The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1897-05-05
BEFORE THE SENATE
The Dinglsy Tariff Bill Reported Back
From Committee.
MANY IMPORTANT CHANGES
Hides Receive a Little Attention
The Duty on Lead Ores In
oreased-Wooi Schedules
Revised.

hides transferred from the free list:
Hides OF cattle. raw OF uncured.
whether dry. salted or picked. y a cent
pound; provided. that upon all leather
exported made from the imported hides
there shall he allowed a drawback
equal TO the amount OF duty paid on
such hides"
The retroactive clause of the Dinglcy
bill is stricken from the senate bill.
The entire house provision relating 10
reciprocity. is stricken out and sections
substituted, providing that whenever
country shall pay a bounty upon the
expectation of any article OF merchan-
disc dutiable under this act. then. upon
the Importation of any such article into
the United States. there shall be levied
upon IT, In addition to the duty imposed
by this act. "a duty equal TO the net
amount of bounty. To I've ascertained by
the secretary of the treasury.
The house provision keeping In force
the Hawaiian reciprocity treaty Is
stricken out, the effect being indirectly
To abrogate the treaty and impose the
same duty ON Hawaiian sugars as ON
sugars from other countries.
Lead ore is increased from I cent to
IL cents per pound. All coal is made
duiable al IS cents per ton. with pro-
viso that Il shall be GO cents ON coal
imported from any country that does
not impose a higher rate of duty than
those named In this bill.
The senate has Increased the internal
revenue duty on beer to si.t0 barrel
until Jan /. 1900. Thereafter IL shall
pay the present rate of 81.
Many important changes were made
In the wool and wooden schedule. First
class wools Were reduced from IL cents
pound to cents a pound. second
class woods from II cents To cents.
whereas the duty on wools of the third
class was raised. The dividing line of
the class was placed at 10 cents value,
woods under that value being made du-
table at 4 cents pound instead of
32 per cent. ad valorem. as In the house
bill Woods valued at more than 10
cents a pound were placed at Z cents
per pound instead Of 50 per cent. ad
valorem.
The wool growers failed to secure all
the changes they desired I'm the classifi-
cations, but II Is understood the rates
fixed on woods themselves are satisfac-
tory to them. Skirted woods OF the hrst
class, as imported In 1880 and prior, are
required to pay cent pound In addi-
tion to the rates imposed by this act
ON unwashed woods of class one. There
Is a reduction on oils from 30 cents to 70
cents a pound.
Paragraphs 1862. 1863 and 364 are all
stricken out and substitutes provided
for them as follows.
362-Wool and hair which have been
advanced by any process OF manufac-
ture beyond the washed or secured con-
dition not specially provided for I'm this
act shall he subject to the same duties
AS are imposed upon manufactures Of
wool not specially provided for.
3G3-On yarns made wholly or In part
Of wool valued at not more than Ssc
per pound. the duty per pound shall be
two and one-half times the duty Inn
posed on a pound of unwashed wool of
the first class: valued at more than rs
cents per pound three and one-half
times the rate imposed on unwashed
wool OF the first class. and In addition
upon all OF the foregoing 40 per cent.
ad valorem.
36i-On clothes. knit fabrics and all
manufactures Of every description not
specially provided for. valued at not
more than 10 cents per pound. the duty
shall be three times the duty imposed
on unwashed wool OF the first class val
ued at above 40 cents and not above 20
cents. four times the duty on unwashed
skirted wool of the first class. and In
addition on all the foregoing, 30 per
cent ad valorem valued at over 20 cents
per pound. four times the duty on un-
washed skirted wool Of the first class
and 81 per cent. ad valorem. The
blanket paragraph is changed as fol-
lUws Blankets and iiannels are In
creased from 80 To 40 cents per pound
and II is also provided that the duty on
this article shall be the same as that
imposed upon one and one-half pounds
Of unwashed woods. An additional duty
Is allowed OF 30 per cent. ad valorem
instead OF the house rate
On those articles valued at more than
40 cents and not more than 30 cents per
Iound. the duty Is made equal to
two and half times that on unwashed
wool instead OF three times that as pro-
vided in the house bill, and an ad val
ofem or 30 per cent. IL added, instead
OF the house rate. On blankets valued
at more than 20 cents per pound the
rate is made three times that OF un-
washed wool, and an ad valorem duty
OF 40 per cent. Is added. Women's and
childrens dress goods. coat Innings. etc,
Ndiu'u ut 10 cents per NHfu ana less,
are rated at 5ia cents per yard instead
OF cents as in the house bill. while
articles OF this class valued at more
man 10 cents are reduced from s 10 81.
cents per yard and 80 per cent. ad val
oren. instead of 20 per cent. as the
house bill added on all Of them.
Ihe above applies 10 goods. the warp
OF which consists wholly OF cotton or
other vegetable material. on women's
ana children's dress goods. etc. which
are composed wholly or In part ~ wool.
ana not specially provided for. The duty
Is reduced from II to . cents per yasd.
with an advalorem of 80 per cent added.
The rate OF weddings. gorings. suspend
ers. etc. " reduced from Co Ia ~ cents
per pound. though the advslorem addi-
ton or so per cent is not changed.
There are several changes In carpets.
paragraph Is added specifically pro-
Viding that all articles. fabrics and
manufactures. however described Of
which wool Is component material.
shall be classified and pay the duties iD-
posed by the several paragraphs OF this
schedule"
The lumber schedule Is changed by
adding after the word timber" the
words hewr, -1ded or squared timber.
ana the duty fixed at the rate Of | cent
per cubic foot, as in the house bill The
house provisO for an additional duty Of
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