Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1888-07-28
MILLs' TARIFF BILL.
FULL TEXT OF THE MEASURE AZ
1T P4SsED THE HOUSE.
List-The Old and New
Rates

agraph, give the duty as ii now stands UNI
der existing law. 1t will be observed tina.
all items included under Section arc
placed by the Mills bill upon the free lis !:
Be it enacted by the Senate and House ofYsep-
resentatiocs of the United states OF America Ia
Congress assembled, That en- and after the first
day OF JElv, eighteen hundred and eghty-eight
the following attic'es mentioned in this section,
when imported, shall bc exempt from duty
Timber, hewn and sawed, and timber us-d for
spars sad in building whaIves ~ per cent
Timber, squared or sided. u cent per cubic
foot
wood manufactured, not specially enumer.
ated or provided Tor. Cubic FOOT ceztl
Sawed boards, pisuss, deals and all other
articles of sawed luEnber. [ feet 81, 81 50 and
Hubs for wheels, posts. iast-bioczs, wagon
blocks, gun-blocss, heading blocks, and ali like
blocks or stocks, rough. hewn or sawed only.
slaves Of wood. 10 per cent?
Pickets and palings. 70 per ceatl
Laths. Per Coz pieces, Is Gems.
Shingles. Per 900 pieces IS cents.l
Clapboirdss = e or spruce Fer 600, 81 ans
81 so.
Provided, That if ANY exper. duty is laid upca
the aforementioned articles or either OF them
by any country whence imported. all said ar
ticies importer from said country shall be sub,
jeet to duty as now, provided by law.
Salt, in bags, sacks, barrels or other packages
or in bulk, when imported from any country
which does not charge an import duty upon sal;
exported from the United States In bags, etc.
cwt., u cents; in bulk, ewt. 5 cents
Flax straw. ton, s..
Flax, not backle1 or dressed. Ton, $50.
Tow of fax or hemp. SOL
Hemp, manila and other like substitutes fol
Jute butts. lTon, s..
Jute. 20 per cent.
Sum, siselgrass and other vegetable 7lbers.
Burlaps, not exceeding sixty inches in width
30 per cent. J; of flax, jute or hemp, or of which
flax, jute or hemp, or either of them, shall be
the component material Of chief value. L3l
per cent
Bags of jute, for grain. TO per cent
Machinery designed for the conversion OF
iute or juie butts into cotton baggipg, to wit
Cards, rowing frames. winding frames ana soft
eners. - per cent
Iron or Sc ell sheets or plates. or taggcrs' iron
coated with tin OF lead, or with mixture OF
which these metals is 4 component part, BY the
dipping or any other process, and commercially
known Us TIN plates, tcrne places and taEgeis
tin. Pound l cent?
Beeswax. 20 per cent.
Giycefine, crude, brown or yellow, of the
specific gravity Of lib, or less, at temperature
of GO degrees Fahrenheit. not purified uy REIN
ing or dlstilling. Pound, cents;
Phosphorus. Pound, 10 cents
Soap-stocks, it only Tor u.s. as such. IFfeel
Soap hard and soft, all OF which are OF
otherwise special enumerated or provided Tor.
p per cent?
ship dip r. per cent?
Ext act of hemlock and other barkE used for
tanning. 10 per cent
Indigo, extracts OF and csrmined. 10 per
cent?
Iodine resublimed Pound. 20 cents
OIL, Gro on. Pound. 80 cents.
Hempseed and rspeseed oil. Gallon, 10
cents.
Petroleum. 20 per cent?
Alumina-alum. patent alum. alum substitute
sulphate Of alumina, and aluminOus cake and
alum III crystals or ground. 100 pounds 81
cents.
All limitations of mineral voters, and all arti.
fetal mineral waters. 80 per cent.
Baryta, sulphete of, or barytes. unmanufact-
Boracie acid, tpound and centsl borate of
lime pound centsl; and borax pound and
cents.
Copper, sulphate OF, or blue vitriol Pound 5
cents.
Iron, sulphate of, or copperas. 1910 of per
cent per pound.
Potash, crude, carbonate of or fused and
caustic potash. 40 per cent
Chlorate of potash and nitrate of potash, or
saltpeter crude. Pound 3 cents
Sulphate of potash l20 per cent?
Sulphate of soda, known as salt cake, crlde
or refined, or inter cake, crude refined nitrate
OF soda and Glaubers salt. u of per cent. per
pound.
sulphur, refined, in rolls. Ton, SOL
WoOd-tsr. no per cent
Coal-tar. 10 per cent
Aniline oil ana its homologues. rs rer cent
Coal-tar, pr, ducts of, such as naptha, benzine,
benzole, dead oil and pitch. 10 per cent?
All preparations OF coal. tar not eolors or dyes
and not acids of colors and dyes. 10 per cent.
Logwood and other dyeweods, extracts and
decoctions. 10 per cent.
Alizerine, natural or artificial, and other dyes
and colors produced from anthracine. Free.
Spirits OF turpentine. 20 per cent. per gallon
Ocher and ochery earths, lumber and lumber
earths, sienna and sienna earths, when dry.
IA OF per cent per pound.
Olive oil. salad oil. cotton seed oil whale oil
seal oil and neatfoOt oil. l2) per cent
All banks, beans berries, bals6ms, buds,
bulbs, bulbous roots. and cxerescences. such as
nutgalis, fruits flowers, dried fibers. grains
gums. and gum resins, herbs, leaves, lichens
moses, nuts, roots and stems, vegetable seeds
ana seeds OF morbid growth, weeds, WOO 5 US q
expressly for dyeing. and dried insects any o
the foregoing which are not edible and not Spe-
claliy enumerated or provided for. 10 per
cent
Al non-dutisble crude minerals. Int which
have been advanced in value OF condition by
refining or grinding, or by other process of man
niacture, not specially enumerated or provided
for. 10 per cent?
All earths or clays unwrought or unmGrufac-
Glass plates OF disks unwrought, for use in
the manufacture Of optical instruments, spec
tacles and eyeglasses. lAccoriing to size.l
OPIUM, crude, and not adulterated, contain
ing per cent. and over OF morphine for medi-
cinal purposes. Isl per pound.
Iron and steel cotton ties or hoops for baling
~
II 2-l0 per pound
Needles sewing, dsrning knitting and all
others not specially enumerated or provided for
in this Act. % per cent
Copper, imported in the form of ores ~
cents per pound of fine copper, Tegulus of 1877
cents per pound OF fine c pperl and black OF
coarse PIPER and copper cement l35 per cent,
old copper, fit only for communicative. rs cents
per pound.
Anthony, as regulus or metal. 10 per cent.
Quicksilver. 10 per cent
Chromate of iron or chronic ore. rs per
Mineral substances in a crude state and met
ais unw-ought, not specially enumerated or pro-
vidcd for 20 per ceut.
Brick, other than friedrich. 10 per cent
German looking glass plates made of blown
glass silvered. sq. f., 1 cents; above l0xl5 OF
exceeding l6X9; 81. f., ecents, above 16x2i, not
exceeding 2fX50; 50. IT.. 10 cents; 2Ix3J not ex-
ceeding 2ix6O: 50. IT,, So cents: above oixeO.
Vegetables in their natural state or in salt OF
brine, not specially enumerated or provided for
10 per O. Mt
Chiecory root ground or unground, burnt OF
prepared. Pound cents.
Aeorns and dandelion root, raw or prepared
and all other articles used. or intended to be
used, as coffee or substitutes therefor not speci-
ally enumerated or provided for Pound, =
cents.
Cocoa, prepared or manufactured Pound 9
eents.l
Dates. Pound. cent
Currants, zante or other. Pound, cent
Figs. Pound, ? cents
Meats. game and poultry. 10 to 30 per cent
Milk. fresh. no per cent
Egg yolks. 10 per cent
beans, pease and split pease. 10 per cent?
Bibles, books and pamphlets, printed in other
languages than kngiish. and books and pam
phlets AMI all publications of foreign govern
ments. and publications of foreign societies his
torical or scientific, printed for gratuitous dis
tribution. 5 per cent
Bristles Pound, IS eentsl
Bulbs and dubious roots, not medicinal Tal
per cent? -
Feathers of all kinds. crude or not dressas
rs per cent colored or manufactured $50 per
cent
Finishing powder. 30 per cent?
Grease. 10 per cent?
GrindStones, finished or unfinished. Isl Is
per ton.
Curled hair. for beds or mattresses. RS per
cent -
Human hair, raw. uneleaned, and no. drawn,
Hemp ard rape seed, and other oil see,s n,
like character. q cent per pound
Garden seeds. 20 per cent.
OSier or willow. prepssed for basket makers
use. $50 per cent
Broo ncorn. $50 per ton
Brushweod. 10 per CENT
Rags, ofEhateyer material composed 10 ger
cent? i ~
RGttans aud reeds, manufactured but not
made up into finished articles 40 per cent |
stones, unr7anufactured or lirdressed free
stone, granite. sandstone and all building or
monumental Stone. Isl per ton
All strings oi gut or any Other like material
rs per cent? '-'
Tallow. Il cert per pound
Waste, ell not specially Enumerated or rro-
vided for. 10 per Cent. f'O
See 2. That on aid after the fist day of July.
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