The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1897-04-08
CONGRESSIONAL NOTES.


including berries. when dried, desic.
Gated. evaporated or prepared in any
manner not specially provided for in
this act, cents per pound berries,
edible, in their natural condition ]
cent per quart; comfits, sweetmeats
and fruits preserved in sugar or mo.
lasses, or in their own juices, or in
spirits, when not containing over per
cent of alcohol, and not specially
provided for in this act, and jellies Of
all kinds. 30 per cent ad valorem figs,
plums, prunes, raisins and other dried
grapes, az cents per pound; dates and
currants, Zante or other, . cents per
pound; olives, green or prepared. in
bottles, jars, or similar packages, 20
cents per gallon, IN casks or otherwise
than in bottles, jars or similar pack
ages, | 8 cents per gallon, grapes and
peaches, cent per pound; oranges,
lemons, lines, grape fruit, shaddocks
or pomelos, three-fourths of cent per
pound, and in addition thereto 30 per
cent ad valorem ON the boxes, barrels
or other articles containing any of the
foregoing; orange peel, lemon peel and
citron or citron peel, preserved or
candied, and desiccated cocoanut,
cents per pound; pineapples, 2 cents per
pound; nuts, almonds not shelled.
cents per pound clear almonds and
shelled. cents per pound; filberts and
walnuts of ali kinds, not shelled,
cents per pound, shelled cents per
pound peanuts, or ground beans. I'M
shelled, / cent per pound, shelled, 4
cents per pound; nuts of all kinds,
shelled or unshelled, MT specially
provided for in this act, y cents per
pound. Borax, crude. or borate Of
soda, or borate of lime, cents per
pound refined borax, cents; olive oil
not specially provided for in this act.
30 cents per gallon; seal, herring,
whale and other fish oils not specially
provided for in this act, s cents per
gallon. Opium, crude or unmanufac-
tured and not adulterated, containing
per centum and over of morphia, 81
per pound; morphia or morphine, sui
phate of and all alkaloids or salts of
opium, 81 per ounce; aqueous extract
of opium for medicinal uses and tine.
ture Of, as laudanum and other liquid
preparations of opium not specially
provided for in this act. 40 per centum
of morphia, and opium prepared for
smoking, SO per pound (but opium pre-
pared for smoking and other pIepara-
tions of opium deposited in bonded
warehouses shall not be removed there
from without payment of duties and
such duties shall mot be refunded);
quicksilver, 10 cents per pound; kasks,
bottles or other vessels in which quick.
silver is imported shall be subject to
the same rate of duty as they would
be subjected to if imported empty.
Mackerel, salmon and halibut, fresh,
picked, sailed, smoked. dried, frozen,
packed in ice or otherwise prepared
for preservation and fish skinned or
boned, / q cents per pound; padding
cotton, gunny cloth, similar fabrics,
suitable for covering cotton, composed
of single yarns made Of jute. jute butts
or hemp not bleached, dyed, colored,
stained painted or printed, not exceed
ing sixteen threads to the square inch,
committing tho warp and filing, and
weighing not less than fifteen ounces
per square yard, one-half Of cent per
square yard and 10 per centum ad
valorem. Coal. bituminous and shale,
. cents per ton of 2s bushels; coal,
slac or culm, such as will pass through
half inch screen, 80 cents per ton of
20 bushels. 80 pounds to the bushel;
coke, 20 per cent ad valorem. Brandy
and other spirits manufactured or
distilled from grain or other materials,
and not specially provided for in this
act, ~. 80 per proof gallon. Cham.
payne and all other sparkling wines,
in bottles containing each not more
than one quart and more than one pint,
IS per dozen containing not more
than one pint each and more than a
half-pint, "a per dozen containing
half pint each or less, 50 per dozen;
in bottles or other vessels containing
more than one quart each, in addition
to rs per dozen bottles ON the quantity
in excess of one quart at the rate of
S2. 90 per gallon. Still wines, includ-
ing ginger wine or ginger cordial, and
vermuth in cases, go cents per gallon.
Tamarinds and silk cocoones are ON the
free list. In framing this new tariff
the aim has been to make the duties
specific, or at least partly specific, SO
far as possible, to protect the revenue
and also to protect our own industries.
This has been done in response to the
wishes OF the better class of importers.
as well as of the administrators of the
law and our own producers. The very
great substitution of specific duties,
even where they are only the equival-
emit OF existing ad valore~,s, will of
itself increase the revenue and
strengthen the protection offered to our
Industries. The reciprocity provis.
ons OF the act of 1890 have not only
been fully restored, but this policy
las been extended by adding to sugar,
'ea, coffee and hides as articles of
which to make reciprocal agreements
uch articles as champagne, brandy.
vines, artificial and natural mineral
waters, argols and silk laces. In add.
ng these articles the reciprocity pro-
ision is strengthened greatly by pro.
iding for reduction Of duties on
hem to countries giving us similar
The date when the new
ariff is to go into effect is named in
he preliminary draft submitted to
ne House as May /, 1897.
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