The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1897-07-30

still wines containing less tnan IA per cent.
of absolute alcohol in packages was changed
to 40 cents per gallon. The house rate was
GO cents.
The rates on mineral waters were COM
promised, being made 20 cents per dozen on
pint bottles. 80 cents per dozen on quart
bottles House rate of 40 cents and the
senate rate of "a cents.
Chemicals.
The conference struck out the senate rate
paragraph relating to tartrate of soda and
potash and partly refined argols and re-
stored the house paragraph.
There was compromise on white lead
| at 2& cents per pound.
The house paragraph in regard to oxide
of zinc and white paint was restored
There was general change of rates on
| lead. white acetate of lead being fixed at
| 81 cents per pound, brown. gray, or yellow
| at "a cents, nitrate at ~, and litharge at
2A cents per pound. These were generally
compromises between the rates of the two
houses.
Phosphorus was compromised at Is cents
per 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 so cents per ton, but the con-
ference struck this out, including this ar
| ticle in the IS rate, as originally fixed by
the house.
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
1t is as follows:
| Printing paper, unsized, sized, or glued,
suitable fo- books and newspapers. valued
| at not above two cents per pound, three
| tenths of a cent per pound; valued above
two cents ard not above two and a half
cents per pound, four-tenths of one cent
per pound: valued between two and half
and three cents per pound, five-tenths of
a cent; valued between three and four
cents, six-tenths of cent; valued between
four and five cents, eight-tenths of a cent:
valued above five cents, Is per cent. ad
| valorem.'
There is also proviso exacting an addi-
tional duty of one-tenth of cent per
pound for each dollar of export duty per
cord imposed by any country exporting
| wood pulp to the United States.
LithOEraphic 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 of an inch in thickness is re-
duced from the senate rate of % cents per
pound to 20 cents
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 rate of
80 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
Illuminated photographic prints not exceed
ing In weight "a ounces each, and all book
let's and fashion magazines or periodicals,
printed in whole or in part by lithogra phic
process or decorated by hand, cents per
pound"
The senate rate of 20 cents per pack and
~ 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:
ION cigars of all descriptions weighing
more than three pounds per 1000, SO per
1000: on cigars made of tobacco or any sub
| stitute weighing not more than three
pounds per 1000, 81 per LOCO; on cigarettes
made of tobacco or any substitute weigh
ing more than three pounds per 1,OO0 So pei
| 1000; on cigarettes weighing not more than
three pounds per 1000. 81 per thousand"
The senate amendment providing for a
| tax on stocks and bonds was stricken out
Metals.
| The house rate of S-10th of q cent pei
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.
The rate on iron bars, billets, etc, in the
manufacture Of which charcoal is used as
fuel, was made specifically at $12 per ton.
In paragraph 127 the senate rate of PIT
cents per pound on iron or steel anchors
was increased to IL cents per pound. the
house rate. The other amendments to the
paragraph made by the senate were &C
| copied.
Paragraph 100 reads as follows:
Hoop or band iron, hoop or band
steel. cut to lengths or wholly or partly
manufactured into hoops or ties, coated OF
not coated with paint or any other prepare
ton, with or without buckles or fasIenings
for baling cotton or any other commodity
$40 of a cent per pound"
Steel Rails.
On railway bars, T rails, and punched
iron or steel fiat rails the conference re
stored the house rate of 7-20 of a cent. Or
railway fishplates the senate rate of ALI
of one cent per pound stands.
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 tc
apply only to zinc spelter or other metals
or any alloy of these metals"
The house rate of cents per pound wa:
restored on polished or planished sheets OF
iron 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 it's proviso that the
benefit of the drawback provision in sec
ton "A snail not Apply TO articles
featured in this country from imported
tinplates, etc.
The conference amended the proviso tt
paragraph 1876 relating to wire rods so as tc
make it read follows:
THAT all wire or steel rods which have
been tempered or treated in any manner oil
partly manufactured shall pay addi
tional duty of one-half of one cent Del
pound
There were several changes in the para
graph relating to iron and steel wire.
| Changes in Cutlery.
In the paragraph relating to cutlery there
was but one change from the senate SEIZED
ule.
The conference made material changes
from both the senate and house rates or
shotguns, both in classification and rates
of duty.
On wheels for railway purposes a COM
promise makes the duty IL cents pei
pound and IA cents on ingots, blooms
etc. Aluminium, in crude form, was made
dutiable at cents and in plates at Is cents
per pound.
cents per package of 100 loaves.
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 21
cents per pound, instead of cents, as fxeC
by the house, and 2A cents as fixed by the
senate.
The senate rates on mica were advanced
those on the manufactured article benf
fixed at cents per pound and 20 per cent
ad valorem, those on cut mica at II cents
; per pound and 20 per cent: ad valorem.
The rate of cents pound on nickel, as