Show NEW TARIFF BILL INEW IS SUBMITTED Greatly to the Surprise of the Congressmen i EVERYBODY HAD LOOKED FOR DELAY IT IS RADICALLY DIFFERENT FROM DINGLEYS BILL Practically Amounts to Another Measure Many of the Most Important portant Schedules Have Been Rewritten written Entirely Will Probably be About Six Weeks Debate on It Will Be Called Up Nay 18 I Washington May 4The tariff bill was reported to the senate today to the surprise senators and the public When the senate finance committee met today the idea prevailed that th bill would be held in committee for two days All the members of the committee vere present The Democrats examined the bill for nearly an hour making running com ments on i I They announced that they were against the bill as a whole They soon understood that Senator I Jones of Nevada was going to vote with the Republicans and realized that there was no possibility of changing chang-ing the bill They had no desire to make any factious opposition and when a motion was made by the Republicans Re-publicans to report the bill at once the vole was taken promptly All the Republicans with Senator Jones of Nevada Ne-vada voted for the motion and all the Democrats voted against it the vote standing 6 to 6 Late In the day Senator Sen-ator Aldrich announced that he would call up the bill on Tuesday May 18 The Republican members of the committee com-mittee say there is no statement to be made now as to the effect of the bill I the amount of revenue to be raised bit b-it or the reductions When the billis taken up in the senate Mr Aldrich will make such a statement in the opening speech I will raise revenue enough was I the comment of Senator Allison and i was assented tq by Senator Aldrich r They estimated however that the increased in-creased revenue to be raised from beer I would be 13000000 andfrom tea 10 000000 I I Senator Jones of Arkansas the Democratic Dem-ocratic tariff leader said that he expected ex-pected there would be about six weeks debate on the bilL Several sections in the last part of the Dingley bill which reenacted the present law arewstricken eJaced I Tlis will ar thc effect cf leaving the present Taw efect I fat standing and avoid I lsqu jon to a great extent The new bill is radically different from the Dingley bill uacticaliy I amounting to another m Ivactcal Many Important schedules Were rewritten re-written J entirely I writen entrel I I The Bill Washington May 4The tariff bill was reported to the senate today The sugar schedule is i as follows Sugar not above No 16 Dutch standard stand-ard in color tank bottoms syrups cane juice and beet juice melada concentrated con-centrated melada concrete and concentrated concen-trated molasses tested by polafrscope above 87 and not above SS decrees T91000 of 1 cent per pound and for every additional degree shown by the polariscopic test 2100 of 1 cent a pound and fractions of a degree in proportion Sugar above No 16 Dutch standard in color and sugar that has gone through the process of refining 116100 cents a pound and in addition thereto on all foregoing 35 per cent ad valorem Sugar not above No 16 I Dutch standard in color tank bottoms syrups cane juice and beet juice me I lada concentrated melada concrete and concentrated molasses testing by i the polariscope not more than 87 degrees de-grees 73 per cent ad vatorem Molasses I I testing above 40 and not more than 55 degrees 4 cents a gallon testing 5 degrees and not above 70 degrees Scents I S-cents a gallon Machinery purchased abroad imported import-ed and erected in any beet sugar factory j fac-tory and actually used in the production produc-tion of sugar in the United States from beets produced therein within two I years from the first day of July 1S97 shall be admitted free of duty under I such regulations as the secretary of the treasury may prescribe I Maple sugar and maple syrup 4 cents a pound glucoe or grape sugar y > cent a pound sugar cane in natural state I I manufactured 10 per cent ad va I lorem saccarine 1 a pound and 10 per cent ad valorem Sugar candy and all I confectionery valued at 15 cents a pound or less 4 cents a pound and 1 per cent ad valorem A duty is levied on tea at the rate of I I 10 cents a pound until Jan 1 1900 after af-ter which it is admitted free of duty The following is the provision in regard re-gard to hides transferred from the Hst Hides of cattle dry salted or pickled pick-led Iv cents a pound provided that I upon all leather exported made from imported hides there shall be allowed a drawback equal to the amount of I duty paid on such hides I I The retroactive clause of the Dingley bill is stricken from the senate bill j I The entire house provision relating to I reciprocity is Stricken out and sections I I substituted providing that whenever I the country shall pay a bounty upon the exportation of any article of merchandise mer-chandise dutiable under this act then upon the importation of any such arti cle into the United States there shall be levied upon it in addition to duty imposed by this act a duty equal to I the net amount of such bounty to be ascertained by the secretary of the I treasury The house provision keeping in force the Hawaiian reciprocity treaty Is stricken out The effect being indirectly indi-rectly to abrogate the treaty and impose im-pose the same duty on Hawaiian I sugars as on sugars from other countries coun-tries The provision of the house bill on distilled dis-tilled wines is stricken out and the fol I lowing substituted Still wines in casks i containing 14 per cent or less absolute alcohol 30 cents a gallon if containingmore than 14 cent absolute alcohol 50 cents 1 per nlohol a gallon galon In bottles or jugs per case of dozen containing each not more than a quart and more than a pint or 24 bottles or I jugs containing each not more than a I pint 1 per case Wines ginger cordial I cor-dial or vermuth imported containing more than 24 per cent alcohol shall accordingly be classed a spirits and pay duty The per centage of alcohol shall be y h I determined in such manner as the secretary < retary of the treasury shall prescribe Lead ores are inch eased from 1 cent to 1Y cents a