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THE S FRANCISCO CALL, TUESDAY, and 158 noes. Then the Speaker an- nounced an addition of one vote to the ayes (making it a tie), but that was imme- _ diately followed by an addition of one to the noes. The vote was thereupon taken by ayes and noes and re-ulted in ordering the previous question on Henaerson's res- olution by 183 ayes and 152 noes, several Republicans having changed thyfr votes from 1o to ave. A point having been raised that under the rules there were twenty minutes for debate the Speaker suid: “There are rules and rules. There is a rule for the previous question ‘in the Fifty-second, Fifty-thira and Fifty-fourth Congresses and also under the general parliamentary law. In the House of Representatives heretofore the rule has allowed twenty minutes for debate. But that is not the ruie under which we are now acting. Even.if it were there has been debate enough before the previous question to lcut off ‘that twenty minutes. The ques- tion is now agreeing on the resolution.” The House divided and the Speaker re- ported aves 157, noes 133, so Henderson’s resolution was agreed to. The usual drawing for seats was pro- ceeded with, preference being given on account of long service to Grow (R.) of Pennsylvania, Holman (D.) of Indiana and Harmer (R.) of Pennsylvania. As members selected their seats many of their desks were made the depositories of artistic constructions of flowers. While bis scene was being enacted to the great amusement of the galleries, the committes appointed to wait upon the President re- ported through Payne (R.) of New Yorx that the President “had sent his kindly greeting to Congress, and said that he would communicate immediately in writing.” The making of the report was followed instantly—at . 3. —by the delivery of the President’s message, bu: its reading was withheld until the seating of members completed. The President’s me: s referred, on m Commiftee on Ways and Me: Dingley then introduced his tar which was also referred to the Com on Ways and Means. The Speaker announced the appoint- ment of the Committees on’ Rules, on Ways and Means and on Mileage, as fol- iows: On Rules of Iows, Dal Bailey of Democra! On Ways and’ Means—Messrs Dingley of Maine (chairman), Payne of New York, Dalzell of Pennsylvania, Hopk nor of Ohio, Dolliver of Iowa, Steele of Ind! ana, Johnson of Nortk Dakota, Evans of Ken- u ey of Minnesots, Republicans; brief was read, and gley, to the T bill, ttee The Speaker, Messrs. Hendersou ell of Pennsylvania, Republicans; s and MeMillan of Tennessee, s, Robertson of Louisiana and Swansen inia, Demoerats. Mileage—Messrs. Wright of Massachusetts (chairman), Barham of Californis, Booze of Maryland, Republicans; Cooper of Texas and Lewis of Georgis, Democrats. Permission was given to the Commitiee on Ways and Means to sit durinz the ses- sion of the House, and to have all neces- sary printing done; and then, at 4 P. M., the House adjourned until Thursday next. gt ety SESSION OF THE SENATE. 1hs President's Message Listened To With Kapt Attention. WASHINGTO:! D. C, March 14.— President McKinley’'s proclamation con- veyed to the Fifty-fifth Congress in ex- traordinary session was read immediately after the Senate assembled atnoon to-day. Though the session lasted until 3:25 », ., when edjournment was taken until to- morrow, the greater portion of the time was spent in recess waiting for the House to organ W. A. Harris (Pop.) appeared and took | the oath of office as Senator from Kansas to succeed Peffer, but the credentials of Henry W. Corbett, appointed by the Gov- ernor of Oregon to succeed Mitchell (the Legislature having failed to elccr) wers referred 10 the Committee on Privileges and Electi 3 At 3:15 . x. the first message of Presi- dent McKinley was read. It was devoted _entirely to the tariff. The total receipts for the past three fiscal years, he said, had been insufficient to meet the expenditures by $137.811,000 and the interest on the public debt had increased by $11,493,000. These conditions were for Congress to cor- rect. for the expenses of the Government, the prompt payment of liberal pensions and the liquidation of the public debt. The necessity of the hour was the enactment of a tariff bill that would provide ample revenues and render to labor in every field of useful occnpation liberal wages. *‘Be- fore the transaction of other business,” the message concluded, *let us provide sufficient revenue.””. While the reading of the message re- ceived the undivided attention of the Sen- ators and the crowds in the galleries it evoked no demonstrations of either ap- proval or disapproval. Then, on motion of Allison (R.) of Iowa, the Senate af 3:25 adjourned until to-mor- TOW at noon. g s sk S s DRAWING OF SEATS. Californian Democratic and Populistic Congressmen in Luck. WASHINGTON, D. C., March 15.—The Democratic and Populisiic contingent of the California delegation in drawing seats to-day- were the most fortunate of any delegations. Judge Maguire, whose name was one of the first called, selected. the seat sought after by every Democrat. His next-door neighbor is Jerry Simpson of Kansas. Representative Marion de Vries is two rows ahead of him and directly in front of the seat so lon - filled by Sunset Cox of New York and Judge Hoiman of Indiaua. Representatives Castle and Barlow are directly in the rear of Judge Magnuire. The Republican members were not so successful. Representative Loud, who was the first to draw a seat in the Fifty-fourth Congress, this time has a seat on the extreme right of the Speaker. His neighbor is Judge Holman. Repre- sentatives Barham and Hilborn are on the extreme left of the House, Judge Hil- born selecting the same seat he occupied last year. Prostrated by Ocerwork. CHIC AGO, Irn., March 15.