The San Francisco call., 1897-07-21
| CALIFORNIA BELL PROTECTED.
Gets Marty EveryfhSny She Wants,
Jhnnks to Nenator. Pcrkins.


WASHINGTON. D. c.. July 20.-At last
the tariff schedules are settle!. Califor-
MIA got nearly everything she wanted in
the way OF protection to her products, and
this result is due largely to the earnest
efforts OF Senator Perkins. He has la
bored faithfully night and day and be-
leves the people of California have reason
to be well satisfied with the tariff bill 1t
was stated exclusively in last Wednes-
days CALL that fruits, borax, quicksilver,
etc., were all right. The only disappoint-
ment to Californians will be the failure
to tax cocoanut oil. Coastwise steamship
owners also fail to get their drawback on
coal used on coasting steamers. The coal
paragraph now reads as follows:
| Coal. bituminous, and all Goals containing
less than 81 per centum OF fixed carbon, and
scale, 81 cents per Ton of % bushels, so
| pounds to the bushcl; coal, slack Or cum,
| such as will pass through a halfinch screen,
/ 15 cents per ton Of % bushes, 80 pounds to
the bushel; provided, that on all coal i'm
! ported into the United States which is after
| ward used for fuel on board vessels propelled
by steam and engaged in trade with foreign
countries, or in trade between the Atlantic
and Pacific ports of. the United States, and
which are registered under the laws of the
United States, a drawback shall be allowed of
all the duty imposed by law upon such coal,
and shall be paid under such reg Il, alton as the
ScCTelhTy VI ti6 treasury Sndli proScrl De,
coke, 20 per centum ad valorem.
The fruit schedule is as follows:
Oranges, lemons, lines grape fruit shad.
docks. or pomelos, cent per pound; grapes
Gu barrels or packages), 20 cents per cubic
loot OF capacity of barrels or paekages: pine
per cubic foot; in bulk 81 per thousand;
almonds mot shelled), cents per pound; i'll
berts and watnuts (not shelled) celts per
pound; shelled, cents per pound; figs
DiumS. pruQeS and DrunellnS 9
pound; raisins and other dried grapes, 21s
cents per pound; dates, = of cent per pound;
currants (Zante or other), cents per pound;
olives (green or prepared in bottles jars, etc.,
25 cents per gal on; in casks or otner large
packages, 10 cents; apples. peaches, ounces,
cherries, plulns and pears, green or ripe, 25
cents per bushel; app es, peaches, pears and
other edible fruits, including berries, when
dried, desiccated, evaporated or prepared in
any manner not specially provided for In this
act. 2 cents per pound; berries. edible in their
natural condition, l cent per quart; cranber-
ries, % per cent ad valorem; comfits, sweet
meats and fruits preserved in sugar, molasses,
spirits or lin their own juices, not specially
provided for in this act, cent per pound and
80 per cent ad yalorem; il containing over 10
vided for In this act, 35 per cent
ad valorem and in addition So so per
proof gallon on the alcohol ontained therein
IL excess of 10 per cent; jellies all kinds,
35 per cent ad valorem; pIneapp es preserved
in their own Juice, 25 per cent ad valorem;
boxes. barrels or other articles containing
IL,
or pomelos, 30 per cent ad valorem Crowded
that the thin wood, so called, comprising the
sides, ;ops and bottoms of orange and lemon
boxes OF the growth and manufacture of the
United States, exporter as orange or lemon
box shocks, may be reimported IN completed
form, filled with oranges and lemons, by the
payment of duty at half the rate imposed on
similar boxes of entirely foreign growth and
manufacture); cocoanut bu ter or cocoanut
butlerine. 31a cents per pound (coeOanut oil
was left out aud is therefore on the free list;
muStart 10 cents DOuud. Or
lemon pee. preserved, candied or dried, and
cocoanut meal or copra, deslccated. shredded,
cut or imIlarly PREPARED, 2 cents per pound:
citron or citron peel preserved, candied or
dried cents per pound.
The Californians made q distinct gain
in the wine schedule. Tne conference
adopted the Senate amendment changing
the rate OF tuty on still wines lin ca ks)
from 30 to 40 cents per gallon, provided
the wine contains Ia per centum or less OF
absolute alcohol. Ii containing more than
IA per cent, 80 cen per gallon. The rest
OF the still wine schedule is identical with
the bill as it passed the Senate:
Brandy and other spirits distilled from grain,
70 cents per proof gallon; plain, green or COL
ored, nodded or pressed, and flint lime or lead
glass bottles, vials. jars and covered or un-
covered demijohns and carboys, any of the
foregoing, fled or unified, not otherwise
specially provided for and waere their con-
tents b. dutiable or free Except such as con-
tain merchandise subject TO an ad valorem
rate OF duty. or to a rate Of duty based in
who.e in part upon the value thereof
which snail be d utiable al the te applicable
20 their contents). shall pay duty rs follows;
if holding more than one pint, / cent per
pound; If not holding more than one pint and
not less than Quarter of a pint, 11a cents per
pound: if holding less than quarter of
pini so cents per gross Crowded tnat none of
the ABB We articles shal. psy less rate of quty
than 40 per cent nd vaorem); borax 5 cents
per pound; borates of lime or soda or other
borare material not otherwise provided for,
conta ming more th'n 36 per cent of an.
by rous bnracic acid, 4 cents per pound:
borates OF lime or soda or other borate ma
| terisl not otherwise p ov .dcd for, Containing
not more thsn 80 per cent of anhydrous
boracic acid. Cents per pound; boraclc &C i,
5 cents a pound; olive oil not spec ally pro-
vided for, 40 cents per gallon; the same in
bottles, rs, tins or similar packages so cer IS
per gallon; o2ium, crude or runmanuiactured,
unaduitei aed. containing 8 per cent and over
OF morphia 81 per pound; quicksilver, z
cents per pound Che bottles or TASKS paying
duty the same as If empty)
Boiler Egp ion XII .sro Men.
BLUEFIELDS, w. Va, July 2O-A