The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-02-05
FOUR OF THE MOST IMPORTANT
SCHEDULES ARE NOW DEFI-
NTTELY FIXED.
M'KINLEY RATES RESTORED
ON NEARLY ALL OF THE AGRICUL.
TURAL PRODUCTS OF THE
WEST.
Iron, Steel and Cotton Schedules
Have Been Considered and Lumber
Is Next in Order.

| WASHINGTON, Feb 4-The daily
| sessions Of the Republican members
| Of the ways and means committee.
Which have been in progress for about
| two weeks, have brought the tariff
! bill, which is to be laid before the next
congress, to a stage where the char
| acter of the measure can be somewhat
| gauged and where certain of the most
important schedules are definitely
| fixed. Four schedules have now been
fairly completed-the chemical, agri-
cultural, wines and spirits, and earthen
and glassware schedules. All of the
rates which have been decided upon,
however, are subject to change.
Today's meeting was the most i'm
portant Of the series, for it resulted
in the framing of the agricultural
schedule, which was made a re-enact-
ment of the Mckinley law, with few
changes except on unimportant prod
ucts. The most important step in con-
nection with the schedule was the
establishment of rates of $5 a head on
cattle more than one year old, and of
% per cent ad valorem on cattle valued
at more than 500 a head. The McKin-
ley rates on other live stock, includ-
ing the rate of 81 on cattle of one
year old or less, are restored. The
Wilson rates were 20 per cent ad valo-
rem on live stock, and, while the new
duty of S. on cattle does not reach
the Mckinley figure Of $40 on cattle
mere than one year old, it is expected
that the ad valorem on the more valua-
bic grades will prove adequate to shut
out Mexican cattle
1t is against the Mexican stock that
the increase is particularly directed on
the representations of Western cattle
men that their business had been
ruined by the importations from Mex
leo, under the Wilson law, which
amounted to more than 20O, 900 head.
Much interest centered upon barley.
which the committee puts back to the
Mckinley duty of 80 cents a busheI
because the farmers contended that the
Wilson tariff had turned over the mar
ket into the hands Of Canadians, while
the maltsters, who have been using
Canadian barley, have made hard
fight against any increase. Among
the products in the agricultural sched-
ule which are returned to the McKin-
ley rates are breadstuffs and rice, dali
ry products, potatoes and starch cas-
tor beans and fiaxseed, meats and
meat products, eggs and poultry, veg
| etables and salt. The demand Of the
farmers for the Mckinley rate of s4
a ton on hay, instead Of Wilson rate,
| 81, was granted. The rates upon other
| articles are as follows:
FARM SCHEDULES.
Rye, 1Oc a bushel; wheat, 25c; butter and
| cheese, &c per pound; milk sc gallon; beans
| 40c bushel; cabbage, &c each; cider sc a
gallon; eggs, &c dozen; hay, 81 a ton; honey
buShel; potatoes, 40c bushel; fax seed 30c
bushel; straw, 80 per cent ad valorem;
bacon, SC pound; beef, mutton and pork,
| &c a pound; lard, &c; poultry dressed 3c
| tallow, 1c; oats, 15c bushel.
Through the efforts Of Representative
| TaWney, a duty Of 1 cent per pound
has been put on chickory root, and =;
cents per pound on prepared chickory.
In the chemical schedule many of the
Wilson rates will be retained. The
| Wilson duties on soaps and on sodas
and kindred chemicals which are the
raw materials Of soaps are left un-
changed. The present rates on oils.
| 1rcluding castor oil, also will be re-
| taIned, except where changes are made
necessary by the restoration Of duties
! on the raw materials which enter into
| them, as In the case of linseed oil.
! There will be but Slight changes in
the rates on paints and dyestuffs and
! their constituent elements. The duties
OH lead in ores is placed at 1 cent a
pound, on pig lead 2 cents, on white
lead and lead acetates 21a cents.
! The committee has decided to re-
! tain the Wilson rates on wines and
! spirits throughout the wine and spirit
| schedule. This schedule of the Wilson
act was generally higher in it's rates
than in the Mckinley act.
The committee has devoted some
| time to the consideration Of manufac-
| lures Of iron and steel and to cotton
manufacturers, but has not perfected
these schedules No other schedule has
| given the committee SO much trouble
as the one which includes earths.
earthenware and glassware. It has
been claimed by all the pottery and
glass interests that the Wilson law
has proven destructive to their inter
ests and that no system of advalorem
levies could properly protect them.
Accordingly, the committee has deter
mined to adjust the items of the sched-
ulc to such specific duties as will be
equal to the duties of the Mckinley
law, most of which were advalorem.
Plate glass has been arranged as fol-
lows: Under 16 by "a inches, cents
per square foot (present rate 81; above
16 by "a and not exceeding "a by 30.
IL cents (present rate 81; above "a bv
80 and not exceeding "a by 60, the pres
ent rate Of 2214 cents; all above "a by
so the present rate Of 35 cents. Lum-
Der will be the next subject which will
| engage the committees attention