—Over appli- cation tc business has shattered the nérves of Harry W. Getz, terminal superin- tendent of the Baltimore and Obio rail road, and be has been compelled to give up his work and seek rest. To-day he wlil leave under the care of his wife for the home of her mother, who -is a phy- sitian at Long Beach, near Pasadend, Cal. e i) Walling Refusea a Respite. FRANKFORT, Ky., March Gov- ernor Bradiey has refu-ed a respite in the case of Alonzo Walling, convieted of com- olicity in_the murier of Pearl Bryan. Walling will bs hanged with Scott Jackson next Saturday. FERA Terrific Gale in Pennsylvania, ERIE. Pa, March 15.—A terrific gale struck Erie to-day, which did a great deal of damage. It is revorted that Wattsourg, atown in a remote partof the county, was destroved by fire. The wires are down Ample revenue should be providea | DINGLEY OUTLINES THE TARIFF BILL Explains the General Scope and Purport of the Measure. 1t Aims to Increase the Annual Revenue of the Country $112,000,000 Home Proiuction Will B2 Encouraged and Employment Provided at Good Wages. WASHINGTON, D. C.,, March 15.—At quite a late hour in the session of the House to-day Chairman Dingley pre- sented for reference to the Committee on ‘Ways and Means, of which it was well understood he was again to b> chairman, the bill upoa which he and his Republi- can associates have been engaged for many weeks. | Most of the essBntial details of the bill, except its administrative features, which are embodied in the last 4000 words of the bill, beginning with section three, have | already been made known in these ais- | patches; but in discussing the general scope and purport of the bill o a repre- sentative of the United Associated Presses to-day, Chairman Dingley gave an inter- esting synopsis of what he expected of it, follow: The bill has two purposes, namely: To raise additional revenue and to encourage the industries of the United States. On the basis of the importations of the last fiscal year the biil would increase the revenue about $112,000,000, divided among the several schedules roughly as follows: A—Chemicals, $3,500,000. B—Crockery and glassware, $4,000,000. & ugar, $21,750,000, ‘obacco, $7,000,000. G—Agricuitural, $6 300,000. H—Liquors, $1,800,000. I—Cottons, $1,700,000. J—Jute, linen and hemp, $7,800,000. —Wool, $17,500,000. Manufactures of wool, $27,000,000. L—Siiks, $1,500,000. —Pulp and paper, $58,000. undries, 00,000. “This statement is on the supposition that the imports of each class of goods in the fiscal year ended last June. But as the imports of wool were three times as great and those of woolen goods more than twice as great in pounds as in 1893, the committee assumes that their ex- cessive importation would be largely re- duced by toe proposed bill, although the fact that our domestic pro iuction of wool has diminished 8,000,000 pounds since 1893 will necessitate the importation of | much more wool. ‘‘Assuming that the im portations of wool fall off at least one-third from those of 1596, on account of anticipatory-im- ports to avoid duties, we place the in- creased revenue from this source at $11,000,000. Anticipating, also, that the imports of woolens will fall off nearly 15 per cent from the enormous imports of | 1896, we estimate the increased revenue from this source under the proposea rate at about $14,000,000. “From sugar we estimate $20,000,000 ad- ditional revenue. Anticipating a consid- erable falling off of imports of Havana to- bacco because cf the revolution in Cuba we reduce the estimates of additional rev- enues to be derived from the tobacco schedule to $4,000,000. The remaining schedules will afford a revenue of about $39,500,000 on the basis of 1896 imports of bui as there would probabiy be dimin- ished exports at some points, although the gradual restoration of business activ- ity wouid offset this by increasing | the consumption of imported luxuries, | we reduce the estimates on these to $31,- 000,000. This would aggregate an addi- tional revenue of $80,000,000 the first year. A further reduction of five or ten miilions for contingencies would leave $70,000,000 10 $75,000,000 as the probable increased revenue irom this bill, which would un- doubtedly rise to $100,000,000 the second year. “Tnese estimates are below rather than above the probable result, unless a delay in the enactmentof the bill should greatly enlarge the opportunity for imports of articles on which duties are to be raised, particularly with the woolens, for specu- lative purposes. Undoubtedly any delay beyond the 1st of May in placing the bill on the statute-books would result in a large loss of revenue. “7 is increase of revenue is secured by transierring wool, lumber, crude opium, argola, paintings and statuary, straw ornaments, straw mattings, buriaps and various other articles from the free list of the present law to the dutiable list; by increasing the duty on woolens; by rais- ing the duty on sugar about turee-fourths of a cent per pound in