The herald., 1897-07-20

act, composed wholly or in part-of wool
the duty per pound shall be four times
the duty imposed by this act on one
pound of unwashed wool of the first
class and in addition thereto sixty per
cent. ad valorem.
Wood schedule-The following was
substituted for the paragraph on hewn
timber: Timber, hewn, sided or
squared (not less than eight inches
square) and round timber used for spars
or in building wharves, one cent per
cubic foot"
The paragraph relating to sawed
| boards and planks was amended by
striking out the words white pine" at
81 per 1000 feet and by restoring the
house rates on all the other items of the
schedule, making the rate so cents per
1000 feet for each side planed or finished; ;
81 for tongued and grooved. and $1.50 if
planed on two sides and tongued and
grooved. The legislative proviso to this
paragraph inserted by the senate was
changed so as to read as follows: THAT
If any country or any INDEPENDENCE shall
impose an export duty upon saw logs,
round, manufactured timber, stave
bolts or heading bolts. exported in the
| United States or a discriminating
charge on boomsticks or chains used by
American citizens in tying logs, the
amount of such export duty, tax or
other charge as the case may be. shall
be added as an additional duty to the
duties imposed upon the articles men,
| toned in this paragraph when imported
from such country or independently"
| Fence posts are reduced from 20 to 10
per cent ad valorem.
The house rate of per cent ad valor
EN- is restored on casks and barrels SUI
gar box shocks, etc.
| The house rate of cents per 1000 and
IS per cent ad valorem is restored on
| toothpicks, as is the house rate of 40
cents per 1000 on butchers slewers.
| The conference accepted the senate
rate and language on wrapper and filler
| tobacco, except that the rate on wrap
| per tobacco was made $1S5 per pouri
| instead of S175. The house rate on i'm
| ported cigars, cigarettes, etc., of $3.50
per pound and % per cent ad valorem
was restored. The senate made the rate
81 per pound and 25 per cent ad valorem.
There were no other changes in the
schedule on imported tobacco.
The conference accepted paragraph
1856 as amended by the senate, with the
addition of the words cor plush" before
ribbons in the first line, making plush
ribbons dutiable at $3.50 per pound and
Is per cent ad valorem.
Paragraph 302 in relation to cotton
thread and carded yarn, was amended
by the conference so as to provide that
thread, colored, bleached, combed, etc,
SO as to be advanced beyond the condi-
ton of singles by grouping or twisting
of two or more single yards on all num-
bers exceeding 20 and up to so, are made
dutiable al n of a cent per number per
pound, and on thread of the same class
numbered so and above, $40 of a cert
per pound per number. In the original
house bill there was no division as to
numbers, all being made dutiable at the
rate of $40 of a cent per number per
pound. The senate left the house rate Of
$40 of a cent on the first division and
provided an ad valorem of so per cent on
the second.
The following changes were made in
the free list: The provision allowing cat
| tie, horses, sheep or other domestic ami
| mails straying or driven across the
| boundary line of another country for
pasturage purposes, to be brought back
| free of duty, is modified SO as to con-
tinue this 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 paragraph relating to the free in
PRODUCTION of books, libraries and rea-
u IL f,,p ;tr,pn of
eign countries was altered so as to pro-
vide that where they were not intro
duced for sale they were to be allowed
free entrance where they had not been
so used for less than one year.
The paragraph in regard to the free
admission of fish caught by American
fishermen was amended SO as to include
salmon on the free list, which were
specially excepted by the senate bill as
agreed upon, reads as follows.
Fresh fish, frozen or packed 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, as was cocoanut oil.
The house phraseology of the para
graph in regard to ores of gold, silver
etc. was restored, which has the effect
of making free nickel and nickel matter
Agricultural schedule: Paragraph 21S
relating to cattle, as it passed the senate
was changed somewhat as to rates, 49,. 10
being fixed as the rate on cattle valued
a t not more than $14 per head, instaed Of
So so, while an advalorem rate of 271a
per cent. was fixed on cattle of a greater
value, instead of 25 per cent. in the SEN
ate amendment. The duty on seeds not
specially provided for was made 80 per
cent, the senate rate being 25 and the
house rate 40 per cent
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 261 was amended so as to
specifically provide that fresh mackered
halibut or salmon should be dutiable at
the rate of one cent. per pound as well as
the picked. or sailed article.
Paragraph 262, in regard to apples, etc.
was amended so as to omit currants and
the house rate of two cents per pound
on such dried fruits as apples, peaches,
pears and berries prepared in any man
ner was restored.
The grape paragraph was altered so
as to require the payment of twenty
cents per cubic foot "of the capacity of