The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1876-02-01
RiII to Revise the Tariff.

RIII to Revise the Tariff.
By Mr.. Morrison-To revise the tariff
Referred to the Committee on Ways and
Means. The bill provides that on and
after the first day Of July next in lieu OF
duties heretofore imposed on the impor-
tation of goods, wares and merchandise
there shall be levied the following rates:
On all manufactures of cotton, except
jeans, drilling, bed ticking, ginghams, pan
taloon stuff and goods of like description,
bleached, colored, &c, five ounces per
square yard, two and half cents per
square yard; if bleached three anu half
cents per square yard; if colored, stained
painted or printed four cents per square
yard; inferior and higher gods four
cents per square yard; if bleachld four
and a half cents per square yard; ii
stained, printed or painted five CENTS per
square yard; on cotton jeans, slenins,
drillings, bed ticklngs, ginghams, plaids,
cottonades, pantaloon stutfs and Fbods OF
like descriptions or for similar US if un-
bleached not exceeding five ounce to the
square ward four cents, but
if bleached four and hsi II cents
per square yard and of colored prints,
tihy cents per square yard. There is
also scale tor goods of lighter q cscrlp-
tions, and on all cotton goods OF every
description, the value of which shall
exceed twenty-five cents per square
ward. A duty OF twenty-five per cent on
cotton thread, yarn, warps, valued at not
exceeding forty cents per pound, ten
cents; valued at over forty cents, t@enty
cents; over sixty cents, thirty cents; over
eighty cents, forty cents; cotton spool
thread, six cents per dozen; cotton goods
gimps and galloons and laces, colored,
thirty cents ad valorum; cotton
drawers woven or made on
frames and on all cotton hosiery, thirty
per cent ad valorum, and and ali other
manufactured cotton thirty per cont. sd
valorum. Iron, IN pigs, five dollars per
ton; bar iron, rolled, one-half to one and
one-half cents per pound; mosaic iron
ten dollars per ton; railroad bars Zen per
cent; boiler and plate iron one ard one
half cents per pound; boiler AID other
plate irsn not otherwise provided for
twenty dcllars per ton. The bill pro-
yides rates for other descriptions OF wire,
hand saws, need es, &, all manufac-
tured of steel OF of whicn steel shs II be a
component part, not otherwise provided
for, at thirty per cent. sd valorum; steel
railway bars, fifteen dollars per ton;
railroad bars made in part
of steel, fifteen dollars per ton
chains and traces, two cents per pound
There are other rates for other drscriP,
tions. Lead in sheets and pipes cents
per pound; copper in places two cent pei
pound; copper, rolled, 80 per cent adva'
torup ;spu n. silks 25 per cent ad vslorum;
foss silks 25 per cent ad valorum; Saving
silks 80 per cent ad valorum; sli goods
wares and merchandise not otherwise
provided for, of silk, 40 per cent al valo'
rum; silk vestings, shawls, &c, ~ pei
cent sd vslorum; buttons and ornaments
for dresses, 40 per cent sd vsiorum;
cigars, cigarettes and cherooti, all KINDS
three dollars and fifty cents per pound
tobacco in leaf, manufactured and moi
stamped, forty cents per pound, wool'
are classified from three TO ten cents pei
| pound, woo!eh ciolhs anu S"A"
sll manufactures of wool OF any descrIp
tion. made wholly or in part of wool
seventy cents per pound hsnne
blankets, twenty 10 forty cents per pound
coffee, three cents per pouad; tea, dfteet
cent per pound; tin, in bars OF block
three cents per pound; velvet carpets
brusseIs and tapestry velvet carpets
si1ty-fve cents per square yards orange
in boxes, eighteen cents per box. Their
are many other articles in the list, Tn
free list i: q. large one. ...-...
I SS.yeral other bills Of minor importance
Tere introduced and referred. sgf
Bills we're introduced BY Mr.. MsisI
70 reimburse the State OF PennsylVani'
for money advanced 70 pay the losses