Morning journal and courier., 1886-02-16
REFORM IN THE TARIFF.
Colonel MorrfsOn's Btll T0 Redut The Revenues By Twenty Millions

 Colonel Morrfson,s BiII Te Reduce The Revenues Ely Twenty Millions. WASHINGTON Feb. 15.-Colonel Morrison introduced his tariff bill this afternoon. Taking the bill as whole, it is expected that it will reduce the revenues $20, ,000, 900 year. Of this amount probably one-half is taken off of sugar, little more than one fourth is taken off by additions to the free list, and little less than a fourth comes list. All wool and lumber not dressed is put on the the free list with this provision, that the abolition of the duty is not to apply to any wood or lumber imported from a country which imposes an export duty on those articles, as Canada now does. The other additions to the free list are hemp jute, jute butts, sisal, and other fibre, grasses, coal, salt, iron, lead, copper, snd other ores, unmanufactured stone, chicory, and other substitutes for cofee corn, oats, hay, potatoes, extract of hemloek, and other barks, crude glycerine, indigo ex- tracts sulphate, of barytes, manufactured crude borax, saltpetre, logwood, and other dye woods, ochery earths and unwrought clays. This is not complete list of articles made free, but it includes all of much i'm portance. On the various grades of sugars there is general reduction of twenty per cent, but as in the case of the abolition of the lumber duty, this reduction does not apply to any sugars on which an export duty is levied, as is now the case in Cuba.
 On the finer grades of cotton goods, the 1rJfi u,bi ioh o1 xya1n no aa are made. The existing rates of duty are highest on the cheapest grades of goods, and on cotton yarns and on the coarser cotton cloths some small reductions made. Where existing duties are under 40 per cent. ad valorem they are not touched; but the duty on coarse cottons IS reduced from 40 to 35 per cent. The duty on pig-iron is reduced from $672 to $5.60 per ton. The rate on steel and iron rails is reduced from about S17 to S1250 There is slight reduction on bar iron and on some varieties of boiler and hoop iron, while others are not touched. The rate on structural iron and steel is re duced from one and quarter to one cent a pound.
 The three highest classes of crockery now pay duties of 60, 55 and 50 per cent. The bill reduces them to 50, 45 and 40 per cent. These grades cover all ordinary table crock cry. The tariff bill of 1882 actually added from 5 to 10 per cent to the duties on earth and stoneware, though reductions were made on most of the other schedules. The reduction on all kinds of common window glass amounts to about 20 per cent. Some of the plate glass duties are left untouched, but in some classes, where the duties arc now very small, reductions made. There is some reduction on starch, and large re- duction on rice, duties of and 3 Ia cents pound being cut to 24 and per cent. About 20 per cent. is taken off linens, bagging, etc. Silks are not touched. The Treasury depart ment is preparing a section changing ad va loren duties on silk to specific duties, and this may be incorporated in the bill by the committee. There is no reduction on wools, except that one grade of carpet wools at 2 S-10 cents pound is substituted for two The only change in woolen goods is smal! reduction on the cheaper qualities of woolen cloth, where the ad valorem equivalent of the d,,4xz ;cr hicrh