The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-05-05
The Bill.

Washington, May 4-The tariff bill
was reported to the senate today. The
] sugar schedule is as follows:
Sugar not above No. 16. Dutch stand
ard. in color tank bottoms. syruDs
cane juice and beet juice, meIada, con-
| centrated melada, concrete and concen-
trated molasses tested by polairscope
above 81 and not above IS degrees,
$4,000 of l cent per pound. and for
every additional degree shown by the
DolariscOpic test 200 of cent a
pound and fractions of a degree in
proportion. Sugar above No. is. Dutch
standard, in color, and sugar that has
gone through the process of refining.
l 1900 cents a pound: and in addition
thereto on all foregoing, 30 per cent
/ ad Yalorem- Sugar not above No. Is.
Dutch standard, in color tank bottoms.
SyrupS. cane juice and beet Juice. me-
lada, concentrated melada, concrete
and concentrated molasses, testing by
the polariScope not more than 81 de-
grees, - per cent al va1orem. Molasses
testing above 40 and not more than 55
degrees, cents gallon: testing 30
degrees and not above 20 degrees. 8
cents a gallon.
Machinery purchased abroad. import
ed and erected in any beet sugar fac
tory and actually used in the 9roduc-
ton 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
such regulations as the secretary of the
treasury may prescribe.
Maple sugar and maple syrup 4 cents
pound. glucoe or grape sugar, Il cent
a nound; sugar cane in natural state
or manufactured. 10 per cent ad va
lOrem saccarine. 81 a pound and 10 per
cent ad valorem- Sugar candy and all
confectionery valued at IS cents a
pound or less, cents a pound and l.
per cent ad valorem-
A duty is levied on tea at the rate of
10 cents a pound until Jan. ], 1900. af-
ter which it is admitted free OF duty.
The following is the provision in re-
gard to hides transferred from the list.
Hides of cattle. dry. sailed or pick
led, IL cents a pound, provided that
upon all leather exported made from
imported hides. there shall be allowed
drawback equal to the amount of
duty paid on such hides"
The retroactive clause of the Dingley
bill is stricken from the senate bill
The entire house provision relating to
reciprocity is stricken out and sections
substituted. providing that whenever
the country shall pay a bounty upon
the expectation of any article of mer-
chandise, dutiable under this act, then
upon the Importation of any such arti-
Gle into the United States, there shall
be levied upon it, in addition to duty
by this act, duty equal to
the net amount of such bounty. TO be
ascertained by the secretary of the
treasury.
The house provision keeping in force
the Hawaiian reciprocity treaty is
out. The effect being indi-
rectly to abrogate the treaty and inn
pose the same duty on Hawaiian
sugars as on sugars from other coun-
tries.
The provision of the house bill on dis
TILED wines is stricken out and the fol-
lowing substituted:
Still wines, in casks, if containing Il
per cent or less absolute alcohol. 80
cents a gallon: if containing more than
Ia per cent absolute alcohol, 80 cents a
gallon.
In bottles or jugs, per case of dozen,
each not more than a quart !
and more than a pint, or "a bottles or
Jugs containing each not more than a !
pint, 81 per case. Wines, ginger, cor !
lial or vermuth imported. containing /
more than "a per cent alcohol, shall /
De classed as spirits and pay duty |
The per centage of alcohol shall be /