The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1897-07-20

square yard ana III duultlou pIieTeCO $40
per cent ad valorem.
PARAGRAPH 37S, wool, Dutch and two
ply ingram carpets, 1S cents per square
yard, and in addition thereto 40 per cent
ad yalorem.
The following was substituted for the
paragraph on hewn timber:
Climber hewn, sided or squared (not
less than eight inches square) and round
timber used for spars or IN building
wharves one cent per cubic foot.
The paragraph relating to sawed boards
and planks was amended by striking out
the words white pine" at u per
thousand feet and by restoring the House
rate on all the other items OF the schedule,
making the rates so cents per thousand
feet for each side planed or finished, 81
Tor tongued and grooved, and Sl.oO II
planed on two sides, and tongued and
grooved. The legislative proviso to this
paragraph inserted by the Senate was
changed so as to read as follows
That If any country or dependency
shall impose an export duty upon saw
logs, round manufactured timber,
stave bolts single bolts, or heading
a discriminating charge upon boom sticks
or chains used by American citizens in
towing booms, the amount of such export
duty tax or Other charge as the case may
be, shall be added as an additional duty
to the duties imposed upon the articles
mentioned in this paragraph when I'M,
ported from such country or dependency.
Fence posts are reduced from 20 to 10
per cent ad yalorem. The House rate of
30 per cent ad valorem is restored on casks
and barrels, sugar box shocks, etc.
The House rate of two cents per
thousand and Is per cent ad valorem is
resorted on tooth picks as In the, House
rate Of 40 per thousands on butcher
skewers.
Leads ore remains at one and one-half
cents per pound. Lead bullion and pig
lead two and one-half cents per pound.
The paragraph in relation to sugar in
full is as follows:
Sugars not above number 16 Dutch
standard in color, tank bottoms, syrups1
of cane juice, melada, concentrated
nolasses, testing by the polariscope not
above 70 degrees, 81. 100 per pound and for
every additional degree shown by the
polariscopic test 35. 1000 of one cent per
pound additional and fractions of a de-
gree in proportion; and on sugar above
number 16 Dutch standard in color and
all sugar which has gone through pro-
cess Of refining one cent and ninety five
hundredths of one cent per pound;
molasses testing above 40 degrees and not
above 56 degrees, three cents per gallon;
testing So degrees and above six cents per
gallon; sugar DRAWINGS and sugar sweep
ings shall be subject to duty as molasses
or sugar, as the case may be, according to
polariScopic test Provided, that nothing
herein contained shall be so construed as
to abrogate or in any manner impair or
affect the provisions Of the treaty of Com
mercial reciprocity concluded between the
United States and the King of Hawaiian
Islands on January 30, 1875, or the pro-
visions of any act of Congress heretofore
passed for the execution OF the same.
The conference restored the House rate
of 20 per cent on sugar cane, saccharine is
made one dollar and fifty cents per pound
and 10 per ad valorem.
The confectionery paragraph is changed |
to read:
Sugar candy and all confectionery not |
specially provided for in this act, valued |
at Is cents per pound or less, and on
su CARS after being refined when tinctured, |
colored or in any way adulterated, four
cents per pound and 5 cent ad valorem,
valued at more than Is per pound, 80
cents ad valorem. The weight and the |
value of the immediate coverings other
than the outer packing case Or other
covering, shall be included in the dutiable
weight and the value Of the merchan-
disc"
The Senate phraseology and rates are
retained on paragraph 346 relating Ito
woven fabrics not specially provided for, 4
except that in each case where the Senate
fixed the rate on a weight of four ounces
per square yard the conference increased
the weight to four and one-ounces.
Crockery ware is restored to the duties
provided by the bill as it passed the
House.
Cement is left at the duty provided by
the House, instead of having the duties
increased as proposed by the Senate.
Marble is placed at the increased rates
proposed by the Senate.
The duty of twenty per cent on i'm 4
ported cotton, as proposed by the Senate,
Is not agreed to, for the reason that the
only cotton imported is Egyptian cotton,
which is a quality between our uplands
and Sea Island, and not produced here.
The cotton schedule as a whole remains
substantially the same as in the bill as it
passed the House. The changes are main
" in the high grades of cotton underwear,
with some notifications of hosiery.
A compromise between tho House and
Senate rates on cattle is agreed to. In
general the duties proposed on agricul-
tllral products are the same as those in
the act of 1890.
Fish are placed at rates little higher
than those which were provided by the
act Of 1890, and little lower than the
The duties on wood pulp for paper and
on paper are converted into specific form
at substantially the present ad valorem
rates with proviso added for an addi-
tional duty on pulp or woods. The duties
on manufactures of paper are substantial
" as they passed the House.
The sundries schedule seems substan-
TALLY as it passed the house. Coal, how
ever, is reduced to 81 pents per ton, and
coal slack or culm to fifteen cents per ton
as proposed by the Senate amendment 674
A duty of fifteen per cent is placed on
hides of cattle which were placed on the
free list by the House. The Senate
amendment proposed duty of 20 per
cent, but this has been reduced to Is per
cent. A proviso is added for a full draw
back of the duty paid on hides subse-
quently exported as leather.
The House and Senate reciprocity plans
arelunited and adopted with modifica-
tions. In the Senate plan any commercial
treaty must be approved by Congress oe-
fore it goes into effect and in the House
plan ch1cle. silk, laces, sugar, mineral
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