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The Senate Tariff Bill

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Parent Issue
Day
14
Month
August
Year
1894
Copyright
Public Domain
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Washington, Au. 14- The senate bilí ' which tbe caucus aet.u (barring the presdential veto) ensares as the law of the and iu place ot the McKinley bill provides the followiug rates of duty upon the great staples which have been the bones. of contention: All raw sugars, 40 per cent. j ad valoreni; sugars above No. 16 (refined), % per ceut. additional; au ars produced n bouaty paying couutries. 1 10 per cent. ! additional to these rates. Hawaitan sugar s still free under the reciprocity treaty. Iron ore 10 cents per ton, pigs M per ton, iron or stenl rails 7-2Ü of l pt r cent. ler pound. Lead ore and dross % of 1 per ceut. per pound; silver, lead beanng ore : the same dnty on the lead contained therein. Tobacco for wrappers f 1.50 per j aound unsteinmed, $'2.35 stemmed; cigars ! and cigarettes $4 per pound and 25 per cent. advalorem. Coal, bituminous and arge slack. )5 cents per ton. Precioiis stones, ebt and uuset, 20 per cent. ■■ rem; set 30 cent., uuset 10 per cent.; ; ïers and miners' diamonds free. Logs and sawed lumber and timber save tropical woods) and wool are free. Tin plate 1 1-5 cents per pound after Oct. 1. Marble, rough, 50 cents; dressed, 5 ! cents per foot (cubic). White and re 1 t ead, X% cents per pouud. Under the ternal revenne sections of the bill playing , cards are taxed 2 cents a package. An income tax of 2 per cent. on iucomes above 64,000, is provided for; also a tax on corporations of 2 per cent. Whisky is taxed at $1.11) per gallon and the bonded period ■ fixed at eight years.

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