Show NEW TARIFF BILL IS SUBMITTED i I Continued from Page 1 revenue laws Section 33SG relating to Internal ties on tobacco was changed revised statutes to read as follows Upon tobacco and snuff manufactured and sold or removed for consumption or use there shall be levied and collected the following taxes On snuff manufactured of tobacco oran or-an substitute for tobacco ground dry damp pickled scented or otherwise of all descriptions when descrpton prepared for use a tax of 8 cents per pound And snuft flour when sold or removed for snuf consumption shall be taxed a snuff and shall b put up in packages and stamped In the same S2e manner as snuff On l chewing and smoking tobacco Hue cut cavendish plug or twist cut or granulated of every description on to I bacco twisted by hand or reduced Into a I condition to be consumed or in any manner man-ner other than the ordinary mode of I drying and curing preuared for sale or I consumption ever i prepared without the use of any machine or instrument and without being pressed or sweetened and on all line cut shorts sweetene scraps clippings cuttings and sweetings of tobacco a tax of S cents per sweetngs Seton C391 of the revised statutes is amended so a to read as follows Upon cigars which shall be manufac I tured or sold or removed for consumption or sale there shall be consumpton I lected the following asesse paid by the manufacturer thereof on cigar sof all i descriptions 1 made of tobacco or any I substitute therefore 3 vcr thousand On I claretles weighing not more than three pounds per 1000 S per 1000 on cigarettes weighing more than three pounds per 1000 3 per 1000 The house provisions for duties on imported tobacco have been stricken out and the following duties in sorted on imported tobacco Wrapper tobacco and filler tobacco when mixed or packed with more than 5 per cent In weight of wrapper tobacco and allleaf tobacco the product of two or more countries or dependencies when I mixed or packed together if unstemmed loO per pound filler tobacco not spec tally provided for In this Lnof nn I stemmed 35 cents per pound if stemmed I 5 cents per pound A paragraph Is inserted defining to bacco terms as follows The term wrap per tobacco as used in this act means that quality of leaf tobacco which Is suitable suit-able for cigar wrappers and the term filler means all other leaf tobacco Col lectors of customs shall not permit entry to be made except under regulations to be prescribed by the secretary of the treasury of any leaf tobacco unless the Invoices of the same shall specify in de toil the character of such tobacco whether whe-ther wrapper or filler its origin and qual ity In the examination for classifications of any imported leaf tobacco at least one bale box or package in every ton and at least one in every invoice shall be ex amned by the appraiser or aned appriser person authorized au-thorized by law to make such examination tionOther Other changes in the tobacco schedule arc as follows All other tobaico manufactured or un manufactured not specially manufacturd specaly provided for In this act 40 cents per pound houso rate 6 Snuff and snuff Hour and manu factuics of snuff house rate C5 senate 40 cents per pound Cigars cigarettes cheroots che-roots of all kinds house 5I0 per pound and 2 per cent ad valorem senate SIC per pound and 2 per cent ad valorem A provision Is added that cigarettes of all kinds welching less than four pounds per 1000 shall pay a duty of S5 1 per pound Metals In the metal schedule the cttrIn tho schedule first change of importance is made In paragraph graph 121 relating to coils or rods of less than sevensixteenths of an inch In diameter dia-meter which Is made to Include hammered ham-mered as well as rolled Iron and on which the duty is reduced from the nouns rate of 810 to 710 cent per pound There Is i also n reduction of slabs blooms looPI etc from 510 to 410 of a cent per pound Beams girders etc are reduced front C10 to 510 of a cent Boiler plate iron or 1ai3 reduced from gr per cent to 23 percent per-cent ad valorem anchors of iron or steel I from 14 cents per pound to 1 210 cents Railway bars T rails etc are reduced from 710 to 310 of a cent per pound and raUvay fish plate from to 410 cents per pound The provisions of the house bill making all Iron or steel wire rods which have been tempered or treated dutiable as wire is i stricken out as out The duty of 1 cent per pound ns fixed by the house on lead ore was