Daily capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1896-1899, 1897-05-05
CONGRESSIONAL,
The Tariff Bill Is Reported.
Retroactive Clause and Hawiian
Clause Stricken Out.

W AShlNGIONs nay Il Il TIC NOtC III
the senate finances Committee to re-
mort the tariff bill was a surprise.
The vote stood to 5. Jones of Ne
vada voted with theRepublicans to re-
mort. All the Democrats voted no.
Senator Aldrich presented the tariff
bill to the senate today and gave notice
that it would be calico up Tuesday,
the 18th inst. The time for the bill
to take effect is made July 1, instead
of May ], as provided by the house,
and the words of the fisst paragraph,
'or Withdrawn for consumption" are
stricken out. The retroactive clause
of the Dingley bill is thus stricken
from the senate bill.
The entire house provision relating
to reciprocity is stricken out and Sec
tions substituted providing that
whenever country shall pay a bounty
upon tue expectation of any article of
merchandise and duitable under this
act greater than the duty upon the
importation of any such article into
the United States, there shall be
levied upon it, in addition to the
duty imposed by this act,a duty equal
to the net amount of such bounty to
be ascertalned by the secretary of the
treasury.
The house provision keeping in
force the Hawaiian reciprocity treaty
is stricken out, the effect being in
directly to abrogate the treaty and
impose the same duty on Hawaiian
sugar as on the sugars from other
countries.
The provision Of the house bill on
distilled wines is stricken out and
the following substituted: Still wines,
in casks, if containing IA per cent or
less absolute alcohol, 30 cents on gal
lon; if containing more than IA per
cent absolute alcohol, 80 cents a gal
Ion. In bottles or jugs, per case of a
dozen, containing each not more than
a quart and more thaG.a pint or "a
bottles or jugs containing each not
more than a pint 81 per case.
Wines, ginger, cordial or vermouth
Imported, containing more than "a
per cent of alchohol shall be classed
as spirits and pay duty accordingly.
The percentage of alchohol in wines
and fruit juices shall be determined
in such a manner as the secretary of
the treasury shall prescribe.
Lead ore is increased from one to
one-half cents per pound.
All coal is made dutiable at 10 cents
per ton, with the proviso that the
duty shall be 60 cents ON coal i'm
ported from any country that does
not impose a higher rate of duty than
those named IL this bill.
The senate has increased the inter-
nal revenue duty on beer to $1.44
barrel until January l, 1900. There
after it shall pay the present rate
of 81.
Many important changes were made
in wool and woolen schedules. First
class woods were reduced from II cents
per pound to s cents, second-class
woods from II to 8, whereas the duties
on woods of the third class were raised.
The dividing line Of the class was
placed at 10 cents, woods under that
value being made dutiable at cents
per pound, instead of 80 per cent ad-
yalorem, as in the house bill. Wools
valued at more than 10 cents a pound
were placed at cents per pound, in
stead of so per cent ad valorem. The
woolgrowers failed to secure all the
changes they desired in the classified
tion, but it is understood the rates
fixed on the woods themselves are sat
isfactory to them.
Skirted woods of the first class, al
imported in 1890 aud prior, are re
quired to pay cent pound in addi
tion to the rates imposed by this act
on washed woods of class one.
There is a reduction on oils from 81
to 20 cents pound.
The sugar schedule of the tariff bill
is as follows: