The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1897-07-24

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to, 40 per cent ad valorem.
On Timber.
The following was substituted Tor the
paragraph on hewn timber:
Timber, hewn, sided or squared mot
less than eight inches square), and round
timber used for spars and in building
wharves, ! cent per foot.
The paragraph relating to sawn boards
and planks was amended by striking out
the words white pine" at 81 per 1000
feet and by restoring the house rate OH
all the other items of the schedule.
Fence posts We're reduced from 20 to
10 per cent ad valorem.
The conference accepted the senate rate
and language on wrapper and filler TO-
bacco, except that the rate on wrapper
tobacco was made $l.S5 per pound instead
of $l.75. The house rate on imported
cigars cigarettes, etc. of $3.50 per pound
and 25 per cent adj valorem was restored.
Changes in the Free List.
The following changes were made in
the free list:
The provision allowing cattle, horses,
sheep or other domestic animals straying
or driven across the boundary line of an
other country for pasturage to be brought
back free of duty is modified so as TO
continue the privilege for the specified
time of six months
The conference restored to the free list
the house paragraph on books and en-
cravings imported by authority of the
United States for the library of congress.
The conference restored raw cotton to
the free list.
The paragraph in regard to the free adj
mission of fish caught by American fish
ermen was amended so as to include sal
mon on the free list, which were especial
ly excepted by the senate bill, and as
agreed upon reads as follows:
Fresh fish, frozen or packed in ice,
caught in the great lakes or other fresh
waters by citizens of the United States.
On hide cuttings the house paragraph
was restored.
Manganese ore was restored to the free
list
The house phraseology of the para
graph in regard to the ores of gold, silver,
etc, was restored, which has the effect OF
making free nickel and nickel matter.
The conference restored the house pro
vision on camphor
The paragraph relating to cattle, as it
passed the senate, was changed somewhat
as to rates, 1915 being fixed as the rate
on cattle valued at not more than $l4
per head, instead of $3.50, while an al
] 20 ,,fD
cattle of a greater value, instead of %
per cent, as in the senate amendment.
The paragraph in regard to packed fish
was amended as fixed by the senate so as
to be made to apply specifically to fish in
packages. Paragraph 26l was amended
so as to specifically provide that fresh
mackerel, halibut or salmon should be
dutiable at the rate of l cent per pound
as well as picked or sailed article.
The conference made but one change in
the schedule relating to spirits, wines
etc, proper.
The senate rate of 30 cents per gallon
on still wines containing less than IA
per cent of absolute alcohol, in packages
, is changed to 40 cents per gallon. The
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There were comparatively few changes
: in the sundries schedule
Floor mattings, which are taken from
the free list, where they were placed by
the senate. are made dutiablc at 3 cents
per square yard, where their value ex
ceeds 10 cents per square yard, and at
cents per square yard and % per cent ad
valorem where their value exceeds Il
cents per square yard.
The senate rate of 20 cents per package
and 20 per cent ad valorem fixed on play
ing cards was reduced to 10 cents pei
package and 20 per cent ad valorem.
, Reciprocity Provision.
The reciprocity provision as agreed t.
by the conference contains some of tn,
, features of both the senate and the hous,
bills on this schedule 1t also contains
+ some retaliatory measures. What shall
be called the retaliatory clause is tina
p winch empowers the president to suspend
| by proclamation the provisions of this &C
! ton providing for the free introduction
of coffee, tea, tonuin or tOnka beans anC
I vanilla beans coming from any country
! which imposes duties upon products o
the United States which he may deem
to be reciprocally unequal and unreason
able.
: TEN CENTS ABOVE PREDICTIONS
S Opening Price on New wheat. @
Cents at Peudfefon.