Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1894-05-08
TARIFF SCHEDULES.
Cleaned from the Bill the Sen.
ators Have Compiled.
WHAT HAS BEEN DONE WITH SUGAR

Also with Other of the Products That
Have Delayed Actlon-Figures ON Pig
and Structural Iron, Tin, Cutlery and
Agricultural Products-Solution of the
Problem Of WOolens-DispositiOn Of the
Glass Question-Raise in the Duty on
Carpets Changes.
WASHINGTON, May S.-The changes
made in the tariff bill by the amendments
introduced in the senate as the result of
the Democratic compromise are as follows !:
The new sugar schedule provides that on
and after Jan. /, 1895, there shall be levied,
collected and paid on all sugars not above
No. IS Dutch standard in color and on all
tank bottoms, syrups of cane juice, or of
beet juice, melada, concentrated melada,
concrete and concentrated molasses, a
duty of 10 per centum al valorem, and up
on all sugars above No. 10 Dutch standard
in color there shall be levied, collected
and paid duty Of IS of cent per pound
in addition to the said duty of 40 per
centum ad valorem; and all sugars, tank
bottoms, syrups of cane juice, or of beet
juice, mclada, concentrated meleda, con
crete 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 in
directly, bounty on the expert thereof,
shall pay duty of Ito of ! cent per
pound in addition TO the foregoing rates.
Saves Hawaiian Reciprocity.
Provided, that nothing herein contained
shall be SO construed as TO abrogate or in
any manner impair or affect the provisions
of the treaty of commercial reciprocity con-
cluded between the United States and the
king of the Hawaiian islands, on the 30th
day of January, 1885, or the provisions OF
any act OF congress heretofore passed for
the execution of the same. That on and
after Jan. l, 1885, there shall be levied, col.
lected, and paid on molasses testing forty
degrees or less by the polariscope, and con.
tanning more than 20 per centum of mois.
ture, and on molasses testing above forty
degrees and not above fifty-six degrees
polariscope. duty2 cents per gallon; if
testing above fifty-siX degrees polariscope
duty of cents per gallon.
The Rate Glass Bottles.
Then follows Il lot of changes in drugs,
perfumeries, etc, and tho glass schedule
is reached and portion made to read as
follows: Green or colored, nodded OF
pressed. and flint. and lime glass bottles
holding more than one pint, and dcmi.
johns and carboys, covered or uncovered,
and other nodded and pressed green and
colored and flint or lime glass bottle
not specially provided for in this act, five
eighths of one cent per pound. Green and
colored, nodded or pressed and flint and lime
glass bottles, and walls holding not more
than one pint and not less than enc quart
er of pint, three-fourths of one cent per
pound; if holding less than one-fourth oil
pint, 81 cents per gross, whether filled oil
untitled, whether their contents be dutia.
BILE or free Senate rate on above, ~ per
cent; house rate, 81 per cent.
Window Glass by the Pound.
Another change in glass is As follows:
Unpublished cylinder. crown and common
window glass. not exceeding l0xl5 inches
square, l cent per pound; above that, and
not exceeding l6X!I inches square, II,
cents per pound; above that and not ex
ceeding 2iN30 inches square, is cents pei
pound; above that and not exceeding "a,
rs inches square, ~ cents per pound: a,
above that, ia cents per pound. Provided
that unpublished cylinder, crown and com
mon window glass, imported in boxes
'tihaA 'out'i'iA Icct. us nearly "a
size Will permit, and that duty shall h,
computed thereon according to the aetna
weight of the glass.
Plate glass is raised and 2 cents PEE
square foot.
Pig Iron Taxed 81 Per Ton.
The pig iron paragraph is amended tC
read rs follows: Iron in pigs, iron Kent
ledge, Spiegeleisen, ferromangauese. ferro
silicon, wrought and cast scrap iron anc
scrap steel, 81 per ton; but nothing shall b.
deemed scrap iron or scrap steel exccp,
waste or refuse iron or steel fit only To b,
manufactured.
Beams, girders, joists, angles, channels
car truck channels, T-columns or posts
or parts or sections of columns or posts
deck and bulb beams and building forms
together with all other structural shape.
of iron or Steel, whether plain or punctured
or fitted for use, 06 of n cent per pound
Senate bill! b, house bill 30 per cent. at
valorcm.
Railway bars, made of iron or steel, OF
railway bars made in part OF steel. Trail.
and punched iron or steel fiat rails, O. ID o.
IA cent. per pound. Senate bill, 22ls pe,
cent nd ynlDrem. house hill ~ NOR ,.y,