The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1897-05-06
THE SENAVE'S TARIFF BILL
SENATOR ALDRICH PRESENTED
THE MODIFIED DINGLEY BILL
TO THE HOUSE.
The Retroactive CLAUSE LEFT OUT

Instead of May 1-SOme of the
Changes From the Text
OF the House Bill.
Washington, May 4-Senator Aldrich
presented the tariff bill to the senate to.
day and gave notice that it would be
called up on Saturday, the Sth inst.
The time for the bill to take effect is
July 1. 1897, instead of May 1, as was
provided in the house, and the words in
the first paragraph, cor withdrawn from
consumption" are stricken out.
The lumber schedule is changed by
adding after the word lumber the
words 'hewn. sides or squared and
round timber" and the duty fixed at the
rate of l cent per cubic foot, as in the
house bill. The rate of 81 per thousand
on all sawed boards. etc., is retained
but, when planed on one side, the addi.
tional rate is made 35 cents instead of 81
cents per 1000 feet, board measure; when
planed, tOngued and grooved, the addi.
tional rate is made 10 cents per 1000
feet. board measure, instead of S1.00
if planed on two sides and tongued and
grooved, $1.05 per 1000 feet, instead of
$1.50.
The house proviso for additional duty
of % per cent ad valorem upon lumber
imported from any foreign country which
imposes an export duty, is changed so as
to add the amount of export duty instead
of any fixed sum.
The entire house provision relating to
reciprocity has been stricken out, and
the following section substituted:
That whenever any country, depend
ence or colony shall pay or bestow,
directly or indirectly, any bounty or grant
upon the expectation of any article or
merchandise from such country, de-
pendency or colony and such article of
merchandise is dutable under the pro-
visions of this act then upon the importa-
tiOn of such article or merchandise into
the United States, whether the same
shall be imported directly from the coun-
try of production or otherwise, and
whether such article of merchandise is
imported in the same condition as when
exported from the country of production
or has been changed in condition by
manufacturer or otherwise. there shall be
levied and paid in all such cases, in ad-
ditiOn to the duties otherwise imposed by
this act. an additional duty equal to the
net amount of such bounty or grant, how
ever the same be paid or bestowed The
net amount of all such bounties or
grants shall be from time to time ascer-
tained, determined and declared by the
secretary of the treasury, who shall
make all needful regulations for the
Identification Of such articles and mer-
chandise and for the assessment and col
lection of such additional duties.
The house provision in the tariff bill,
keeping in force the Hawaiian reciprocity
treaty, is stricken out. the effect being
indirectly to abrogate the treaty and i'm
pose the same duty on Hawaiian sugar
as on sugars imported from other cOun-
tries
The provision in the house bill on dis
titled wines is stricken out aDd the fol-
lowing substituted:
Distilled wines, including ginger wine
or ginger cordial and vermouth. in casks
or packages, other than bottles or jugs,
if containing II per cent or less of alb
solute alcohol, 30 cents per gallon; If
containing more than II per cent of
absolute alcohol, 80 cents per gallon. In
bottles or jugs, per case of one dozen
bottles or jugs, containing each not more
than one quart and more than one pint,
or twentyfOur bottles or jugs containing
each not more than one pint, 81 per case,
and any excess beyond these quantities
found in such bottles or jugs shall be sub
ject to duty or cents per pint or frac-
tional part thereof, but no separate or
bottles or jugs. The percentage of al
cohol in wines and fruit juices shall be
determined in such manner as the sec
retary of the treasury shall by regulation
prescribe.
Lead ore is increased from 1 cent,
which is the house provision, to 1 IL
cents per pound.
Many and important changes were made
by the senate tariff substitute commit
tee in the wool and wooden schedules, as
passed by the house. First-class woods
were reduced from II cents per pound,
as provided in the house bill, to cents
per pound, and second-class woods from
II to cents, whereas the duties on
woods of the third class were raised. The
dividing line in the latter class was placed
at 10 cents value, woods under that value
being made dutiable at the rate of 4
cents per pound instead of 81 per cent
ad valCrem, as in the house bill. WoOls
valued at more than 10 cents per pound
were placed at cents per pound instead
of 30 per cent ad valOrem. The wool
growers failed to secure all the changes
which they desired in classification, but it
is understood that the rates fixed on
the woods themselves are satisfactory to
the house.
Skirted woods of the first class, as i'm
ported in 1890 and prior to that date,
were required to pay cent per pound in
addition to the rates imposed by this act
on unwashed woods of the first class.
An Importance change was made in to-
bacco taxes under the internal laws. Sec
tiOn 1868, relating to internal revenue
taxes on tobacco, was changed (Revised
Statutes) to read as follows:
"On tobacco and snuff manufactured
and sold. or removed for consumption or
use, there shall be levied and collected
the following taxes: On sniff manufac-
tured of tobacco or any substitute for
tobacco ground, dry, damp, picked,
scented or otherwise of all descriptions
when prepared for use, tax of cents
per pound. And snuff -four, when sold
or removed for use or consumption, shall
be taxed as snuff and shall be put up in
packages and stamped in the same man
ner as snuff.
On all chewing and smoking tobacco,
fine cut, cavendish, plug or twist of
every description, on tobacco, twisted by
hand or reduced into condition to be