pound > s All coal is madedutiable 15 cents a ton with the provision that the duty shall be 60 cents on coal imnorted from any country that does CJQt impose a higher rate of duty than thos named I in this bill N The senate has increased the interZ1 1 revenue duty on beer to 144 a barre I until Jan 1 1900 Thereafter i shall pay the present rate 1 Many important changes were made in the wool and woolen schedule First class wools were reduced from 1 cents a pound to 8 cents and second class wools from 12 to 9 whereas the duties on wools of the third class were raised The dividing line class were placed at 10 cents value wools under that value I being made dutiable at 4 cents a pound instead of 32 per cent ad va lorem as in the house bill Wools valued val-ued more than 10 cents a pound were placed at 7 cents a pound instead of 5 per cent ad valorem Wool growers failed to secure all the changes they desired in classification but it is understood un-derstood the rates fixed on wools are satisfactory to them Skirted wools first class as imported In 1890 and prior are required to pay 1 cent a pound in addition to the rates Imposed bj this act on unwashed wools class one There is a reduction 20 cents pound on oils from 30 to a Paragraphs 362 and 363 and 364 are all stricken out and substitutes provided for them as follows 362 Wool and hair which have been advanced by any process of manufac ture beyond the washed or scoured condition not specially provided for in this act shall be subject to the same duties that are Imposed upon manufactures manu-factures qf wool not specially pro vided 1 for 363On yarns made wholly 6r in patt of wools valued at not more than 35 cents per pound the dutyper Jjpund shall be 2 ½ times the duty Imposed n pound of unwashed wool of the first class valuedatmore than 35 cents per pound 3 times the rate imposed on umvashed wool of the first class and in addition upon all of tha foregoing 40 per cent ad valorem ctnt 564On clothes knit fabrics and all manufactures of every description not specially provided for valued at not spedalJ more 40 rents per pound the duty I shall be 3 times the duty imposed on I unwashed wool of the first class valued val-ued at above 40 cents and not bove 70 cents 4 times the duty on unwashed cent tmes skirted wool of the first class and in addition on l the foregoing 50 per cent ad valorem valued at over 70 cents per pound 4 times the duty on unwashed skirted wool of the first class and 55 per cent ad valorem The blanket paragraph is changed as follows Blankets ad flannels are increased front 30 to 40 per cent per pound and I is frm also provided that the duty on this article alsl shall be the same as that imposed I art one and onehlf Bounds of unwashed upon onphl washed wools An additional duty is allowed of 30 per cent ad vaQrem instead in-stead of the house rate On these articles arti-cles valued at more than 40 cents ad not more than 5 cents per pound the I dutv is made equal to two ann a IJIL times tlvt on one pound of iirvased wool instead of three times that as provided pro-vided in the house bill and an art valorem yidl Per cent is added in terd of the house per rte cet blankets < valued at more than 5 f cents per pound the rate is made three time that of unwashed wool > dan thre added an advalorem duty of 40 per cent is i Womens and childrens dress goods coat lings etc valued at 15 cents per yard and less are rated at Til2 cent per yard instead Of 7 c < < r Jf as in the house bill while articles of tins class valued ar more than 15 cents are reduced from S moll to ½ cents ner yard and 5 per cent ad valorerj instead of 20 per cent as the house bill dded on all of fi I The fbove applies to goods thf warp of which consists wholly of cotton or other vegetable mate al On sand s-and childrens dcss goods etc whch I are composed wholly or in part of ooL and not snecialv provided for the duty Is reduced from 1 to 9 cents per yaro J with an ad valorem of 5 per cent added The rate of webbings gorings suspenders etc is reduced from 6 to 40 cert per pound though the ad valorem addition of 60 per cent i not c > elI el-I There are several changes in ccts Orientals BerlIn and other similar rusrs as well as carpets woven In whole for rooms a are removed from the paragraph reltng to Axminster carpets and are incorporated In a new paragranh which provides for a duty on them of 2 cents per square foot and 10 per cent HU I valorem when they are valued at not i more than 40 cents per square foot valued I at more than 40 cents and not more than i 1 40 cents Del square foot and 2 percent per-cent pd vplor m valued at more tan 51 and not more than 2 73 cents per square foot and 23 per cent ad vioem Trible ingrain and all chained venetIan carpets are increased from 19 cents per square yard to 25 cents and wool dutIes yard twoply ingrain from 1 to 2 cents per A paragraph is added specifically providing viding That oil articles fabrics ana manufactures however described of which wool is a component material shall he classified > nd pay the duties imposed I by the several paragraphs of this schedule The lumber schedule Is ch > nzed bv adding after the word Umber the words hown sided or square timber and the duty fixed a1 the rate e 1 cent per cubic foot as in the hobS bill The rate of S3 per ton on all sawed boards etc Is retaIned hut when planed on one side the additional rate Is made 3 instead of 5 cents Del 100 feet board measure when planed tongued and gooved the additional rate 5s made 70 cents per 1000 feet board measure instead of 51 If planedon two side and tongued and grooved 105 per 1000 instead of ler 5 I The house proviso for an addItIonal dulY of 25 per cent ad valorem upon lumber imported from any foreign country coun-try which imposes an export duty Is I charged so as to add the amount of the exDort dutv instead of any fixed sum The duty on kindling wood in bundles is stJchen out stc Shingles house rate 30 cents senate 25 cents per 1000 Placed on the free lst are poplar and other nulp woods heading belts stove bolts railroad ties Tobacco An important change was made in tobacco taxes under the Internal Continuedon Page 1 i |