The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1876-02-01
WASHINGTON.
A New Tariff Eli.

WASHINGTON, Jan. 51.-The following are
the outlines of the tariff bill introduced to dag
by Representative Morrison and referred to the
Committee Of Ways and Means:
On and after July LIST, in lieu of the du ties
heretofore on the Importation of goods, wares
and merchandise, there shall be levied the fol-
lowing rates: On all manufactures of goods,
except jeans, drillings, bed ticking, gipghams,
pantaloon stuff and goods of like description,
not bleached colored, etc., five ounces pei
bleached, 3 cents; if colored stained, pal n t.
ed or printed, 4 cents. On finer and lighter
goods, cents per square yard; if bleached, A
cents; if colored B cents. On cotton Jeans,
,denims, drilings, bed ticking, Bingham plaid,
cotton and pantaoon stuff, and goods of like
description, or for similar use, of unbleached,
not exceeding ounces to the square yard.
cents, but if bleached, II cents per square
yard; if colored, &c, 5 cents. There is also a
scale for goods of a lighter description. On
all cotton goods, the value of which shall ex-
coed % cents per yard, duty of % per cent.
ad valorem; on cotton threads, yarn warps,
valued at not exceeding 40 cents per pound, 10
cents per pound; value over 10 cents, 20 cents
over 90 cents, 80 cents; over 80 cents, 40 cents
per pound. Spool thread cotton 6 cents per
dozen. Cotton goods gimps and gallows, and
cotton laces colored, 80 per cent ad valorem.
Cotton shirts and drawers, woven or made in
frames, and all cotton hosiery, 20 per cent ad
valorem. Cotton velvet, 30 per cent ad valor-
EN-. Cotton braids, inserting, lace trimmings
or bobinet, and all other manufactures of cot
ton, 80 per cent
Iron in pig S. ton; bar iron from to II
cents per pound; Mosic iron $40 ton; iron
rallied bars $40 a ton; boiler and plate iron II
cent per pound; iron ware, coppered or timed,
II cent per pound; other descriptions 8 and 4
cents, but wire covered with cotton, silk OF
other material shall pay cents per pound in
addition; round iron in coils from IL to 2 cents
per pound; thinner than No. Is 1-16 cents per
pound.
The bill provides rates for other descriptions
of wire, hand-saws, needles, etc; all manu-
features of steel not otherwise provided for 80
per cent ad valorem; steel railway bars SIS
per ton; chairs and traces cents per pound.
There are other rates for other descriptions of
iron manufactured. Lead in sheets and pipes
2 cents per pound; copper in plates 2 cents per
pound; copper rolled, &C., not otherwise pro-
vided for, 3 per cent. ad vaorem; silk in the
gum rs per cent ad valorem sewing silk 30
per cent ad vaorem; all goods not otherwise
provided for, made of silk, or of which silk is
the component of classification, 40 per cent. ad
valorem; buttons and ornaments for dresses 40
per cent ad valorem; cigarettes and cheroots of
all kinds to Is cents per pound; tobacco in
leaf, unmanufactured and not stamped 40
cents per pound.
Woods are classified from 3 to 10 cents per
lib; wooden clothes and shawls, and all manu-
features of wool of every description, made
wholly or in part of wool, 70 cents per Id.
flannes, blankets, at from 20 to 40 cents per
of every description, cents per h.; coffee,
cents per TO-. tea, 10 cents per lb. tin, in bars,
block or pig, 3 cents per h.; tapestry, velvet,
carpets, Brussels aad tapestry, velvets, carpets,
65 cents, and tapestry Brussels 40 cents per
square yard; candied citron, cents per Id.
oranges in boxes, IS cents per box; gloves,
according to quality, So to 81 dozen; statuary,
marble. 90 cents cubic foot; metallic pens, II
cents gross; soaps, cents pound.
There are many other articles in the list.
The free list is large one, including brown
nd.white lead, potassa zinc, acids, coal, (block
or culm) paints, parishmeAts, pitch, plants,
putty, gum spoDges and freestone. The bill
ends with the proviso that alcohol, to be used
exclusively for the manufacture of ether, chic
reform and the vegetable alkaloids, may be
withdrawn from bond free of the specified in
ternal revenue tax per gallon, in quantities not
exceeding one hundred gallons at any one time
under such rules as the Secretary of the Treas.
ury shall prescribe.
Revenue Appraise1nent.
Representative Morrison of Illinois Today
introduced an act to simplify the appraisemeni
of goods wares and merchandise imported into
the United States and subject to advalorem
duties. The bill defines the basis on which
dealers are to be assessed on imported mer
chandise subject to advalorem duties to be fan
market value or actual wholesale price of such
merchandise in the principal places of the
country from whence exported at the time oil
expectation, and repeats the law of 1866, which
compels the importer to separately add to the
cost of .the goo Is, the cost of boxing and cas-
ing, although the same have been before in
cluded in the cost of the merchandise as we'll as
all little petty charges for brokerage, cortage
dock fees &c. An omission OF any one of
these items by neglect of an empoye is now
held to violate the invoice and subject the inn
porter to heavy penalties, and their retention
on the statute books as elements for estimating
the value Of invoices, obviously constitutes the
basis for the operation of the large class of in
formers whose very existence is disgrace t.
any government.