The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-02-05

framing the new tariff law has beer
we'll advanced by the Republican mem
bers of the ways and means committee
and the United Associated Presses il
today enabled to report progress will
the leading schedules.
The last of the formal hearings O
interested parties was given on the
18th of January, so that only a little
more than three weeks has passed.
THE CHEMICAL SCHEDULE,
which come first on the list, the earth.
enware and glass schedule; the meta
schedule and the cotton schedule have
all been put in tentative form with
some controverted questions still open
and the agricultural schedule was
| nearly concluded today. The wine and
spirit schedule of the Mckinley bill
has been adopted almost without the
change of a line.
The most important change is on live
cattle, which are covered by a blan-
ket provision of the existing law for
all live animals at 2 per cent ad va
! loren. The rate under the new law
will be S. per head on cattle more
than one year old and Is per cent ad
valorem on cattle valued above $40.
This is thought to establish more
equitable rate than the Mckinley law,
which imposed $40 per head on all
! cattle more than one year old, with
| out regard to value, and is regarded as
sufficiently protective against the i'm
portation of Mexican cattle.
The rate on barley is the Mckinley
rate of 80 cents per bushel, which was
| demanded by the American barley
| growers.
Hay is put at 81 per ton, the same
as in the Mckinley law, and hops at
10, cents per pound, which is also an
extract from the Mckinley law.
Vegetables all go back to the Nc
Kinley rates, potatoes being put at 25
cents per bushel and faxseed at 30
cents per bushel.
OTHER ITEMS
on which Mckinley rates are re-
stored are salt, II cents per 100 pounds
in packages, and cents when in bulk;
starch, 2 cents per pound; salt meat
extracts, 80 cents per pound; salt meat,
20 per cent; milk, cents per gallon,
and poultry 20 per cent.
Eggs go back to cents per dozen,
and berries to the Old Mckinley Fate.
Oranges and lemons will be adjusted
in a manner to meet the wishes of the
California fruit growers. The rates
have not yet been absolutely fixed, but
will involve a different classification
from that of the Mckinley law.
Under the chemical schedule, soap
made of caustic soda, caustic of soda
and kindred chemicals remains at the
rate fixed in the Wilson law, which is
considered sufficiently protective. The
principal oils are left at existing rates,
except in the case of linseed and flax
seed oil, where an advance was re-
quired because of the restoration of
A. i'll
terial. Refined borax is advanced from
2 cents to 3 cents per pound which is
somewhat under the Mckinley rate.
Boracic acid remains at 3 cents per
pound, the rate fixed by the existing
law, while borate of lime is increased
to cents per pound. There are only
Slight changes in dye stuffs and their
elements.
LEAD, IN ORES,
is fixed at 1 cent per pound pig lead
at cents, and white lead and lead
acetates at 21a cents. These rates are
considerably less than those of the
Mckinley law.
Castor oil is left at 80 cents per
gallon the rate fixed under existing
law The cotton schedule has not yet
been quite completed, but there will be
few changes except upon the fine yarns
and the costly fabrics. The schedule
was satisfactory in its construction to
many of the manufacturers when it
was put in its present form and they
are asking only minor changes. Wines
and spirits will be made satisfactory,
if possible, to the California grape
growers and manufacturers, but, as in
dicated, this can be accomplished only |
by restoration of the Mckinley rates. |
The iron and steel schedule, like cot
tons, was left in fairly satisfactory |
condition to the manufacturers by the |
present law and will not be changed |
except upon a few special articles like |
tin plate and cotton ties and some of |
the forms of tube steel. There may |
be changes also upon this more finished |
article of manufacture, like surgical |
and tools, but the advance |
will not be large. The duty on steel |
rails has not yet been fixed, and the |
committee will endeavor to obtain some |
further data before adopting it. The
earthenware schedule is also incom-
plete, but will be put upon a firm pro-
tective basis. The rates on decorated
china were put exceptionally low in
the present tariff, because of irritation
between the manufacturers and their
employees. The new rates will be spe-
rife so far as practicable, and plate
glass will be subjected to some ad-
Glass above 24x30 inches and
not exceeding 24X60 inches will be left
1t the present rate of 22l2 cents a
square foot. The next higher size will
also remain at the present rate of g
cents per foot. The smaller sizes of
olate glass are advanced from to
,ents per foot when not exceeding 16x24
inches, and from to II cents per foot
when not exceeding 24x30 inches square.
The committee have talked over,
somewhat, a few of the other schedules
,ut have not yet reached definite re-
ults. They are waiting the meeting
# wool growers and wool manufacture
RS here next week before deciding
lpon rates for these articles. a rate
# cents per pound upon all classes
# wool has been suggested as a prob
bile compromise upon the raw product.
The progress made by the committee
indicates that they will have the bill /;
veil advanced by the close of the pres
mt session on March 4, in spite OF the
act that some puzZling questions re- :
main to be dealt with. Leading mem ;
ers today express great satisfaction,
S the progress already made which
overs nearly one-half of the printed {
ext of the tariff schedules.
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