Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1888-03-08
THE TARIFF BILL

to the Free List, Tosether with Changes
and Notifications in Others.
WASHINGTON, March 2.-The chairman
of the ways and means committee yester-
day submitted to the full committee the
Tariff bill, upon which the Democratic
members have been at work for some
months. The measure was Immediately
made public. The bill makes the following
additions to the list of articles which may
be imported free of duty. The free list
section is to take effect July 1. 1888:
Timber hewffor sawed and timber used for
spars and in building wharves. Timber squared
3r sided. Wood, manufactured, not specially
enumerated or provided for. Sawed boards.
planls, deals and all other articles of sawed
lumber. Hubs for wheels, posts, last blocks.
wagon blocks, oar blocks, gun blocks, heading
blocks and all like blocks sticks, rough
hewn or sawed only. Slaves of wood,
pickets and palings. laths, shingles.
clapboaros pine or spruce logs; provided, that
If any port duty is laid upon the above-men-
toned articles, or either of them, by any coun-
try whence imported all said articles imported
from said country shall be subject to duty as
now provided by law. Salt in bags, sacks,
barrels or other packages or in bulk, when i'm
ported from any country which does not charge
an import duty upon salt exported from the
United States. Flax straw. Flax, not hacked
Or dressed: fax hacked, known as dressed
line; tow of fax or hemp; hemp manila and
othe- like substitutes for hemp. Jute butts,
Iute. sum. sisal grass and other vegetable
ibres. Burlsps, not exceeding sixty inches In
width, of flag, jute or hemp, or OF which fax,
iute or hemp, or either of them shall be the
component material of chief value. Bagging
for cotton or other manufactures. not specially
enumerated provided for in this act, suit
able to the uses for which cotton bagging is ap-
Piled composed in whole or in part OF hemp,
iute, jute butts, fax. gunnybags, gunnycloth or
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fax, jute. jute butts, sum, and ssa1 grass
and manufactures thereof except burlaps not
exceeding sixty inches in width and bag
gng for cotton. Iron or steel sheets
or plates or taggers' iron, coated with
tin or lead or with mixture of which
these metals is component part by the dip
ping any other process and commercially
known as tin plates, terne plates and taggers'
tin. Beeswax, gelatine and all similar prepa-
rations. Glycerine, crude, brown or yellow.
Fish glue isinglass. Phosis>-us. Soap
stocks, fit only for such. Soap, hard and
soft all of which are not otherwise specially
enumerated or provided for. Extract of hem
lock and other bark used for tanning. Indigo,
extracts of, and carnine. Iodine, resublimed.
Licorce juice. Oil. croton, hempseed and rape
seed oil Flaxseed or lnseed oil. Oil, cotton seed.
Petroleum Alunina, alum patent alum, alum
substitute, sulptate of alumina and aluminous
cake. and alum in crystals or ground. AL i'm
itations of natural mineral waters and all arti-
fetal mineral waters. Baryta, sulphate of, or
barytes manufactured. Boracic acid, Dor
ate of lime and borax. Cement, Roman Port
land and all others. Whiting and paris white.
Copper, sulphate Of, or blue vitriol. Iron, sui
plate Of or copperas. Potash, crude, carbon
ate of, or fused and caustic potash. Chlorate
of potash and nitrate of potash or saltpeter,
crude. Sulphate of potash. Suphate of soda,
known as salt cake, crude refined,
inter cake, crude or refined and
glaubers salt. Sulphur refined in rolls.
Wood tar Coal tar crude. Analne oil and its
homologues. Coal tar, products OF, such as
naptha, benZine, benzole, dead oil and pitch.
All preparations of coal tar not colors or dyes,
and not acids of colors and dyes. Logwood and
other dyewoods. extracts and decoctions of.
