The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1884-03-14
Morrison Tariff Bill.

The following are the provisions OF
the Morrison tariff bill Just reported to
the house
The bill provides that on and after
the LIST of July, 1884, the rates of duty
to be levied, collected and paid on the
importation of goods, wares, and
merchandise mentioned in the tariff
act of March 8, 1883, shall be as fol.
lows: On all articles mentioned in
schedule l, which includes all cotton
and cotton goods; in schedule j, which
includes all hemp, jute, and flax goods;
in schedule X, which includes all wool
and woolens; in schedule G, which in
cludes all metals; in schedule M, which
includes all books, papers and other ar
ticles of this character; in schedule E,
which covers sugar, molassess and ar
ticles of like character; in schedule +,
covering tobacco; in schedule ID, which
includes wood and wooden ware lex
cept as otherwise provided); in sched-
ule G, which includes provisions; in
schedule n, which includes sundries
other than precious stones, salt, coal,
ule III, which includes all chemical
products, eighty-fve per centum of the
several duties and rates of duty now
imposed on said articles severally. 1t
provides, however, that none of the ar
ticles included in schedule shall pay
higher rate of duty than forty per
centum ad valorem I; in schedule X
hi har % oix VIZ nd N
schedule G higher than fifty per CEN
tum. 1t provides that the rate of duty
on cast, polished plate glass, unsilver-
ed exceeding twenty-four by sixty
inches square, on green and colored
glass bottles, vials, demijohns and Car
boys, covered or uncovered). pickle or
preserve jars and other plain, nodded
or pressed green and colored bottle
glass, not cut, engraved or painted and
not specially enumerated or provided
for in this act and on all the articles
subject to ad valorem duty in schedule
b, which includes earthenware and
glassware, shall be eighty per centum
of the several duties and rates of duty
now imposed on said articles severally.
1t provides, however, that nothing in
this. act shall operate to reduce the duty
above imposed on any article below
the rate at which said article was duti-
able, under ''an act to provide for the
payment of out standing treasury notes
to authorize loan to regulate and fix
the duties on imports and for other
purposes, approved March 2, 1861,
commonly called the Morrill, tariff" and
that when under the existing law any
of said articles are grouped together
aud made dutiable at one rate, then
nothing in this act shall operate to re-
duce the duty below the highest rate at
which any article in such group was
dutiable under said act of March 2,
1861. 1t provides that after the 1st of
July, 1884, the rate of duty to be paid
on all unpublished cylinder, crown and
common window glass; on iron or steel
sheets plates, or taggers' iron coated
with tin or with a mixture of which
these metals is a component part, by
the dripping or any other process, and
commonly known as tin plates, terne
plates and taggers' tin; and on linseed
or flaxseed, shall be eighty per centum
of the several duties and rates of duty
now imposed on said articles severally.
1t adds the following list of articles to
the present free list Salt in bags or
sacks, barrels or other packages or in
bulk; coal, slack or culm; coal, bituml-
nous or shale; timber, hewen and saw
ed, and timber used for spars and in
building wharves; timber, squared or
sawed, not specially enumerated or pro-
vided for in this act; sawed boards,
plank, deals, and other lumber of hem
lock, whitewood, sycamore and bass
wood, and all other articles of sawed
lumber; hubs for wheels, posts, last
blocks, wagon blocks, oar blocks, gun
blocks, holding blocks and all blocks
or rough hewn or sawed only, slaves
of wood of all kinds, pickets and pal
ings, laths, shingles, pine clapboards,
spruce clapboards, wood manufactured
not specially enumerated or provided
for in this act. 1t provides, however,
that in the case of bituminous or shale
coal the exemption from duty shall not
apply to coal imported from
the Dominion of Canada until that
government shall have exempted from
the payment of duty all coal imported
into that country from the United
States.