The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1884-05-22
TIE NEW TARIFF BILL.
Synopsis of the New Tariff Bill OF Mr..
Hewitt for the Modification of the Cue
toms Laws.

Hewitt's new tariff bill, after making mOdi-
fications to simplify the administration of
the customs laws, provides that after the
Goth of June, 1884, the internal revenue tax
on brandy distilled exclusively from apples,
peaches and grapes shall be ten cents on
each proof gallon, or wine gallon when
below proof. After January l, 1885,
no article mentioned in schedule ''I' tcot-
ton and cotton goods shall pay higher
rate of duty than forty per cent. ad valorem-
In schedule ~ (hemp, jute and fax not
more than thirty per cent. In schedule ''K'
| (wOol and woolens) not more than seventy
per cent, and carpets and can,eting shall
not pay higher rate than thirty-five per
cent. ad valorem. In schedules "B' and
&C" (earthenware and glassware and metals)
not more than fifty per cent On all arti-
cles except those specially excepted,
mentioned in schedules "A" (chemi-
cals), "D'' (wood), CO. (provisiOns) ''M''
| (books), M (sundries-Other than preci-
Gus stones), and "E'' Sugar, there shall
be levied ninety per cent OF the duties now
/ imposed On articles in schedule ''F''
| (tobacco) there shall be levied eighty per
cent of the duties now imposed; on still
wines, in casks. the duty shall be forty
cents a gallon. 1t repeats that clause of the
law of 1883 which imposes a tax of six
tenths of one cent per pound ON iron or
steel riyet, screw nail and fence wire rods,
round, in coils and loops, valued at three
and one-half cents or less per pound, and
authorizes the Secretary of the Treasury to
refund to any manufacturer of fence wire
or wire baling ties the amount of duties
which may have been paid OIL the imported
manufacture of fence wire or baling ties.
The following articles are put on the free
list: Salt, in bags, sacks, barrels or other
packages, or in bulk; coal stacks or culm
coke; coal bituminOus or shale, provided
that this shall not apply to coal imported
from Canada until that Government shall
have exempted from payment of duty all
coal imported into that country by the
United States; timber hewn and sawed. and
timber used for SparS and III building
wharves; timber squared or sided, not
specially enumerated or provided for in this
act; sawed boards, plank, deals and other
lumber of hemlOck, white wood, sycamore
and bass wood, and all other articles of
sawed lumber, hubs for wheels, posts, last
blocks, heading blocks and all live blocks or
sticks rough hewn or sawed only; slaves of
wood, all kinds of pickets and palingS, laths,
shingles, pine clapbOards, spruce clapbOards.
wood manufactured not specially emu
merated or provided for in this act. Iron
ore, including manganiferOuS iron ore, the
dross or residuum from burnt pyrites and
sulphur ore and iron pyriteS, copper imported
in the form of ores, lead ore and lead drOss,
nickel in ore, matte, chrOmate of iron or
chronic ore, hay, chicOry root, ground or I'M
ground, burnt or prepared, acOrnS and
dandeliOn root, raw or prepared, and all
other articles used or intended to be used as
coffee or as a substitute, therefore not
specially enumerated or provided for in this
act. Jute, jute butts, flax straw, flax not
hacked or dressed, tow of flax or hemp,
hemp, MANILA, and other like substitutes for
hemp not specially enumerated or provided
for, sum Sisal grass and other vegetable sub
stances not specially enumerated or provided
for, bristleS, beeswax, lime, glycerine, crude
extract of hemlock, and other bark used for
canning, not otherwise enumerated or pro-
vided for in this act. Indigo-extract of,
and carmine tartar, partly refined, including
lees, crystals, cement, Roman, Port
land and all others; whiting and Paris
white, dry nitrate of potash or Saltpetre
wood tar, coal tar, crude coal tar, or the
products of such as naptha, benZine, ben-
ZOle, dead oil end pitch, all preparations of
coal tar, not oOlOrS, or not specially EMU
merated or provided for in this act. Ochre
and ochre earthS, lumber and lumber earthS,
and sienna and sienna earths; all earthS or
clays, unwrOught or unmanufactured, not
specially enumerated or provided for in this
act. All banks, beans, berries, balsams,
buds, bulbs and dubious roots and excres-
ences, such as nutgalls, fruits, flowers, dried
berS. grains, gums and gum resins, herbs,
leaves, lichenS, moses, nuts, roots and
stems, spices, vegetables, seeds (aromatic,
not garden seeds), and seeds of morbid
growth, weeds, woods used expressly for
dyeing. and dried insects-any of
the foregoing which are not edible,
but which have been advanced in
value or condition by refining or grind
ing or other process of manufacture and
not especially enumerated or provided for
in this act. Iron or steel sheets, or plates or
taggers; iroA coated with tin or lead, or
with mixture of which these metals are
component part, by dipping or any other
process, and commercially known as tin
plates; querne plates and taggers tin woods
of the thirty class. commonly known as
WOODS, asphaltum, living animals, cOpperas
or Sulphate of iron, microscopes imported
by physicians for professional use and not
for sale, copper ingOtS, old copper, regulus
or copper, goat skins, rays books in foreign |
languages and professional books not pub |
lished in the United States imported in !
single copies for use and not for sale, crude |
borax, refined bOraX and boracic acid grind |
stones in the rough, stones manufactured |
or undresSed free stones, granite, sandstone |
and all building or monumental stone except |
marble, not specially enumerated or pro-
vided for. paintings in oil and water colors, !
and Statuary not otherwise provided for. !
OSier, or willow prepared for basket makers
use, waste, and all raw and manufactured |
material not specially provided for by the
existing law.
The President is requested to withdraw
consuls of the United States from places
which are not ports of entry wherever in
the judgment of the Secretary of the I
Treasury they are 10 longer required for
the protection of the revenue. Section
abOlisheS all fees and Oaths required by the
existing laws relating to the entry of goods,
and it is provided that where such fees
shall constitute all or part of the compensa-
ion Of any officer the latter shall receive
in lieu thereof fixed salary 1t is further
provided that the Secretary of the Treasury
shall grant permission 10 any firm or cor
oOratiOn To withdraw from bosld alcohol or
my spirits containing alcohol, subject to
he internal revenue tax in specific quantities
II not less than 800 proof gallons without
payment of internal revenue tax on the
anne, or on the spirits from which it may
ave been distilled, for the sole purpose of
se in industrial pursuits
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