Republican vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1857, 1857-01-03
From the Washington Star
The 7Iinoriiy's Tariff Bill.

The tariff bill reported by Mr.. Letcher ON
Wednesday, the 2ith, on behalf OF the mi
nority of the Ways and Means Committee
is concurred in by Measrs. Cobb, of Geor-
gia, and Phelps, the other Democrats on
that committee. It is also said that Il. Win
ter Davis fagors it, We know not how truly.
1t proposes general reduction of twenty
per eeEtum on all the present tariff fof 1876
On imports, with some changes OF articles
from one schedule to some other, as follows,
viz: Those Ct schedule \ from 100 per
contam, as at present, to 50 per cent; Il
from % TO 81 Per cent; from 30 to z F;
D from q to u; L from 20 to IL; I from
10 to Il G from 10 to 8 ; Ii from to 4,
and schedule to continue to be the free list.
Il transfers silk and all manufactures
thereof to schedule G, fax and ali manugac-
lures thereof to d, wool (unmanufaetured)
to u, Is per centum, flax, raw Cocoon
silk, unmanufaetared vegetable substances,
lac spirits, lac sulphur, lamp black, litharge,
Prussisn blue, and articles for dying and
tanning not otherwise provided for, crude
| birthstone, cream OF tartar, extracts and de-
coctions used in dying acids of all sorts for
dying or for chemical, manufacturing or
medical purposes, TO schedule IL. a per
centnm) unmanpfactured salts of all kinds,
berries, nuts, flowers, plants, vegetables
used exclusively for dying, Peruvian bark,
Brazil wood, and ali other dye-woods or
sticks, burr stones wrought or unWrouoht,
tow of hemp Or fax, fruit and vegetables,
not otherwise provided for, garden seed and
OH
manufacturing seed, boiling cloths, madder
root, madder ground or prepared, ice and
animals Of kinds to schedule [, (daty free. }
It also proposes to impose Il duty Of ten
per cent on all articles IN the free list and
ten per cent additional on all not imported
IN foreign bottoms not protected by treaty
against discriminating duties on the part Of
this Government
Ii proposes to levy duties on all goods
imported or i'll the public stores between the
passage OF the bill and The lst OF July next
(when il Is to take eifcet) only according to
the rates Of that bill
It makes the decision Of the collector Of
the port of importation, as to the liability Of
goods to duty, final against the importing
parties, unless, in ten days after i: may be
rendered, written notice, &e., of appeal
shall be given, aud makes it necessary to
lay such appeals in form before the Secreta-
ry Of the Treasury within thirty days from
the date of the collectors decision L also
makes it necessary, if appeal shall be taken
from the Secretarys decision to the courts
Of law, that notice shall be given within
thirty days after tue Secretary decision
And finally, it repeats all existing duties
on imports after the lst of July next.
This bill differs from that Of the majority
and the recommendations of the Secretary
of the Treasury in many particulars, with
the details Of which ali immediately inter-
ested are of course familiar. The fact that
it is the plan ot the Democrats on the Com
mittee of Ways and Means viii give it great
strength in Congress So great strength,
as that with the certain efforts of various
business interests to be affected materially
by any general change of the tariff to fur
ther themselves, and the favor with which
portion of Congress have received the ma
jority report, it seems hardly possible that
the subject will be disposed Of this winter,
however necessary a general revision of the
tariff may be to the business future of the
country at large.