Spirits turpentine. Boneblsck, ivory drop
black and bone charcoal. Ochre and ochery
earths, lumber and lumber earths. sienna and
sienna earths. when dry All preparations
known as essential oils, expressed oils, distilled
oils, rendered oils, alkalieS, alkaioids and all
combinations Of any of the foregoing and chem
ical compounds and salts by whatever name
known, and not specially enumerated
or provided for in this act. All barks,
beans, berries, balsams, buds, bulbs, dubious.
roots and excrescences, such as nut-galls fruits,
flowers, dried fibers, grains gums and gum
resins, herbs, lichens, MOSES, nuts, roots and
stems, vegetables, seeds and seeds of morbid
growth, weeds, woods used expressly for dye
ing and dried insects All non-dutlable crude
minerals, but which have been advanced in
value or condition by refining or grinding or
by other process of manufacture. not especially
enumerated provided for All earths or
clays unwrought or manufactured. China clay
or kaolne. Opium, crude, containing nine per
cent. and over of morpha for medicinal pur-
poses. Iron and steel cotton ties or hoops for
baling purposes, not thinner than number
twenty wire gauge. Needles, sewing. darning,
knitting and all others not especially enumcrat-
ed or provided for in this act. Copper, import
a . ~, IN st Inc nf apd
black or coarse copper and copper cement, old
copper fit only for remanufacture. Nickel, in
ore, matte. or other crude form not ready for
consumption in the arts. Anthony, as re-
gulus or metal. Quicksilver. Chromate of
iron or chrome ore. Mineral substances in a
crude state or metals unwrought or not spec
tally enumerated or provided for. Brick.
Vegetables in their natural state or in salt or
brine. Chicory root ground or unground,
burnt or prepared acorns, and dandelion root,
raw or prepared, and all other articles used at
or intended to be used coffee or subtitutes
therefor and not specially enumerated or pro-
vided for. Cocoa. prepared or manufactured.
Dates, plumS and prun6S, currants, seante or
other Figs. Meats game and poultry Milk.
fresh. Egg yelks. Beans, peas and split peas.
Pulp for paper makers use. Bibles, books and
pamphlets, printed in other languages than En-
slish and books and pamphlets and all publica-
tons of foreign Governments. and publica-
lions of foreign societies, historical or scien-
tiic, printed for gratuitous distribution. Bris-
ties. Bulbs and dubious roots, not medicinal.
Feathers of all kinds, crude or not dressed,
colored or manufactured. Finishing powder.
Grease Grindstones finished or unfinished.
Curled hair for beds or mattresses. Human
hair, raw, uncleaned and not drawn. Hatters'
fur. not on the skin. Hemp and
rape seed and other oil seeds of
like character, Lime. Garden seeds.
Linseed or faxseed. Marble of all kinds in
block rough or squared. Oser or willow, pre-
pared for basket-makers' use. Broomcorn,
Brush-wood. Plaster of paris, when ground or
caIclned Bags, of whatever material COM
posed Rattans and reeds manufactured but
not made I'D into finished articles. Paintings
in oil or water colors and statuary, not other
wise provided for; but the term 'statuary'
shall be understood to include professional pro-
auctions of statuary n OF sculptor
only. Stones, manufactured or I'M
dressed, free stone granite. sand stone,
and all building monumental stone.
All strings of gut or any other like ma
teriaI Tallow. Waste, all not specially emu
merated or provided for. All wools hair Of the
alpaca goat, and other like animals. Woods on
the skin. Wooden rags, shoddy mungo waste
and f1ocks.
The reductions made under the earthen and
glassware schedules follows: China
and porcelain to 45 and 30 per cent. Brown
and common stoneware. 20 per
cent. other earthenware, IS per cent. TILES, 20,
30, and so per cent. Green and colored glass |
bottles ETC., three-fourths of a cent per pound. |
Cylinder and crown glass, polished, not ex- |
ceeding measurement of two feet by five feet. |
IS cents per square foot; above the size |
named, 25 cents per foot. Unpublished |
cylinder crown and common window glass |
/ cent to IL Of cent per pound |
according to size. Cast polished-plate glass, |
unsilvered, from % to 30 cents per foot, |
according to size. Unsilvered. or looking glass, |
from 25 to As cents, according to size. !