The record-union., 1897-05-05

cane juice and beet juice, melada, con-
centrated melada, concrete and concen-
trated molasses testing by polaroscope
not more than 81 degrees, 20 per cent
ad valorem.
Molasses testing above 40 and not
more than 30 degrees, 5 cents per gal
Ion; testing 30 degrees and not above 20
degrees cents per gallon.
Machinery purchased abroad, import
ed and erected by beet sugar factories
and actually used in the production of
sugar in the United States from beets
produced therein within two years from
the first day of July, 1897, shall be ad
mitted free of duty under such regula-
tions as the Secretary of the Treasury
may prescribe.
Maple sugar and maple syrup,
cents per pound; glucose or grape su-
gar, ~ cents per pound; sugar cane in
the natural state or manufactured, 10
per cent. ad valorem; saccharine, ST
per pound and 10 per cent ad valorem
Sugar candy and all confectionery
valued at Is cents per pound or less
cents per pound and 10 per cent ad
valorem.
A duty is levied on tea at the rate Of
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1900, after which it is admitted free of
duty
The following is the provision in re-
gard to hides transferred from the list:
Hides of cattle, raw or uncured,
whether dry, sailed or picked, ~ cents
per pound, provided that upon all
leather exported and made from i'm
ported hides there shall be allowed
a 70 he -
paid on such hides"
| The retroactive clause of the Dingley
bill is stricken from the Senate bill.
The entire House provision relating to
reciprocity is stricken out and sections
substituted providing that whenever
country shall pay a bounty upon the
deportation of any article of merchan-
disc and dutiable under this Act, then
upon the importation of any such arti-
Gle 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 such bounty, to
be ascertained by the Secretary of the
Treasury.
The House provision keeping in force
the Hawaiian reciprocity treaty is
stricken out, the effect being Indirect
ly to abrogate the treaty and to i'm
pose the same duty on Hawaiian sugars
as on the sugars from other countries
The provision of the House bill on
distilled wines is stricken out, and the
following substituted: Still wines, in
casks, if containing II per cent. or less
OF absolute alcohol, 30 cents per gallon;
If containing more than IA per cent. of
absolute alcohol, 80 cents per gallon
In bottles or jugs, per case of a dozen.
containing each not more than a
quart, and more than a pint, or TWEEN
ty-four bottles or jugs containing each
not more than a pint, 81 per case.
Wines ginger cordial or vermuth inn
ported containing more than 81 per
cent. of alcohol shall be classed as
spirits and pay duty accordingly
The percentage of alcohol in wines
and fruit juices shall be determined in
such manner as the Secretary of the
Treasury shall prescribe
Lead ore is increased from l cent to
~ cents per pound
All coal is made dutiable at rs cents
per ton with the proviso that the duty
shall be 60 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 81 Al per bar
rel until January l. 1900. Thereafter
II shall pay the present rate of 81.
| Many important changes We're made
in the wool and wooden schedule First
class woods were reduced from II cents
per pound to cents, and second-class
woods from II cents to 8 cents, whereas
the duties on woods of the third class
were raised. The dividing line was
placed at 10 cents value, and woods I'M
der that value being made dutiable at
cents per pound instead of 81 per
cent. ad valorem, as in the House bill.
Woods valued at more than 10 cents
per pound were placed at cents per
pound instead of so per cent. ad valo-
rem.
The wool growers failed to secure all
the changes they desired in the cassifi-
| cation, but it is understood that the
| rates fixed on woods themselves are
satisfactory to them. Skrted woods of
the first class, as imported in 1890 and
| prior TO that time, are required to pay
a cent per pound in addition to the
| rates imposed by this Act on unwashed
woods Of Class l. There is a reduc-
ton of wool oils of from 80 to 20 cents
per pound
Paragraphs 362 and 1863 and 364 are
all stricken out and substitutes pro-
vide for them as follows:
| 362-Wool and hair which have been
advanced by any process of manufac-
ture beyond the washed or secured
condition not specially provided for in
this Act shall be subject to the same
duties as are imposed upon manufac-
lures of wool not specially provided for.
363-On yarns made wholly or in
part of wool, valued at not more than
30 cents per pound, the duty per pound
shall be two and one-half times the
| duty imposed on pound of unwashed
wool of the first class, and in addition
upon all of the foregoing forty per cent.
ad valorem.
364-On clothes, knit fabrics and all
manufactures of every description not
specially provided for, valued at not
more than forty cents per pound. the
duty shall be three times the duty inn
posed on unWashed wool Of the first
class valued at above 40 cents and not
above 40 cents, four times the duty on
Iunwashed skirted wool of the first class
and in addition on ali the foregoing 80
per cent. ad valorem. valued at over
40 cents per pound, four times the duty
on unWashed, skirted wool of the first
class and % per cent. ad valorem.
The blanket paragraph is changed
as follows: Blankets and f1annels are
increased from IN tn oay+1 oar