Birmingham state herald., 1897-05-05

ner other than the ordinary mode of dry ing and curing, prepared for sale or con- sumption, even if prepared without the use of any machine or instrument and without being pressed or sweetened; and on all fine cut shorts and refuse scraps, clippings, cuttings and eweepings of to- bacco, a tax of cents per pound"
 Section 1894 of tie revised sta tutes is amended so as to read:
 Upon cigars, which shall be manu- faotured or sold, or removed for con- sumption or sale, there shall be assessed and collected the following taxes to be paid by the manufacturer thereof: On cigars of all descriptions, made of tobacco or any substitute thereof ss per 1,oo0; on cigarettes, weighing no. more than three pounds per 1000, $1 per 1000; on cigarettes weighing more than three pounds per 1000, $3 per 1000. The house provision for duties on imported tobacco have been stricken out and the follow ing duties inserted on imported tobacco: Wrapper tobacco and filler tobacco, when mixed or packed with more than per cant. Gin weig(hO of wnapper tobacco, and all leaf tobacco, the product of two or more countries or dependencies, when mixed or packed toge1her, if unStem- med, s1.50 per pound; if stemmed, $2.25 per pound filler tobacco, mot specially provided for in this act, if uns temmed, 35 cents per pound; if stemmed, 50 cents per pound. IA paragraph is inserted de- aiihii5 topdCCO ltIlIlS dS IGIlOWS.
 1.-The term wrapper tobacco, as used in this aot, means that quality of leaf tobacco which is suitable for cigar wrap perS, and the term filler tobacco means all c'1her leaf tobacco. Collectors of cus- toms shall not permit entry to be made, except under regulations to be prescribed by the secretary of the treasury, of any leaf toh1cco unless the invoices of the same shall specify in detail the charac- ter or such tobacco whether wrapper or f1ller, its origin and quality. In .he ex- ina t1on for classification of any import ed lear robacco, at Ri2St one bale, box or package in every ten, and at least one in every invoice, shall bs examined by the appraiser or person authorized by law to make such examination, and at least ten nands shall be examined in each exam med bale, box or package"
 Other changes in the tobacco schedule are as follows:
 "All tobacco, manufactured or unman- ufacrured, not especially provided for in this act, 40 cents per pound"
 (House rate was 65)
 Snuff and snuff flour. and manufac- turers or Hnuff, house rate 65, senate 40 cents per pound.
 Cigars, cigarettes of all kinds, house $4.50 per pound and 20 per cent ad valo- rem; senate, $4 per pound and 25 per cent ad valOrem
 IA provtso Ss added that cigarettes of all kinds weighing less than four pounds per l000 shah pay a duty of $3 per pound.
 On cotton thread and carded yarns, WarpS and other forms, except the spool thread, the house rate was three-tenths or cent per number per pound on num- bers exceeding twenty. The senate bill imposes three-tenths of a cent per num- Der per pound in addition to the rate of 6cents pound on No. 20 on numbers ex- eeeding, 20 and up to 80. The senate a rat Ia Mo 50 cents. Crochet alarming and embroid- cry cottons on spools are made to pay the same rates as threads on spools and it is provided that the duty shall in no case be assessed in a less number of yards than is marked on the spools or reels. The classification of cotton cloths is changed so that the bleached valiueda at over 15 in stead of IA cents per square yard. Dyed, stained, painted or printed at over 171a, instead of 16, and not bleached, etc, at over 121a. instead of 12 are dutiahle at 40 per cent. The rate on cotton cloth dyed, etc., not exceed ing three square yards to the pound is changed from to 6k cents per square yard and that exceeding three square yards to the pound Is to pay cents. The house duty of cents per square yard and 30 per cent on cloth of cotton or other vegetable fibre with an admixture of silk, is replaced by more specific para graph putting the same rates on cloth composed of cotton or other vegetable fibre, silk, whether known as silk striped sleeve Things, silk stripes or otherwise, and 1t is provided that no such cloth shall pay less than 50 per cent. ad va lorem. Cotton cloth filled or coated is made cents per square yard and 20 per cent. The term cotton cloth Is defined to mean all woven fabrics of cotton, the warp and filling threads of which can be counted by unravelling or other practi- cable means. Outside garments of cot ton having rubber as a component mat ter instead of all such garments are rated al Is cents per pound and 50 per cent, and gloves, which were excepted by the hc1se bill, are included. The rate on manufa ctures of cotton not specially pro- vided for is raised from 40 to 45 per cent.
 Many important changes were made in the wood and wooden schedules. In the metal schedule, there is a reduction on tin plates, and tuggers tin from one and half cents to one and one-fourteenth cents The provision relieving this par agraph from the benefits of a drawback is stricken out.
 An advance duty of 40 cents was fixed on mica instead of the sliding scale pro- vided in the house bill
 The house schedule on marble or onyx, which are 60 cents per cubic fo1t on the rough, and $1.10 on the sawed or dra ssed is replaced by the following Marble or onyx in block, rough or squared only. 65 cents per cubic foot; sawed or dresEed, over two inches thick, 110 per cubic foot; slabs or paving tile of same, containing not less than four superficial inches if not more than one inch in thickness, 12 cents per superficial foot; more than one and noi. more than one and half inches thick 15 cents; more than one and half and not more than two inches, IS cents. rubber, in whole or in part, 3 cents per foot additional. In agricultural products beans are reduced from 50 to 40 cents per hushel; hay, from $4 70 $3 per ton; hops, from 15 to 12 cents per pound; dried peas changed from 1 cent per pound to 20 cents per bushsl. Evergreen seedlings are added to the paragraph in regard to tree cuttings and made dutiable at $175 per 1000. Articles in this paragraph not specifically provided for are changed from 30 to 25 psr cent. ad valorem. Po- ta toes are changed from 25 to 20 cents per bushel; flax seed or linEeed from 30 to 25 cents per bushel and seeds of all kinds not specifically provided for from 40 to 25 per cent. ad valorem. Herrings, pickled or salted, ne-half of one cent per pound. rsead of 1 cent; herrings, fresh, one-fouh,lh of one cent, instead eff cent per pound. There are numerous in eli i,, r1 to