order to encoursge the production of sugar in this country — which it is believed can be done, and thus give our farmers a new crop, which we now import mainly from abroad; by in- creasing the duty on agricuitural products affected by Canadian competition and on fine cotton goods; some advanced manu- factures of iron and steel, manufactures of flax and hemp, in order to encourage them and other industries, and especially by increasing duties on such luxuries as liquors, tobacco, silks and laces, etc. “The rates of duties proposed are be- tween the rates of the tariff of 1890 ana the tariff of 1894, such reduction of rates from the former iaw, preserving the pro- tective principlte, being made b e by changed conditions. The iron and steel schedule is changed very little from that schedule in the tariff of 1894, the change being entirely in the more advanced articles. “The same is true of the cotton sched- ule, In the agricultural, wool and glass- ware and earthenware schedules alone are the duties of 1890 fully restored, as a rule, and in few cases increased with the view of ample protection and encouraging our larming interests atevery possible point. ““While the duty on clothing wool is larger in proportion to the foreign value than on manufacturea articles, yet it is thought desirable for the public interest and for our agriculture that we shonld produce this prime necessity for our- selves. The duty on carpet wools, as well as upon many other articles, is imposed mainly for revenue. “The irritation caused by a few wools heretofore classed as carpet wools being and the particulars cannot be had so’l used for clothing purposes has been reme- nighte would be the same the next fiscal year as| | by the Secretary of the Treasury); clothing wool classes, but the duty on clothing wools has been festored to the rate of the act of 1890. “In framing this new tariff the aim has been to make the duties specific, or at least partly specific, so far as possible, to protect the revenue and also to protect our own industries. This has been done in response to the wishes of the better class of 1mporters, as well as of the ad- ministrators of the law and our own pro- ducers. The very great substitution of specific duties, even where they are only the equivalent of existing ad valorems, will of itself increase the revenue and strengthen the protection offered to our industries. “The reciprocity provisions of the act of 1890 have not only been fully restored, but this policy has, been extended by adding to sugar, tea, coffee ana hides as articles of wnich to make reciprocal agreements such articles as champagne, brandy, wines, artificial and natoral mineral waters, ar- gols and silk laces. In adding these articles the reciprocity provision is strengthened greatly by providing for a reduction of duties on them to countries giving us similar concessions. “The bill, as a whole, has the unanimous support of the Republican members of tbe Ways and Means Committee, and will, 1t is hoped, receive the support not only of Republicans but of others who be- lieve that revenue should be at least equal to expenditures, with a small surplus added, snd who are patriotic enough to entertain the conviction that in adjusting duties to ‘secure such revenue it is wise policy to encourage home production and manufactures and thus provide em- ployment at good wages for the laborers of our people, upon whose purchasing power depends the market for our pro- ductions.” The dste when the new tariff is to go into effect is named in the preliminary draft submitted to the House to-day as May 1,1897. The most important sections taken out of their order of sequence, are as follows: Schedule E—Sugars. Sugars not above No. 16 Dutch standard in color, tank bottoms, syrups of cane juice, melada, concentrated melads, concrete and concentrated molasses, testing by the polariscope not above 75 deg., 1 cent per pound, and for every ad- ditional degree or fraction of a degree shown Dby the -poimriscope test .03 of 1 cent per pound additional; and on sugarabove No.16 Dutch standard in color. and on all sugar which has gone througha process of refining, 1.875 cents per poun moiasses testing not above 56 degrees, 3 cents per gallon; testing 56 degrees and above, 6 cents per gallon; sugar drainings and sugar sweepings shall be subject to duty as molasses or sugar, as the case may be, according to polariscoplc tests; sugar, tank syrups, cane juice or bet juice, concentrated_melada and concrete and eoncentrated molasses, the product of any country which pays directly or indirectly a bounty on the export thereof, whether im- ported directly and in condition as exported therefrom, or otherwise, shall pay irfaddition to the foregoing rates a duty equal to such bounty orso much thereof as may be in excess of any tax coilected by such country upon such article or upon the beet or ecane from which it was produced; provided that uothing herein contained shall be so construed as to abrogate or in any manner impair or affect the provisions of the treaty of commereial re- ciprocity concluded between the United States and King of the Hawaiian Islands on the 30th day of January, 1875, or the provisions of any act of Congress heretofore passed for the exe cution of the same. Maple sugar and maple syrup, 4 cents per pound; glucose or grape sugar, 1} cents per pound; sugar cane in its natural state, or