The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-05-05

by the house on pig lead lead dross, ETC.
quicksilver is reduced from 10 to cents
per pound. and the provision for a duty
o., the TASKS and other vessels In which
quicksilver may be imported is stricken
out.
There are numerous changes in the pro-
visions in regard to fruits and nuts APP
pies, peaches and other edible fruits when
dried are reduced from 2 cents to l cent
per pound, and berries are stricken from
the dutiabie list The paragraph in re-
gard to preserved fruits, sweet meats.
etc. IS changed so as to provide for an
additional duty of 81. 50 per gallon on the
alcohol contained in such preserves in ex-
cess of per cent Jeliies are made duti-
ANGLES preserved in theis own juice at %
ne cent ad vaioreni. The duty on figs.
plurns. Drunes, raisins and other dried
grapes Is reduced from 2jh cents per pound
to cents. and on olives in bottles or
jars from % to 20 cents per gallon.
GRAPES are made dutiable . cents per
cubic foot, instead of l cent per oound.
Oranges and lemons and other eitrouS
fruits are placed at l per cent. instead
of u of a cent as provided in the house
bill. All the proviSoS of the house bill re-
lating to citrus fruits are stricken out, as
also the house paragraph in regard to
orange and lemon peel. For this last
paragraph a substitute is provided con-
tanning the same rates as the house bill
but making slightly different classifi-
cation.
Almonds are reduced from 20 cents
per pound, hlberts from to ~ cents
when not shelled and from s 10 . cents
when SHIELDED peanuts unSheiled, from
cert TO Y cent per pound, when shelled
from ~ cents to l cent per pound; nuts
not specified, from IL to cent per pound.
The paragraph in regard to fish, packed
in oil or otherwise, is entirely changed
and provides that anchovies, sard,nes,
sprats. etc. Darcelled IN tins, boxes OF
cans, shall be dutiable as follows: In
boxes or cans. containing seven and
half cubic inches or less. IL cents scr
box or can; containing not more than z
cubic inches. ~ cents per box or can:
containing not more than 80 cubic inches,
cents per box: containing not more
than 20 cubic inches. 10 cents per box.
if IN other packages 40 per cent I'D
valore,n. All other fish in cans or boxes
of less than half a barrel and not special
~ provided for, one-fourth of a cent per
pound, instead of / cent as provided for
in the house bill.
Mackerel or salmon. picked or s2lted.
and other fish picked in barrels or half
barrels, l cent per pound
There IS a new paragraph relating to
the character of fish. The general house
rate was 1la cents per pound. The senate
addition provides for three-fourths of
cent Der hound on smoked, dried, salted.
picked, frozen fish prepared for .'reser.
walton and fresh fish not otherwise
specially provided for. The senate bin
strikes out the house provision for an ad
ditional duty or any country or de-
tendency, which pays an export bounty
providing for a duty on cans containing
shell fish
There are very radical changes in. the
schedule of eathenware and glass
ware, some of the most important
changes being transfers from ad valorem
to specific or mixed rates.
The rates of the house bill on plates,
window glass. etc, are generally RS
duced.
Articles stricken from the free list in
clude casks. barrels, bags. etc. exported
from and reimported into this country
Fish roe preserved for food purposes Is
excluded from the 1857 - are hides.
angora goat SKINS ana ass skins, also
mineral salts from mineral waters.
The paragraph in the free list relating
to oils is rewritten and somewhat en-,
larged. The paragraph in regard to wear
ing apparel IS alscr new. 1t strikes out
the house provision limiting the exenp
ton to citizens of the United States of
800 in value and also the house pro
vision to the effect that the exemption
shall not apply to residents of other
countries entering the United States more
than once a year. There are also new
specifications in regard to the Importation
of works of art for exhibition purposes
These articles are to be admitted free
subject to the regulations of the treasury
department.