The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1884-03-15
Special to the CARBON ADVOCATE.
WASHINGTON, March s, 1884.

The House Committee on Ways and
Means yesterday acted favorably upon the
Morrison tariff bill. AS agreed upon it
places salt, coal and lumber on the free list.
A provso with respect to coal is to the effect
that it shall not apply to Canada until that
country places our coal on the free list.
The argument to report the amended bill
favorablY was reached by a strict party
vote of seven TO Eve. Messrs. Morrison,
Mills, Blount, Blackburn, Herbert, Hurd and
Jones voted in tho affirmative, and Messrs.
Kelly, Kasson, Mckinley, Hscock und
Russell in the negative. Mr.. Hewitt was
not present when the vote was taken, but
it is known that he agrees with the msjori-
ty and would have voted in favor nf the re-
port had he been in the committee room
Mr.. Morrison will make the majority re-
port on the bill on Monday next.
The bill provides that on and after the ! st
of July 1884, the rates Of duty TO he levied
collected and paid on the importation OF
goods, wares and merchandise mentioned
in the Tariff act Of March 3, 1888, shal, be
as follows: On all the articles mentioned in
schedule |, which includes all cotton and
cotton goods; in schedule j, which includes
all hemp, jute and fax goods; in schedule
X, which includes all wool and woelens;
in schedule G, which includes all metals in
schedule NJ, which includes all books, pa
pers AID other articles Of this character; in
schedule Z, which covers sugar, nolasees,
and articles of like character; in schedule
+, covering tobacco; in schedule d, which
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otherwise provded); in schedule G, which
includes provisions; in schedule N, which
includes sundres other than precious stones,
salt, coal and linseed or flax seed, and in
schedule II, which includes all chemical
products, eighty percentum of the several
duties, and rates OF duty now imposed on
said articles severally. 1t provides, how
ever, that none OF the articles included in
schedule shall pay higher rate of duty
than forty per centum adyalorem, III
schedule X higher than sixty per centum,
and in schedule c higher than filtv per
cenlum. 1t provides that the rate Of duty
on cast, polished plate glass, unsilyered,
exceeding twenty four by sixty inches
| square, on green and colored glass bottles
walls, demljohns and carboys covered and
uncovered) pickle or preserve jars, and 9TH
er plain, moulded or pressed green and
colored bottle glass, not cut, engraved or
| painted, and not specially enumerated, or
provided in this act; and all the articles
subject to advalorem duty in schedule b,
which includes earthenware aud glassware,
shall be eighty per centum of the several
duties and rates of entry now imposed on
said articles severally. 1t provides, how
ever, that nothing in this act shall operate
TO reduce the duty above imposed on any
article below the rate at which said article
was dutiable, unler "an act tn proyide for
the payment OF outstanding Treasury notes
| to authorize a loan TO regulate and fix the
duties on imports and for other purposes,
approved March 2, 1861, commonly called
the "Murrill tariff" and that, when under
existing law, any Of said articles are group
ed together and made dutiable at one rate,
then nothing in this act she'll operate to
reduce the duty below the highest rate at
which any article in such group was duti.
abls under said act of March 2. 1851.
1t further provides that alter the LIST Of
July, 1884, the rate of duty to be paid on
all unpublished cylinder crown and common
window glass; on IRON or steel sheets or
plates, or taggers iron, coated with tin or
lead, or with a mixture of which these
metals are a component part, by the dip
ping or any other process and commercial
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taggers tin and on linseed or flaxseed, shall
be eighty per centum Of the several duties
and rates of duty now imposed on said ar
tces severally.
The following list Of articles is added to
the present free list: Salt in bags, sacks, bar.
rels Or other packages or in bulk; coal slack
or culm; coal. hituminous or shale. timber,
hewn and sawed, and timber used for spars
and in building wharyes; timber, squared
oi sided, not specially enumerated or pro,
vided for in this act; sawed boards, plank,
deals and other lumber, of hemluck, white
wood, sycamore and Eastwood, and all 9th,
er articles Of sawed lumber, hubs of wheels,
posts, last blocks, wagon blocks, oar blocks,
gun blocks, heading blocks and all like
blocks or sticks, rough, hewn or sawed only;
slaves Of wood Of all kinds. pickets md PAL
ing, lathes, shingles, pine clap boards,spruce
clapboardsj wood, unmsnufactured, not
specially enumerated or provided form this
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