un- manufaciured, 20 per cent ad valorem, —— ON THE ¥FREE LIST. Some of the Artictex Tpon Which No Duty 1s Placed. WASHINGTON, D. C., March 15. — Among the articles on the free list of the tariff are the following: Any animal imported specially for breeding purposes shall e admitted ‘ree, provided thai no such animal shall be admitted free uniess pure breed of a recognized breed and duly registered in the book of record established for that breed; snimals brought into the Unitea States tem- porarily for a period of six months, for the purpose of exhibion or competition for prizes offered by any agricultursl or racing association (but a bond shall be given in accordance with regulations prescribed also teams of animals, includiug their harness and tackle and tne wagons or other vehicies sctually owned by persons emigrating from foreign couniries to the United States with their families, and in actual use for the pur- pose of such emigration under such reguia- tions as the Secretary of the Trea-ury may prescribe, and wild animalsintended for ex- hibition in zoologlcal collections for scien- tific and educational vurposes and not for sale or profit; articles in a crude state, used in dyeing and tanning, ot specially provided for; when manufactured tobacco which has been oxported Without paymentof iniernal revenue tax shall be re- imported it shall be retained in the custody of the Collector of Customs until internal revenue stamps in payment of the lezal duties shall be placed thereon; asbestos, in its natural state as taken from the earth, not sorted, purified or advanced in any menner; asphaitum and albumen, crude, not dried or advanced in any manner. 5 Binding twine, except such as is imported from a country which lays an import duty on like articles imported {rom the United States, which shall be subject to & duty of one-half of one cent per pound : bullion, gold or silver. Camphor, crude; castor oil, castoreum ; coal, anthracite and coal stores of Americar vessels; coal tar, crude and pitch of coal tar and dead or creosote oil; cocoa or cocoa crude; coffee; coins, gold, silver or copper; cotton and cotion waste. Diamonds and other precious stones, rongh, or uncat; drugs. Fruits; furs, undressed; furs, skins. Grasses and fibers, jute, butts, manilla,sisal grass, sunn and ail other textlie.grasses or fibrons vegetable substances, not. dressed, not. specially provided for. Hides, raw or uncured, whether dry, salted or pickled; angora goat skins, raw, without the wool unmanufactured; msses’ skins, raw or unmanufactured, and skins excep: sheep skins with the wool; hoofs, unmanufactured; borns and parts of, not cut, sawed or other- | wise manufactured; horn strips and tips. Ice; indiarubber, crude and milk of, and old seraps or refuse rubber; ivory tusks, sawed vertically across the grain, with cuts not less then four inches apart and not otherwise cut or manufactured or advanced in value from the natural state, and vegetable ivory. Lithographic stones, not engraye. Meerschaum, crude or unmanufactured: mineral, crude or not advanced in yalue or condition by refining or grinding, or by other process of manufacture not specially provided for. Needles. hand sewing and derning; news- papers and periodicals, the latter meaning unbound or paver-covered publications, con- taining current literature and fssued at periods; nuts, Brazil nuts, creamuuts, paim- nuts and palmnut kernels; cocoanuts in the sheil and broken cocosnut meat or Copra, not shredded, desiccated ‘or prepared fu any manner. ; Ores of gold, silver, copper or nickel and nickei matter: sweepings of gold and silver. Paper stock, crude, of every description, in- cluding sll grasses, ‘fibers, rags other than wool, waste, shavings, clippings, old paper, Tove ends, waste ToDe, waste bagging and poplar or other woods, parchment and vellum; pear], mother of, and shells not sawed, cut, polished or otherwise manufactured or advarced in value from the crude state; plants, trees, shrubbery, roots, seed cane and sceds imported by the Govern- ment. sy 8ilk, raw or as frompghe cocoon, but not doubled, twisted or advéicea in manufscture; silk cocoons and silk waste; sulphur, lacor MARCH 16, 1897 ‘THE LATE WILLIAM DRURY. NEW BOSTON, IrL., March 15.—Wuliam Drury, the noted land-owner, who died last Saturday at his country eat, Verduretta, six miles from here, will betburied to- morrow. The oceasion will be notable by the attendance of many old settlers of this neighborhood, as Mr. Drury was a veteran of Mercer County, having settied here in 1833. He often referred with satisfactjon to the fact that in those early davs he was acquainted with the Indian war, chiefs Keokuk and Black Hawk,and that through all the troubles of the aborigines with other settlers his course toward them was such that he always retained their friendship and respect. Mr. Drury was born in Pickaway County, Obio, September 17, 1809, and was, therefore, at his death something over 87 years of age. He leaves surviving him a widow, Mrs. Vashti Drury (nee Willits), to whom he was married in 1840, Mr. Drury early realized the oppor- -tunity for wealth that lay in the accumulation of landed property, and directed his efforts 1n that direction so successfully that at the time of his dea'h he was reckoned to be one of -the largest dholders in the United States. In addition to 6000 acres of choice farming Isnds in