Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1897-07-29

nay velvet carpets, figured or PLAIN, ana all
carpets or carpetinS OF like character or
description, 60 cents per square yard, and,
in addition thereto, 10 per cent. ad valoreIn.
Paragraph 374-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 and 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
cents per square yard, and, in addition
thereto, 40 per cent. ad vaIorem.
Paragraph 376-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. 10
per cent. ad valoren.
Paragraph 37T-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 valoren.
Wood.
The following was substituted for the
paragraph on hewn timber:
Timber hewn, sided, or squared (not
less than s inches sQuare), and round tim
Der used for spars or in building wharves.
one cent per cubic foot
The aragraph relating TO sawed boards
and planks was amended by striking out
the words white pine at 81 per LOCO
feet and by restoring the house rate
on all the other items of the schedule,
making the rates so cents per 900 feet for
each side pIaned or finished, 81 for
tongued or grooved, and $3.50 If planed on
two sides and tongued and grooVed. The
legislative proyiso to this paragraph IN
serted by the senate was changed so as to
read as follows: That if any country or
any dependency shall impose an export
duty upon saw logs, round manufactured
timber, stave bolts, shingle bolts, or head
ing bolts, exported in the United States, or
| 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
barrels, sugar box shocks etc.
The house rate of two cents per thousand
and Is per cent. ad valorem is restored on
toothpicks, as 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-
$1.75 The house ra tie on imported cigars, Gig
arettes, etc, of $3.50 per pound and 25 per
| cent. ad valorem was restored.
The senate made the rate 81 per pound
and % per cent. ad valorem. There were
no other changes in the schedule on i'm
ported tobacco.
The conference accepted para graph 1856
as amended by the senate with the addi-
ton of the words cor plush before ribbons
able at $50 per pound, and 10 per cent. ad
Valorern.
Paragraph 387, relating to woven silk fab
RIGS, was accepted as amended by the
senate, except that the rate on cloth other
| than black dyed in the thread or yarn and
weighted in the dyeirg so as to exceed the
original weight of the raw silk was changed
| from 50 25 per pound to $3.50 per pound, and
| that on cloth dyed or printed in the piece
! from So. 25 to So. so.
Paragraph 391, relating to manufactures
| of silk is changed so as to modify the de-
| scription of jacquard figured goods by pro-
! vidng 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 50 per cent ad va
| loren.
| Paragraph 800, 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 or
| more single yarns, or all numbers exceed
| Ing 20, and up to 80, made dutiable at
! One-quarter of a cent per number per
! pound and on threads of the same class
| numbering so and above, three-tenths Of
| a cent per pound per number. In the
! original house bill there no division as
| 10 numbers, all being made dutiable at the
| thrPp-tpntbS a
! Der per pound The senate left the house
| late or three-tenths of a cent on the first
! division, and provided an az va1orem of
80 per cent. on the second.
a portion of that part Of paragraph 315
I 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 cor6uroys 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 % per cent. ad valoren."
In paragraph 800 tho senate amendments
| are all accepted, except that reducing the
| rate on cotton SuspendeiS and braces from
! IS to 40 per cent. ad valCreun. The para
| graph inserted by the senate OSLO pro-
| viding for an additional duty Of 10 per cent
! ad Valorem on all cotton yarns finer than
! No. 10 single and on all manufactures made
| of such yarns, was stricken out by the con-
| ference.
Agricultural.
Raw cotton, which the senate made
dutiable at the rate of 20 per cent. ad val
Orem, was restored to the free list
Paragraph 21S relating to cattle, as it
passed the senate, was changed somewhat
| as to rates, S3.75 being fixed as the rate on
cattle valued at not more than s14 per head
instead of $3.50, while rate of 2715 per cent
ad valorem was fixed on cattle of greater
value, instead Of % per cent. in the senate
amendment.
The difference between the two houses
on beans was compromised, being made As
cents per busheI.
The duty on seeds not specially provided
for was made 80 per cent, the senate rate
! being Is and the house rate 40 per cent.
The paragraph in regard to packed fish
was amended as fixed by the senate so as
to be made to apply specially to fish in
packages.
Parag graph 261 was amended so as to spe-
officially provide that fresh mackerel, hall
but or salmon should be dutiable at the
rate of one cent per pound, well as the
picked or sailed article.
Dried Fruits.
Para graph 262 in regard to apples, etc.
was amended go as to omit currants, and
the house rate Of cents per pound on such
dried fruits as apples, peaches, pears, and
berries prepared in any manner was re-
stored.
The grape paragra Bh was altered so a s to
root "of the capacity of the barrels or
packages"
Orange and lemon peels preserved and
cocoanut meat, etc, were restored to the
house rate Of cents per pound.
On pineapples the senate rate was re-
tanned.
On unshelled flberts and walnuts the