The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1897-07-30


act: provided. that on blankets over three
yards in length the same duties shall be
paid as on cloths.
Paragraph s7o-On clothing. ready made.
and articles of wearing apparel of every
description, including shawls. whether
knitted or woven, and knitted articles of
every description made up or manufact-
ured wholly or in part, felts not woven and
not specially provided for in this act, COM
posed wholly or in part Of wool, the duty
per pound shall be four times the duty i'm
posed by this act on one pound OF un-
| washed wool of the first class and In add
ton thereto 60 per cent. ad valorem.
Schedule on Carpets.
Paragraph 372 - Aubusson, Administer.
Moquette and Chenille carpets. figured or
plain, and all carpets or carpeting OF like
character or description, 60 cents per
square yard, and, in addition thereto, ~
per cent. ad valorem.
| Paragraph 373@Saxpny Wilton and Tour
nay velvet carpets, figured or plain. and all
carpets or carpeting of like character or
description, so cents per square yard, and,
in addition thereto, 40 per cent. ad valorem
Paragraph 37+Brussels carpets, figured
or plain, and all carpets or carpeting of like
character or description, "A cents per square
yard. and, in addition thereto, 40 per cent
ad valorem
| Paragraph 375-velvet ard tapestry vel
vet carpets, figured or plain, printed on the
| warp or otherwise, and all carpets or car
peting of like character or description, 40
| thereto, 40 per cent. ad valorem.
Paragraph S6-Tapestry Brussels carpet.
figured or plain, and all carpets or carpet
| ings of like character or description print
ed on the warp or otherwise, % cents per
square yard, and, in addition thereto. 40
per cent. ad valorem.
Paragraph 377-Treble ingram. three ply,
and all chain Venetian carpets. % cents per
square yard, and, in addition thereto, 40
per cent. ad valorem.
Paragraph 37S-Dutch wool and two-ply
| carpets, is cents per square yard, and, in
addition thereto, 40 per cent. ad valorem.
Wood.
| The following was substituted for the
| paragraph on hewn timber:
Timber hewn, sided, or squared (not
less than inches square). and round 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
the words white pine" at 81 per 1000
feet and by restoring the house rate
on all the other items of the schedule,
making the rates so cents per 1 900 feet for
each side planed or finished, s. for
tongued or grooved, and $3.50 If planed on
two sides and tongued and grooved. The
legislative proviso to this paragraph in
serted by the senate was changed to
read as follows: THAT If any country or
any dependency shall impose an export
duty upon saw logs, round manufactured
timber. stave bolts, Single bolts. or head
Ing DOltS, exported IN the united states, or
a discriminating charge upon boomsticks
or chains used by American citizens in tow
ing logs. the amount Of such export duty,
tax, or other charge. as the case may be.
shall be added as an additional duty to the
duties imposed upon the articles men,
toned in this paragraph when imported
from such country or dependency"
Fence posts are reduced from 20 to 10 per
cent. ad valorem. The house rate of 80 per
cent. ad valorem is restored on casks and
|,
The house rate of two cents per thousand
and Is per cent. ad valorem is restored on
toothpieks. is the house rate of 40 cents
per thousand upon butchers skewers
Tobacco.
The conference accepted the senate rate
and language on wrapper and filler to-
bacco, except that the rate on wrapper to-
bacco was made $1.S5 per pound instead of
81. rs. The house rate on imported cigars, Gig
arettes, etc, of $3.50 per pound and Is per
cent. ad valorem was restored.
The senate made the rate "a per pound
and 25 per cent. ad valorem. There were
no other changes in the schedule on i'm
ported tobacco.
The conference accepted paragraph 1856
amended by the senate with the addi-
ton of the words cor plush" before ribbons
in the first line. making plush ribbons duti-
able at s1.5O per pound, and Is per cent. ad
valorer.
Paragraph 3S7, relating to woven silk fab
rfcs. was accepted amended by the
senate, except that the rate on cloth other
than black dyed in the thread or yarn and
weighted III the dyeing so as to exceed the
original weight of the raw silk was changed
from 1925 per pound to 81 so per pound and
that on cloth dyed or printed i'll the piece
from ,S3.25 to $3.50.
Cotton.
Paragraph 391. relating to manufactures
of silk. is changed SOFAS to modify the de-
scription of Jacquard figured goods by pro-
viding that they shall be made on looms, -
and that they should be dyed in the yarn
and contain two or more colors in the fill
ing" The rate is left at so per cent ad va
loren.
Paragraph 300, in relation to cotton
thread and carded yarn, was amended by
the conference so as to provide that thread
colored, bleached, combed etc, so as to
be advanced beyond the condition OF
singles by grouping or twisting of two OF
more single yarns, on all numbers exceed
. ing 20. and up to 80. are made dutiable al
one-quarter of cent per number pei
pound, and on threads of the same class
numbering so and above, three-tenths OF
cent per pound per number. In the
, original house bill there was no division as
to numbers, all being made dutiable at the
rate Of three-tenthS of a cent per num-
Der per pound. The senate left the house
rate of three-tenths of a cent on the first
division, and provided an ad valoreln OF
so per cent on the second.
| "A portion or that part OF paragraph 81,
relating to pushes, velvets, etc, which was
stricken out by the senate, was inserted
though in changed form. The insertion is
a proviso to the effect that corduroys com
posed of cotton or other vegetable fiber
Weighing seven ounces or over per square
yard shall pay duty of IS cents per square
!! yard and rs per cent. ad valorem.'
In paragraph 800 the senate amendments
are all accepted, except that reducing the
rate on cotton suspenders and braces from
\ valOrem A.
graph inserted by the senate OSLO pro.
viding for an additional duty of 10 per cent
ad valorem on all cotton yarns finer thar
, No 10 single and on all manufactures made
: of such yarns. was stricken out by the con.
ference.
i Agricultural.
Raw cotton, which the senate mad,
dutiable at the rate of 20 per cent. ad val
orem, was restored to the free list.
Paragraph 21S, relating to cattle, as Il
. passed the senate, was changed somewha
as to rates. 1915 being fixed as the rate OF
instead Of $3.50, while a rate of 271k per cent
!, ad valorem was fixed on cattle of a create
: value, instead of Is per cent. in the senat,
amendment.
The difference between the two houses
. on beans was compromised being made A
? cents per bushel
The duty on seeds not specially provided
for was made 30 per cent, the senate rat,
being 25 and the house rate 40 per cent
The paragraph in regard to packed fish
> was amended as fixed by the senate, so a.
, to be made to apply specially to fish il
packages.