The Portland daily press., 1872-03-30

THE Tariff Bill which passed the Senate on
Thursday night abolishes the tea and coffee
duties, reduces many others and abolishes in
ternal revenue taxes with the exception OF
those on distilled spirits, malt liquors, tobac-
co and banks, bankers and banking The
much execrated inquisitorial income tax
goes with the rest. The following is the bill
as reported for the Boston Journal:
THE MAIN FEATURES OF THE BILL. .
The bill, as passed by the Senate, will go into
effect on the first of July next. 1t abolishes all
duties on coffee of all kinds and teas of all
kinds, and imposes the following duties in lieu
| of those now fixed by law, viz. On chicory
| and succory roots, 2 cents per pound; chicory
| and succory roots, ground, burned or prepared
| thereon,,3 cents per pound; acorn and dandeli-
on roots, where prepared, and on all substitutes
for Coffee cents per pound; all extracts or es-
sences of coffee, so cents per pound; all stack
coal or culm 25 cents per ton of twenty-eight
bushels, eighty pounds to the bushel; all other
btuminous coal, so cents per ton of % bushels,
80 pounds to the bushel; mineral and bitumi-
nous substances in crude state, not otherwise
specially provided for, 10 per cent. ad valorem
salt in bulk and on rock salt or mineral salt, $
cents per 100 pounds; salt in bags, sacks, bar
rels or other packages, II cents per 100 pounds;
cleaned rice, II cents per pound; uncleaned rice
cent per pound; paddy of cent per pound !;
potatoes, 10 cents per bushel all hides and
skins not otherwise specially provided for, 5
per centum ad valorem; all timber squared or
sided not otherwise provided for cent per Gu
bic foot; sawed boards plank, deals and other
lumber, of spruce, hemlock, white wood, syca-
more and bass wood, 81 per thousand feet,
board measure; all other varieties of sawed lum-
Der, So per thousand feet board measure; pro-
vided that when lumber of any sort is planned
and finished, in addition to the rates
herein provided there shall be levied and paid,
for each side SO planned or finished, ST per
thousand feet, and if planned on one side, and
tongued and grooved, 50 per thousand feet; and
if planned ON two sides, and tongued and groov-
ed, 81 30 per thousand feet; hubs for wheels,
posts, last blocks, car blocks, gun blocks head
ing blocks, and all like blocks or sticks, rough.
hewn or sawed only, 20 per cent. ad valorem;
laths, 10 cents per thousand pieces; all shingles
80 cents per thousand; pine clapbOards So per
thousand; spruce clapboards, 81 30 per thous-
and; on house or cabinet furniture, in pieces or
rough and not finished, 30 per cent. ad valorem;
cabinet wares and house furniture, finished, 80
per cent. ad valorem; casks and barrels, empty,
and on sugar boxes, shocks, and packing boxes
OF wood, not otherwise provided for, 80 per cent.
ad valorem; fruit, shade, lawn and ornamental
trees, shrubs, plants, and flower seeds, not 9TH
erwise provided for 20 per cent. ad valorem;
garden seeds, and all other seeds for agricultur-
al and horticultural purposes, not otherwise pro-
vided for, 20 per cent. ad valorem; lead in bars
or pigs, II cents per pound; lead dressed, OF
ltdu ORC, ceHI per pOuuu, ltlu IN sheets, pipes
or shot, 2 IA cents per pound lead, molten,
1-2 cents per pound; lead, old and fit only for
manufacture, cent per pound; lead ore L cent
per pound; ginger, 3 cents per pound; ginger
preserved or picked, 80 per cent. ad valorem;
ginger essence, 35 per cent. ad valorem; cocoa
prepared or manufactured, cents per pound
The second section of the bill provides that
on and after the first day of July next there
shall be paid on the following articles, imported
from foreign countries, so per cent. of the sew
rnI hrrfI and akAa q <1.,@x~
law upon said articles, seyerally, it being the
intent OF this section to reduce existing duties
on said articles 10 per cent. of such duties:
That is to say, all manufactures of cotton, of
which cotton is the compound of chief value;
all wool, either of the alpaca goat and other
like animals, and all manufactures, wholly or
in part of wool, of hair of the alpaca goat and
other like animals; all iron and steel, and on
all manufactures of iron and Steel of which
such metals is the component part of their val
lie, excepting pig iron and steel rails; all metals
not herein otherwise provided for, and on man
ufactures of metals of which either of them is
the component part of chief value; on all earth
enware, glass ware, and on unwrought pipe
clay, fine clay, kaolin and fuller s-earth; all
leather, on all manufactures of skins, bone,
ivory, horn and leather; manufactures of india
rubber, gutta percha or straw, and all oil cloths
of all descriptions.
The third section of the bill provides that the
provlSos of section six of the Act approved
March 3, 1865, entitled "An Act amendatory Of
certain Acts imposing duties upon foreign i'm
portations," shall not be held to apply to the
articles mentioned in the Act approved March
2, 1867, entitled IAN Act to provide revenue
from imported wool, and forother purposes"
The fourth section of the bill enlarges the
free list by the addition of a number of articles.
Among them are American manufactures, to
wit: casks, barrels or car boys and other YES
sells, and grain bags, the manufacture of the
United States, if exported, containing Amerl-
can produce, and declaration be made of intent
to return the same empty, shall be admitted
free of duty. Animals brought into the United
States temporarily, and for period not exceed
ing six months, for the purpose of exhibition or
competition for prizes offered by any agricuI-
tural or racing association; animals imported
spec ally for breeding purposes from beyond
the seas; bones crude and not manufactured;
bone burned, calcned, ground or steamed:
books, which shall have been printed and man.
ufactured more than twenty years at the date
OF Importation; coal stores of American YES
sells, provided that shall be unloaded; cop
per, old, taken from the bottom of American
to repair in foreign ports; dyeing, all
banks, berries, flowers, nuts, plants, woods
and vegetable, animal or mineral sub
stances crude or ground, used exclusively for
dyeing or for composing dyes, including all
crude decoctions thereof; paper stock, crude,
Of every description, including all fibres, rags,
other than wool waste, shavings, clippings, old
paper, rope ends, waste rope, waste bagging,
and all other substances of whatever descrip-
ton. used in making, and fit only for convert
ing into paper; manufactured timber and
railroad ties; venison; venison hams and game,
and game meats, raw or salted, of all kinds
The fifth section of the bill provides that
goods which may be in the public stores or
bonded warehouses on the day ON which the
act shall go into effect, shall be subjected to no
other duty upon the entry thereof for con-
sumption than if the same were imported re-
spectively after that day, and all goods remain
ing in bonded warehouses ON the day this act
shall take effect and upon which the duties
shall have been paid, shall be entitled to q re-
fund of the difference between the amount of
duties paid, and the amount of duties said
goods would be subject to if the same were i'm
ported respectively after that day.
Washington Matters.