The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1883-02-01
THE METAL SCHEDULE
CONTAINED IN THE SENATE BILL
ou the Revision of the rarIn-rA. Changes Er
feetsd In Iron aad Steel and Their Products.
A Bill OF Great Interest to Home
Manufactures and Operatives.

OF the tariff bill now being considered
by the Senate as amended in the Commit
tee OF the Whole and as it will pass the
Senate in case the other schedules are COM
plete before the adjournment OF Congress.
Iron ore, including manganiferous iron
ore, also the dross or residuum from burnt
pyriles, fifty cents per ton. Sulphur ore, US
pyrites, or sulphuret OF iron In its natural
state, containing not more than three and
one half per cenlum Of copper, fifty cents per
ton: Provided that ore containing more than
three and one.half per centum OF copper, dry
assay, shall pay, an addition thereto, two aud
one.hali cents per pound for the copper con-
tuined therein.
Iron In pigs, iron kentledge, spiegeleiSen,
wrought and cast scrap.iron, and scrap-steel
OF every description, including old iron aud
old steel railway.bars, boiler punchings, aud
clippings OF iron or steel beams land bars,
steel filings, borings turnings, steel railway;
bar orop-ends none OF which shall exceed
twenty.fOur inches in length, steel ingot,
cosged ingot, bloom, slab, and billet crop
ends, none OF which shall exceed live inches
in length, six dollars per ton: Provided, that
nothing not herein specified shall be deemed
scrap.iron or scrap.steel except waste or re-
fuse iron or steel that has been In actual use
and Is 1T only to be manufactured by re-
melting or re.rolling.
Steel ingots, cogged ingots, blooms, billets,
and slabs, made by the Bessener, pneumatic,
Thomas Gilchrist, basic, Siemens-Martin,
open-hearth, or-5g=aay other process except
the crucible process, and not exceeding in
value two cents per pound, hve-tenths OF one
cent per pound; exceeding two ceRts, and
not exceeding five cents per pound in value,
all obi
ceeding In value tive cents per pound shall
pay the rates OF duty prescribed iu this act
for crucible cast-steel. Iron railway-barS,
weighing more than twenty-five pounds 10
the yard, seven. tenths OF one cent per pound.
Steel railway-bars and railway-bars made In
part OF steel, weighing more than twenty-five
pounds to the yard, seven-tenths OF one cent
per pound.
flats not less than one inch wide, nor less
than three-eighths OF one inch thick, eighteen
dollars per ton; comprising round iron not
less than three.fourths OF one inch In diane
ter, and square iron not less than three
fourths OF one inch square, twenty dollars
per ton; comprising flats less than one inch
wide, or less than three-eighths OF one inch
thick; round iron less than three.fourths Ol
one inch and not less than seven.sixteenths
AS-S
than three .iourths OF one inch square, twenty.
two dollars per ton: ProYideu that all iron
| in slabs, blooms, loops, or other forms less
finished that iron III bars and more I'D.
yanced than pig iron, except castings, shall
be rated as iron In bars, and piy duty &C
cordingly; aud none OF the above iron shall
pay less rate OF duty than thirty.tve pei
centum ad valoreni.
Iron or steel Trails weighing twenty-five
pounds to the yard, and iron or steel Hat rails
punched, eighttenths Of one cent per poand
Round iron, in coils or rods, less than
seven sixteenths Of one inch In diameter, and
bars or shapes Of rolled iron not specially
enumerated or provided for IN this act, one
and one.tenth OF one cent per pound.
Armor or other plate iron or steel, or COM
bipation OF iron and steel, finished or un
finished, not less than one and u half inches
thick, one and one-half Of one cent pei
pound.
Boiler, or other plate iron, sheared or un'
sheared, skelp iron, sheared or rolled 10
grooves, one and one.iourth cents per pound
and sheet iron, common or black, thinner
than one inch and one-half, aud not thinner
than number twenty wire gauge, one cent
per pound thinner than number twenty
wire gauge, and not thinner than number
twenty-five wire gauge, one and two-tenths
OF one cent per pound; thinner than number
twenty-five wire gauge, and not thinnei
than number twenty.nine wire gauge, one
and fve:tenths Of one cent per pound
thinner than number twenty-nlne wire
gauge, and all iron commercially known as
common or black taggers iron, wheeler puI
up In boxes or bundles or not, thirty pei
centum nd valorem.
Polished, planished, or glanced sheet-iron,
or sheetsteel, by whatever Name designated
two and half cents per pound, and iron or
steel sheets; or plates, or taRgers iron, coated
with tin or lead, or with mixture OF which
these metals Is component part by the
dipping or any other process, aud com
mefcially known az tin plates. terne plates
and taggers tin, one cent per pound COZ
rugated or crimped sheet iron or steel, one
and four.tenths Of one cent per pound.
Hoop, or band, or scroll or other iron
eight inches or less In width, and not thin
ner than number ten wire gauge, one CEN
per pound; thinner than number ten wir,
and not thinner than number twenty wire
tyauge, one and two-tenths OF one cent pei
pound; thinner than number twenty wire
rstIge, one and four-tenths Of one cent PEI
1ouild. Provided, that all articles not spec
i ially eueumeratsd or provided fol. in this act
whether wholly or partly manufactured
made from the sheet, plate, hoop. band OF
scroll iron herein provided for, or OF which
such sheet, plate. hoop, baud or scroll iroI
sball be the material Of chieiv2lue, shall pay
one.fourth OF one cent per pound duty thar
that imposed on the iron from which the,
are made, or which shall be such material o
chief value.
Iron and steel cotton ties, or hoops fo
ballpg purposes, not thinner than numbe
\ twenty wire gauge, thirty.flve per centum az
Cast'iron pipe of every description, one
Castings OF iron, not specially enumerated
or provided for in this act one and one-quar
ter OF one cent por pound.
NAILS AND OTHER HARDWARE.