Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1897-02-13
FRAMING THE TARIFF LAW
Dlugley Is Progressing With the
New Schedule.
Nearly dalf OF the Printed Text Is
Now Covesed--An Outline of
the Work Already Ac-
complished.

Washington, Feb. 6.-The work OF
framing the new tariff law has been well
advanced by the republican members OF
the way and means committee n the
United Associated Presses is today en-
abled to report progress with the lead
Ing schedules. The last of the formal
hearings of interested parties vas Civ
en- on the lrh of January, so that only
a little more than three weeks has
passed. The chemical schedule which
comes first on The list, the earthenware
and glass schedule, the metal schedule
and the cotton schedule ave all been
put in tentative form, with some con-
troverted questions still open, and che
agricultural schedule was nearly COM
pleted yesterday. The wine and spirit
schedule of the Mckinley bill has been
adopted almost without erasure of a
tine.
Important Changes.
One of the most important changes
is on live cattle, which are covered by
he blanket provision OF the existing law
Tor all live animals at 20 per cent adva-
forum. The rate under the new law will
be So per head OIL cattle more than /
year old and Is per cent advalorum on
cattle valued above $40.
This is thought to establish "A more
equitable rate than the Mckinley law,
which imposed $40 per head OF all cat
tie more than l year old, without regard
70 value, n is regarded as sufficiently
protective against the importation Of
Mexican cattle.
The rate on barley is the Mckinley
rate of 80 cents per bushel, which was
demanded by the American barley
growers.
Hay is put at "a a ton, the same as
in the Mckinley law, Il hops at 10
cents per pound. which is also an eX-
tract from the Mckinley law. Negeta-
bles ali go back 10 the Mckinley rates,
potatoes being put at % cents per bush
ell and fax seed at 80 cents per bushel.
Mckinley Rates Restored.
Other items on which Mckinley rates
are restored are salt, IL cents per hun
bred pounds in packages and 8 cents
when in bulk; starch. > cents per pound;
salt meat extracts, 35 cents per pound;
salt meats, % cents per pound; milk, 5
per CEN per gallon, and poultry 20 per
cent. Eggs go back to 5 per cent per
dozen and berries 10 the old Mckinley
rate. Oranges and lemons will be adj
justed in a manner 10 meet the wishes
OF the California fruit growers. The
rates have not yet been absolutely fixed,
but Will involve a different classified
ton from that Of the Mckinley law.
Under the chemical schedule. soap
made of caustic soda and kindred chem
icals remains at the rate fixed in the
Wilson law, which is considered suffi-
GENTLY protective. The principal oils
are left at existing rates. except in the
case Of linseed and flax seed oil. where
an advance was required because 81 the
restoration Of the Mckinley duties on
the raw material.
Refined boraX is advanced from >
cents to } cents per pound, which is
same as that under the Mckinley rate.
Boracic acid remains at 3 cents per
pound, the rate fixed by existing law,
while horate OF lime is increased TO >
cents per pound. There are only slight
changes in dye stuffs and their ele-
na1py.