The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1897-05-05

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anu merchandise and for the assessmen
and collection of such additional duties. )
The provision in the House bill on dis
9illed wines is stricken out and the fol
lowing substituted:
"Still wines, including ginger wine OF
ginger cordial and vermuth In casks OF
packages, other than bottles or jugs, II
containing IA per cent or less of absolute
alcohol. 30 cents per gallon; II contain.
ing more than ID per cent, conts Del
gallon; per case of one dozen bottles OF
\ jugs, containing each not more than one
quart. and more than one pint or "a
bottles or jugs containing each not more
than one pint, SLIGO per case; and any
excess beyond these qualities will be sub
Ject to duty of i've cents per pint or
fractional part thereof but no separate
duty Shall be assessed on the bottles. pro.
vided, that any wines, etc.. containing
m IRE than "a per cent of alcohol, shall be
ctassed as spirits and pay duty according
"; and provided further that there shall
be allowance for breakage or damage.
Lead ore Is increased from one cent,
whlch IS the House provision, to one and
one half cents per pound.
The lumber schedule is changed by
adding after the word timber, the words
when, sided or square and round
| timber" and the duty fixed at the rate
OF one cent per cubic foot, as in the
House bill. The rate of So per thousand
on all sawed boards, etc., is retained,
but when planed on one side the addi.
tional rate is made So instead of cents
per thousand feet board measure when
planed and grooved, the additional rate
is made 20 cents per Thousand feet board
measure, instead of 81; il planed on two
sides and planed and grooved, one dollar
and five cents per Thousand, instead OF
one dollar and fifty cents.
! The House proviao for an additional
duty of 25 per cent ad valorem upon
lumber imported from any foreign
country which imposes an export duty is
change SO az to add the amount Of the
export duty instead of any fixed sum.
| The duty on kindling wood in bundles
| is stricken out. Shingles, House rate, 3d.:
Senate, % cents per thousand. ~
| Manufacturers of osier or willow,
| House rate, 30; Senate, 40 cents ad valo-
rem.
| Tooth picks of wood or other vegetable
substance, House rate cents; Senate.
| one cent per thousand and Is per cent ad
| valoren.
Butchers and packers skewers.
| House. 40 cents ner thousand; Senate, 30
| per cent ad valorem.
| Placed on the free list are pulp woods,
heading bolts, stave bolts, railroad ties,
| Many and importnnt changes we're
made by the Senate tariff subcommittee
| in the wool and woolen schedule as
passed by the House. Fist class woods
were reduced from II cents per pound, as
provided 10 the House bill, to eight cents
per Thousand, and second class woods
| from l2 to 9 cent 9, whereas the duties on
wools of the third class were raised. The
dividend line in this latter case was
or,d al xAr 41vro l.
that value being made dutiable at the
rate of four cents per pound, instead of
| bin.
Wools valued at more than 10 cents per
pound were placed at z cents per pound
| instead of 5 per cent ad valorem. The
wool growers failed to secure all tie
changes which they desiredain classifica-
! lion, but it ia understood that the rates
/ ltixed on the woods themselves are sats-
| factory to them.
The House provision in the tariff bill
keeping in force the Hawaiian reciprocity
treaty, is stricken out, the effect being
indirectly to abroRate the treaty and inn
pose the same duty on Hawaiian sugars
as is imposed on sugars from other
countries.
Wines, cordials, brandy and other
spirituous liquors, including bitters CT
all kinds and hay rum and bay water,
imported in BOTTLES jugs, shall bs placed
In packages containing not lees than one
dozen bottles or jugs in each package, Or
duty shall be paid as if such package
contained at least one dozen bottles or
jugs and all such shall, unless specially
provided for in this act, pay an additional
duty OF three cents for each bottle or
jug. The perf entage OF alcohol in w'n ,s
and fruit juices shall he determined in
such manner as the Secretary of the
Treasury shall by regulation prescribe.
WOOL AND WoOIENS.
Skirted wools of the first class as i'm
ported in 1890. and prior to that date, are
required to pay one cent per pound in
addition to the rates imposed by this act
on unwashed woods of class one. There
is reduction of noils from 80 to 20 cents
per pound.
Paragraph 562 and 364 are all stricken
out and substitutes provided for as fol-
lows:
S62-Wool and hair which have been
advanced by any process OF manufacture
beyond the wash or secured condition,
not especially provided for in this act
shall bs subject to tho same duties aa are
imposed upon manufactures OF wool not
specially provided for.
365-On yarns made wholly or in part
of wool valued at no more than thirty
five cents per pound the duty per pound
shall be two and one-half times the duty
imposed on one pound of unwashed woods
of the first class; valued at more than
thirty live csnts per pound. three and
one half times the rate imposed on un-
washed wool of the first class. and in
addition, upon all of the foreign 40 per
cent ad valorem-
3e4-On cloths. knit fabrics and ell
manufactures of every description not
specially provided for, valued at not more
than 10 cents per pound, the duty shall
be three times the duty imposed on un-
washed wool of the first class; valued at
above 40 cents ami not above 70 cents,
four times the duty on unwashed skirted
wool of the first class, and IN addition,
on all the foregoing so per cent ad va
lorem valued at over 10 cents per pound,
four times the duty on unwashed skirts
wool of the first class to 55 per csnt ad
valorem
The blanket paragraph is changed as
follows:
Blankets and plain fannels are in
creased from 30 to 30 cents per pound.