Evening journal., 1888-10-04

fixed at Pa cents per pound, If valued At
more than l2 cents a pound cents per
pound. In the Mills bill all woods, hair of
the alpaca goat and other like animals are
placed on the free list The duty on wooden
rags, shoddy, mungo, fiocls and wool waste
In tho senate committees bill is fixed at 10
cents per pound, the same as under existing
law, and those in the Mills bill are also
placed on the free list.
The duty on wooden cloths, shawls and all
manufactures of wool of every description,
not specially enumerated in the bill, valued
at not exceeding 40 cents per pound, is fixed
at 80 cents per pound and 35 per centum ad
valoram; valued at above 40 cents and not
exceeding 90, 35 cents per pounds and 40 per
centum ad valorem; valued at above 60 cents
pound, 40 cents per pound and 40 per
centum ad valorem The Mills bill proposes
duty Of 40 per centum ad valorem on these
goods The duty on flannels, blankets and
hats valued at not exceeding 80 cents a
pouni, is fixed in the senate bill at 10 cents
per pound; valued at above 80 cents a pound
and not exceeding 40 cents pound, - cents
per pound; valued at above 40 cents pound
and not exceeding 80 cents, IS cents per
pound and 35 per centum ad valorem; valued
at above 60 cents pound, 40 cents per pound
and 30 per centum ad valorem.
Molasses above So degs., 4 cents per gallon,
which rate is A cents gallon below present
rates, and cents per gallon lower than the
Mills bill rate The duty ON the cheapest
grades of women's and children's dress goods,
coat Innings, Italian cloths, part wool or
worsted, is fixed at 8 cents per square yard
and 80 per centum ad valorem; on the higher
grades, II cents per yard and 40 per contum
ad valorem. In the Mills bill these goods
are taxed 40 per cent. ad valorem. Ready
made clothing, in the senate bill, is taxed 40
cents per pound and 40 per oentum ad
valorem in the Mills bill only 45 per centum
ad valorem; cloaks, dolmans, jackets, talmas,
etc, 40 cents per pound and IS per centum ad
valorem; in the Mills bill only 45 per centum
nd valorem. No change in existing rates Is
| proposed on carpetings.
The silk and silk goods schedule imposes a
tax Of 80 cents per pound ON partially manu-
factured goods and 80 per centum on thrown
silk Goods in the piece, including ribbons.
are taxed from IS cents and 10 per contum
ad valorem to e. 25 pound and is per
centum ad valorem, according TO percentage
Of silk in the goods. Velvets plushes, etc.
are taxed from 81 a pound and 10 per centum
ad valorem TO $3.50 per pound and Is per
centum ad valorem. Silk weddings, gorings
etc, 80 per centum ad valorem; laoes, EN-
broideries etc, 90 per centum ad valorem
paper hangings, imperial letter and notC
paper are taxed p per centum, the same a'
existing law and as proposed by the Mills
bill; manufactures Of paper not specially
enumerated, 25 per centum ad valorem.
In the sundries schedule. bituminous Goa
Is taxed IS cents per ton; matches 10 cent
per gross, boxes, or ! cent per Thousand
matches if not in boxes; unmanufactured
stone, except marble, IA cents per cubic foot
dressed, 25 per centum ad valorem; watches
watch cases and jewelry, 25 per cent az
valorem.
The importation Of opium containing les
than per centum OF morphia, and Of opium
prepared for smoking is prohibited
The free list includes, among numerou
other articles, ten and coffee, anthracite coal
cocoa, gold, silver and copper coins, fish 70
bait, raw or uncured hides, raw silk, sin
cocoons and silk waste, silkworm eggs, cedar
mahogany, rosewood satinwoods and Al
manufactured cabinet woods paintings
statuary and Photographic pictures imports
by associations for the encouragement O
science, art or industry; all works Of arts
collections in illustration Of the progress O
the arts, science or manufactures; photo
graphs, works ia terra Gotta, parian, po,
terry, artistic copies of antiquities in metal
animals imported for exhibition, arsenic
arrowroot raw, beeswax, bologna sausage.
bolting cloths; books, engravings etching,
which have been printed more than twant
; years; books printed in other than the Ell
gish language; opium containing per cent
or more Of morphia, gold and silver ores an
bullion, cinnamon, diamonds trough or III
cut, unmanufactured feathers and downs
jute and jute butts, manila, sisal grass an
undressed furs, gunny bags and cloth fit onl
for remanufacture, molasses testing not aboy
50 degs., logs, railroad ties, ship timber an
ship planking, and all lumber, wire, rope, ro
+ and steel materials built in the United STATE
for foreign account and ownership, for th
purpose Of being employed in the foreig
trade, and all articles of foreign productio
, needed for the repair Of American vesse
) engaged exclnsivelY in foreign trnde