The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-07-20


Paragraph 373-Saxony, wilton an
tourney velvet carpets, figured or plain
and all carpets or carpeting of Xix
character or description, soc per squar
yard, and in addition thereto, 40 pc
cent ad valoren.
Paragraph 374-Brussels carpets, fig
ured or plain, and all carpets or car
peting of like character or description
44c per square yard, and in addition
thereto, 40 per cent ad valorem-
Paragraph 375-Velvet and tapestr,
velvet carpets. figured or plain, printed
On the warp or otherwise, Acc pc
square yard. and in addition thereto
10 ger cent ad va,orem.
Paragraph 316-Tapestry. Brussel:
carpets, figured or plain, and all carpet:
or carpetings of like character or de-
scription. printed on the warp or other
wise, Zoe per square yard, and in ad-
dition thereto, 40 per cent ad valorem
Paragraph 377-Treble ingram, three
ply. and all chain Venetian carpets, 22l
per square yard, and in addition there
to. 40 per cent ad valorem.
Paragraph 37S-Wool. Dutch and tive
ply carpets, 1Sc per square yard, and in
addition thereto, 40 per cent ad va
loren.
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. 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 rate on all other items OF the
schedule. making the rates soc per
1000 feet for each side planed or nm
ished; 81 for tongued and grooved, and
s.. so if planed on two sides and tongued
and grooved. The legislative proviso
to this pragarph inserted by the SEN
ate was changed, so as to read as fol-
lor-s:
That if any country or an independ-
ency shall impose an exempt duty upon
saw logs, round, manufactured tim
Der. stave bolts, single bolts, or head
ing bolts. exported in the United States.
or a discriminating charge on broom
sticks or chains used by American cit
liens in towing 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 i'm
posed upon the articles mentioned IN
this paragraph, when imported from
such country or INDEPENDENCE"
Fence posts are reduced from 20 to
10 per cent ad valorem.
The house rate of 80 per cent ad
vaiorem is restored on casks and bar
rels, sugar 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 LOCO on oDETAOlNUN
40 cents per 1000 upon butchers skew
ers.
TOBACCO SCHEDULE.
The conference accepted the senate
rate and language on wrapper and
filler tobacco, except that the rate on
wrapper tobacco was made S1.S5 per
pound instead of $1.75. The house rate
on imported cigars, cigarettes, etc. Of
S4.50 per pound and % per cent ad
valorem was restored. The senate
made the rate 81 per pound and % per
cent ad yalorem. There were no other
conditions in the schedules on imported
tobacco.
SILK SCHEDULE.
The conference accepted paragraph
$50 as amended by the senate with the
addition of the words ''or plush" be-
'ore ribbons, in the first line, making
blush ribbons dutiable at $3.50 per
pound and Is per cent ad valorem-
Paragraph 3S7, relating to woven
;ilk fabrics, was accepted as amended
1y the senate, except that the rate on
10th other than black dyed in the
bread or yarn and weighted in the
weight of the raw silk was changed
rom $2.25 per pound to $3.50 per
pound, and that on cloth dyed or
printed in the piece, from 1925 TO $3.50.
Paragraph 391, relating to manufac-
ures of silk, is changed so as to mod
fy the description of jacquard figured
,oods by providing that they shall be
made on looms" and that they
hould be dyed on the yard and con-
ain two or more colors in the fllling.
The rate is left at 80 per cent ad val
rem.
COTTON MANUFACTURES.
Paragraph SO2, in relation to cotton |
flread and carded yarn, was amended |
" the conference so as TO provide that |
bread colored. bleached, cOmbed, etc, |
% as to be advanced beyond the con- |
Iition of singles by grouping or twist |
ng of two or more single yarns, on al |
numbers exceeding 20, and up to 80, |
re made dutiable at quarter of a |
ent per pound, and on threads of the |
anne class numbered so and above, |
of a cent per pound per |
lumber In the original house bill |
here was no division as to numbers, |
IL being made dutiable at the rate of |
hree-tenths of a cent per number per |
ound. The senate left the house rate |
f three tenths of a cent on the first |
vision and provided an ad valorem
f 80 per cent on the second.
A portion of that part of paragraph |
Is, relating to pushes, velvets, etc,
rhich was stricken out by the senate,
-as inserted, though changed in form.
he insertion is a proviSo to the effect |
that corduroys composed of cotton |
r other vegetable fibre Weighing seven
unces or over per square ward shall
ay a duty of IS cents per square yard
nd % per cent ad valorem."
In paragraph 800 the senate amend
lents are all accepted except that re-
ucing the rate on cotton susDenders
nd braces from As to 40 per cent ad
alorem. The paragraph inserted by
ne senate (2e1h). providing for an
dditional duty of 10 per cent ad val
rem on all cotton yarns finer than
10. 10 single and on all manufactures
lade of such yarns, was stricken out
Y the conference.
FREE LIST.
The following changes were made in
lie free list:
The provision allowing cattle, horses,
1eep or other domestic animals, stray
lg or driven across the boundary line
: another country for pasturage pur-
0ses to be brought back free of duty
modified so as to continue this privi-
ge for the specified time of six
Ionths.
The conference restored to the free
st the house paragraph on books and
lgravings imported by authority of
le limited States for the library of