The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1894-03-17
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.

committee is as follows:
Sugar, not above so degrees polari-
scope test, cent per pound; for every
additional degree or fraction, not above
90 degrees, Tooth of cent additional;
above 90 and not above 90, 20Oths per
degree; above 90 degrees, "a cents per
pound. Molasses, testing not above Sc
degrees by polariscope, 2 cents per gal
Ion; above 81 degrees, 5 cents.
Whisky, Sl.1o 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 pa
to'5 per cent on the products of iron
over the house schedule.
Lead ore ID of cent per pound, in
Guiding 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
burlaps, 2215.
No change in the imported tobacco
schedule is made.
But few essential changes in the in
come tax portion of the bill is made.
The income tax retains rate of 2 per
cent on incomes over $4,000.
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 taxing the salaries of employees of
corporations, the house bill makes it
the duty of the corporation TO pay the
tax of each employee and then deduct it
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 S1.s0 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 shall
be assessed on bottles or jugs; other
wise than in bottles or jugs, 10 cents
per gallon. The Wilson bill is Is per
cent.
More changes are made from the
Wilson bill in the next schedule than in
any other. They are in part as follows
Coloring for wine, brandy or other
liquors reduced from so TO 80 per cent.
Olive oil, changed from 35 cents per
gallon to So per cent. Barley, 80 per
cent, Wilson bill 35. Butter and sub
stitutes therefor, 20 per cent, Wilson
bill, 4 cents per pound. Hay, 20 per
cent ad valorem, Wilson bill 20 cents
per ton. Honey, 20 per cent ad valorem,
Wilson bill 10 cents per gallon. Hops,
20 per cent ad valorem, s cents per
pound in the Wilson bill. Fish, smoked,
dried sailed, picked, Is per cent, Will
son bill q of cent per pound. Apples,
green or ripe, dried, dessicated, evap-
Grated or prepared in any manner, 20
per cent, Wilson bill free. Bananas, 20