. Florists' review [microform]. Floriculture. CONGRESS CORRECTS TARIFF MISTAKES Plant, Bulb and Seed Schedules in Bill Now Pending as Amended on the Floor of the House. IMPOBTANT CHANGES MADE. Hyacinth Bulbs Advanced. The plant, bulb and nursery sched- ules in the tariff bill, as adopted by the House of Eepresentatives May 1, remedy some of the inaccuracies of classification and definition that were subjects of controversy and confusion in the old law and which were reported to the House from the ways and means committee to be incorporated in the new law. Several important changes were made on
. Florists' review [microform]. Floriculture. CONGRESS CORRECTS TARIFF MISTAKES Plant, Bulb and Seed Schedules in Bill Now Pending as Amended on the Floor of the House. IMPOBTANT CHANGES MADE. Hyacinth Bulbs Advanced. The plant, bulb and nursery sched- ules in the tariff bill, as adopted by the House of Eepresentatives May 1, remedy some of the inaccuracies of classification and definition that were subjects of controversy and confusion in the old law and which were reported to the House from the ways and means committee to be incorporated in the new law. Several important changes were made on the floor of the House in the form of amendments when the sched- ules came up for adoption. Hyacinth bulbs are returned to their former rate, as they stood under the McKinley bill, and will be dutiable at $ per thousand, instead of at 50 cents per thousand, as they were rated under the Payne bill, in which they were classified among "other bulbs and bulb- ous roots or ; In the Payne bill hyacinth clumps, which are rarely imported, were listed with other clumps dutiable at $ per thousand, thus de- feating the purpose of the bill, as un- derstood at first by the trade, to place hyacinth bulbs under that rating. The remedy in the new bill was effected by placing the word "bulbs" after the word "hyacinth" in the schedule first reported, making the duty $ per thousand. It will be recalled that this phase of the old bill was the sub- ject of the famous Breck case, which went through all the courts, the com- merce court finally ruling that the items should stand as they read. Azaleas in Two Classes. Another important change was ef- fected when the general term, "aza- leas," was made to read "Azalea In- dica" in the classification under green- house plants, all other azaleas being classed as nursery stock and the rate of duty for Azalea Indica being clearly fixed at twenty-five per cent ad va- lorem, with other azalea
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