Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1897-08-06

but or salmon should be dutiable at the
rate of one cent per pound, as well as the
picked or saltcd article.
Dried Fruits.
Paragraph es2 in regard to apples. etc.
was amended SO as to omit currants. and
the house rate of 2 cents per pound on such
dried fruits as apples, peaches pears and
berries prepared in any manner was re-
stored.
The grape paragraph was altered SO as to
require the payment of % cents per cubic
foot ''of the capacity of the barrels or
| packages"
Orange and lemon peels preserved and
cocoanut meat. etc.. were restored to the
house rate Of cents per pound.
On pineapples the senate rate was re-
tanned.
On unshelled fllberts and walnuts the
house rate Of cents per pound prevailed.
while on shelled hlberts and walnuts the
senate rate of cents per pound was sus-
| tained.
The conference struck out the senate
amendment providing for duty Of cents
per pound on dead game and game meats.
Paragraph ?S2. relating to cocoa, was
amended by leaving out cocoanut Oil
Spirits and Wines.
The conference made but one change IN
the schedule relating to spirits. wines. etc.
| proper.
Tho senate rate of so cents per gallon on
still wines containing less than IA per cent.
ofabsolute alcoholin in packages was changed
\ to 10 cents per gallon. The house rate was
| co cents.
| The rates on mineral waters were com.
\ promised. being made 20 cents per dozen on
| pint bottles. 30 cents per dozen on Quart
bottles. House rate OF 90 cents and the
senate rate Of "a cents.
| Chcmtcaln.
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.
4 There was compromise on white lead
| at 27s 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
| 3A cents per pound. brown. gray, or yellow
at ga cents, nitrate at 2la. 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 50 cents per ton. but the con-
| ference struck this out. including this ar-
ticie In the IS rate. as originally fixed by
| the house.
| Paper.
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 for books and newspapers, valued
at not above two cents per pound, three
tentsss of a cent per pound: ve!ued above
/ two cents and not above two and half
| cents per pound. four-tenths of one cent
per pound: valued between two and half
and three cents per pound. fve-tenths of
cent; valued between three and four
| cents. sfx-tenths OF cent; valued between
four and five cents. eight-tenths OF a cent:
valued above five cents. 10 per cent. ad
| valorem."
There is also proviso exacting an addi-
ttona! 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.
photographic Prints.
There are numerous changes in the para
graph relating to photographic prints The
rates on such prints on paper not exceed
tns $1,000 OF an inch In thickness is re-
duced from the senate rate of 25 cents ner
pound to 90 ce1s.
The next classification covers paper
ranging from S5 to 400 square inches fixing
sAsN@ AeAeS a. q SGllS PSI pOuIC. tCr Ca.
per exceeding 400 square inches a rate Of
% per cent. ad valorenl is fixed The sem
ate rate on prints is reduced from 10 to
cents and on photographic from to
cents.
"Books for chld-en's use containing IL
Eliminated photographic prints NOT exceed
ING In weight "a ounces each. and all book
lets and fashion magazines or periodicals.
printed in whole or in part by photographic
process or decorated by hand, cents per
pound"
The senate rate of 20 cents per pack and
20 per cent. ad valorc1n fixed on playing
cards was reduced to 10 cents per pack and
90 per cent. ad valorem.
Internal Revenue.
The internal revenue tax amendment re-.
lattng to cigars and cigarettes made by the
| senate was changed to read as follows:
on cigars of all descriptions weighing
moro than three pounds per 1000. So per
l.Goo: on cigars made of tobacco or any sub
! pounds per LOCO. 81 per 1.C00: on cigarettes
made OF tobacco or any substitute weigh
Ing more than three pounds per LOCO, SO per
LOGO: on cigarettes weighing not more than
three pounds per LOCO. 81 per thousand"
| The senate amendment providing for a
tax on stocks and bonds was stricken out.
| Metals.
| The house rate of S-l0th of O cent per
| pound was restored on round iron of less
than ZIG 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 2-l0
cents per pound on iron or steel anchors
was increased to lt cents per pound. the
house rate. The other amendments to tho
paragraph made by the senate were ac-
ceptcd.
Paragraph lee reads as follows:
Hoop or band iron, or hoop or band
steel. cut to lengths or wholly or partly
manufactured into hoops or ties. coated or
not coated with paint or any other prepara-
tion. with or without buckles or fasteninzs.
for beling cotton or any other commodity.
5-1o Of cent per pound" ...->>s-:.....-,,-
Steel Rails.
On railway bars. T rails. and punched
iron or steel nat rails the conference re-
stored the house rate of 7-20 of a cent. On
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