Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1888-08-02
THE CHANGES MADE
In the Mills Blll Daring the Session OF
the COMMITTEES.

In the Mills Bill Daring the Session OF
the Committee.
WAsHIF0UoN, July 23.-The prin-
clpal cbanges In the tariff bill since IL
was reported to the House from the
ways and means committee, as shown
in the measure as il passed the House,
Items taken from the free list: Flax,
hackied, known as dressed line; glue;
gelatine and all similar preparations;
fish glue or isinglass; licorice Juice; bone
black; ivory drop black aud bone chars;
all preparations known as essential oils,
oils, distilled oils, rendered
oils, alkalis, and all combinations OF
those articles; china clay, or kaolin;
plums and prunes; pulp for paperma-
kers' use; hatters' furs not on the skin;
lime; linseed or fiaxseed; marble of all
kinds in block, rough or squared; plas-
ter of paris, when ground or calcined;
paintings in oil or water cOlOrs, and
statuary not otherwise provided for.
There were added to the free list:
Bags of jute for grain, nitrate of silver,
alizarine; natural or artificial olive oil;
salad oil; eottonseed oil; whale oil; seal
oil and neatsfoot oil; glass plates or
dishes unwrought, for use in the manu-
factue of optical instruments, spectacles
and eyeglasses and German looking
glass plates made of blown glass and
silvered. FL
In the free list "Hooks for baling or
other purposes were added to iron and
steel cotton ties.
To the dutiable list were added the
following articles: Licorice juice, 35
per cent. ad valorem; Paris green, 121
per cent. ad valorem; iron and steel,
fiat, with longitudinal ribs for the
manufacture of fencing, four-tenths of
cent a pound; new type for printing,
Is per cent. ad valorem; rice flour and
rice meal, Is per cent. ad valorem; flax,
hacked down as dressed line, $40 per
ton; hemp and jute carpeting, six cents
per square yard; floor mating and floor
mats, exclusively of vegetable substan-
ces, 20 per cent. ad valorem; all other
carpets and carpetings, druggets, back
ings, mats, rugs, screens, covers,
hassocks, bedsides of wool, fax, cotton
or parts of either, or other material, 40
per cent. ad valorem; kaolin, crude, 81
per ton; China clay or wrought kaolin,
So per ton; marble of all kinds in block,
rough or squared, 40 cents per cubic
foot.
The following changes were made in
the dutiable list: China, porcelain, etc.,
from As to so per cent. ad valorem; glazed
or enameled tiles, repuced from so to As
per cent. ad valorem; unpublished cylin-
der, crown and common window glas s
not exceeding 10xl5 inches square, l 3-S
cents per pound; above that and not ex-
ceeding 16x24 inches square. l 5-8 cents
per pound instead of II cents per
pound; above that, and not exceeding
24x3O inches square, increased from J
to 2 cents per pound; all above that, p
cents per pound, instead of II, with the
provisions added that unpublished cylin-
der, crown and common window glass,
imported in boxes and containing so
square feet, as nearly as sizes will per-
NIT, commercially designated as so feet
of glass, single thick and weighing not
to exceed So pounds of glass per box,
shall be computed so pounds of glass
only, and that said kinds of glass i'm
ported in boxes containing as nearly as
size will permit, so feet of glass, double
thick, and not exceeding so pounds in
weight. shall be computed at so pounds
of glass only, but in all other cases the
duty shall be computed according to
the actual weight of the glass; lnolasses,
testing not above 1856 degrees by the
polariscope, decreased from 4 to "a cents
per gallon. -..
Pipes and smokers articles, on which
a duty of 25. per cent ad volorem was
were stricken from the bill.
The changes made in the internal
revenue features of the bill are umim-
portant. -..s,-.r.-,--~.s..-... .~,.-,-.-.