The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1897-07-31
tor baiing cotton or any other commodity.
$40 OF cent per pound"
Steel Rails.

Dor DulfnB cotpOn or any Odner COuiihooitys
$40 OF cent per pound"
steel Rails.
On railway bars. T rails. and punched
iron or stee. fiat rails the conference re-
stored the house rate of 7-20 of cent. On
railway fishplates the senate rate Of 4-l0
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 to
apply only to zinc spelter or other metals.
or any alloy of these metals"
The house rate Of cents per pound was
restored on polished or planished sheets OF
iron or steel. On .aggers iron or steel, tin
plates and terne plates the house rate OF
IL cents per pound was restored. The
house receded from its proviso that the
benefit OF the drawback provision In sec
ton "a shall not apply to articles manu-
featured in this country from imported
tinplates, etc.
The conference amended the proviso to
paragraph 1856 relating to wire rods so as TO
make II read as follows:
THAT all wire or steel rods which have
been tempered or treated in any manner or
partly manufactured shall pay an Gddi-
tional duty Of one-half of one cent per
pound"
There were several changes In the para
graph relating to iron and steel wire.
SnhnBeb IN Sutierss
In the paragraph relating to cutlery there
was but one change from the senate sched-
ule.
The conference made material changes
from both the senate and house rates on
shotgurs, both in classification and rates
OF duty.
On wheels for railway purposes a COM
promise makes the duty 1is cents per
pound and IA cents on ingots, blooms.
etc. Aluminium. in crude form. was made
dutiable at cents and in plates at 13 cents
per pound.
The rate on Dutch metal was made
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 25s
cents per pound. instead Of cents. as fixed
by the house. and "a cents as fixed by the
senate.
The senate rates on mica were advanced
those on the unmanufactured article being
fixed at @ cents per pound and 20 per cent.
aid valorem. those on cut mica at II cents
per pound and 20 per cent ad valorem.
The rate of cents a pound on nickel. as
provided by the house. was restored.
Earthenwnre.
The senate language In paragraph So, re-
lating 20 tiles, is retained. except that the
requirements that the tiles shall be for
floors and walls is stricken out. The house
rates were restored on Portland. Roman
and other cements.
Paragraph 81, relating to gypsum, was
amended so as to read as follows:
Plaster rock or gypsum, crude. 20 cents
per ton; If ground or calcined. s.. so per ton;
pearl hardening for papermakers' use 20
per cent. ad valorem."
The paragraph relating to pu,n.ce stone
was totally changed, the rate being made
So per ton on the manufactured article and
Is per centum ad valorem on the unmanu-
The house paragraph relating to c!ays
and earths was adopted, and the house
rates on dried asphaltum and bitumcn. On
fuller's earth the rate was fixed at $3.50
per ton on the manufactured article and
SO per ton on that which has been manufae-
tured
ham earthenware, paragraph "a, was re-
stored.
In the next paragraph, relating to china,
the house provision including clock cases,
with or without movements. was restored,
making the duty 60 per certum ad va
loren.
The senate recedcd from its amendments
to the rates on plain bottles. jars. etc.
Glass.
The paragraph Qo0) in regard to cut or
glass bottles was not changed
as to rates.
The conference restored the house rates
and language on unpublished cylinder.
crown and common window glass, but re-
tanned the senate rates and language on
polished cylinder and crown glass.
In the paragraph Q03) relating 10 futed.
rolled, ribbed, or rough plate glass the sem
ate rates and language were retained ex-
cept the house proviso TO the effect
that all the above plate glass when ground.
smoothed. or otherwise obscured SHAH be
subjected TO the same rate OF duty as cast
polished pate glass unsilvered."
The senate rates were retained on cast
polished plate glass, both unfinished and
silvered. as provided in paragraphs l0i
and 105.
The house rate Of 10 per cent. ad va
loren. in addition to other rates chargeable
on window, crown, cylinder, sor plate
glasses where those glasses are bent.
ground. frosted, ETC.. Is reduced to per
cent.
The conference adopted the senate
amendments in paragraph los relating 10
spectacles, eyeglasses, etc., with one ex-
ccption.
Paragraph 112, relating to stained or
painted glass windows. remains practical
ly as left by the senate.
The two houses compromised the rate on
freestone, granite, sandstone. unmanufac-
tured or undressed, making II II cents per
cubic foot.
Tho thread paragraph (33O) IS q COM
promise between the two houses, making a
duty Of 10 cents per pound on threads made
from yarn not finer than five lea or num-
mer. and three-fourths cent per pound ad-
dtiopal for each lea or number in excess
of five made from yarn finer than five lea
or number. n
Thsre Is also a change in the next para
grapd. relating to single yarns in the gray.
reducing the senate rate on yarns .lot
finer than 50 lea or number to 40 per cent.
ad v-slorem, which Is a compromise be-
tween the two houses.
Floor mattiEgs, which are taken from
the free list, where they were placed by
the senate, are made dutiable at cents
per square yard where their value does not
exceed 10 cents per square yard, ard at
Z cents per square yard and e5 per cent.
ad valoreiu where their value exceeds 10
cents per square yard.
Bags or sacks made from plain woven
fabrics and bagging for cotton, gunny
cloth and similar fabrics were taken from
the free list and the language of the house
restored in both Instances. On
bags the rate was made seven-eighths
cent per pound and Is per cent. ad valorem.
The senate rate on handkerchiefs was ac-
cepted.
Sundries.
There were Comparatively few changes
In the sundries schedule. The senace
amendment on bituminous Goals fixing the