The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1897-07-28
HAD VOTES TO SPARE.
inference Report on the Tariff
Bill Passes the House.
Adopted by n Vote of 1S5 to 11S-The
Act Expected to Yield a Revenue
of 1925 200, in
the Schedules.


the Schedules.
Washington, July 20.-The confer
ence report on the tariff bill was adopt
ed by the house shortly after midnight
by vote of 1S5 to 118 and at noon to-
day the report will go to the senate for
action there. This eclipses all previous
records. The result was accomplished
after IL hours of continuous debate.
But two speeches were made by the re-
publicans, one by Mr.. Dingley in open
ing the debate and one by Mr.. Payne, of
New York, in closing it. The democrats
were thus forced to put forth speaker
after speaker. but their bombardment
of the republican position was unan-
swered.
Every republican in the house who
was present voted for the report. The
democrats, with five exceptions. voted
against the report. The exceptions
were Slayden (Tex.), Broussard Oa).
Meyer Ua.), Davey Ua.), Kleberg
(Tex.) The populists and silverites did
not vote solidly. Mr.. Shafroth (Col.)
and Mr.. Newlands New, silverites. alb
(silverite. Mont.) did not vote. The pop
ulists who voted against the report
were as follows: Baker, Barlow, Bot
kin, Fowler, Jett, Lewis, Marshall, Mar
tin, Peters. Simpson, Strowd and Vim
cent. Four did not vote: Howard,
Kelly, Stark and Switzerland. The
other populists were absent. An an
alysis of the vote shows that $50 repub-
ncans and five democrats voted for the
report and 1O6 democrats and IL popu-
lists against it.
Expected to Raise 1925. 100000.
AS to the question of revenue to be
raised by the bill, MIR. Dingley, in his
speech, pointed out the difficulty re-
sulting from the large anticipatory i'm
portations. The bill next year, he cal
culated, would raise 1925 100000, $751;
600, 900 more than the present law. Over
$40,000,000 had been lost in this years
revenues by the importations of wool
and sugar and other things, the duty on
which was raised in the bill, so that he
calculated that the bill this year would
raise $1s5. 10000
The new tariff bill is to become oper-
ative Immediately it is signed by the
president
The Sugar Paragraph.
The paragraph in relation to sugar
in full follows:
Sugars not above No 16 Dutch stand
ard in color tank bottoms, sirups of cane
juice, melada, concentrated melada con-
crete and concentrated molaSSeS testing
by the polariscope not above IS degrees
ninety-five one-hundredths per pound and
for every additional degree shown by the
polariscopic test thirty-f1ve one thou
sandths of one cent per pound additional
and fractions of a degree in proportion;
and on sugar above No. 16 Dutch stand
ard in color and on all sugar which has
gone through process of refining one cent
and ninety-five hundredths of one cent per
pound; molasses testing above 40 degrees
and net above Sc degrees. three cents per
gallon: testing Sc degrees and above, six
cents per gallon: sugar DRAWINGS and
sugar sweepings shall be subject to duty
as molaSses or sugar as the case may be,
according to polariscopic test Provided,
that nothing herein contained shall be
so construed as to abrogate or in any man.
ner impair or affect the provisions of the
treaty of commercial reciprocity concluded
between the United States and the king of
the Hawaiian islands on January 80, 1875.
or the provisions of any act of congress
heretofore passed for the execution of the
same.
The conference restored the house
rate of 20 per cent. on sugar cane
Saccharine is made one dollar and fifty
cents per pound and ten cents ad-
valorem.
The confectionery paragraph is
changed to read as follows:
Sugar candy and all confectionery not
specially provided for in this act. valued at
Is cents per pound or less. and on sugars
after being refined when tinctured, colored,
or in any way adulterated four cents per
pound and Is per cent. ad valorem: valued
at more than Is cents per pound, so per
cent ad valorem. The weight and the value
of the immediate coverings, other than
the outer packing case or other coverings
shall be included in the dutiable weight and
the value of the merchandise"
Other Schedules.
The statement of the republican con.
ferees made the following explanation
of the effect of the changes agreed upon
by the conferees in the schedules other
than the sugar schedule:
Metals and Manufactures Of-The re-
auctions of duties on some forms of iron
and steel proposed by the senate are ac-
copied in part as proposed and several new
paragraphs are introduced not heretofore
specifically provided for.
Cotton ties. which were placed on the
free list by the senate, are restored to the
dutiable list at a reduced DUTY of five
tenths of one cent.
Tin plates are placed at the rate of
duty provided in the bill as 1t passed the
house.
structural iron is reduced one-tenth of
enc cent.
1.-The senate amendment (270) on pocket
knives, which is substantially the same as
the paragraph passed by the house, is
agreed to. and compromise rates adopted
on guns.
""The house agrees to senate amendment
SIG. Increasing the duty on lead ore to ~
cents. and the duty on pig lead Cpd is