Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1897-05-04
The Senate Changes the Time at Which
This Bill Shall Take Effect, from
May 1, AS Provided in the
House, to July 1.
THE RETROACTIVE CLAUSE is KILLED
The Duty on Uncured Hides, Whether
Dry Sailed or Pickled, is Fixed at
~ Cents Per Pound--Lead Ore
Increased from a Cent to
Cent and Half.

washington, May 4.-SenatOr AlarlcH
presented the tariff bill in the senate to-
day, and gave notice that it would be
called up on Tuesday the 18th inst. The
time for the bill to take effect is made
July l, 1897, instead of May l, as provid-
ed in the house bill. The sugar schedule
taxes sugars not above No. 16, Dutch
standard color, syrups, cane juice, and
beet juice, etc., seventy nine hundredths
of cent pound, and for every addi-
tlonal degree shown by the polariscope
test, two.hundredths Of cent pound,
and fractions of degree in proportion.
Sugar above No. 16 Dutch standard color,
and sugar that has gone through pro-
cess of refining, one and sixteen-hun-
dredths of one cent pound, and in addi-
tion of all the foregoing 35 per cent ad-
valorem. Machinery purchased abroad
imported and erected in any beet sugar
factory, aud actually used in the produc-
tion of sugar in the United States from
beets produced therein, within one year
from July 1897, shall be admitted free of
duty.
duty is levied on tea at the rate of ten
cents pound until January l, 1900; after
ward tea is free of duty. Following is the pro-
vision on hioes' transferred IRON Cne iiSe:
Hides OF cattle. raw and incurred, whether
ory' saltea Or PlcA,eo' one anu MAJ, Genus
exported made from imported hides there
shall be allowed draw back equal to the
amount of duty paid on such hides. All
coal is made dutiable at rs cents per ton,
with proviso that the duty shall be
60 cents from any country that does not
imnose higher rate of dutv. The senate
has increased the internal revenue duty
nm beer 10 Al 20 per barrel until Januarv
l. 1900. after that it is placed at al, the
present rate.
The retroactive clause of the measure ia
stricken from the senate bill. The entire
house provision relating to reciprocity has
heen stricken ont. and sections substituted
proyidine that whenever the country shall
nav bnnntv npon the importation of anv
article of merehandise. dutiable under this
act than nnon the imnortation of such
articles 70 the United States, there shall be
levied upon IL an additional auty eoual to
the net amount of such bounty. The house
proyieion for keeping in force the Hawai-.
ian recinrooitv treaty. ia stricken ont. the
etfoCt being TO I'm pose the same DUTY on
Hawaiian sugars as from other countries.
Lead ore is increased from q cent TO cent
ana hslf pou NO.
wooLEN SCHEDULES.
Many important changes were made on
woola and the wooden schedule. First class
wools were reauoeo from ~ Genus poano
70 Genus; secono CLASS Woois' from ~ 20
., whereas doties On n wools OF me 11.la a
CLASS we're ralsea: me alviolng l!ne class
was placed az ~ Genus sAine. ara woUls
under tnat value were mace out,aoie 81 'ne
o Low. aa.o,a.an p ~ 49, horso Mi
Woods valued at more than 10 cents a
pound were placed at z cents a pound in
stead Of 30 per cent adyalorem. The
wool growers failed to secure all the
changes which thew desired in classifica-
tion. but il is understood that the rates
fred on wools themselves are satisfactory
as l"polvou uut4us ,ooo CIV p. w.
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