The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1884-02-08
MOrriSOn,S Tariff Bill.

WASHINGTON. Feb. 5.--Mr. Morrison's Tariff
bill justintroduced in the House makes a re-
duction al twenty per cent in numerous arti-
cleS, put prevents any reuuctIOn IN rate
lower than the Morrill, act of 1861 The title
of the bill is:
IAN act to reduce import duties and war
tariff taxes" 1t provides that on and after
the LIST of July, 1884, in lieu of the duties and
rates of duty imposed by law on the importa-
ton OF goods, wares and merchandise, men
toned in the several schedules of an act to
purposes" approved March g. 1883, and here
matter enumerated, there shall be levied col
lected and paid, so per cent. of the several du-
ties and rates of duty now imported on said
articles severally; that is to say, on all arti-
Giles mentioned in schedule IT, cotton and
cotton goods; schedule ~ hemp, jute and
flax goods other than jute butts; schedule
TX, wool and woolens; schedule &C. metal
other than ores; schedule M, ? books, paper
etc; schedule Re, sugar; schedule ''F, :" to-
bacco; schedule d. wood and woodenware
except as hereinafter provided; on all articles
subject to al valorem duty in schedule "B,'
earthernware and glassware; schedule &C.
provisions, except as hereinafter provided;
schedule IN, sundrieS, other than pre-
cious stones-salt, coal, bristle and lime;
schedule "a" chemical products, except as
hereinafter provided. No duty or rate of
duty shall, after said 1st day of July, 1854, be
levied, collected and paid in, except 40 per
cent. ad yalorem or its equivalent on cotton
and cotton goods; 30 per centum ad valorem
or its equivalent on metal, and 80 per centum
nd valorem on wool and wooden goods; pro-
yided that nothing in this act shall operate
to reduce the duty above imposed on any
article below the rate at which said articles
were severally dutiable under IAN act to pro-
vide for the payment of outstanding Treasury
notes, to authorize a loan, to regulate and fix
duties on imports and for other purposes,
approved March 2, 1861, commonly called the
Morrill, Tariff, and on all unpublished cylinder,
f. crown and common window glass. or cast
polished plate glass unSllYered, exceeding FAX
innHng
barrels OF other packages or in bulk
+ SEC. 2. On and after the LIST of July, 1884 the
Importation of articles enumerated and de-
Scribcd in this-section shall be exempt from
duty. That is to say, iron ore, including mar
ganiferOuS iron ore; the droSs or reSioGum
from burnt pyrites and sulphur ore; copper
imported in the form of ores; lead ore and
lead dross; nickel in ore or MATES; chro-
mate of iron OF chronic ore; coal slack
or culTn coal; bituminuus or shale;
timber hewn and sawed, and timber
manufactured, not specially enumerated or
provided for in this act hay; chicory root,
ground or ungrOlnd, burnt or prepared;
acorn and dandeliOn root raw or prepared,
and all other articles used or intended to be
used as coffee, or substitutes therefor not
specially enumerated or provided in this act;
1ute butts, bristleS, beeswaX, lime, g. ycerine,
crude fish-glue or isinglass. sponges,
dextrine, burnt starch gum substitute
or British gum extract of hemlock,
and other bark used for tanning not other
indigo extracts partly refined, including Lees
crystals, cement-Roman, Portland and all
others-whiting and Paris white, dry wood
tar, coal tar; crude coal-tar productS-sueh as
naphtha, benZine, benzole, dead oil and pitch.
and preparations of coal tar not colors or
dyes not specially enumerated or provided for
in this act; logwood and other dye-wood ex-
tracts, and decoctions; ochre and ochery;
eaTth's lumber and lumber earths, and sienna
and sienna earths; all eartns or
clays unwrouaht or manufactured
not specially enumerated or provided
for in this act; all banks, beans, ber-
ries, balsams buds bulbs and bubous roots
and excrescences, such as nutgalls, fruits,
flowers, dried fibers, grains, gums and gum
resins, herbs, leaves lichens moses, nuts,
roots and stems, spices, vegetables, seeds
taromatic, not garden seeds and seeds of
morbid growth, weeds, wood used expressly
for dyeing and dried insects, any of the fore
going which are not edible, but which have
been advanced in value or condition by refin-
ing or grinding, or by other process of manu-
facture and not specially enumerated or pro-
Tided for in this act.