The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-05-04
IT TAXES TEA.
Tariff Bill as Amended by the
Senate Committee
Is Presented to the Upper House
of Congress Today.
MAKES MANY CHANGES
A Duty on Tea, Hides and an
Increase on Beer.
Retroactive and Reciprocity
Clauses Stricken Out.
MAKES MANY CHANGES

Washington, May 4-Senator AL
drich presented the tariff bill to the
senate today and gave notice that it
would be called up on Tuesday the 18th
instant
The time for the bill to take effect
is made July 1, 1897, instead of April 1,
as provided in the house and the words
in the first paragraph or withdrawn
for consumption are stricken out.
The sugar schedule is as follows:
Sugars. not above No. 16, Dutch
standard in color, tank bottoms, syrups
of cane juice and of beet melada. con-
centrated meIada, concrete and con-
centrated molasses testing by the po-
lariscope above 81 and not above SO de-
grees, seventy-nine hundredths of one
cent per pound and for every additional
degree shown by the pOlariscopic test
two hundredths of one cent per pound
and fractions of a degree in proportion.
Sugar above No. 16 Dutch standard in
color and sugar that has gone through
a process of refining one and sixteen
hundredths of one cent per pound and
in addition to the foregoing 35 per
centum advalorem.
Sugar not above No. 16 Dutch stand
ard in color, tank bottoms syrups of
cane and beet juice, melada concentra-
ted melada, concrete and concentrated
TnOlasses testing by the pOlariscope not
more than 81 degrees, rs per cent ad-
Valorem. Molasses testing above 40 and
not more than Sc degrees 4 cents per
gallon, testing 56 degrees and not above
20 degrees, eight cents per gallon.
Machinery purchased abroad, import
ed and erected in any beet sugar facto-
ry and actually used in the production
of sugar in the United States from
beets produced therein, within two
years from the first day of July, 1897
shall be admitted free of duty under
a Of
the treasury may prescribe.
Maple sugar and maple syrup, four
cents per pound; glucose or grape sugar,
one and one-half cents per pound Su-
gar cane in its natural state, or unnan-
ufactured 10 per cent adVaIOrem; sac
charine, one dollar per pound and ten
per cent adVaIorem. Sugar candy and
all confectionery valued at IS cents per
pound, or less cents per pound and IL
per cent adValorem. A duty is levied
on tea at the rate of 10 cents per
pound until January 1, 1900.
The following is the provision in re-
gard to hides, which are transferred
from the free list:
Hides of cattle, raw or uncured
whether dry salted, or picked. ~
cents per pound, provided that upon all
leather exported made from imported
hides there shall be allowed a draw
back equal to the amount of duty paid
on such hides
Coal and shale-CoaI. The word BIZ
luminous is tricken out and all coal
a prOViSO added that the duty on coal
and shale shall be so cents per ton and
on coal slack or cuIm. Is cents Der ton
when imported from any country col
ony or dependency that does not i'm
pose upon coal, or coal slack or culrn.
a higher rate of duty than that named
in this prOViSO.
BEER TAX
The senate has increased the internal
revenue duty on beer by changing sec
ton 1889 OF the revised statutes to read
as follows:
Until January 1. 1900 there shall he
paid on all beer, lager beer. ale. Dor
ter and other similar fermented LIQUORS
breWed or manufactured and sold or
removed for consumption or sale within
the United States by whatever name
such liquors may be called, a tax of one
dollar and forty-four cents for every
barrel containing not more than 81
gallons; and after January l. 1900 there
shall be paid tax of one dollar per
barrel of such beer, lager beer, ale, pOr-
ter and other similar fermented LIQUORS:
Cthe present rate is one dollar)
The retroactive clause of the DingIey
tariff bill is stricken from the senate
bill.
The entire house provision relating to
reciprocity has been stricken out and
the following section substituted:
That whenever any country depend
ency or colony shall pay or bestow. di-
rectly or indirectly, any bounty or
grant upon the expectation of any ar
ticle or merchandise from such country.
dependency or colony and such article
or merchandise is dutiabIe under the
provisions of this act, then upon the i'm
chandise into the United States wheth-
er the same shall be imported directly
from the country of production or 9TH
erWise, and whether such article or
merchandise is imported in the same
condition as when exported from the
country of production, or has been
changed in condition by manufacture
or otherwise, there shall be levied and
paid in all such cases, in addition to
the duties otherwise imposed by this
act, an additional duty equal to the
net amount of such bounty or grant
however the same be paid or bestowed
The net amount OF all such bOuntieS or
grants shall be from time to time as
certained, determined and declared by
the secretary of the treasury who shall
make all needful regulations for the
Identification of such articles and mer-
chandise and for the assessment and
collection of such additional duties
The house provision in the tariff
bill keeping in force the Hawaiian re-
ciprOcity treaty. is stricken out the eff
feet being indirectly to abrogate the
treaty and impose the same duty on
Hawaiian sugars as is imposed on su-
gars from other countries.
The provision in the house bill on
distilled wines is stricken out and a
new schedule substituted.
Lead ore is increased 17a cents per
pound.
The lumber schedule is changed by
adding after the word timber the words
''Hewn, sided or squared and round
timber and the duty fixed at the rate
of one cent per cubic foot as in the
house bill.
The rate of 81 per ton on all sawed
boards, etc, is retained. but when plan
ed on one side, the additional rate is
made 35 instead of 50 cents per thous-
and feet board measure; when planed,