Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1897-05-07
The Tariff Bill
As IL Comes from the senate sub Conn
mittee---nany Important Changes

I
mittee---Msny Important Changes
Made.
The amended tariff bill was submitted
Tuesday morning TO the Senate finance
committee by the Republican sub-commit-
tee of four which has spent the last five
weeks in revising the bill as it came from
| the House. The House bill has been prac-
/ tically made over, the work of the revisers
| in the upper branch cutting even deeper
| than did the Senate redraft of the Nc
| Kiney bill in 1890.
The retroactive clause has been stricken
out entirely and the date on which the
rates are TO take effect has been changed
from April to July /. Several important
emergency taxes are laid, which are TO eX-
| pire by Limitation on January !, 1900 Tea
is to be taxed 10 cents a pound for the next
two years and half An additional in
ternal revenue tax of a cents barrel is
laid on beer, ale, porter and similar liquors
/ for the same period (The present tax is
| 81 a barrel) The internal revenue tax on
snuff and chewing tobacco is raised from
six TO eight cents pound, while cigars are
TO pay 50 a thousand; cigarettes weighing
less than three pounds thousand, ; a
than three pounds a thousand, 50 a thous-
and
All the administrative paragraphs of the
/ House bill are stricken out, as is its reci-
procity section the Senate revisers substitu-
ting for the latter paragraph laying a
countervailing duty on articles which en-
| Joy an export bounty.
The glass duties have been cut down a
trife throughout. The iron and meta
schedule shows similar reductions below
the House rates. The duties on wood and
manufactures of wood have been materially
/ reduced.
The sugar schedule is an entirely new
one, the duties laid being both ad vaorem
and specific The text of the Senate sub
stitute is as follows
The House agricultural schedule is
adopted with comparatively few reductions.
| The duty on oranges, lemons, lines etc.
! has been raised. however, from three quar-
tiers of a cent 10 ! cent pound. No i'm
portant changes are made in the wine and
spirits schedule or in the cotton schedule.
In the lumber schedule the rate of 81
per thousand on sawed boards, etc, is re-
tanned, but when planed on one side the
| additional rate is made 80 instead OF .
cents per thousand feet board measure;
when planed, tcngued and grooved the ad-
ditional rate is made 20 cents per thousand
feet board measure instead of 81; if planed
on two sides and planed and grooved, SlOj
| per thousand instead of $50.
The rates on woods are lowered from II
cents TO ; cents a pound on the first class
and J. cents TO 9 cents on the second class
| On woods OF the third class, valued at 10
/ cents pound. the duty is fixed at : cents
] Fr,s-4 g 4n rI. L..
| valued al more than 10 cents a pound.
cents instead Of 30 per cent al valorem.
! The duties on manufactured woollens are
/ altered TO correspond with these new rates
/ on the raw material.
Hides are put on the dutiahle list al II
cents pound, with a drawback allowed on
/ all leather goods exported made from i'm
/ ported hides. Binding Irvine Is left on the
/ free list.
! Books, maps, charts, music etchings,
| etc, printed more than 20 years are allow
/ ed to be imported free 10y scientific and lit
/ erary associations. Books printed in Ian
/ guaGes other than English, and books,
/ prints, etc, for the use of educational
institutions may also be brought in with
/ out duty. Paintings and statuary are also
| restored 10 the free list, and the whole Dill
| greatly hberallzed as compared with the
measure adopted by the House.
| Notice was given that the bill will be
called up for discussion in the Senate on
Tuesday, May i. Opinions vary as 10 the
length Of time the bill will be debated in
the Senate; Republicans say four weeks
and the Democrats six. The changes
made by the Senate committee are so nu-
merous and so radical that protracted
struggle over the differences between the
two Houses will likely occur when the bill
reaches a conference committee.