Daily capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1896-1899, 1897-05-05

Odibusu Tue PROCESS III ItuuluS l.lO Ol
lcent per pound; ia addition thereto,
on all the foregoing, 35 per centun ad
valorum.
Sugar not above l6 Ouch standard
in color, tank bottoms, syrups, cane
juice, melada, concentrated melada,
concrete and concentrated molasses,
testing by pOlariscope not more than
81 degrees, 75 per cent ad yalorem.
Molasses testing above 40 and not
more than So degrees, 4 cents a gal
Ion; testing So degrees and not aboye
10 degrees, cents per gallon.
Machinery purchased abroad, i'm
ported and erected in any beet-suga
factory and actually used in the pro.
duction of sugar in the United States,
from beets produced therein, within
two years from the 1st day of July,
1897, shall be ADMITTED free Of duty
under such regulations as the secre-
tary of the treasury may prescribe.
Maple sugar and maple syrup, cents
a pound; glucose or grape sugar, II
cents per pound; sugar cane in its
natural state or manufactured 10
per cent ad valorem: saccharine, 81 a
pound and 10 per cent ad Yalorem.
Sugar candy and all confectionery
valued at 10 cents per pound or less, 4
cents pound and 10 per cent ad va
loren.
A duty is levied on tea at the rate of
10 cents pound until January l, 1860,
after which it is admitted free of duty.
Following is the provision in regard
to hides transferred from the list:
Hides, cattle, raw or uncured, whether
dry, salted or picked, ! a cent per
pound. Provided upon all leather ex-
ported made from imported hides
there shall be allowed drawback
equal to the amount of duty paid on
such hides.
The president has sent to the sem
ate the following nominations:
Interior-Webster Davis, of Mis-
souri,, to be assistant secretary of the
interior.
War-Lieutenant-Colonel William
H. Forewood, deputy surgeon-general,
to be colonel and assistant surgeon
general
The senate has passed bill to pro-
vide free homes on public lands for
actual and bona fide settlers, known
as the "free homestead bill"; yeas AZ,
nays II.
The senate took up the sundry civil
appropriation bill. When the item
appropriating 50, 333, 1873 for continuing
the improvement of the Mississippi
river was reached, it was amended so
as to make the appropriation immed-
lately available.
The effect of the action of the
finance committee, of the senate, in
throwing out the house provision in
reference to the Hawaiian reciprocity
has been the subject of some COM
ment. One member of the committee
says it is the intention of the COM
mittee to deal with the matter here
after. The effect of the bill, as it
stands, he says will no doubt be to i'm
pose duty on Hawaiian sugar. Some
amendment to regulate this will be
prepared, but just what form it will
take has not been determined.
Consul General McIvor, at Kama
gawr, reports to the state depart
ment that, according to current re-
ports, the japanese government is
about to send a commission to WASH
ington for the purpose of infiuencing'a
reduction of increased import duties,
which, according to the American
papers, it is proposed to levy on silk.
For this reason he regards it as inn
portant for the department to know
that the imperial diet has passed a
bill allowing bonus to exporters of
raw silk.
FLAX SEED.-All farmers who are
/ ,l..4s A,xr 81.