Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1897-07-29
for baling cotton or any other commodity.
$40 OF cent per pound

Tor balng cotton or any other commodity.
$40 OF cent per pound
Steel Rails.
On railway bars. rails. and punched
iron or. steel fat rails the conference re-
stored the house rate of 40 of a cent On
railway fshplates the senate rate OF $40
of one cent per pound stands
Paragraph 132 providing for an extra
duty of 2-10 of a cent per pound on iron and
steel sheets or plates, galvanized or coated,
was allowed to stand. but was made to
apply only to zinc spelter or other metals.
or any alloy of these metals"
The house rate of cents per pound was
restored on polished or planished sheets of
iron or steel. On taggers' iron or steel, tin
plates and terne plates the house rate OF
IL cents per pound was restored The
house receded from its proviSo that the
benefit OF the drawback provision in sec
ton "a shall not apply to articles manu-
featured in this country from imported
tinplates, etc.
The conference amended the proviso to
para graph 1876 relating to wire rods so to
make 1t read follows:
THAT all wire or steel rods which have
been tempered or treated in any manner or
partly manufactured shall pay an addt-
tional duty of one-half of one cent per
pound"
There were several changes in the para
graph relating to iron and steel wire.
Changes In Cutlery.
In the paragraph relating to cutlery there
was but one change from the senate sched-
ule.
The conference made material changes
from both the senate and house rates
shotguns. both in classification and rates
of duty.
On wheels for railway purposes COM
promise makes the duty II. cents per
pound and IL cents on ingotS. blooms.
etc Aluminium. in crude form. was made
dutiable at cents and in plates at Is cents
per pound.
The rate on Dutch metal was made 6
cents per package of 100 loaves.
The language and rates of the senate
amendments Of the paragraph in relation
to lead ore were accepted without change.
cents per pound, instead of cents, fixed
by the house. and "a cents as fixed by the
senate.
The senate rates ON mica were advanced.
those on the manufactured article being
fixed at cents per pound and 20 per cent.
ad valorem. those on cut mica at II cents
per pound and 20 per cent. ad valorem.
The rate of cents pound on nickel. as
provided by the house, was restored
Earthenware.
The senate language in paragraph IS, re-
lating to tiles, is retained, except that the
requirements that the tiles shall be for
floors and walls is stricken out. The house
rates were restored on Portland. Roman
and other cements.
Paragraph 81, relating to. gypsum, was
amended so as to read as follows:
Plaster rock or gypsum, crude, so cents
per ton: If ground or calcined. s.. 80 per ton:
pearl hardening for papermakers' use 20
per cent. ad valorem.
The paragraph relating to pumice stone
was totally changed, the rate being made
Sc per ton on the manufactured article and
Is per centum ad valorem on the unmanu-
featured.
The house paragraph relating to elays
and earthS was adopted, and the house
rates on dried asphaltum and bitumen- On
fuller'S earth the rate was fixed at $1-5o
per ton on the manufactured article and
50 per ton on that which has been manufac-
tured.
The house rate on undecorated rocking
ham earthenware. paragraph 81. was re-
stored.
In the next paragraph, relating to china,
the house provision including clock cases,
with or without movements, was restored,
making the duty 60 per centum ad va
loren.
The senate receded from its amendments
to the rates on plain bottles. Jars. etc.
@ Glass
The paragraph 600 in regard 10 cut
ornameEted glass bottles was not changed
to rates.
The conference restored the house rates
and language on unpublished cylinder.
crown and common window glass. but re-
tanned the senate rates and language on
polished cylinder and crown glass
In the paragraph 1O3) relating to huted.
rolled, ribbed, or rough plate glass the SEN
ate rates and language were retained ex-
cept the house proviso to the effect
that all the above plate glass when ground,
smoothed. or otherwise obscured shall be
subjected to the same rAte OF Quly as CAST
polished plate glass unSiivered-
The senate rates were retained on cast
polished plate glass, both unfinished and
silvered, as provided in paragraphs 1o4
and los.
The house rate of 10 per cent. ad va
loren, in addition to other rates chargeable
on window, crown, cylinder. OF plate
glasses where those glasses are bent,
cent.
The conference adopted the senate
amendments in paragraph 10S relating TO
spectacles. eyeglasses. ETC., with one ex-
ception.
Paragraph 112. relating to stained or
painted glass windows. remains practical
ly as left by the senate
The two houses compromised the rate on
freestone. granite, sandstone. unmanufac-
tured or undressed, making 1t II cents per
cubic foot.
The thread paragraph CS30 is; a COM
promise between the two houses, making
duty of Ii cents per pound on threads made
from yarn not finer than five lea or num-
mer, and three-fourthS cent per pound ad-
ditional for each lea or number In excess
of five made from yarn finer than five lea
number.
There Is also a change in the next para
graph, relating to single yarns in the gray,
reducing the senate rate on yarns not
finer than so lea or number to 10 per cent.
ad valorem, which is a compromise be-
tween the two houses
Floor mattingS, which are taken from
the free list, where they were placed by
the senate. are made dutiable al cents
per square yard where their value does not
exceed 10 cents per square yard. and at
cents per square yard and % per cent.
ad va1orem where their value exceeds 10
cents per square yard.
Bags or sacks made from plain woven
ia bricS and hagging for cotton. gunny
cloth and similar fabrfcs were taken from
the free list and the language of the house
practically restored in both instances On
bags the rate was made seven-eighths
cent per pound and Is per cent. ad valorem.
The senate rate on hapdkerchiefS was ac-
cepted-
There were comparatively few changes
in the sundries schedule. The senate