Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1884-05-23

,oopsas of the New Tariff Bni Of NEr.
u.~,tt for the Modification OF the Qua

exnopsts OF the New TariH Bnl Of Mr..
Hewitt for the Mobilization OF the Ous-
toms Laws. ~. ~
WASHINGTON, May lA.-RepresentatiyeS
dewitt's new tariff bill, after making mcdi- (
fications to simplify the administration Of.
the customs laws, provides that after the
soth 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 !, 1885,
no article mentioned in schedule Il" loot
ton and cotton goods) shall pay q higher
rate of duty than forty per cent. al vaioren.
In schedule u" (hemp jute and maxi no.
more than thirty per cent In schedule N"
wool and wooiens) not more than seventy
per cent, and carpets and Competing shall
not nav a higher rate than thirty-hye per
cent. ad valorem. In schedules "B' and
sC' (earthenware and glassware and meals)
not more than fifty per cent On all artl-
cles except those specially excepted
mentioned in schedules "A" lchemi.
cals), "D'' (wood), &c" (provisions$ M
(bO0ks), "N'' (sundries-other than Ptecs
Gus stones), and "E" (sugar), there shaN
be levied ninety per cent of the duties now
imposed. On articles in schedule IF
(tobacco) there shall be levied eighty per
cent Of the duties now imposed; on sui
wines, in casks, the duty shall DO forty
cents gallon. 1t repeats that clause OF the
law of 1883 which imposes q 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
xu-s.-a holf. ice hn
which may have been paid on the imported
iron or steel wire rods actually used In the
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 culnl
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 in building
wharyes; 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 OK
sawed lumber, hubs for wheels, posts, last
blocks, heading blocks and all live blocks or
sticks rough hewn or sawed only: slaves or
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| 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 UNI
ground, burnt or prepared, acorns and
dandelion root, raw or prepared, and all
| other articles used or intended 10 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
tanning, not otherwise enumerated or pro-
vided for in this act. Indigo-extract OF,
and carinine tartar, partly refined, including
lees, crystals, cement, Roman, Port
land and all others; whiting and Paris
white, dry nitrate Of potash or saltpetrc,
wood tar, coal tar, crude coal tar, or the
! products of such as naptha, benZine, ben
cole, dead oil and pitch, all preparations of
coal tar, not colors, or not specially emu
merated or provided for in this act. Ochre
and ochre earths, umber and umber earths,
and sienna and sienna earths; all earths or
| clays, unwrought or manufactured, not
specially enumerated or provided for In this
act. All barks, beans, berries, balsams,
buds, bulbs and Dubious roots and excres-
| ences, such as nutgalls, fruits, flowers, dried
fibers, grains, gums and gum resins, herbs,
leaves, lichens, moses, nuts, roots and
stems, spices, vegetables, seeds laromatic,
not garden seeds), and seeds or 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; iron coated with tin or lead, or
with mixture Of which these metals are a
component part, by dipping or any other
process, and commercially known as tin
plates; queme plates and taggers, tin woods
of the thirty class, commonly known as
wools 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 i'm the United States imported In
single copies for use and not for sale, crude
| borax, refined borax and boracic acid, grind
stones i'm the rough, stones unmanufactured
or undresscd free stones, granite, sandstone
and all building or monumental stone except
marble, not specially enumerated OF pro-
vided for paintings IN oil and water col0rs,
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 this
Treasur, 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 IL is provided that where such fees
shall constitute all OF part of the compensar
ton of any officer the latter shall receive
In lieu thereof fixed salary. IL is further
provided that the Secretary of the Treasury
shall grant permission to any firm or cor
| poration TO withdraw from bond alcohol or
! any spirits containing alcohol, subject to
the internal revenue tax In specific quantities
of not less than 300 proof gallons without
payment Of internal revenue tax on the
same, or on the spirits from which Il may
have been distilled, for the sole purpose Of
use in industrial pursuits
A had Cave.
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