The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-03-19
4 TARIFF PROGRAMME
Decided Upon by the House
Ways ard Means Committee.
DEBATE BEGINS ON MONDAY.

words "or fractions of degree AFTER "for
every additional degree" but the first clause
mentioned is stricken out, and the words
land fractions of a degree in proportion"
added. Molasses testing not above 56 de-
grees was the original wording of the last
two lines.
The other amendments to the bill, which
were offered by the Republicans and were
adopted, follows
Raising china clay or kaoln from 81 to SO
a ton.
cent ad valorem.
Anti-friction ball bearings for bicycles of
iron or steel or combined iron and steel, at
45 per cent ad valOrem
Ochre and ochre earths, lumber and lumber
earths, sienna and sienna earths, dried and
powdered, half-cent a pound.
Welded cylindrical furnaces, made from
plate metal, 212 cents a pound, an addition
Of about half cent to the rate in the bill.
Butchers and packers skewers at 40 cents
per LOCO, change from 80 per cent ad
valorem.
Changing the paragraphs of the tobacco
schedule, which rates at 81 a pound, un-
stemmed, and $275 stemmed, all tobacco in
any bale, box or package, or in bulk, which
shall contain exceeding 10 per cent Of leaves
suitable for cigar wrappers, by adding 'or
which shall be the growth of different coun-
tries
Bags Of uncolored jute, changed from ia
cents per pound to 11a cents and Is per cent
ad valorem.
Lithographic prints on paper not exceeding
eight one-thousandths of an inch in thick
ness changed from % to 20 cents a pound:
on paper not exceeding twenty one-thou-
sandths OF an inch in thickness and thirty
five square inches, from II to cents; eX-
ceeding thirty-fve square inches, from 10 to
cents; exceeding twenty one-thOuSandths
of an inch in thickness, from 9 to cents;
printed in ten or more colors, from % to 80
cents; printed in whole or in part in metal
leaf, from 80 to 40 cents.
Blank books changed from 20 per cent ad
ValOrem to % per cent.
Napthazarin, changed from free list
to 25 per cent.
The Democratic amendment, which
excited most interest. was one pro-
posed by McLaurin, of South Carolina,
to place a duty of 2R cents per pound
ON all cotton. A strong effort has been
made by Southern cotton men to secure
a duty on Egyptian cotton and the
project will be brought before the SEN
ate finance committee when that body
takes charge of the bill. Mr.. McLaurin
said 100000 pounds Of cotton had
been imported into the United States
from fifteen countries last year, and
he did not see how Democrats who
voted for duties Of Is cents on wheat
and 20 cents on corn, of which importa-
lions were small, in the Wilson bill,
could consistently refuse to vote for q
duty on cotton. Two Democrats voted
for the amendment, McLaurin, Of South
Carolina, and Robertson, of Louisiana.
The Republicans voted against It.
A motion by Mr.. Swanson to strike
out the sugar differential duty received
the votes of all the Democrats except
Mr.. Robertson. Mr. Robertson pro-
posed an amendment to direct the pres
ident to give notice of the abrogation of
the treaty with Hawaii, by which
sugars of that country are admitted
free. .s--'-
All Of the Democratic members sup
ported this proposition, but the Repub-
licans voted against it. A motion to
substitute the wool schedule of the Will
son act made by Mr.. McMillin was sup
portetd by all the Democrats except Mir.
Baeler. Mr.. Wheeler offered several
amendments which pOlled the votes of
all the Democrats They WERE to PUT
cotton ties, cotton bagging, fence wire,
sulphuric acid and black bone (used in
making quinineT and fresh water fish
on the free list; to reduce white pine
and hemlOcl1 from 81 per thousand
feet to the Mckinley rate of 81 and TO
restore telegraph and telephone poles
and railroad ties of other woods than
cedar to the free list.