Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1897-07-29

compromises between the rates OF the two
houses.
Phosphorus was compromised at IS cents
per pound.
The house rate on sulphur was restored
The senate made an amendment TO the sui
phur paragraph allowing crude brim stone
TO come in at so cents per ton, but the con-
ference struck this out, including this ar
ticle in the IS rate, as originally fixed by
the house.
Paper.
On mechanically ground wood pulp the
house rate of one-twelfth of one cent per
pound, dry weight, was restored.
TIE paragraph in regard TO printing pa
per was entirely rewritten. AS amended
it IS as follows:
Printing paper, unsized, sized, or glued
suitable for books and newspapers, valued
at not above two cents per pound, three
tenths of a cent per pound; valued above
two cents and not above two and a half
cents per pound, four-tenthS OF one cent
per pound; valued between two and a half
and three cents per pound, five-tenths of
q cent; valued between three and four
cents, six-tenths of a cent; valued between
four and five cents, eight-tenths of a cent;
valued above five cents, Is per cent. ad
valorem."
There is also proviso exacting an addi-
tional duty Of one-tenth Of a cent per
pound for each dollar of export duty per
cord imposed by any country exporting
wood pulp to the United States.
LithoGraphic Prints.
There are numerous changes in the para
graph relating to litf graphic prints. The
rates on such print paper not exceed
ing $1,000 Of an in thickness is re-
duced from the .Ce rate of Is cents per
pound to 90 ce-
The next CIaSsificat ton covers paper
ranging from So to 400 square inches, fixing
the rate at cents per pound For pa
per exceeding 400 square inches a rate of
80 per cent. ad valorem is fixed. The SEN
ate rate on prints is reduced from 10 to
cents and on photographic from to S
cents.
Books for childrer's use containing IL
Illuminated photographic prints not exceed
Ing in weight "a ounces each, and all book
lets and fashion magazines or periodicals.
printed in whole or in part by photographic
process or decorated by hand, cents per
pound"
The senate rate of 20 cents per pack and
20 per cent. ad valore1n fixed on playing
cards was reduced to 10 cents per pack and
20 per cent. ad valorem.
Internal Revenue
The internal revenue tax amendment re-
lating to cigars and cigarettes made by the
senate was changed to read as follows:
"On cigars of all descriptions weighing
more than three pounds per 1000, So per
LOCO; on cigars made of tobacco CT any sub
stitute weighing not more than three
pounds per 1,000 81 per 1000: on cigarettes
made of tobacco or any substitute weigh
Ing more than three pounds per LOCO, So per
LOCO; on cigarettes weighing not more than
three pounds per 1000, 81 per thousand"
The senate amendment providing for q
tax on stocks and bonds was stricken out.
Metals.
The house rate of S-10th of a cent per
pound was restored on round iron of less
than 7-16 of an inch In diameter and bars
or shapes Of rolled or hammered iron not
specially provided for.
The house rate on iron in slabs, blooms,
etc, less finished than iron in bars and
more advanced than pig iron was also re-
stored.
The rate on iron bars, billers, etc. in the
manufacture Of which charcoal is used as
fuel, was made specifically at s12 per ton.
In paragraph 127 the senate rate of / 2-10
cents per pound on iron or steel anchors
was increased to IL cents per pound, the
house rate. The other amendments to the
paragraph made by the senate were ac-
cepted.
Paragraph 129 reads as follows:
Hoop or band iron, or hoop or band
steel, cut to lengths or wholly or partly
manufactured into hoops or ties, coated or
not coated with paint or any other prepara-
ton, with without BUCKLES or fastenings,
for baling cotton or any other commodity,
$40 of a cent per pound"
Steel Rails.
On railway bars, rails and punched
iron or steel fiat rails the conference re-
stored the house rate of 7-20 of a cent. On
railway fishplates the senate rate of 4-10
of one cent per pound stands.
Paragraph 1872 providing for an extra
duty of 2-10 of a cent per pound on iron and
steel sheets or plates, galvanized or coated,
was allowed to stand, but was made to
apply only to zinc spelter or other metals,
or any alloy of these metals"
The hnnSn rate nf 2 cents nOln0
restored on polished or planished sheets of
iron or steel. On taggers' iron or steel, tin
plates and terne plates the house rate of
~ cents per pound was restored. The
house receded from its proviSo that the
benefit of the drawback provision in Sec
ton "a shall not apply to articles manu-
featured in this country from imported
dnplates, etc.
The conference amended the proviso to
graph 1876 relating to wire rods so as to
make it read follows:
THAT all wire or steel rods which have
been tempered or treated in any manner or
partly manufactured shall pay an addf-
tional duty of one-half of one cent per
pound"
There were several changes in the para
graph relating to iron and steel wire.
Changes in Cutlery.
In the paragraph relatin to cutlery there
was but one change from the senate sched-
ule.
The conference made material changes
from both the senate and house rates on
shotguns, both in classification and rates
of duty.
On wheels for railway purposes a COM
promise makes the duty ~ cents per
pound and IA cents on ingots, blooms.
etc. Aluminium, in crude form, was made
dutiable at cents and in plates at 10 cents
per pound.
The rate on Dutch metal was made
cents per package of 100 Ioaves.
The language and rates of the senate
amendments of the paragraph in relation
to lead ore were accepted without change,
but lead IN pigs was made dutiable at zA
cents per pound. instead Off cents, as fxeS
by the house. and "a cents as fixed by the
senate.
The senate rates on mica were advanced,
those on the manufactured article being
fixed at cents per pound and 20 per cent
ad yalorem, those on cut mica at II cents
per pound and 20 per cent. ad valorem.
The rate of cents pound on nickel, as
provided by the house, was restored.
Earthenware.
The senate language I'M paragraph 81, re-
lating to tiles is retained, except that the
requirements that the tiles shall be for
floors and walls is stricken out. The house
rates were restored on Portland, Roman
and other cements.
Paragraph 81, relating to gypsum, was
amended so as to read as follows:
Plaster rock or gypsum, crude so cents
per ton; if ground or calcined. $3.50 per ton;
pearl hardening for papermakers' use 20
per cent. ad valorem.''
The paragraph relating to purnice stone
was totally changed, the rate being made
Sc per ton on the manufactured article and
10 per centum ad valorem on the unmanu-
featured.
The house aragraph relating to clays
and earths was adopted. and the house