The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1897-06-11
THE COMMITTEE
agrees To u Number of Amend ments in
Agriculture Seized uie.

WASHINGTON, June 10--Tbe senate
committee on finance has agreed upon
number of additional amendments
to the agricultural schedule, the most
important of them relating to fish as
follows:
A new paragraph on canned fish is
to be recommended as follows: ''225-
fish known or labeled as anchovies.
sardines, sprats, Brislings, sardels or
sardellen, packed in oil or otherwise
IN bottles, jars, tin boxes or cans shall
be dutiable as follows: Containing
~ cubic inches or less, ~ cents per
bottle, jar, box or can; containing
more than ~ and not more than
FL cubic inches, ~ cents sper
bottle, jar, box or can; contain
ing more than 81 and not more than 33
cubic inches, cents per bottle, jar,
box or can; containing more than
33 and not more than 20 cubic inches,
10 cents per bottle, jar, box or can, if
In other packages 40 per centum ad va
loren. All other fish, except shell
| fish, in tin packages 80 per centum ad
valorem; fish in packages containing
less than one-half barrel and not spe-
| cially provided for in this act, 80 per
cent ad valorem."
l. The rate on picked or sal ted her.
ring is increased from one-half to
three-quarters of cent per pound,
and on fresh herring from one-quarter
| to one-half cent
The following substitute is made for
paragraph 25S:
| Fish, fresh, smoked, dried, sailed,
! picked, frozen, packed on ice or 9TH
erwise prepared for preservation not
| specially provided for in this act, three
quarters of cent per pound; fish
| skin.,ed or boned one and one-quarter
cents Per pound; mackerel, halibut or
salmon, picked or sailed, one cent
per pound
A new paragraph on chocolate was
| agreed to as follows:
Chocolate and cocoa, prepared or
manufactured, not specially provided
| for, valued at not over Is cents per
pound, pa cents per pound; valued
| above Is cents and not above "a cents
21s cents per pound, and 10 per cent
ad valorm; valued above "a and not
! above 35 cents per pound, cents per
pound and 10 per cent ad valorem;
! valued above 35 cents, so per cent ad
| valorem, the weight and value Of all
| coverings other than plain wooden
shall be included in the dutia BILE
weight and value of the foregoing
merchandise. Powdered cocoa, I'M
sweetened, cents per pound"
The paragraph relating to extracts
OF meat was amended SO as to provide
that the dutiable weight of this ar
ticle should not include the weight
of the package in which it is imported.
The house rate Of one cent per pound
on edible berries which the committee
originally struck out is restored and
Gran berries are specifically added at 20
per cent. ad valorem.
The rate on chicory root was fixed
at ~ cents per pound, the house rate
being cents and the original finance
committee rate 2 cents.
WASHINGTON, June 1O.--In the APP
pointment of John G. A. Leishman, of
| Pennsylvania, Wednesday, to be min
ister to Switzerland, the president has
turned down Brutus j. Clay, of Ken
lucky
| WASHINGTON, June 10.-The special
train conveying President Mckinley
and his party left Washington for
Nashville at noon Wednesday over the
Chesapeake 81 Ohio railroad. The pri-
vate car of President NJ. E. Ingalls,, in
which Mr.. Mckinley and his imme-
| date party travelled was fragrant
with gigantic pots of roses and other
| flowers. There were also flowers in
the car occupied by the cabinet and
the invited guests. The train was in
charge of W. II. Gregor, agent of the
passenger department of the road
| The party consists of President and
Mrs. Mckinley, Secretary and Mrs.
| Porter, DR.. and Mrs. Bates and Mrs.
Saxton, Secretary Sherman and daugh-
| ter, Mrs. McCallum, Secretary and
Mrs. Alger and Miss Frances Alger,
Postmaster General and Mrs. Gary and
the Misses Gary, Secretary Wilson and
| Miss Wilson, Commissioner of Pensions
Evans, Gen. Grosvenor, Joseph P.
Smith and Mrs. Smith and about %
newspaper men.
Tariff Commission League.
WASHINGTON, June 10-The tariff
commission league has opened head
quarters in this city. Samuel B. Arch
err, secretary and treasurer of the
league, will be in charge. The object
of the association is to secure the pas
sage of bill for the appointment of a
tariff commission whose duties will be
to suggest to congress changes in rates
of duty and thus take the tariff ques-
ton out OF politics.
The New Minister to Hayti.
WASHINGTON, June 10.-Wm. f. Pow
ell, of New Jersey, who was Wednes-
day named as minister to Hayti, is q
! colored man who lives in Southern
| New Jersey. He was urged for the