the Mississippi Valley near this point, worth §100 an acre, Mr. Drury’s holdings at the time of his death embraced an undivided tract of 40,030 acres near Greeley, Colo., inclosed by a fence twelve miles long and six miles wide He also owned extensive tracts in Indiana and Texas. Mr. Drury was one of the first to import Percheron horses and high-bred cattle and sheep, in which business he realized rich profits. bulk, sulphur ore, as pyrites or sulphur of iron in‘its natural state, containing in excess of 25 per cent of sulphur and sulphur not otherwise provided for. Tea and tes plants; tin ore, cassiterite or black oxide of tin and tin in bars, blocks, pigs orgrainor granulated; tobacco stems; tur- pentine, venice; turpentine, spirits of. Wearing appacel, articles of personal adorn- ment, toilet articles and similar personai ef- fects of persons arriving in the United States. The articles exempted shail not exceed $100 in value, nor shall the exemption apply to residents of other countries entering the United States more than once in each year. Wood, logs and round manufactured timber, cedar, lignumviie, lancew2od, ebony, box, granadills, mahogany, rosewood, satinwood and ail forms of cabinet-wood in the log, rough or hewn ouly; briar root or briar-wood and similar wood unmanufactured or not further advanced than cui into blocks suiiaple for the articles into which they are intended to bs converted: bamboo, ratian, reeds, India malacca joints and sticks of partridge, hairwood, palmetto, orange, myrtie -_nd.flv.n‘.-; woods not specially pro- vided for, ifs ihe rongh; works of art, artistic paintings, statuary and specimens of scuip- ture the productions of sculptor only,etchings, drawings, engravings, photographic pictures, artistic works in terra cotts, parisn, bisque or porcelain, antiquities or ariistic coples thereof in metal, marble or other ma- terial. Any of the foregoing imported for free exmmuu% olely for the promotion and encouragemedt of science, art or industry, and not intended for sale, shall be ad- mitted free of duty under such regula- tions as the Secretary of the Treas- ury may prescribe; but bonds shall be given to the United States for such duties as msy be imposed by law upon any or all such articles as shail not be exporied within six months aiter such importation, or for the payment of such duties as may accrue if any of the arti- cles aforesaid be sold, transferred or other- wise used contrary to this provision, and such articles shall be subject at any time to examination and inspection by the proper officers of the customs. The Secretary of the Tressury may extend such period for s further time upon application and privileges of this section shall not be allowed to associa- tions, corporations, firms or individuals en- gaged in or connected with business of & private or commercial character. For the purpose of equalizing the trade of the United States with foreign countries and their colonies producing and exporting to this country the iollowing articles: Argols or crude tartar or winelees crude; brandies, manufactured or distilled from grain or other materials not specially provided forin this act; champagne and all other sparkling wines; still wines, including ginger wine or ginger cordial and vermuth; laces made of silk or of which silk is the component material 0f chief yalue; all mineral waters and all imitations of natu- ral mineral waters and all artificial mineral waters not specially provided for in this act; paintings and statusry; sugar, molasses nnd other articles provided for in paragraph 208 of sehedule E of this act—the Secretary of the Treasury is hereby authorized to enter into negotiations with governments of countries exporting to the United States the above-mentioned articles with a view to the arrangement of commercial sgreements in which reciprocal and equivalent concessions may be secured in favor of the products and manufactures of the United States, and when- ever the Government of any country or colony producing and exporting to the United States the above-mentioned articles shail enter into a commercial agreement with the United States or make concessions in favor of tme products or manufactures thereof which shail be entirely reciproeal the President is author- ized to suspend during the term of such agree- ment the imposition of the dutles mentioned in this act or such article or articles from such country or colony and thereupon and there- after the duties levied, collected and paid upon such article or articles shall be as fol- lows, namely: Argols, or crude tartar, or winelees (crude), 1 per cent per pound. . Chiclee, 7 conts per pound. * Brandies manufactured or distilled from grain or other materials, and not specially Provided for in this act, $2 ver proof gallon. Champaghe and all other sparkling wines, in Dbottles containing not more than ome quart and more than one pint, $6 per dozen; containing not more then one pint each and more than .one-half pint, $3 por dozen; con- taining one-half pint each or iess, §1 50 per dozen; in bottles or other vessels containing more than one quart each, in addition to $6 per dozen hottles on the quantities in excess of one quart at the rate of $1 90 per gallon. St1ll wines, including ginger, wine of ginger, or ginger cordial and vermuth in casks, 50 cents per gallon; in bottles or jugs per case of one dozen bottles or jugs