quarter inches in width and when
cut in lengths not exceeding fifty-four inches;
and hat Innings composed in whole OF in part
of silk, satin or cotton, when cut in pieces not
exceeding twelve by sixteen inches, or five
| by thirty inches.
| Other items added are:-Diamonds and
other precious stones, rough or uncut, in
cluding miners diamonds; cod liver oil, not
specifically provided for in the act; medals
bestowed and accepted as honorary distinc-
| tions. To the paragraph which admits free
''spermaceti, whale and other fish oils
of American fisheries" the committee
adds, ''all fish and other products"
of such fisheries. To the paragraph
dealing with paintings, the word painting"
| is defined as follows: "And the word paint
( ing as used in this act shall not be under
stood to include such as are made wholly or
| in part by stenciling or other mechanical
process"
In defining professional books tools of
trade, etc., admitted free, the Senate adds
/ L. 81 n1x 4l4k Il
admitted free under this head shall
not be constructed to include the
| atrical scenery, properties and apparel,
but such articles brought by proprietors or
managers of theatrical exhibitions arriving
| from abroad, for temporary use by them in
| such exhibitions and not for any other per-
son and not for sale, shall be admitted free
| of duty under such regulations as the Secre-
| tary of the Treasury may prescribe.
| The free admission of raw silk is specifically
| stated to not apply to doubled, twisted nor
| advanced in manufacture in any way.
/ To philosophical and scientific apparatus is
| added utensils, including bottles and boxes
| containing instruments and preparations,
| stained or painted window glass or
stained or painted glass windows spec
tally imported for the use of
| any society or institution established for re-
| ligious, philosophical, educational scientific
or literary purposes and not intended for
sale, are added to the free list.
Plows and other agricultural implements,
| which the House bill made free, have a pro-
vision that all the articles mentioned, when
imported from any country which lays an
import duty on like articles coming from
the United States, shall be subject to duties
under existing law.
| own production in the criminal packages
| with tax paid stamps attached are exempted
wholesale liquor dealer The remaining
provisions relate to detail, convictions and
punishments for violations of the law.
TAX ON wHIsKEY.
Whiskey-Sections SO, S3 and 81 of the
House bill relating to the whiskey tax are
stricken out altogether and new pro-
| visions inserted. On the first day of
the second month after the passage
of the act there shall be collected
on all distilled spirits in bond at that time,
or that may be then or thereafter produced
in the United States on which the tax is not
paid before that day, 81 10 a proof gallon or
WINE gallon when below proof;
fractional parts of gallons less than one
tenth shall not be counted. Until new stamps
can be made, the present issue is authorized
to be used. The bonded period section is as
follows:
That the tax herein imposed shall be paid
i by the distiller of the spirits, on or before
their removal from the distillery or place of
| storage, except in case the re-
moyal therefrom without payment
of tax is authorized by
law; and upon spirits lawfully deposited in
any distillery warehouse, or other bonded
revenue lawe) within eight years from
the date of the original entry for de-
posit in any distillery warehouse, or
from the date of the original gauge of fruit
brandy deposited in the special bonded ware
! house, except in case of withdrawal there
f,.or,, without ma V1rlart of fay authorized
by law.
Warehousing and transportation bonds
are required as under the present law,
conditioned, for the payment of taxes
at the new rate and before removal from
warehouse, and within eight years.
Provision is made for collecting the
Il when any failure or refusal to give ware
i house bonds on original entry occurs. Dis
tillers are permitted, prior to the expiration
j of four years from the date of original