Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1884-02-05
NEW TARIFF BILL
rur,rs HruUvrp rwrrry PER GENT.

DUTIES HEDUCED DTwErrN PER CENr.
Imp, rtatt changes Proposed \ iit OF tue
Articles W which the Bill Exempt, En-
nrcly ftom Duty.
Mr. Morrisou's tariff bill, which ho on
Monday introduced in the House ON the
call Of states, proposes To make rCduc
lion Of twenty per cent. in the duty on
numerous articles, whllc in few cases the
reduction is greater or less than that rate.
A provision prevents any reduction ~
rate lower than in the Morrill, act Of 1861
The bill is to take effect July |, 1854, and
il provides that, in lieu Of the duties and
rates of duty imposed by law on the
importation of the goods, wares aud mer
chandise mentioned in the several
schedules OF AN act to reduce internal
revenue taxation and for other
purposes" approved March 3, 1883, and
| hereafter enumerated, there shall be levied
| collected and paid eighty per cent. of the
| several duties and rates of duties now
| imposed on said articles seScrslly that is
| tn say--ou all the articles mentioned In
| cotton and cotton goods, hemp, juto aud
| hax goods other than juto butts, paper,
| etc sugar, tobacco, wood aud wooden
| ware, eartheuware and glassware, provis-
ions, suudres other than precious stones,
produces, except as hereinafter provided
| No duty shalt after first day Of July,
1854, be levied 10 excess OF 40 per cent, aC
yalorem, or its equivalent, On cotton anC
cotton goods 80 per centum ad valorem
OF its equivalent, on metals, and 90 pei
| centum al vlIDrCm on wool aud wO0let
goods.
The following articles arc to bo exemp
from duty Iron oTo and sulphur ore
copper in the form of ores, lead ore anC
lead dross nickel IN ore, matte chrOmat,
of iron or chronic ore +; coal, slack o
culm coal, bituminous or shale timber
hown and sawed, and timber used 70
spars and in building wharves, wood
manufactured, not specially enumerated
or provided Tor IN thus act hay, chioor
root acOrns and dandelion root, raw O
prepared, and all other articles use
or intended to be used as coffee
or as substitutes thereof, no
= specially enumerated or provided tor /; jut
butts, bristles, beeswax, lime, glyceriuC
crude, fish, glue or isinglass, sponge,
dextrine, burnt starch, gum substitute Q
British gum, extract of hemlock and othe
bark used for tanning not otherwise euum
: Grated or provided for ; indigo, extracts c
0 and carmined tartars partly refined
| including Lees crystals cement, Roman
, Portland and ali othors waiting an
Paris white, dry wood tar coal Ia
9 crude coal tar. products of such, as nap
r thd, benziUe, OeuzOle, dead oil and Iitcs
A all preparations Of coal tar, not colUrs {
dye, not specifically enumerated or pr,
y vided for in this act logwOod and otht
dye wood, extracts and decoctiOns Of oohl
It and ochery earths, umber aud umb,
q earths and sienna aud sienna earths, a
"a earths or Clays uuwrOught or unmauula
turod not especially enumerated or pr
vded for ia this act all barks, bean
berries, balsams, buds, bulbs aud bulbOr
~ roots and excresceuCes, such as nut gall
fruits, flowers, dried ibIes, grains, gun
Is and gum resins, herbs, leaves, licheu
. mosses, nuts, roots stems, spices, veg
n tables, seeds (caromatic, not garden seed
- and seeds OF morbid growth, weeds
81 used expressly for dyeug, aud dried i
20 secss, any Of the foregoing of which a
q not edible, but whrh have been advanc,
il 10 value or condition by refining or grin
ing or by other process of manufacture Al
y not specifically enumerated or proyid
l. for IN this act.