increased to 1l4 cents and a provision added that the value should Be estimated at the port of entry whether designated as bonded warehouses or otherwise There was no change on the rate fixed 5 I M O 4 > 1 I by the house on pig lead lead dross etc I Quicksilver is reduced from 10 to 5 cents per pound and the provision for a duty oa the flasks and other vessels In which quicksilver may be imported Is stricken our There are numerous changes In the provisions pro-visions In regard to fruits and nuts Ap pIes peaches and father edible fruits when dried are reduced from 2 cents to 1 cent per pound and berries are stricken from tho dutiable lst The paragraph in regard re-gard to preserved fruits sweet meats etc Is changed so as to provide for an additional duty of 5 per gallon on the alcohol contained In such preserves in excess ex-cess of 5 per cent Jellies are made dutiable able at 3 per cent ad valorem and pine aeries preserved in theis own juice at 25 preerve I > er cent ad valorem The duty on figs i plums prunes raisins and other dried i grapes Is reduced from 2Vi cents per pound j to 2 cents and on olives in bottles or I jars from 2 to 2 cents per gallon I Grains are made dutiable 2 cents per I cubic foot Instead of 1 cent per aound OrAnces and lemons and other oltrous fruits are placed at 1 per cent instead of i of a cent as provided in the house I bill All the provisos of the house bill re kiting to jcitrus fruits are stricken QUt as I also the house paragraph in regard to oran e and lemon peel For this last paragraph a substitute Is provided containing con-taining the same rates as the house bH but making a slightly different classification classifi-cation Almonds are reduced from 5 to 3 cents per pound filberts from 3 to 21 > cents when not shelled and from 610 5 cents When shelled peanuts unshelled from 1 cent to cent per pound when shelled from 14 cents to 1 cent per pound nuts not specified from 1V to 1 cent per pound The paragraph in regard to fish packed in oil or otherwise 1 entirely chanced and provides that anchovies sardines sprats et < parcelled in tins boxes or cans shall be dutiable a follows In j boxes or cans containing seven and a half cubic Inches or less iy cents Per j box or can containing not more than 21 cubic Inches 24 cents per box or can containing not more than 3 cubic inches 5 i cents per box containing not more i than 70 cubic inches 10 cents per box I if in other packages 40 per cent ad i valorem All other fish in cans r boxes of less than half a barrel and not specially special-ly provided for onefourth of u cent per pound instead of 1 cent is provided for in the house bill Mackerel or salmon plclUed 1 or salted and other fish pickled in barrels or half barrels 1 cent per pound There is a new paragraph relating to I the character of flslx The general house rate was IY cents per pound The senate I addition provides for threefourths of a cent ser nound on Smoked dried sated pickled frozen fish prepared for preservation preser-vation and fresh fish not otherwise specially provided for The senate bill strikes out the house provision for an additional ad-ditional duty on any country or dependency de-pendency which pays an export bounty on fish and also the house paragraph providing for a duty on cans containing shell fish conqnLS There are very radical changes in the schedule of eathenwaxe and Elas ware some of the most important I changes being transfers from a valorem to specific or mixed rates The rates of the house bill on plates I duced window glass tc are cenerally 1 I I Articles stricken from the free list In elude casks barrels bags etc exported I from and relmported into this country Fish roe preserved for food purposes 13 excluded from the tu i are hides angora goat skin ana ass skins asa mineral salts from mineral waters The paragraph In the free list relating to oils is rewritten and somewhat enlarged en-larged The paragraph In regard to wearing wear-Ing apparel is als new It strikes out the house provision limiting the exemption exemp-tion to citizens of the United States of 0 in value and also the house provision pro-vision to the effect that the erempton I shall not apply to residents of other countries entering the Vnlted States more than once a year There are also new specifications In regard to the Importation of works of a for exhibition Duraosea These articles are to be admitted free subject department to the regulations of the treasury dearent r |