The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1884-05-23
THE NEW TAHITI BILL.

Synopsis Of tho New Tariff I'm Of Mr.
toms Laws. .
WASHINGTON, May 14.-Repressntative
Hewitt's new tariff bill, after making modi-
fications to simplify the administration Of
the customs laws, provides chat after the
30th 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 1, 1885,
no article mentioned in schedule ''P' (cot.
ton and cotton goods shall pay higher
rate of duty than forty per cent ad valoren.
In schedule -" (hemp, jute and fax not
more than thirty per cent In schedule *"
(wool and wOolens) not more than seventy
per cent, and carpets and car,eting shall
not pay higher rate than thirty-fye per
cent ad valorem. In schedules ''B" and
"CD (earthenware and glassware and metals)
not more than fifty per cent On all arti.
cles except those specially excepted,
mentioned in schedules "A" (chemi.
cals1, "D'' wood, "G'' (provisions) "M''
(boOks), "N'' (sundries-Other than preci-
Gus stones, and "E' Sugar, there shall
be levied ninety per cent. of the duties now
imposed. On articles in schedule ''F''
(tObacco) there shall be levied eighty pei
cent of the duties now imposed; on still
wines, in casks, the duty shall be forty
cents gallon. 1t repeats that clause of the
law of 1888 which imposes tax of six
tenths of one cent per pound on iron OF
steel rivet, 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
Or wire baling ties the amount Of duties
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 OK other
packages, or in bulk; coal stacks OF culm
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
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, sycamore
and bass wood, and all other articles of
sawed lumber, hubs for wheels, posts, last
blocks, heading blocks and all live blocks OF
sticks rough hewn or sawed only; slaves of
wood, all kinds of pickets and palings, laths,
pine clapbOards, spruce clapboards.
wood manufactured, not specially emu
merated or provided for i'm 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 I'M
ground, burnt or prepared, acorns and
dandeliOn root, raw or prepared, and all
other articles used or intended to be used a.
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
AIMING, not otherwise enumerated or pro-
vided for i'll this act IndigO-extract of,
and carmine tartar, partly refined, including
lees, CRYSTALS, cement, Roman, Port
land and all others; whiting and Paris
white, dry nitrate of potash or saltpetre,
wood tar, coal tar, crude coal tar, or the
products of such as naptha, benzine, ben
zole, 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, lumber 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
ibers. grains, gums and gum resins, herbs,
leaves, lichenS, moses, nuts, roots and
stems, spices, vegetables, seeds (aromatic
not garden seeds), and seeds of morbid
growth, weeds, woods used expressly for
1yeing. and dried insects-any of
he foregoing which are not edible,
,ut which have been advanced in
ialue OF condition by refining or grind
ny or other process of manufacture and
not especially enumerated or provided for
n this act. Iron or steel sheets, or plates or
aggers; iron coated with tin or lead, or
with mixture of which these metals are
component part, by dipping or any other
process, and commercially known as tin
plates; querne plates and taggers, tin woods
If the thirty class, commonly known a.
Tools, asphaltum, living animals, copperas
,r sulphate of iron, microscopes imported
~ physicians for professional use and not
or sale, copper ingOts, old copper, regulus
" copper. goat skins, rays. books in foreign
languages and professional books not pub
ished in the United States imported in
Jingle copies for use and not for sale, crude
,0rax, refined bOrax and boracic acid, grind
tones in the rough, stones unmanufaetured
v undresSed free stones, granite, sandstone
md all building or monumental stone except
marble, not specially enumerated or pro-
'ided for. paintings in oil and water cOlors,
md statuary not otherwise provided for
)sier, or willow prepared for basket makers
lse, waste, and all raw and manufactured
material not specially provided for by the
xisting law.
The President is requested to withdraw
onsuls of the United States from places
which are not ports of entry wherever in
he judgment of the Secretary of the
treasury they are no longer required for
he protection of the revenue. Section
bolishes all fees and Oaths required by the
xisting laws relating to the entry of goods,
nd it is provided that where such fees
hall constitute all or part of the compensa- |
ion of any officer the latter shall receive !
q lieu thereof fixed salary. 1t Is further |
rovided that the Secretary of the Treasury
hall grant permission to any firm or cor |
Grafton to withdraw from bond alcohol or |
ny spirits containing alcohol subject to !
ne internal revenue tax in specific quantities /
f not less than 800 proof gallons without I
ayment of internal revenue tax on the /
anne, or on the spirits from which it may
ave been distilled, for the sole purpose Of /
BE in industrial pursuits.
A had Cave.
SOMERSET, Pa, May 13.-Intelligence
As been received here that a large