Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1897-07-31
more ADVANCED than pig iron was also De-


stored
The rate on iron bars. billets, etc, in the
manufacture of which charcoal is used rs
fuel, was made specifically at $12 per ton.
In paragraph 127 the senate rate of 2-10
cents per pound on iron steel anchors
was Increased to IL cents per pound. the
house rate. The other amendments to the
paragraph made by the senate were ac-
cepted.
Paragraph 12s reads as follows:
Hoop or band iron, or hoop or band
steel, cut to lengths or wholly or partly
manufactured into hoops ties, coated
not coated with paint any other prepara-
ton. with or without buckles or fastenings.
for baling cotton or any other commodity.
$40 of cent per pound
Steel Rails.
On railway bars, T rails, and punched
iron or steel fiat rails the conference re-
stored the house rate of 7-2o of a cent On
railway fishplates the senate rate of 4-1o
OF one cent per pound stands.
Paragraph 1872 providing for extra
duty of 2-10 of a cent per pound on iron and
was allowed to stand. but was made to
apply only to zinc spelter other metals.
any alloy of these metals"
The house rate of cents per pound was
restored on polished or planished sheets of
iron steel. On taggers' iron or steel, tin
plates and terne plates the house rate of
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 it read follows:
That all wire steel rods which have
been tempered or treated in any manner or
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-
uIe.
The conference made material changes
from both the senate and house rates on
shotguns, both in classification and rates
of duty.
On wheels for railway purposes COM
promise makes the duty 1E cents per
pound and IA cents ingots. blooms,
etc Aluminium, in crude form. was made
dutfable at cents and in plates at 13 cents
per pound.
The rate on Dutch metal was made
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 the manufactured article being
fixed at cents per pound and 20 per cent.
ad valorem, those on cut mica at IL cents
per pound and 20 per cent. ad valorem.
The rate of cents pound on nickel.
provided by the house. was restored.
Earthenware.
The senate language In paragraph s. 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 gypsum, crude, so cents
per ton; if ground calcined, 81. 80 per ton;
pearl hardening for papermakers' 20
per cent. ad valorem-
r-olo
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 cIays
and earthS was adopted, and the house
rates on dried asphaltum and bitumen. On
fuller's earth the rate was fixed at so
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 "a. was re-
stored.
In the next paragraph, relating to china.
the house provision including clock cases.
with 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 QOO) in regard to cut or
ornamented glass bottles was not changed
to rates.
The conference restored the house rates
crown and common window glass, but re-
tanned the senate rates and language on
polished cylinder and crown glass.
In the para graph COB relating to f1uted.
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 duty as cast
polished plate glass unsilvered."
The senate rates were retained on cast
polished plate glass. both unfinished and
silvered, provided in paragraphs 104
and los.
The house rate of 10 per cent. ad
loren, in addition to other rates chargeable
on window, crown, cylinder. or plate
glasses where those glasses are bent,
ground. frosted. ETC.. is reduced to per
cent.
The conference adopted the senate
amendments in paragraph los relating to
spectacles, eyeglasses, ETC., with one ex-
ception.
Paragraph 112, relating to stained or
painted glass windows, remains practical
ly left by the senate
The two houses compromised the ate on
freestone, granite, sandstone, unmanufac-
tured or undreSSed, making it II cents per
cubic foot
The thread paragraph C3SO is a COM