Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1897-07-19
Phthalic acid was added to the acid

Phthalic acid was added to the acid
schedule
The provision allowing cattle, horses,
sheep or other domestic animals, stra ying
or driven across the boundary line of an
other country for pasturage purposes, to
be brought back free Of duty, is modified so
as to continue this privilege for the specl-
fled time of six months.
The conference restored to the free list
the House paragraph on books and engrav-
ings imported by authority of the United
States for the Library of Congress, and
made some verbal alteration in the amend
ment inserted by the Senate putting books,
maps, etc. which had been printed more
than twenty years on the free list, but they
were not material.
The paragraph relating to the free in
PRODUCTION of books, libraries and reason
able furniture Of persons from foreign
countries was simplifed and altered SO as
to provide that where they were not in
troduced for sale they were to be allowed
free entrance where they had not been
so used for less than one year.
The conference restored the House pro-
vision on camphor, merely making free
crude camphor and excluding crude liquid
camphor.
The following Is the paragraph agreed
upon anthracite coal in the free list:
Goal anthracite, not specially provided
for in this act, and coal stores Of American
vessels. but none shall be unloaded.'
fOll0WlnR IS the paragraph agreed upon
on coal tar in the free list:
Coal tar, crude. pitch Of coal tar and
products of coal tar known as dead or Gre
osote Oil, benzol toluol. napthalin. xylol.
phenol, cresol, taluidine. xylidin. cumidin,
binitrotoluol, binitrobenzol, benzidin, toll
din. dianisidin naphtol and naptylamin,
diphenylamin, benzaldehide, benzyl chlor-
ide, resorcin, nitro-benzol and nitro-toluol
all the foregoing not medicinal and not
colors."
The conference restored raw cotton to the
free list.
The paragraph in regard to the free adj
hshermen was amended so as to include
salmon on the free list, which were espe-
| cially excepted by the Senate bill, and as
agreed upon reads as follows:
Fish, fresh, frozen or packed in ice,
caught in the great lakes or other fresh
waters by citizens Of the United States"
On hide cuttings. the House paragraph
was restored.
For the paragraph on ivory tusks the
following was substituted:
ivory tusks In their natural state, or cut
vertically across the grain only, with the
bark left intact. and vegetable ivory in its
natural state" 1o al
Manganese ore was restored to the free
l:st as was cocoanut oil. ss
The House phraseology of the paragraph
In regard to ores of gold. silver. etc. was
| restored, which has the effect, Of making
free nickel and nickel matte. al
The Senate amendment making free
,, paintings. drawings and statuary was also
stricken out. III
sauerkraut was stricken from the free
Crude sulphur was restored ito the free
list, as were tonka and tonka beans; also
salts of auranium. nj 80
Waters for covering or holding pharma-
ceutical preparations were stricken from
the free list.
The paragraph admitting free works of
art for a permanent exhibition at q fixed
place was amended by striking out the
word permanent" Z 70
Wood Schedule
The following was submitted for the par
agraph on hewn timber:
Timber hewn, sided or squared mot less
than eight inches square) and wound tim
Der used for spars or in building wharves,
one cent per cubic foot
The paragraph relating to sawed boards
and planks was amended by striking out
words white pine" at 81 per thousand
feet and by restoring the House rate on
all the other items Of the schedule, maxi
ing the rates so cents per thousand feet
for each side planed or finished. 81 for
tongued and grooved, and $50 If planed
on two sides and tongued and grooyed
The legislative proviso to this paragraph
inserted by the Senate was changed SO as
to read as follows:
THAT II any country or Deepen 1ency shall
impose an export duty upon saw logs,
| round manufactured timber, stave bolts
single bolts or heading bolts. exported in
the United States, or . discriminating