Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1897-02-13
FRAMING THE TARIFF LAW
DlngIey Is Progressing With the
New Schedule.
Nearly HaIf or the Printed Text IL
Now Coveyed.-AB Outline or
the Work Already Ac-
compIished.

Washington, Feb. 6.--The work Of
framing the new tariff law has been well
advanced by the republican members OF
the ways and means committee and the
United Associated Presses Is today en-
abled to report progress with the lead
Ing schedules. This last of the formal
hearings Of interested parties was CIV
en- on the 18th OF January, go that only
a little more thar three weeks has
passed. The chemical schedule which
comes first on The list, the earthenware
and glass schedule. the metal schedule
n the cotton schedule have all been
put in tentative form, with some con-
troyerted questions still Open, n the
agricultural schedule was nearly COM
pleted yesterday. The wine and spirit
schedule of the Mckinley bill has been
adopted almost without erasure OF u
tine.
Important Changes.
one of the most important changes
is on live cattle, which are covered by
he blanket provision Of the existing law
Tor all live animals at 20 per cent advd-
forum. The rate under the new law viii
be s. per head on cattle more than i
year Did and rs per cent advatorum on
cattle valued above $40.
This Is thought to establish a more
equitable rate than the Mckinney law.
which imposed $40 per head on all cat
tie more than 4 year old, without rSgsrd
20 value, and f. regarded as sufficiently
protective against the importation OF
Mexican cattle.
The rate on barley is the Mckinley
rate of 30 cents per bushel. which was
demanded by the American barley
growers.
Hay is put at 81 a ton, the same as
I'm the Mckinley law. and hops at Is
cents per pound, which is also an ex-
tract from the Mckinley law. Negeta-
bles al go back TO the Mckinley rates,
potatoes being put at % cents per bush
81 and fax seed az 20 cents per bushel.
Mckinley Rates Restored.
Other items on which Mckinley rates
are restored are salt, IL cents per hun
dred pounds I'm packages and s cents
when In bulk; starch. . cents per pound;
salt meat extracts. 35 cents per pound;
salt meats. % cents per pound; milk, s
per cent per gallon. and poultry 20 per
cent. Eggs go back to 5 per cent per
dozen and berries 10 the old Mckinley
rate. Oranges and lemons will be adj
Justed in a manner to meet the wishes
OF the California fruit growers. The
rates have not yet been absolutely fixed,
but VIII involve a different classffca~
ton from that Of the Mckinley law.
Under the chemical schedule. soap
made Of caustic soda and kindred chem
icals remains al the rate fixed in the
Wilson law. which Is considered suffi-
GENTLY protective. The principal oils
are left at existing rates. except in the
case Of linseed and lax seed oil. where
an advance was required because of the
restoration of the Mckinley duties on
the raw material.
Refined borax is advanced from .
cents 10 3 cents per pound. which Is
same as that under the Mckinley rate.
Boraclc acid remains at 3 cents per
pound. he rate tfxed by existing law,
while horate OF lime Is increased 10 >
cents per pound. There are only slight
changes In dye stuffs and their eie-
ments.