Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1894-03-16
MANY CHANGES ARE MADE
The Tariff Bill Submitted 10 The Full
Finance Committee
A LIST OF The IMPORTANT ITEMS
A Tariff on Sugar Of One aud a-Qaarter
Cents-lron Ore, Coal aud Lead Taxed.
A Reduction In WoolsDS Also.

WASHINGTON, March 8.-The tariff bill
has been submitted to the full finance
committee. The more important items
are as follows:
Sugar not above so degrees polsriscope
test one cent pound; for every addi
tional degree or fraction not above 80 de.
Rrees, one one-hundredth of a cent ad
ditional above 90 and not above SO, two
one-hundredths per degree above So de.
grees one and a-quarter cents per pound
Molasses testing not above Sc degrees
by polarscopa, two cents per gallon
above 81 degrees, four cents.
Whisky, one dollar and ten cents per
gallon, and the bonded period extended
from three to eight years.
Iron ore. 40 cents per ton.
Lead ore, three quarters OF cent per
pound, including lead mixed with silver
ore.
Coal, bitumipous and shale, 40 cents
per ton coal, slack or culm, 10 cents per
ton.
Coke, l5 per cent ad valoIem.
Iron ore, 40 cents per ton ; this was free
under the Wilson bill.
Pig iron. spiegeleisen, etc, 22l5 per
cent In the Wilson bill this was 20 per
cent.
Iron slabs, blooms and other forms
more advanced than pig and less finished
than bars, 25 per cent; Wilson bill 22ls
Bar or round iron, % per cent; Wilson
bill %.
Beams, Orders, joists, etc, 50 per
cent; Wilson bill 80.
Plate steel, except saw plates, not
thinner than No. 10 wire gauge, 80 per
cent; Wilson bill 20.
Iron or steel forgings, 80 per cent !;
Wilson bill %.
Hoop, band or scroll iron or steel, 30
per cent; Wilson bill %.
Iron or steel railway bare, 22ie per
cent; Wilson bill 20.
The wooden schedule SHOWS few
changes. These are about Ave per
cent reduction.
Collars and cuffs are increased
from 80 to As per cent. There is no
change in cotton, lumber or lead products
schedules.
The date for going into effect of the bill
is changed from June to June 10, and
duty ia levied on articles imported OF
withdrawn from consumption.
In the internal revenue section there lie
new provision directing the president
to Immediately notify the Hawaiian gov
eminent that the United states will
terminate in twelve months the treaty
with Hawaii made in 1875.
There is no change in the imported
tobacco schedule.
The paragraph providing for the reduc-
ton OF iron or steel sheets thinner than
No. rs wire guage, and to take effect
October /, ia stricken out; also like
proviso as to tin plates.
Terne plates and taegers' tin, boiler or
other Tubes and pipe f1ues, 20 per cent !;
Wilson bill 20. The same figures are
make on cast-iron pipe.
Shears and scissors, As per cent.
Wood screws, 80 per cent Wilson bill
50.
Lead ore, three fourths of cent per
pound, including lead in silver ore.
Pens. except gold, 30; Wilson bill 35.
Miscellaneous metal articles, not other
wise provided for, 30 per cent; Wilson
bill %.
The internal revenue section makes
many verbal. but few essential changes
in the income tax 1t makes tax of
2 cents pack on playing cards, similar
to the Wilson bill. 1t taxes all tobacco,
cigars and cigarettes weighing over three
pounds per thousand 5 cents per thou
sand; paper cigarettes less than three
thousand l cent; those Nrappeo in
tobacco so cents.
The provision in the Wilson bill for an
annual reduction in the duties in the
WOODEN schedule is stricken out. Bur
laps Is per cent; grain bags of burlsp,
Pm Wilson bill 20.
Nets, webs and seines 80 per cent
Wilson bill 80.
The income tax section retains the
rate of two per cent on incomes over four
thousand dollars, as in the Wilson bill,
but broadens the classes OF income by
adding the words, "from any source
= hatever," the tax to apply to "every
citizen OF the United States and every
% rson residing therein"