The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1897-07-20


and cents on such woods valued at
more than II cents. ne duties on manu-
features of wool are placed at substan-
tlally the same rates as in the act of
1890.
The duties on silks remain at substan-
TALLY the same rates as provided by the
House.
The duty on wood pulp for paper and
on paper are converted into specific form
at substantially the same ad yalorem
rate, with proviso added for an addition
al DUTY as against any country that i'm
poses an export duty on pulp or woods.
Inc duties on manufactures of paper are
substantially the same as passed by the
House.
The sundries schedules remains sub
stantially as it passed the House. Coal
is reduced to 67 cents per ton, and coal
slack or clum to Is cents per ton, as
proposed by Senate amendment CAT.
A duty of 10 per cent is placed on hides
of cattle, which were placed on the free
list by the House. ne Senate amend
ment proposed duty of 90 per cent, but
this has been reduced to Is per cent. A
prOviso is added for a full drawback of
the duty paid on hides subsequently ex-
ported as leather
Painting and statuary for private
use are made dutiable, as provided by
internal revenue tax on cigarettes is
The free list as it passed the House
is in the main adopted, except that bolt
ing cloths and several kinds of essential
oils have been added.
The House provision applying a rene
Edy to the wholesale introduction of goods
Einto this country free of uuty, by Amer
leans visiting Europe, is substantially
adopted.
| The House and Senate reciprocity plans
are united and adopted with modifca-
tions. In the Senate plan any commercial
treaty must be approved by Congress be-
fore it goes into effect and in the House
plan chicle, silk laces, sugar, mineral
waters and hides have been stricken and
tenka and vanilla beans added.
| The Senate provision imposing an equi-
valent countervailing duty on imports
| from foreign countries, which have paid
an export duty lis adopted.
| The Senate provision increasing the
| internal revenue tax on cigarettes is
| agreed to, with an amendment covering
| cigarettes wrapped in tobacco, and pro-
visions to enforce the collection of the
| tax.
The Senate provision changing the
law so as to allow no rebate on the tax
on beer is agreed to.
| The Senate provision for a stamp tax
on the issue and transfer of stock and
on bonds issued by corporations is omit
ted: from the bill.
| The administrative sections added to
| the: bill by the Senate are substantially
| the same as those passed by the House
| in the 54th Congress, and are agreed to
with slight amendments
| Amendments numbers II and 43, to
| the chemical schedule, restore argols
and chicle to the dutiable list at the rate
provided for by the House.
| Amend II places bleaching powders on
the dutiable list at the rate of one-ffth
of one cent per pound as provided by the
Senate.
Amendment 104 increases the duty on
soda ash from one-fourth of one cent, as
provided by the House bill, to three
Fights of one cent, as provided by the
Senate amendment.
Number 81 reduces the duty on cyanide
of potassium to 215 per cent adj valorem
as provided by the Senate.
the free list.
Number 10 leaves tonka beans and
vanilla beans on the free list.
Numbers 3 and IA raise the duties on
borates, as provided by the Senate.
The several amendments on lead
paints adjust the rates to the increased
duty on lead. The other amendments
in the chemical schedule concur with the
| TO- .sI. nf zoe,
many chemicals and other articles, in.
Guiding linseed, olive oil and coal-tal
dyes, and an increase of the rates on
camphor and ground drugs.
Crockeryware is restored to the duties
provided by the bill as it passed the
House, which are substantially the du
ties Of the act Of 1890.
Glassware is left in the main at the
rates provided by the House bill, the re-
auctions being in the paragraphs relat
ing to bottles, moulded and pressed
glassware and cylinder and crown glass
Cement is left at the duty provided by
the House, instead of having the duty
increased as proposed by the Senate.
The duty of 81 per ton on gypsum rock.
proposed by the Senate, is reduced to sc
cents land the duty on ground and cal
cined plaster raised to 1925 per ton.
China clay is left at 81 per ton, as pro-
vided by the House.
The duty on Fullers earth is slightly
increased, but left at a lower rate than
proposed by the Senate.
Mable is placed at the increased rates
proposed by the Senate.
The reductions of duties on some
forms of iron and steel, proposed by the
Senate, are accepted in part as proposed,
and several: new paragraphs are intro
duced, not heretofore specifically provid-
ed for.
Cotton ties. which were placed on the
free list by the Senate, are restored to
the dutiable list at reduced duty of
five -tenths OF one cent.
| Tin plates are placed at the rate Of
duty provided; for in the bill as it passed
the House.
Structural iron is reduced one-tenth of
one cent.
The Senate amendment on pocket
knives, which lis substantially the same
as the paragraph passed by the House,