Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1897-07-29

rate or one cent Per pound, as Wei IS tue
picked or saated article
Dried Fruits.
Paragraph 262 in regard to apples. ETC..
was amended so as to omit curraIts. and
the house rate of cents per pound on such
dried fruits as apples. peaches. pears. and
berries prepared in any manner was re-
stored.
require the payment of 20 cents per cubic
foot "of the capacity Of the barrels or
packages"
Orange and lemon peels preserved and
cocoanut meat, ETC., were restored to the
house rate Of cents per pound.
On pineapples the senate rate was re-
tanned.
On unshelled filberts and walnuts the
house rate of 3 cents per pound prevailed,
while on shelled fllberts and wainuts the
senate rate Of 5 cents per pound was sus-
tained
The conference struck out the senate
amendment providing for duty of cent IS
per pound on dead game and game meats.
Paragraph 2S2, relating to cocoa. was
amended by leaving out coccanut oil.
Spirits and Wines.
The conference made but one change In
the schedule relating to spirits. wines. ETC..
proper.
The senate rate of 80 cents per gallon on
still wines containing less than IA per cent.
Of absolute alcoho oil in packages was changed
to 40 cents per gallon. The house rate was
GO cents.
The rates en- mineral waters were COM
promised, being made 20 cents per dozen on
pint bottles, 80 cents per dozen On quart
bottles. House rate of 40 cents and the
senate rate of "a cents.
Chemicals.
The conference struck out the senate rate
paragraph relating to tartrate of soda and
potash and partly refined argols and re-
CT nor acryoY h
There was a compromise on White lead
at 2B cents per pound.
The house paragraph in regard to oxide
of zinc and white paint was restored
There was general change of rates ON
lead, white acetate Of lead being fixed at
314 cents per pound, brown. gray, or yellow
at 2A cents, nitrate at 22, and litharge at
PA cents per pound. These were generally
compromises between the rates of the two
houses.
Phosphorus was compromised at IS cents
per pound.
The house rate on sulphur was restored.
The senate made an amendment to the sui
phur paragraph allowing crude birthstone
to come in at SO cents per ton, but the con-
ference struck this out, including this ar
ticle in the IS rate, as originally fixed by
the house.
Paper.
On mechanically ground wood pulp the
house rate of ore-twelfth OF one cent per
pound, dry weight, was restored.
The paragraph in regard to printing pa
per was entirely rewritten. AS amended
1t is as follows:
Printing paper, unsized, sized, or glued,
suitable for books and newspapers, valued
at not above two cents per pound, three
tentg2s Of cent per pound: valued above
two cents and not above two and half
cents per pound, four-tenths Of one cent
per pound: valued between two and a half
and three cents per pound, iye-tenths Of
q ~ hnfy
cents, Six-tenths of q cent; valued between
four and five cents, eight-tenths of a cent:
valued above five cents, Is per cent. ad
valorem.
There is also proviso exacting an addi-
tIonal duty of one-tenth Of a cent per
pound for each dollar of export duty per
cord imposed by any country exporting
wood pulp to the United States.
photographic Prints.
There are numerous changes in the para
graph relating to photographic prints. The
rates on such prints on paper not exceed
ing $1,000 of an inch in thickness is re-
duced from the senate rate of Is cents per
pound to 20 ceA,s.
The next classification covers paper
ranging from IS to 400 square inches, fixing
the rate at cents per pound. For pa
per exceeding 400 square inches a rate Of
90 per cent. ad valorem is fixed. The SEN
ate rate on prints is reduced from 10 to
cents and on photographic from 9 to 6
cents.
Books for children's use containing IL
Illuminated photographic prints not exceed
ing in weight "a ounces each, and all book
let's and fashion magazines or periodicals,
printed in whole or in part by Iithogra phic
process or decorated by hand, cents per
pound"
The senate rate Of 20 cents per pack and
20 per cent. ad valorem fixed on playing
cards was reduced to 10 cents per pack and
20 per cent ad valorem.
Internal Revenue.
The internal revenue tax amendment re-
lating to cigars and cigarettes made by the
senate was changed to read as follows:
ION cigars Of all descriptions weighing
more than three pounds per LEGO, SO per
LOGO; on cigars made OF tobacco or any SUBJ
stitute weighing not more than three
pounds per LOCO, 81 per 1,C00: on cigarettes
ing more than three pounds per LOCO, So per
LOCO; on cigarettes weighing not more than
three pounds per LOCO, 81 per thousand
The senate amendment providing for .
tax on stocks and bonds was stricken out.
Metals.
The house rate Of S-10th of cent per
pound was restored on round iron Of less
than 7-16 Of an inch in diameter and bars
or shapes of rolled or hammered iron rot
specially provided for.
The house rate On iron In slabs, blooms,
ETC., less finished than iron in bars and
more advanced than pig iron was also re-
stored.
The rate on iron bars. bilets, ETC., in the
manufacture Of which charcoal is used as
fuel was made specifically at $12 per ton.
In paragraph 127 the senate rate of 2-10
cents per pound on iron or steel anchors
was increased to ~ cents per pound. the
house rate The other amendments to the
paragraph made by the senate were ac-
copied.
Para graph 1es reads as follows:
Hoop or band iron. or hoop or band
steel. cut to lengths or wholly or partly
manufactured into hoops or ties, coated or
not coated with paint or any other prepara-
ton. with or without buckles or fastenings.
for baling cotton or any other commodity.
$40 Of cent per pound.
Steel Rails.
On railway bars. T rails. and punched
iron or steel fat rails the conference re-
stored the house rate of 7-20 Of a cent. On
-; 1-,o,, 6ehnlates the senate rate of 4-10