The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1884-02-05
TARIFF REVISION.
A General Reduction of 20 Per
Cent

A Generdf deduction OF 20 Pei
Cent
Washington, 4.-Representa tive
Morrison completed the tariff bill
this morning, and during the call OF
States Introduced it N the House
The bill was prepared last week
with the exception of placing q few
articles on the free list, concerning
which Morrison was undecided. A
reduction of 20 per cent. is made in
numerous srticles, while IN few
cases the reduction is greater or less
than this rate. A provision pre-
vents any reduction to ate lower
than in the Morrill, act of 1851. The
title OF the bill is "An act to reduce
import duties and war tariff taxes"
1t provides that on and after the 1st
of July 1854, in lieu of duties and
rates of duty imposed by law on
the Importation Of the goods, wares
and merchandise mentioned in
the several schedules of San act to
reduce the Internal revenue lax es,
and for other purpl sea, approved
March Sd, 1883, There shall be lev ed,
collected and paid, so per cent. of
the several duties, and rates of duty,
now imposed on said articles,
seyerally; that is to say, on all ar
ticles mentioned In schedule /,
cotton and cotton goods; schedule
j, hemp, jute and fax gods,
other than jute butts; schedule K,
wool and woolens; schedule c.,
metal, other than ores, schedule Nj,
books, papers, etc. schedule E,
sugar; schedule F, tobacco; schedule
d, wood and woOdenware, except az
hereinafter provided; on all articles
subject to ad valorOm duty In
schedule B. earthenware anu glass
ware; schedule g, provisions, except
as hereinafter provided; schedule
N. sundries, other than precious
stones, salt. coal, bristle and lime;
schedule A, chemical products, ex-
cept as hereinafter provided. No
duty or rate duty shall after
said first day Of July 1884, be
levied, collected or paid in, except
40 per cent. ad valorem or it's equiv
alent on itton and cotton goods,
SO per cent ad valorem or its equiv.
alent on metal, and 60 ger cant. ad
valorem on wool and wooden goods.
Provided nothing In this act shall
operate to reduce the duty above
imposed on any article below the
rate at which said articles were sew
orally dutiabie under the Morrill,
tariff on all unpublished cylinder,
crown and common window glass or
cast polished plate glass, unsilvered,
24x60 inches square, or
salt in bags, sacks, barrels or other
packages, or in bulk.
Section 2.-The Importation of
enumerated and described
IN this section, STALL be exempt from
duty. Iron ore, including mangan
ferrous iron ore, the drops or resi-
due from burnt pyrites aud sulphur |
ore, copper imported in the form of |
)res, lead ore and lead dross, |
nickel ia ore matte, chr9mate of |
iron or chronic ore, coal slack, tim.
Der, hewn and sawed, and tim bers
used for spars and In building
wharves, wood manufactured, not
specially enumerated or rovided for |
in this act, hay, chiokory root,
ground or unground, burnt or pre-
pared, acorn and dandelion root, raw
,r prepared and all other articles
used or intendt d to be used IS coffee
u substitutes therefor, not specially
or provided for in this
Ict, jute butts, bristles beeswax, lime,
,lycerine crude, fish, glue or ISM
,lass, sponges, dextrine, burnt
gum substitute or British
.um, extract of hemIock, all other
,arks used for tanning, not other
wise provided for in this
'ct, indigo, extracts of and carmined;
artar, partly refined, including
Lees crystals; cement Roman,
Cortland, and all others, whiting
nd Paris white, dry wood tar, coal |
81, land products Of such as naphtha,
benzole, dead oil and pitch
nd preparations Of coal tar. not col
rs or dye, not socially enumer.
ted or provided for in this act;
ogwood and other dyewood ex-
racts or decoctions; ochre and
chrey earthe, all earths or clays
or unmanufac .ured, not
pecially enumerated or provided
Or in this act; sll barks, beans,
erries, balsams, buds, bulbs and
uloous roots and excrescences such
9 nut gals, fruits, flowers, dyed
bres, grains. gumskand gum resins,
lerbs, leaves, lichens, moses, nuts,
cots and stems, spices, vegetables,
eeds, aromatic not garden seeds
nd seeds of morbid growth. woods,
rood used expressly for dy eing and
ried meets, any of the foregoing
7hich are not edible but which
ave been advanced ia value or
ondition by refining or grinding
by other process of manufacture
I'D not specially enumerated or
rovided fer in this act.
Supreme Court.
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