The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-05-04

tongued and grooved. the additional
rate is made 20 cents per thousand feet
| board measure instead of 81; if planed
on two sides and tongued and groOved,
one dollar and five cents per thousand
instead of one dollar and fifty cents.
The house proviso for an additional
duty of 25 per cent advalOrem upon
lumber imported from any foreign
country which imposes on export duty
is charged so as to add the amount of
the export duty instead of any fixed
sum.
The duty on kindling wood in bundles
is stricken out. Shingles, house rate 80
senate 25 cents per thousand.
Manufactures of osier or willow
house rate so, senate 40 per cent adval-
orem.
Toothpicks of wood or other vegeta-
Bile substances, house rate 2 cents, SEN
ate one cent per thousand and Is per
cent adValOrem.
Butchers and packers skewers house
40 cents per thousand, senate 20 per cent
adValOrem-
Placed on the free list is poplar and
other pulp wood, heading bolts, stave
bolts, railroad ties.
WOOL
Many and important changes were
made by the senate tariff sub-cOmmit-
tee in the wool and WOOlen schedule as
passed by the house. First class woods
were reduced from II cents per pound,
as provided in the house bill 20 cents
u to certS, whereas the duties on
woods OF the third class We're raised
Woods valued at more than 10 cents
per pound were placed at cents per
pound instead of so per cent adValOrem.
The wool growers failed to secure all
the changes which they desired in
classification but it is understood that
the rates fixed on the woods themselves
are satisfactory to them.
Sl1irted woods of the first class as i'm
ported in 1890 and prior to that date
are required to pay one cent per pound
in addition to the rates imposed by TINS
act on unWashed woods of class one.
There is a reduction on nails from 80
to 20 cents per pound.
The blanket paragraph is changed as
follows:
Blankets and flannels are increased
from 80 to 40 cents per pound and it is
also provided that the duty on this ar
ticle shall be the same as that imposed
upon one and one-haIf pounds of un-
washed wool. An additional duty IS al
lowed of 80 cents per cent advalOrem in
stead of the house rate. On these ar
tfcles valued at more than 40 cents and
not more than so cents per pound, the
duty is made equal to 21a times that
on unwashed wool instead OF three
times that as provided in the
house bill On blankets valued at more
than so cents per pound, the rate IS
made three times that of unwashed
wool and an advalorem duty of 40 per
cent is added.
coat lining, etc, valued at Is cents per
yard and less are rated at 51s cents
per yard instead of cents as in the
house bill while articles of this class
valued at more than Is cents are reduc-
ed from to 61a cents per yard and so
per cent advalOrem instead of 20 per
cent as the house bill added on all of
them The above applies to goods the
warp of which consists wholly of cot
ton or other vegetable material. On
woman s and chiIdren's dress goods, etc,
which are composed wholly or in part
of wool and not especially provided for
the duty is reduced from IL to cents
per yard, with an advalOrem OF 90 per
cent added. The rate of weddings, gor-
ings, suspenders, etc, is reduced from
so to 40 cents per pound, though the
advalorem duty of 80 per cent is not
changed.
There are several changes in carpets.
Oriental Berlin and other similar rugs
as well as carpets woven IN Wnole TOT
rooms. are removed from the paragraph
relating to Aubusson and Administer
carpets and are Incorporated in new
paragraph which provides for a duty
on them of 20 cents per square foot and
10 per cent advalOrem when valued
at more than 80 cents per square tOot.
Valued at more than 40 cents and not
more than $1.40 cents per square root
and 20 per cent advaIOrem; valued at
more than 81 and not more than 81, -
cents per square foot and 25 per cent
advalorem; valued at more than 81 per
square foot, IS per cent adValorem.
TOBACCO.
An important change was made in the
tobacco tax and the internal revenue
laws. section 1868, relating to internal
revenue taxes on tobacco. was changed
Crevised statutes) to read as follows:
Upon tobacco and snuff manufac-
tured and sold, or removed for cOnsump-
ton or use, there shall be levied and
collected the following taxes: On SnuH
manufactured of tobacco or any substi-
tute for tobacco, ground, dry, damp.
picked, scented or otherwise of all de-
scriptions, when prepared for use, tax
of s cents per pound. And snuff flour
when sold or removed for use or con-
sumption shall be taxed as snuff and
shall be put up in packages and stamp
ed in the same manner as snuff.
"On all chewing and smoking tobac-
co fine cut, caVendiSh, plug or twist,
cut or granulated of every description;
on tobacco twisted by hand or reduced
into q condition to be consumed, or in
anv manner other than the ordinary
mode of drying and curing, prepared
for sale or consumption, even if pre-
pared without the use of any machine
or instrument and without being press
I'd or sweetened; and on all fine cut
shorts and refuse, scraps, clippings,
cuttings and sweepings of tobacco, a
tax of cents per pound"