containing each not more than ohe quart and ome pint, or twenty-four Dbotties or jugs containing each not more than one pint, §1 50 a case, and any excess beyond. these quanti- ties found in such bottles or jugs shall be subject 10 5 cents per plat or fractional part thereof, but no separate or additional duty shall be assessed upon the bottles or jugs. Laces made of silk or of which silk is the component material of chief value, 56 per cent ad valorem. Sugar, molasses and other articles provided for 1n parsgraph 28 of schedule E of this act, 92 per cent of the duty imposed thereon in said paragraph. And {t is further provided that with a view 10 securing reciprocal treaties with countries died, by transferring such wools to the 1 Pprecipiiated or sulphur or brimstone crude in | producing the following articles whenever the President shall be satisfied that the Govern- ment producing and exporting to the United States coffee, tea and hides imposes duties upon the products of the United States which, in view of the free introduction of such coftee, tes and hides into the United States, he may deem to b> rociprocally unequal and unreasonable, he shall suspend the provisions relating to the iree introduc- tion of such articles; also of angora goat skins, raw without the wool manufactured; : esses’ skins raw, and skins, except sheep skins with the wool on, of the products of such countries, and in such cases duties shall be ievied asfollows: On cotfee, 3 cents per pound; on tea, 10 cents per pound; hides, angora goat skins, asses’ skins and skins except sheep skins, 13§ cents per pound. There shall be paia on the importation ef all raw or unmaoufactured articies not provided for in thisact aduts of 10 per centad valo- rem, and on all articles manufactured and not provided for & duty of 20 per cent. Each and every imported article not enum- erated similar to any article enumerated as chargeabie with duty shall pay the same rate of duty levied on the enumerated artcle which it resembles. All axvieles of foreign production not needed for the repair of American vessels engaged in foreign trade, inciuding the trade between the Atlantic and Pacific ports of the United States, may be withdrawn from bonded ware- houses free of duty. Whenever goods manufactured in any bonded warchouses shall be exported directly therefrom they shall be exempi from duty and iree from the requirements relating to revenue stamps. All persons are prohibited from importing into the United States any obscene book, cir- cular, picture, figure or image of peper or other material or any other article whatever for the prevention of conception, or for unlaw- ful abortion, or any lottery ticket or any ad- vertisement of any lottery. No such articles shall be admitted to entry and all such articles shall be forfeited. Y IMPORTANT 10 CiLIFORNIS. Fruit and Other Schedules in the Ding- ley 1ariff Bill. ‘WASHINGTON, D. C., March 15.—The fotlowing provisions of the Dingley tariff bill are of special importance to Cali- fornians: Apples, green or ripe, 25 cents per bushel; apples, peaches and other edible fruits, in- cluding berries, when dried, desiccaied, evap- orated or prepared in any manner not special- Iy provided for in this act, 2 cents per pound; berries, edfble, in their nutural condition, 1 cent per quart; comfits, sweetmeats and fruits preserved in sugar or molasses, or in their own juices; or in spirits, when not containing over 5 per cent of aleohol, and not specially pro- vided for in this act, and jeliies of all kinds, 85 per cent ad valorem; figs, plums, prune: raisins and other dried grapes, 2}4 cents per pound; dates and currauts, Zante or other, 134 cents per pound; oliyes, green . or prepared, 10 bottles, jars, or similar packages 25 cents per gallon, in casks or otherwise than in bottles, jars or similar packages, 15 cents per gallon: grapes and peaches, 1 cent per pound: oranges, lemons, limes, grape fruit, shaddocks or pomelos, three - fourths of 1 cent per pound, and in addition thereto 30 per cent ad valorem on the boxes, barreis or other articles containing any of the ~foregoing; orange peel, lemon peel and citron or citron peel, preserved or candied, and desicested co- coanut, 2 cents per pound; pineapples, 2 cents per pound; nuts, aimonds not shelled, 5 cents per pound; clear almonds and chelled, 7 cents per pound; filberts and walnuts of all kinds, not shelled, 3 cents per pound, shelled 6 cents per pound; pesnuts or ground beans, un- shelled, 1 cent per pound, shelled 134 cents per pound; nuts of all kinds, shelled or un« shelled, not specially provided for in this act, 134 cents per pound. ‘Borax crude, or borate of soda, or borate of lime, 2 cents per pound; refined borax, 3 cents; olive oil not specially provided for in this act, 50 cents per gallon; seal, herring, whale and other fish olls not specially pro- vided for in this act, 8 conts per gailon. * Opium, crude or unmanufactured and not adulterated, containing 9 per centum aud over of morphia, 1 per pound; morphis or morphine, sulphate of and all alkaloids or salts of opium, $1 per ounce; aqueous extract of opium for medicinal uses and tincture of, s laudanum and other liquid preparations of opium not specially provided for in this act, 40 per centum ad valorem; opium Contain’ng less than 9 per centum of morphia, and opium prepared for smoking, $6 per pound ' (but opium prepared ‘for smoking and other pre- ‘parations of opium deposited in bonded ware- houses shall not be removed therefrom with- out payment of duties and such duties shall not be refunded); quicksilver, 10 cents per pound; fiasks, bottles or other vessels in which quicksilver is imported shall be subject to the same rate of duty as they would be subjected to if imported empty. ‘Mackerel, salmon and halibut, fresh, pickled, salted, smoked, dried, frozen, packed in ice or otherwise prepared for preservation and fish skinned or boned, 1} cents per pound; pad- ding cotton, gunny ciotb, similar fabrics, suit- able for covering cotton, composed of single yarns made of jute, jute butts or hemp not bleached, dyed, colored, stained, painted or printed, not exceeding sixteen threads to the square inch, counting the warp and filling, and weighing not less than fifteen ounces per square yard, one-halfof 1 cent per square yard and 15 per centum ad valorem. Cosl, bituminous and shale, 75 cents per ‘| per ton of 28 bushels, ton of 28 bushel lack or culm, such’as i & half inch ' screen, 30 cents will pass througl £y o e 1; coke, 20 per cent ad valorem. | WB::ndv and o\:er ‘spirits manufactured or distilled from grain or other materials, and not specially provided for in this act, $2 50 per proof gallon. Each and every gauge o; wine gallon of measurement shall be counte asac least one proof gallon, and the standard for determining the proof of brandy and other spirits or liquors of any kind jmported shall ' be'the same as that which IS defined in the laws relating to internsl revenue, provided that it shall be lawiul for the Secretary of the Treasury in his dirrenon to authorize the as- certainment of thé proof of wines, cordiais ox other liquors, by distillation or otherwise, In cases where it is impracticable to ascertain such proof by the means presertbad by exist- ing law or regulations; and provided further, that any brandy or other spirituous or dis- tilled liquors importea in any sized cask, bot- tle, jug or other packase, of or from any coun- try, dependence or province under ‘whose 1aws similar sized casks, bottles, jugs or other packages of distilled spirits, wine or other beverage put up or filled in the United States are denied entrance into our couniry, de- pendence or province, shall be forfeited to the United States, and any brandy or other spirit- uals or dist.lied liquor 1mported in a cask of Je:s capacity than ten gallons from auy coun- try shall be forfeited to the United States. On all compounds or preparations of which distilled spiri’s are a component part of chief value there shall be levied a duty not less than that 1mposed upon distilled spirits. No lower rate or amount of duty shall be levied, col- lected and paid on brandy, spirits and other spirituous beverages than fixed by law for the description of first proof, but it shall be in- creased in proportion for any greater strength than the strength of first proof, and all imita- tions of brandy or spirits or wines imported by any names whatever shall be subject to the highest rate of duty provided for the genuine articles: respectively intended to be repre- sented, and in no case less than $1 50 per gallon. Champagne and all other sparkling wines, in bottles containing éach not more than one’ quart and more than one pint, §8 per dozen; containing mot more than one pint each add more than a half-pint, $4 perdozen; contsining a half pint each or less, §2 per dozen; in bot- tles or other vessels coniaining more than one quart each, in addition to §8 per dozeu bottles | on the quantity in excess of 0ue QUArt at the Tate of §2 50 per gallon. Still wines, including ginger wina or ginger cordial, and vermuth in casks, 60 cents per rallon; in bottles or jugs per case ofone dozen bottles or jugs, containing each not more than one quart'aud more than oue pint, of twenty~ four pottles or jugs containing each not more than onc pint, $2 per case, and any excess be- yond these quantities found in such bottles or jugs shall be subject to a duty of 7 cents per pintor fractional part thereof, but noseparate oraaditional duty shall be assessed on the bot- tles or jugs; provided, that any wines, ginger cordial or vermuth imported, containing more than the 24 per centum of alcohol, shall be forfeited to the United States; and, provided further that there shall be no constructive or other allowance from breakage, leak- age or damsge on wines, liquors, cordials or distilled spirits, wines, cord iald, prandy and cther spirituous liquors imported in bottles or jugs that shall be packed in packages containing not less than one dozen bottles or jugs in each package, and all such bottles or jugs shall pay an ad- ditional duty of 3 cents for each botile or jug unless specially provided for in the act; cherry juice and prune juice or prune wine and other fruit juice not spectally provided for in this act, containing no alcohol or not more than 18 per centum of slcohol, 60 cents per gallon, it containing . more than 18 per centum of alcohol §2 50 per proof gallon; iruits pre- served in spirits when containing over 5 per centum of alcohol $2 50 per proof gallon for the slcohol contained therein. Tamarinds and silk cocoons are on the free list. CHANGES HiS PLACK OF WORSHIP, The President Selects the Metropolitan Methodist Chiiroh. WASHINGTON, D. C., March 15— President, McKinley agai attended services