Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1897-08-05

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senate rate OF ~ centA
ChemScals.
The conference struck out the senate rate
paragraph relating 20 tarxrate OF soda ana
potash and partly refined argols and re-
stored the house paragraph.
There was compromise on WHITE lead
at ~ cents per pound.
The house paragraph in regard TO oxide
Of zinc and white paint was restored.
There was q general change OF rates on
lead. white acetate OF lead being nxed at
81 cents per pound. brown. gray. or yellow
at ~ cents. nitrate At ~. and iitharge at
2N cents per pound. These were generally
compromises betwssn.t the rates OF the two
houses.
Phosphorus was compromised At 10 cents
Der 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 50 cents per ton. but the con-
ference struck This out. including this ar
ticle IN the IS rate. an originally fixed by
'"' ''' Paper.
On mechanically ground wood pulp the
house rate Of one-twelfth of one cent per
pound, dry weight. was restored.
The paragraph in regard to printing pa
per was entirely rewritten. As amended
Il Is as follows:
printing paper. unsized. sized. or glued,
suitable for books and newspapers. valued
at not above two cents per pound. three
tenths of a 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 q half
and three cents per pound. hve-tenths Of
q cent: valued between three and four
cents, six-tenths of a cent: valued between
four and i've cents eight-tenths Of 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.
Lithographic 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 or an inch In thickness Is re-
duced from the senate rate of % cents per
pound TO 20 ceIs.
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
IS per cent. ad valorem Is fixed. The SEN
ate rate on prints Is reduced from 10 to
5 cents and on photographic from to 6
cents.
Books for children's use containing IL
ing in weight "a ounces each. and all book
let's and fashion magazines or periodicals..
printed In whole or In part by photographic
process or decorated by hand. cents per
pound"
The senate rate of 20 cents Der pack a nd
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:
"On cigars Of all descriptions weighing
more than three pounds per 1000, s. per
1000: on cigars made Of tobacco or any SUBJ
stitute weighing not more than three
pounds per 1000. 81 per 1000; on cigarettes
made OF tobacco or any substitute weigh
ing more than three pounds per 1000. SO per
1000; on cigarettes weighing not more than
three pounds per 1000. 81 per thousand"
The senate amendment providing for q
tax on stocks and bonds was stricken out.
Metals.
The house rate OF S-10th of a 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 not
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
manufacture of which charcoal Is used as
fuel. was made specifically at s12 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-
cepted.
Paragraph lo9 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.
Cor baling cotton or any other commodity.
5-lo Of a cent per pound"
steel Rails.
On railway bars, rails. and punched
iron or steel fiat rails the conference re-
stored the house rate of 7-20 of cent On
railway fishplates the senate rate OF 4-l0
OF one cent per pound glands.
Paragraph 1872 providing for an extra
duty OF 2-10 of cent per pound on iron and
steel sheets or plates. galvanized or coated.
was allowed to stand. but was made to
apply only to 'zinc spelter or other metals.
or any alloy OF these metals"
The house rate of 2 cents per pound was
restored on polished or planished sheets OF
iron or steel. On taggers' iron or steel. tin
plates and terne plates the house rate OF
IL cents per pound was restored. The
house receded from Its proviso that the
benefit OF the drawback provision In Sec
ton "a shah not apply to articles manu-
featured in this country from imported
tinplates, etc.
The conference amended the proviso to
paragraph 1856 relating to wire rods so as TO
make II read as follows:
THAT all wire or steel rods which have
been tempered or treated In any manner or
partly manufactured shall pay an addi-
tional duty Of one-half of one cent per
pound"
There were several changes in the para
graph relating to iron and steel wire.
Changes I'm Cutlery.
In the paragraph relating to cutlery there
was but one change from the senate sched-
ule.
The conference made material changes
from both the senate and house rates on
shotguns. both in classification and rates
| Of duty.
On wheels for railway purposes a COM
| promise makes the duty III cents per
| pound and 1h cents on ingots. blooms.
| etc. Aluminium. in crude form. was made
| dutiable at cents and In plates at Is cents
| per pound.
The rate on Dutch metal was made
cents per package of 100 loavcs.
The language and rates Of the senate
| amendments Of the paragraph In relation
| to lead ore were accepted without change,
| but lead in pigs was made dutiable at "a
| cents per pound. Instead Of cents, as fixed
| by the house. and 2A cents as fixed by the
| senate.
The senate rates on mica were advanced.
| those on the manufactured article being
fixed at cents per pound and 20 per cent.
| ad vaiorem. those on cut mica at IL cents
| per pound and 20 per cent. ad valorem-
The rate Of Q cents pound on nickel. as
! provided by the house. was restored.
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