Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1857-02-28
The Tariff Bill.

The Tariff bill which passed the House on
Friday, Feb. &c, by vote of ITO to 81, is one
which, if passed by the other branch without ma
teria amen lment, will greatly conduce to the ma
terial interests of the country. The principal
charges which 1t proposes from the present tariff,
(of 1876 consists of its enlargement of the free
list and in its provision respecting wool, which
is, to admit free the following -
Sleeps WOOL manufactured, of the
value at the port Of importation OF fifteen cts
per pound or less, and OF the value OF fifty
cents per pound over and hair OF the al
paccG. tho goat, and other like animals, I'M
manufactured Provided, that any wool of the
sheep, or hair of the alpaca, the goat, and
other like animals, which shall be imported
with more than thirty-three per cent. of dirt
yolk, burs, or impurities of any sort, or which
she'll be imported in any other than the ordl-
nary condition, as now and heretofore prac-
ticed, or which shall be changed in its char
acter for the purpose of eyading the duty, or
which shall be cleansed or purified or assert.
ed, so as to raise its value at the port Of i'm
poitstion to fifty cents pound or over, or
which shall be reduced in value by the ad.
mixture of dirt, or any foreign substance, to
fifteen cents per pound or less, shall he sub
jeet to pay duty of thirty per centum, any
thing in this act TO the contrary notwithsand.
ing
Most chemicals, drugs, &c.. on which the du-
ties variously Fl ON ten to thirty per cent,
are put on the free list, and the principal 9TH
er articles placed there:-
Flax. on which. manufactured, the duty
is now fifteen per cent; manufactured, TWEEN
ty per cent.
Furs. on which now, dressed all on the
skin, the duty is twenty per cent; hat or caps
of, and hat bodies or felts, thirty per cent
hatters' lurs, dressed or undressed, not on tie
the skin, IL per cent.
Hair manufactured, on which now for
Angola, goats, rhibet and Mohair, 20 per CT;
for horse hair, ten per cent.
Horns, on which now are five per cent.
India rubber, manufactured, on which
now ten per cent.
hastings, cut in strips for shoes, &C., on
which now five per cent.
Quicksilver. on which now twenty per cent
Rags on which now Eve per cent.
Saltpetre, on which now, crude, five per ct;
refined, ten per cant.
Silk, raw, on which now fifteen per cent
Skins and hides, raw, on which now five
per cent.
Talow, marrow, grease, and soap stufs,
on which now ten per cent.
Tin, in plates and sheets ungalvanized, now
fifteen per cent; in Pigs, bars, and blocks,
now five per cent.
Watch materials, &c., now ten per cent.
Woods, cedar, satin, mahogany, rosewood,
now twenty per cent; lignumvite, now thirty
per cent.
Zinc, in sheets, now fifteen per cent; in
pigs, now five per cent.
The following are the articles it proposes to re.
duce to ten per cent -
Hemp, manufactured, of all kinds, in
Guiding Manila, Sun, and other of India,
Jute, Sisal grass coir, and other vegetable sub.
stances Of like character lead in pigs, bars,
or sheets. or when old and tit only to be re-
manufactured molasses salt. or muriate of
soda, of all kinds; soda ash and bleaching
powder. chloride Of lime sugar of all
kinds; syrup of sugar; wool, unmanufac-
tured.