at the Metrovolitan Methodist Church, where President Grant was a communicant during his residence in the Whnite House, and half a block distant from the First Presbyterian Church, in which President Cleveland had a pew. Last Sunday President McKinley went to the Metropolitan Church. While serving Onio in the House of Representatives he attended the Foundry Methodist Church, a block from the hotel where he resided, and it was understood that he would again become a pewholder there, his attendance at the Metropolitan Church being merely a compliment to an old friend, Bishop Newman of California, who occupied the pulpit of his former cuarze on that day. It 1s now understcod, however, that the President will become n- member of the Metropolitan Church. The reason for his change of intention, if a change has really been made; are mot known. The Metropolitan Church is located about a mile from the White House, near the old City Hall, now used by the District of Columbia Courts, in a part of the v that was once fashionable. Foundry Church_is about three blocks from. the White House, in the .central part of the city. —_———— With a Monitor in Tow. NEW YORK, N. Y., March 15.—The steamer Kansas City from Savannah re- ports that when off Winter Quartér Light- ship she passed the United States cruiser Coiumbia with a United - 8tates monitor in tow. Itis supposed the monitor is the Puritan, befcre reported disabled off Hat- teras. FREMEN FILL WITH THE U4 Death:and Disaster Follow a'Big Fire at §t, Louis. Flames Destroy One of tpe Largest' Dry-Goods Stores in ths City. It Is Estimat:d That the Lesg Wil Reach Over One Million Do.l:rs. 8T. LOUIS, Mo., March 15.—Fire broke out in the fourth floor of the building ve- cupied by the Ely-Walker Drv-zoods Com. pany, southwest corner of E street 2nd Washington avenue, at 8 o'clock th evening. The Fire Departient was ba hampered, and it was five minutes after the first engine arsived before a stream of water was playing. The mass of overhead wires hal to be cut away and the street was jammed with the cars of four lines that use the Wash- ington-avenue tracks. Within half an nour the fire swept upon the elevaton shalft and all the upper floors were ablaz Two more alarms were sounded and eve, eneine in the central district responded. The building is seven stories bi every floor was_ filled with mer, The origin of the fire is conjectural but is supposed to have been caused by crossed electric-light wires. Fireman Lee Smith fell from the third floor through to the basement and was fatally injured. Mark Barton, a porter, was overcome with, smoke and was revived with difli- culty. He isin a dangerous condition. At 9 o’clock a member of the dry-goods firm estimated the loss at §1,000,000 on stock. The concern is the largest wholesale dry-goods house in the city and their stock is valued at $1,500,000 The loss on the ‘building -will be $100,000, covered by insurance. The dry-goods company is in- sured for $1,000,000. At midnight the building was in ruins, All the east wall down to the fifth story, half ot the north front and all but one cor- ner of the south wall fell to the ground. The east wall fell firstat 11 p. ». with a thunderous roar, carrying down Pipeman Gutwall, Towerman Jerry Mabon and Lineman Luke McCann. Gutwall was in- stantly killed and McCann badly injured. Mabon- was thrown through a second- story window across tha street, receiving severe cuts. Sections of the walls tell at short inter- vals for half an hour, but the streeis had been cleared of spectators and the firemen worked from safe distances. The wreck stili burns brightlv, but it is under control. Traffic in the tuinel was stopped, though the walls withstood the crash. A revised list of casualties magie at midnight follawi “George Gutwall, fireman, killed. Towerman Jerry Mahon, cut and; braised. Lineman Luke McCann, badly cut and bruised. Lee Smitb, fireman, fatally injured. Mgrk Barton, porter, badly shocked. Mrs. Anne Ridge, trampled upon and badly injured. Jerry Cahn, spectator, hand cut by flying glass. W. H. Whipple, an insurance adjuster who recently made a survey of the build- ing and contents, estimates the loss on stock at $750,000, as some of the stock was saved. The Scott, Force & Goudbar Hat Com- pany occupy the wes: end of the block. Damage to their stock by water and smoke will reach $10,000. A thick firewall gave them protection. This is the most severe fire this city has suffered for three years. Mau Grant a Kenpite, FRANKFORT, Ky., March 15.—Gov- ernor Bradley to-day finished the exam- ination of the papers in Alonzo Walling's case and will render his decision to-mor- row. It is believed that he will grant a respite. PSR S Consul Me Daniel Arvives. NEW YORK, N. Y., Marcl 15.—R. P. McDaniel, United States Consul at Babis, arrived at this port to-day per steamer Grecian Prince from that port. CORBETT’S DOCTOR. NEW TO-DAY. He offers some very important testimony upon the champion’; physical condition. Value of the strong nerves. 4 ““1found his nervous system in perfect working order, an element very neces: sary to the conditioning of a man for the long and severe strain to which he will b subjected.” This, or in words to the same effect, was the report made by the physician who examined the fighter who Pproposes to battle for the championship of the world. 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