The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1897-05-05
NEW TARIFF BILL

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valorem instead of 90 per cent, Is the
House bill added Cd all of them.
The above applies 60 goods, the warp
of which consists only of cotton on other
vegetable material. In women's and
childrens dress goods. etc., which are
COMPOSED wholly or in part of wool and
not specially provided for, the duty is re-
duced from II to cents per pound, with
an ad valorem of 30 per cent added. The
rate on weddings, suspeDders. etc., is re-
duced from 10 to 40 cents per pound,
though the ad valorem addition of 60 per
cent is not changed.
SUGAR SCHEDULES.
Sugars not above number 16, Dutch
standard in color, tank bottoms. syrup of
cane juice and of beet juice, melada, coH-
centrated molas.es, testing by the polar
lscope above 81 and not above So degrees,
seventy-nine hundredths of one cent per
pound and for every additional degree
SHOWN by the polnriscope test two
hundredths OF one cent per pound, stan
dard fractions of a degree In proportion.
sugar above number Is Dutch standard
IN Color and sugar that has gone through
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Huhureaths OF one cent per pound; and
in addition thereto on all the foregoing
| 80 per centum and valorem,
| sugars not nbove number 1G. Dutch
standard In color, tank bottoms, syrups
OF cane juice and beet juice Eelada, con-
centrated melada concrete and coneen-
trated molasses testing by the polariscope
not more than 81 degrees, rs per cent, nd
valorem. Molasaes testing above 40 and
/ than fam rNnv
gallon; testing 56 degrees and not above
| ~ degrees, eight cents per gallon.
| Machinery purchased abroad, imported
and erected in any beet sugar factory and
actually used in the production of sugar
10 the United States from beets produced
therein, within two years from the first
| day Of July, 1897, shall be admitted free
Of duty under such regulations as the
Secretary OF the Treasury may prescribe.
| Maple sugar and maple syrup four.
cents per pound; glucose grape sugar,
one ana one-half cents per pound; sugar
cane In its natural state or manufactured
ten per cent ad valurem; sacharine one
dollar per pound and ten per cent ad va
loren.
Sugar candy and all confectionery
valued at Is cents per pound or less,
cents per pound and 10 per cont ad
| valorem.
| A duty is levied on tea at the rate of 10
cents per pound until January l. 1900;
after 1900 it is admitted free Of duty.
= METALS.
| In the metals schedule the following
change of Importance is made in para
graph 191 relating to coils of rods of less
than seven-sixteenths of an inch, in
diameter. which is made to include
hammered as we'll as rolled iron, and on
which the duty is reduced from the
| House rate of eight-tenths to seYen-tenths
| Of one cent per pound.
There is also a reduction on slabs,
blooms, loops. ETC., from five teptbs to
four-tenths of a cont per pound. Beams
Orders, ETC., are reduced from six -tenths
to fiye-tenths Of cent. Boiler plate iron
or steel is reduced from per cent to 25
per cent ad valorem; anchors of iron or
steel from one and half cents per pound
to one and two-tenths cents. Forgings,
not especially provided for, are made
dutlaDle at per cont nd valorem, where
as the House rate gave the same ad vale.
rem with an additional cent and a half
per pound. There are also reductions in
the hook. bands and scroll paragraph as
follows:
Valued at three cents per pound or less
from sixth.tenths to five-tenths of cent
pCE pOuHny etuluuGE uudu u4uUbE Ten, |
wire gauge, from seven-tenths to six |
tenths per pound thinner than number
twenty wire gauge, from nine-tenths to |
aight-tenthS, Railway bars, ST, " rails, |
reduced from seven-twentieths to three. |
tenths cent per pound, and railway fish |
plates from one-half to four-tenths of a |
cent per pound. There is reduction in |
the paragraph relating to galvanized iron
and steel sheets, and galvanized hoop |
iron. etc., from one-fourth of a cont ger |
pound to twotenths of a cent Oh sheets
of iron or steel. polished, planed, etc.,
from two cents per pound to one and /
seven-eigths cents with q provision re- |
ducing the duty Oh plates, wheels, etc.. |
which have been picked or cleaned by |
cent pound. There is a reduction on
thin plates, ternep plates and tagers tin,
from one and half cents to ono and |
four tenths cents per pound. The pro-
vision is stricken out relieving this para
graph from the benefits of drawback.
Mill shafting connecting rods and |
piston rods are added to paragraph 1871 |
and are made dutiable at three-tenths of |
cent per pound. In the same paragraph |
steel ingots, oogged ingots, etc., valued |
at a cent per pound and less, are made |
dutiable at three-tenths of cent per
pound instead of seven -twentieths as in |
the House bill; valued above one and
0n6-IOurGn Genus, aG SlX-t6nth5 In t6RCl of |
seven-tenths; valued above one and eight
tenths, at seven-tenths instead of eight
tenths: valued above two and two-tpnths,
nine-tenths of a cent per pound, instead
of one and one-tenth cents; valde above
three cents per pound, one and two tenths
of a cent, instead of one and four- tenths
valued above four cents, one and three.
tenths of a cent per pound instead of one
and -tenths; valued above seven cents. /
two cents per pound instead of two and
five-tenths; valued above ten cents, two
and four-tenths cents per pound instead
Of three cents valued above thirteen
cents, two and eight-tenths Tor pound In
stead OF three and 1ve-tenths; valued
above sixteen cents per pound, four and
seven-tenths cents instead of six cents.
The provision of the House bill making
all iron or steel wire rods which have
been tempered or treated, dutiable .as
wire, is stricken out. The entire nara.
graph relating to round iron or steel wire
ia cancelled and new language sinh
stituted. According to the new cIassifcn
tion round iron or steel wire not smalIeY
than number thirteen wire gauge. is
made dutiable at one and fourth cents
per pound, while smaller wire hut NOT