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The Mills Tariff Bill

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Day
6
Month
April
Year
1888
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Public Domain
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Washington City, April 3. - At the meeting of ttie committee on ways and means Monday morning the committee formally passed upon the Mills tariff bill, with three amendments which were offered and adopted by the usual party vote. The first amendment related to the sugar schedule, and is very slight. It is intended to wipe out the difference between the thirteenth and sixteenth standard of low tests, and make the reduetion effeeted by the bill more nearly 20 per cent. it also strikes out the proviso, "that no drawback of duty shall be allowed or paid on any sugar erported f rom the United States." The nextamendment adopted inserts af ter the wool and woolen schedule the following: "Provided, that f rom and after the passage of this act, and imtil the lst day of October, 1888, the secretary of the treasury be, and is hereby authorized and directed to classify as woolen cloth all imports of worsted cloth, whether known under the name of worsted cloth, or under the names of 'worsteds' or 'diagonals' or otherwise." The third and last amendment is a new section, to be inserted immediately before section 37, and applies to the administrative features of the internal revenue portion ctf the bill, as follows: "Nothing in this act shall in any way change or impair tbe force or effect of any treaty between the Umted States and any other govermnent, or any laws passed in pursuanoe of or for the execution of any such treaty, so long as such treaty shall remain in force in respect of the subjects embraced in this act: but whenever any such treaty, so far as the same respects such subjects, shall expire or be otherwise terminated, the provisions of this act shall be in force in all respects in the same manner and to the samo extent as if no such treaty had existed at the time of the passage thereot."

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