Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1886-02-16
WASHINGTON NEWS.
M"rrison's New Tariff Bill - Articles
Which He Proposes to Put on the
Free List.

makes the following additions to the free list
after July 6, 1884, Timber, hewn and
sawed, and timber used for spars and in
building wharves, timber squared or sided
not specially enumerated or provided for.
sawed boards. planks, deal and other lumber
OF hemlock, whitewood, sycamore and bass
wood and all other articles of sawed lumber;
hubs for wheels, post blocks, last blocks, wagon
blocks, oar blocks, gun blocks, heading
blocks, and all like blocks or sticks, rough,
hewn or sawed only; slaves of wood of all
kinds. pickets and palings, lsths, shingles.
pine ciapboaIds, spruce clspboads, and wood
manufactured not specially enumerated or
provided for; salt in bags, sacks, barrels or
other packages, salt in bulk, hemp manila
or other like substitutes for hemp not specially
enumerated or provided for, hemp butts,
grass and other Vegetable substances not spec.
tally enumerated or provided for. Iron ore.
Including manganiforus iron ore; also dress,
or residuum from burnt pyrites. Sulphur
ore as pyrites; sulphuret of iron in natural
state sulphur imported in form of ores lead
ore and lead dress chromate of iron or chronic
ore; mineral substances in crude state and
metals unwrought, not specially enumerated
or provided for. Coal, slack or culm; coal
bituminous and shale coke, Indian corn, or
maize oats. hay, potatoes, chicory root,
ground or uuground; burnt, prepared, acorns
and dandelion root, raw or prepared and all
other articles used or intended to be used as
coffee or rs substitutes therefor not specially
enumerated or provided for. Bristles, grease,
tallow, grndstones, unfinished stones, un-
manufactured or undressed freestone, gran
ite, sandstone and all building or monumen-
tai stone, except marble, not specially enum-
Grated or provided for. Beeswax, glycerine.
crude, brown or yellow, of the specific grav-
ity of one and twenty-five one-hundredths or
less than temperature of 60 deg, farenheit
not purified by distilling or refining; extract
of hemlock and other bark used for tanning.
not otherwise enumerated or provided for
indigo extracts of and carmine, lees, crystals.
baryta, sulphate of or barytes, unmanufac-
tured borate of lime, crude borax, potash,
crude carbonate of or fused and caustic pot
ash; nitrate of or saltpetre, crnde logwoods
and other dye woods and extracts and decoc-
tons coal, tar, crude ochre and ocbery.
earths, umber and umber earths, sienna and
sienna earths, when dry; all earth or clay
unwrought or unmanufactured, not specially
enumerated or provided for.
The bill provides that from and after July
l. 1886, the following among the other rates
of duty, shall take effect Wood sawed
boards, plank and other lumber of hemlock,
whitewood sycamore and bass wood, and
| ali othtI dttiNtes VI sdWtu luIlutI, WueH
| planed or finished, 80 cents per 1000 feet
| board measure; cotton and cotton goods,
cotton thread, yarn, warps or warp yarn,
whether single or advanced beyond the con-
dtion of single by twisting two or more sin
| gle yarns together, whether on beams or in
| bundles, skeins or coops, or in any other
form, valued at not exceeding % cents per
pound, eight cents per pound; over 40 and
not exceeding so, 16 cents per pound; over
80 and not exceeding 60, 20 cents per pound ;
over 60 and not exceeding 20, n cents per
pound over 20 and not exceeding so, 80 cents
per pound; over so and not exceeding 81 90,
36 cents per pound; over 81 90 forty per cent
ad valorem.
On all cotton cloth not bleached, dyed.
colored, stained, painted or printed and not
exceeding 100 threads to the square inch,
counting warp and filling and exceeding in
weight ixe ounces per square yard; two
cents per square yard. If bleached, two and
one-half cents per square yard. If dyed,
colored, strlned, painted or printed, three
cents per square yard.
On all cotton cloth not bleached, dyed,
colored stained, painted or printed exceeding
| 100 and not exceeding 200 threads to the
| square inch, counting warp and filling, two
and half cents per square yard. IL
bleached, three cents per square yard. II
dyed, colored, stained, painted or printed,
four cents per square yard.
Provided that on all cotton not exceeding
290 threads to the square inch, counting warp
and filling, not bleached, dyed colored,
stained, painted or printed, valued at over
eight cents per square yard; bleached valued
at over 10 cents per square yard; dyed, col
ored, stained, painted or printed, valued at
over Is cents per squared yard there shall
be levied collected and paid duty of 30 per
centum advalorem.
On all cotton cloth exceeding 200 threads
TO the square inch, counting filings, not
bleaehed, dyed, colered, stained or printed,
3 cts per square yard if bleached, cts, il
dyed, stained, painted or printed cts, pro-
vided that on all such colored cloth not
bleached, dyed, colored. stained painted or
printed valued at over 10 cts per square yard,
bleache6 valued at over 20 cts. per square
yard, and dyed coloren stained, etc. valued
over 25 cts. per square yard there be levied,
collected and paid duty of 35 per centum
advolorem; 40 per cent ad valorem on cloths
less than 100 threads to the square inch and
less than 5 ounces in weight, and no duty on
the above over 40 per centum. Spool thread
of cotton, 6 cts. per dozen spool, containing
on each spool not exceeding 100 yards oi
thread; exceeding 100 yards on each spool
for every additional 100 yards of thread Oh
fractional part thereof in excess Of 100 yards
cts per dozen. Iron railway bars weighing
. more than 25 lbs to the yard, $3.50 per ton
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