The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1884-02-05
BILLS BILL.
The Question Of Tariff Reform Fairly
Before Congress.
A Horizontal Reduction Of Twenty
Per Cent, With Exceptions Special
Rates. with q Limit.

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during the call for states introduced 1t In
the House. The bill was prepared last
week, with the exception Of placing few
articles on the free list, concerning which
Mr.. Morrison was undecided. A reduction
OF 20 per cent is made In numerous articles,
while In few cases the reduction Is greater
or less than this rate. A provision pre-.
vents any reduction to rate lower than In
the Merrill act Of 1851. The title Of the bill
Is: AN act to reduce import duties and
war tariff taxes" 1t provides
thai on and after the LIST Of
July, 1884, In lieu Of duties and rates the
duty imposed by law on the importation Of
the goods, wares and merchandise men.
toned In the several schedules Of IAN act
to reduce internal revenue taxation and for
other purposes, approved March Q, 1888,
and hereinafter enumerated, thefe shall Do
levied, collected and paid so per cent. Of
the several duties and rates Of duty now
imposed on said articles severslly; that Is
to say, on all articles mentioned In SEIZED.
ule l, cotton and cotton goods; schedule J,
hemp; jute, butts; schedule X, wool and
wooens; schedule q, metals other than
ores; schedule N, books, papers,
etc.; schedule Z, sugar;
schedule F, tobacco; schedule
ID, wood and woodenware, except As
hereinafter provided In oil articles subject
to ad valorem duty; In schedule B, earth
enware and lassware; schedule G, pro.
visions, except as hereinafter provided;
schedule N, sundries other than precious
stones, salt, coal, bristles aud lime;
schedule A, chemical products, except 40
hereinafter provided. No duty or rate OF
duty shall, after the said first day OF July,
1884, be levied, collected, or paid In ,xcess
OF 40 per cent. ad valvrem, or Its
equivalent, on cotton or cot.
ton goods; 80 per centum
ad valorem, or It's equivalent on metals,
aud 80 per centum I'd vslorem on wool
and wooden goods; provided that nothing
Ia this act shall operate 70 reduce the duty
above imposed on any article below the
rate at which said articles were yeverally
dutlable under IAN act TO provide for the
payment Of outstanding treasury
notes, and TO authorize loan TO regulats
and fix the duties on imports, and for
other purposes. approved March 2, 1851,
and commonly called the Merrill tariff; on
oil unpublished cylinder, crown aud COM
mon window glass, or cast polished plate
glass, unsilvered, exceeding 24x6o inch
square, on salt in bags, sacks OF barrels,
tartars, partly refined, including Lees
crystal cement, Roman, Portland and
all others; whiting sBd paris white,
dry wood tar coal tar, crude coal products
such as naptha, benziue, benzole, dead
oil and pitch, and preparations Of coal tar,
not colors or dyes, not spec 4 ally enumer-
atel or provided for by this act, logwood
and deco ctions, ochre and oshery earths,
or other packages, or In bulk.
Sec. 2.-0u and after the first day Of
July, 1884, the importation OF articles
enumerated In this section shall be exempt
from duty; that 10 to say, iron ore, in
Guiding manganiferous iron ore, the dross
or residum from burnt pyrtes and sulphur
ore, copper imported 10 the form Of ores,
lead ore and lead dross, nickel Ia ore,
matte, chromate Of iron or chronic ore,
coal, slack or culm; coal, bltuminous or
shae; timber hewn or Sawed, and timber
used for spars and in building wharves,
and wood manufactured, not specially pro.
vlded for In this act; hay, Ohiekory root,
ground or unground, burned or prepared;
acorns and dandehon root, raw or pre-.
pared, and other articles used or intende
to be used as coffee or as subst.-
tutes therefore not specially enumerated
or provided in this act. Jute, buttes,
brlstIes, beeswax, lime, glycerine, crude
fsh-glue or isinglass, sponges, dextrnie,
burnt starch, gum, substitute or British
gum, extract Of hemook and other bark
used for tannery, not otherwise enumerat-
ed or provided for In this aot Indigo ex-
tracts Of, and oarmined lumber and umber
earths, and sienna and sienna earths; u
earths or clays unwrought or unmanufac-
tured not specifically enumerated or pro.
vided for In this act; all
banks, beans, berries, balsams,
buds, bulbs and dubious roots and
exorescences, such as nut.galls, frm +,
flowers, dried fibres, grains, gums and
gum resins, herbs, leaves, licheds, mosses,
nuts, roots and stems, spices, vegetables,
seeds, (aromatic, not garden sesds), and
seeds Of morbid growth, weeds, woods
used expressly for dyeing, and dried In.
sects. Any Of the foregoing which are not
In their natur state, but which have ad.
vanced In value or condition by refining or
grinding, or other process Of manufactur.
ing, and not sdecially enumerated for In
this act.
Cracksmen Caught.
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