The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-05-05

thc idbc VI cent Per CUBIC FOOT as In
the house bill The rate of 81 per ton
on all sawed boards, ETC., is retained,
but when planed on one side. the addi-
tional rate is made 80 instead OF so
cents per thousand feet. board measure;
when planed, tongued and grooved the
additional rate is made 20 cents per
thousand feet. board measure, instead of
81; If planed on two sides and tongued
and grooved $1.05 per thousand instead
of 1.5O The house proviso for an
additional duty of 25 per cent. ad val
orem upon lumber imported from any
foreign country which imposes an ex-
port duty is changed so as to add the
amount of the export duty instead OF
any fixed sum. The duty on lxindling
wood in bundles is stricken out. Shin
giles. house rate 80; senate 25 cents per
thousand. Manufactures of osier or
willow, house rate so, senate 40 per cent.
ad valorem.
Changes I'm Wool Schedule.
Many and important changes were
made by the senate tariff sub-commit-
tee in the wool and wooden schedule as
passed by the house. First-class woods
were reduced from IL cents per pound,
as provided in the house bill, to cents
per pound, and second-class woods from
IL TO 8 cents, whereas the duties on woods
of the third -class were raised. The divid-
ing line in this 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 80 per cent.
ad valorem as in the house bill. Woods
valued at more than 10 cents per pound
were placed at cents per pound in
stead of 30 per cent. ad valorem. The
wool growers failed to secure all the
changes they desired in classification.
but it is understood that the rates fixed
on the woods themselves are satisfac-
tory to them. Skirted woods of the first
class as imported in 1890 and prior to
that date are required to pay cent per
pound in addition to the rates imposed
by this act on unwashed woods Of class
one.
Change in Tobacco Taxes.
Tobacco-An important change was
made i'm tobacco taxes under the internal
revenue laws. Section 1868, relating to
internal revenue taxes on tobacco, was
changed (revised statutes) to read as
follows:
Upon tobacco and snuff manu-
factured and sold. or removed for con-
sumption or use, there shall be levied
and collected the following taxes: On
snuff, manufactured of tobacco or any
substitute for tobacco ground, dry,
damp, picked, scented or otherwise of
all descriptions, when prepared for use
a tax of s cents per pound. And snuff
flour, when sold or removed for use or
cop,;umgs'@'}i shall be taxed as snuff
and shall be put up i'm packages and
stamped i'm the same manner as snuff
On all chewing and smoking tobacco,
fine cut cavandish, plug or twist, cut
or granulated of every descriptions; on
tobacco twisted by hand or reduced into
a condition to be consumed or in any
manner other than the ordinary mode
of drying and curing, prepared for sale
or consumption, even If prepared with
out the use of any machine or instru-
ment and without being pressed or
sweetened; and on all fine cut, shorts
and refuse scraps, clippings, cuttings
and sweepings of tobacco, a tax Of
cents per pound"