The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1884-05-22
TARIFF LEGISLATION.
The Provisions of Mr.. HeWitt's
New Revenue Bill.

tains many of the features Of the latter, be-
sides many others. 1t is entitled "a bill
TO modify existing laws relating TO duties
on imports and internal revenue taxes
and to enlarge the free list" Extensive
additions to the free list are proposed. The
bill, after making notifications TO simplify
tho administration Of the custom laws,
provides that after the 30th of June, 1884.
the internal revenue tax on brandy distilled
exclusively from apples, peaches, and
grapes shall be 10 cents on each proof
gallon or wine gallon when below proof.
After Jan. l, 1885, no article mentioned in
Schedule COTTON and cotton goods) shall
pay higher rate of duty than 40 per cent.
ad valorem in Schedule (hemp, jute. and
fax than 80 per cent; in Schedule
M wool and woolens) than 70 per
cent; and carpets and carpeting shall
not pay higher rate than 80 per cent. ad
valorem; and in schedules b and @ (earth-
enware and glassware and metals) than 50
per cent. On all articles, except those
specifically excepted, mentioned in Sched-
ule A (chemicals), ID wood, G (provisions).
h (books), N (sundries other than precious
stones), and Il (sugar) there shall be levied
30 per cent. of duties now imposed. o.
the articles in Schedule F (tobacco) there
shall be levied so per cent Of the duties
duty shall be 40 cents a gallon. 1t repeats
tina clause of the law of 1883 which imposes
tax of clio of cent per pound
on iron or steel rivet, screw, nail,
and fence wire rods, round, in coils
and loops, valued Mt 81 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 on i'm
ported iron or steel wire rods actually used
in the manufacture of fence and baling ties.
The following articles are put on the free
list: Salt, in bags sacks, barrels, or other
packages, or in bulk; coal, slack or culm;
coke coal, bituminous or shale, provided
this shall not apply to coal imported from
Canada until that Government shall have
exempted from the payment of duty oil coal
imported into that country from the United
States; timber, hewn and sawed, and tim
Der used for spars and in 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, syca-
more, and Eastwood, and all other articles
of sawed lumber; hubs for wheels, posts,
last-blooks, wagon blocks, ore blocks, gun
blocks, heading blocks, and all like blocks
or sticks rough hewn or sawed only; slaves
of wood of all kinds; pickets and palings;
laths; shingles; fine clapboards; spruce clap
boards wood unmanufactrred, not specially
enumerated 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 i'm
ported in the form Of ores; lead ore and
lead dross nickel in ore, matter; chromate
of iron, or chronic ore; hay; chioory
root, ground or underground, burnt
or prepared; acorns and dandelion
root, raw or prepared, and all other
articles used or intended TO be used as coffee
or as substitutes therefor, not specially emu
merated or provided for in this act; jute,
iute- butts, hax-s straw fax not hacked or
dressed, tow OF fax or hemp, hemp, manila,
and other like substitutes for hemp not spe-
cially enumerated or provided for; sum, sisaA
grass, and other vegetable substances not
specially enumerated or provided for; bris-
ties beeswax; lime; glycerine. crude; ex-
tract Of hemlock and other bark used for
tanning not otherwise enumerated or pro-
vided for in this act; indigo. extract of, and
carmined tartars, partly refined, including
Lees crystals: cement Roman, Portland.
and oil others; whiting and Paris white, dry;
nitrate of potash or saltpeter; wood tar; coal
tar, crude; coal tar, products OF, such as naph-
tina, benzine. benzole, dead oil, and pitch;
all preparations of coal tar, not colors or
dye, not especially enumerated or provided
for in this act: ochre and ochry earths,
lumber and umber earths, and sienna and
sienna earths all earths or CLAWS unwrought
or manufactured not specially enumer-
ated or provided for In this act; all banks,
beans, berries. balsams, buds, bulbs, and
Dubious r. OTIS and excrescences, such as nut
gals, fruits, flowers, dried fibers, grains,
gums, and gum resins, herbs, leaves.
lichens, MOSES, nuts, roots, and stems,
spices vegetables, seeds (aromatic. not gar
den seeds,) and seeds of morbid growth,
weeds, woods used expressly for dyeing.
and dried insects. any of the foregoing Of
which have been advanced in value or con-
dition by refining or grinding or other proc
ess of manufacture, and not specially emu
merated or provided for in this act 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 Dip
ping or any other process, and commercial
~ known as plates. terne plates, and tag
rs-in; woods of the third class, commonly
known rs carpet woods; asphaltum; living
Nnimals;copperas. or sulphate of iron; mi
croscopes imported by physicians for pro-
fessional use, and not for sale; copper In
ngots, old copper, regulus of copper; goat
and professional books not published in the
United States, imported in single copies,
for use and not for sale; crude
bonx. refined borax, and boracic ac-
Id; grindstones in the rough; stones.
manufactured or undressed, freestones,
granite sandstone, and all building or mon
mental stone, except marble not specially
enumerated or provided for; paintings in
oil and and water colors and statuary, not
otherwise provided for osier or willow pre-
pared for basket-m makers use; waste and all
NV and manufactured material not spe-
cially provided for by the existing hw.
Sec. 8 abolishes all fees, and the oaths re-
quired by existing laws relating to the en-
try of goods are abolished, and it is pro-
vided that where such fees constitute all or
part Of the compensation OF any such officer
the latter shall receive in lieu thereof fixed
salary. 1t is further provided that the Sec
rotary of the Treasury shall grant permis-
sion to any firm or corporation to with
draw from bond alcohol or any spirits con-
tanning alcohol, subject to the internal rev.
enue tax, In specific quantities, of not less
than 800 proof gallons, without payment OF
internal revenue tax on same or on the
spirits from which it may have been dis
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