The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1897-07-29

promised. being made 20 cents per dozen on
pint bottles. 80 cents per dozen on quart
bottles House rate Of 10 cents and the
senate rate Of q cents. zs .S5
Chemi lea II. Sc @sssss5ss
The conference struck out the senate rate
paragraph relating to tartrate Of soda and
potash and partly refined argols and re-
stored the house paragraph. s3s5
There was compromise on white lead
at ~ cents per pound. q .4s n
The house paragraph III regard TO oxide
Of sine and white paint was restored,
IS There was = general change ofarates on
lead. white acetate Of lead being dxed at
* cents per pound. brown. gray. or yellow
~ cents per pound. These were generally
compromises between the rates Of the two
houses.
Phosphorus was compromised ct Is cents
per pound. sass5 s5i55
The house rate on sulphur was restored,
The senate made an amendment to the sui
1phur paragraph allowing crude birthstone,
to come In at so cents per ton, but the con-
ference struck this out, including this arr
ticle in the $ rate. as originally hxed by
the house. Il
On mechanically ground wood pulp tho
house rate Of sone-tWelfth Of one cent per
pound. dry weight. was restored.
The paragraph in regard to printing pa
1t Is as follows: "a # s 5S,..
Printing paper, unsized, sized, or glued,
suitable for books and newspapers, valued
at not above two cents pers pound. three
tenths OF cent per pound: valued above
two cents and not above two and half
cents per pound. four-tenths Of one cent
per pound; valued between two and half
and three cents per pound. fve-tenths Of
a cent; valued between three and four
cents. six-tenths Of a cent; valued between
four and five cents. eight-tenths Of cent;
valued above five cents. Is per cent. ad
valorem." r
There is also proviso exacting an addi-
ttonal duty of one-tenth Of q cent per
pound for each dollar Of export duty per
cord imposed by any country.~ex exporting
wood pulp to the United States. ]~# :
~yt. Lithographic Prints.
There are numerous changes in the para
graph relating to photographic prints. The
rates on such prints on paper not exceed
ing $1,000 Of an inch in thickness is re-
duced from the senate rate of Is cents per
pound to 20 cents. s@.a-3 d.
The next classification covers paper
ranging from IS to 400 square inches, fixing
the rate at cents per pound. For pa
per exceeding 400 square inches a rate Of
IS per cent. ad valorem is fixed. The SEN
ate rate on prints Is reduced from 10 to
cents and on photographic from to 6
cents.
Books for children's use containing IL
Illuminated photographic prints not exceed
ing in weight "a ounces each, and all book
let's 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
70 per cent. ad valorem 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:
ION cigars Of all descriptions weighing
| more than three pounds per 1000, s. per
1000: on cigars made Of tobacco or any SUBJ
pounds per 1000. 81 per 1000: on cigarettes
made Of tobacco or any substitute weigh
ing more than three pounds per 1000, 50 per
1000; on cigarettes weighing not more than
three pounds per 1000. 81 per thousand"
The senate amendment providing for a
tax on stocks and bonds was stricken out.
Metals.
The house rate Of 8-10th of a cent per
pound was restored on round iron of less
than TIC 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, billets. ETC.. in the
manufacture Of which charcoal is used rs
fuel, was made specifically at $12 per ton.
In paragraph LIT the senate rate Of 2-10
cents per pound on iron or steel anchors
was increased to ~ cents per pound. the
house rate. The other amendments to the
paragraph made by the senate were ac-
cepted. l,- =. 49,. -, ~
Paragraph 12e reads as follows: = ss
nr hor <h0o hor
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 or without buckles or fastenings.
for baling cotton or any other commodity,
5-1O of cent per pound"
Steel Rails.
On railway bars. rails, and punched
Iron or steel fiat rails the conference re-
stored the house rate Of 7-2o of cent. On
! railway f1shplates the senate rate of 40
Of one cent per pound stands.
Paragraph 1872 providing for an extra
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 house rate Of cents per pound was
restored on polished or planished sheets of
plates and terne plates the house rate of
IL cents per pound was restored. The
house receded from it's proviso that the
benefit Of the drawback provision in Sec
ton "a shall not apply to articles manu-
featured in this country from imported
tinplates, etc.
The conference amended the proviso to
paragraph 1876 relating to wire rods so as to
make it read as follows:
THAT all wire or steel rods which have
been tempered or treated in any manner or
partly manufactured shall pay an addi-
0f ho Of
pound"
There were several changes in the para
graph relating to iron and steel wire.
Changes i'm Cutlery.
In the paragraph relating 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 ~ 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 6
cents per package Of 100 loaves.
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 IN
cents per pound, instead of cents, as fixed
by the house. and ~ cents as fixed by the
senate '-y-e..-E - Co..
The senate rates on mica were advanced,
those on the manufactured article being
fixed at cents per pound and 20 per cent
| ad valorem, those on cut mica at IL cents
per pound and 20 per cent. ad valorem.
The rate of 6 cents q pound on nickel. as
provided by the house, was restored.
Earthenyvare.
The senate language in paragraph So, re-