Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1897-08-10
NEW TARIFF BILL.
Continued from opposite page

per pound on dead game and game meats
Paragraph 2S2, relating to cocoa, was
amended by leaving cut cocoanut oil.
Spirits and Wines.
The conference made but one change II
the schedule relating to spirits, wines, etc.
proper
The senate rate OF so cents per gallon or
still wines containing less than IA per cent
ofabsoRte aleohol4n paoka ses was changed
to - cents per gallon. The house rate was
60 ssRts
Ths rates GA mineral waters were com
promised, being made 90 cents per dozen or
pint bottles. 80 cents per dozen on quar-
bottles. House rate of 40 cents and the
senate rate of "a cents.
Chemicals.
The conference struck out the senate rate
paragraph relating to tartrate Of soda and
potash and partly refined argols and re-
stored the house paragraph.
There was compromise on white lead
at 2A cents per pound.
The house paragraph in regard to oxide
OF zinc and white paint was restored.
There was a general change of rates or
lead, white acetate of lead being fixed al
ga cents per pound, brown, gray, or yellow
at 2A cents, nitrate at 2la, and litharge a.
2& cents per pound. These were generally
compromises between the rates of the two
houses.
Phosphorus was compromised at IS cents
per pound.
The house rate on sulphur was restored
The senate made an amendment to the sui
phur paragraph allowing crude birthstone
to come in at 50 cents per ton, but the con-
ference struck this out, including this ar.
ticle in the IS rate. as originally fixed by
the house.
Paper.
On mechanically ground wood pulp the
house rate of one-twelfth of one cent per
pound. dry weight, was restored.
The paragraph in regard to printing pa
per was entirely rewritten. AS amended
1t is as follows:
Printing paper, unsiZed, sized, or glued
suitable for books and newspapers, valued
at not above two cents per pound, three
tenth5 of cent per pound; valued above
two cents and not above two and a hall
cents per pound. fourtenths of one cent
per pound; valued between two and hall
and three cents per pound, five-tenths OF
cent; valued between three and fou,
cents, siX-senths Of cent; valued between
four and five cents, eight-tenths of cent
valued above five cents, Is per cent. &C
valorem"
There is also a proviso exacting an addi
tional duty of one-tenth Of q cent PEI
pound for each dollar of export duty pc,
cord imposed by any country exporting
wood pulp to the United States.
photographic Prints.
There are numerous changes in the para.
graph relating to photographic prints. The
rates on such prints on paper not exceed.
Ing $1,000 of an inch in thickness Is re-
duced from the senate rate of 25 cents per
pound to 20 cents.
The next classification covers paper
ranging from So to 400 square inches, fixing
the rate al cents per pound. For pa
per exceeding 400 square inches a rate OF
20 per cent. ad valorem is fixed, The SEN
ate rate nrntS G IN >,
5 cents and on photographic from to
cents.
Books for chldren's use containing IL.
Eliminated photographic prints NOT exceed.
ing in weight "a ounces each, and all book.
lets and fashion magazines or periodicals
printed in Whole or in part by 1fthographie
process or decorated by hand, 8 cents ne,
pound"
The senate rate of 20 cents per pack and
70 per cent. ad valorem fixed on playtna
cards was reduced to 10 cents per pack and
20 per cent ad valorem.
Internal Revenue.
The Internal revenue tax amendment re-
lating to cigars and cigarettes made by tn,
senate was changed to read as follows;
'On cigars of all descriptions weighing
more than three pounds per 1000, s. pel
LOCO; on cigars made Of tobacco or any sub
stitute weighing not more than three
pounds per 1000. 81 per LOCO: on cigarette.
made of tobacco or any substitute weigh
Ing more than three pounds per 600, SO be,
LOCO; on cigarettes weighing not more thar
three pounds per LOCO, 81 per thousand"
The senate amendment providing for 6
tax on stocks and bonds was stricken out
Metals.
The house rate Of S-1Oth of a cent ne,
pound was restored on round iron of less
than ZIG Of an inch In diameter and bars
or shapes of rolled or hammered iron moi
speGially provided for.
EAe hGvse rate on tcon In slabs, blooms
ete, kSs finished thai fren in bars ant
Fpszs stlyansea than Big IRON wars also re-
sfsreA
The rate on iron bars, billets, etc, in tn,
manufacture of which charcoal is used a:
fuel, was made specifically at s12 per ton.
In paragraph 127 the senate rate of 2-1l
cents per pound on iron or steel anchors
was increased to IL cents per pound, the
house rate. The other amendments to the
paragraph made by the senate were &C.
cepted.
Paragraph 129 reads as follows:
Hoop or band iron, or hoop or band
steel. cut TO lengths or wholly or partly
manufactured into hoops or ties, coated OF
not coated with paint or any other prepare.
ton. with or without buckles or fasteninys
tcr baling cotton or any other commodity,
5-i0 Of cent per pound"
Steel Rails.
On railway bars. rails, and punched
Iron or steel fiat rails the conference re-
stored the house rate of 7-20 of cent. On
railway fishplates the senate rate Of 4-1C
of one cent per pound stands.
Paragraph 1872 providing for an extra
duty of 2-1O of cent per pound on iron and
steel sheets or plates, galvanized or coated,
was allowed to stand, but was made to
apply only to zinc spelter or other metals
or any alloy of these metals"
The house rate of 2 cents per pound was
restored on polished or planished sheets OF
iron or steel. On taggers' iron or steel, tin
plates and terne plates the house rate OF
IL cents per pound was restored. The
house receded from its proviso that the
benefit of the drawback provision in sec.
ton "a shall not apply to articles manu-.
featured in this country from imported
tinplates, etc.
The conference amended the proviso te
para graph 1876 relating to wire rods so as tc
make it read as follows:
THAT all wire or steel rods which have
been tempered or treated In any manner OF
partly manufactured shall pay an addi
tional duty Of one-half of one cent pei
pound
There We're several changes in the para
graph relating to iron and steel wire.
Changes In Cutlery.
In the paragraph relating to cutlery there
was but one change from the senate sched
ule.
The conference made material changes
from both the senate and house rates or
shotguns, both in classification and rates
of duty.
On wheels for railway purposes COM
promise makes the duty 1ls cents pei
pound and IL cents on ingots, blooms
etc. Aluminium, in crude form, was made
dutiable at cents and in plates at 10 cents
per pound.
The rate on Dutch metal was made {
cents per package of leo loaves.
The language and rates of the senate
amendments of the paragraph in relation
to lead ore We're accepted without change
but lead in pigs was made dutiable at 21s
cents per pound. instead of 2 cents, as fixed
nv tha ON a,.osl IL