Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1888-03-02
The Aggregate of the Reducti on of
the Revenue Under the Bill Es-
timated at S55,OOO,OOO.
A Complete Revision of the List of
Articles Subject to Duty and
the Extent of Protection.
No Provision Made for Internal Rev
enue-A Bill to. be introduced
by the Democrats.
Sweeping Changes.

WASHINGTON, March 1.-The chairman
of the ways and means committee to-day
submitted to the full committee the tariff
bill upon which the democratic members
have been at work for months. The meas
ure was Immediately made public. The
bill makes the following among other ad-
ditions to the list of articles which may be
imported free OF duty: Timber hewn and
sawed and timber used for spars and in
building wharves; timber squared or sided;
wood unmanufactured and not especially
enumerated or provided for; sawed boards,
planks, deals and all other articles of
sawed lumber; salt; fax straw; fax not
packed or dressed; d;manilla; sum ,sisal grass
and other vegetable fiber; burlaps; bagging
for cotton or other manufactures not es-
pecially enumerated or provided for in
this act; iron or steel sheets or plates or
taggers; iron coated with tin or lead COM
mercially known as tim plates; terne
plates and taggers tin; beeswax; gelatine;
glycerine; fish glue or isinglass; phospho-
rus; soap; extract of hemlock; indigo; car
mine; iodine; licorice juice: oil croton;
hemp seed and rape seed oil; flax seed OF
llnseed oil; oil cotton seed; petroleum; alu-
nina; alum; wood tar; crude coal tar; ami
line oil and its homologue; coal tar and its
products, such as naphtha, benzine, ben
zole, dead oil and pitch; all preparations of
coal tar not c0l0rs or dyes and not acids of
colors and dyes; logwood and dye woods,
| extractions and decoctions Of; spirits of
! turpentine; bone black, ivory drop, black
and other colors; all the preparations
known as essential oil, expressed oils, dis
titled oils, rendered oils: all barks, beans,
crude minerals; all earths or clays un-
wrought or unmanufactured; opium,
crude, containing per cent or over of
morphia, for medical purposes: iron or
steel cotton ties or hoops for baling pur-
poses; needles; copper imported in the
regulus or metals: quicksilver; brick; vege-
tables in their natural state or in salt or
brine; cocoa, prepared or manufactured;
dates. plums and prunes, currants, zante
| tigs; meats, game and poultry; milk, fresh
egg yOlhs: beans, peas and split peas; pulp
for paper makers use; bibles, books and
pamphlets printed in other languages than
English; bristles, bulbs, dubious roots not
medicinal; feathers Of all kinds, crude or
not dressed, cOlored or manufactured; fin
ishing powder, grease; grindstones, fin
lshed or unfinished; curled hair for beds
and mattresses; human hair, raw, un-
cleaned and not drawn; hatters' furs not
on the skin; lime, linseed or flaxseed;
marble of all kinds in block, rough or
squared; broom corn, brush wood, plaster
OF paris; rags of whatever material COM
posed; paintings in oil or water colors and
statuary not otherwise provided for; all
strings of gut or any like material; tallow;
OF Aponf 1nl fon 11c
hair of the alpaca goat and other like ami
mails, W0Ols on the skin. WOOlen rags,
shOddy, mungo waste and flocks.
EARTHEN AND GLASS WARE.
The reductions made under the earthen
and glass ware schedule are as follows:
China and porcelain. 40 and 45 per cent;
brown earthen and common stone, 20 per
cent: other earthen ware, IS per cent; files,
20, 80 and so per cent; unpublished cylinder
crown and common window glass, to ~
cents per pound; cast polished plate glass,
unsilvered, from 20 to 40 cents per foot, ac-
cording to size; unsilvered or looking
glass, from rs to 45 cents, according to
size; porcelain and Bohemian glass, stained
glass, ETC., 40 per cent ad valorem.
DUTIABLE ATICLEs.
Metals are to pay duties as follows: Pig
iron. So per ton; iron railway bars, $11;r
steel railway bars, $11; bar iron, rolled or
hammered 7s cent per pound; not less than
one inch wide and three-eighths of an inch
thick in larger measurements, 1 cent per
pound: iron slabs, blooms and loops, IS per
cent ad valOrem; iron bars, blooms and
billets, in the manufacture of which char
coal is used, $40 per ton; iron or steel rails,
SIS per ton; round iron in coils or rods,
and rolled iron unenumerated, cent per
pound; sheet iron, thin, 1 cent per pound.
Wire and manufactures thereof are left
unchanged provided that no duty shall ex-
ceed 30 per cent. The entire wood sched-
ule is subjected to 50 per cent duty. All
grades of sugar are reduced by an amount
varying from One-fifth to one-fOurth of the
present duties. Cotton yarn is reduced to
IS and 40 per cent; bleached linens to 25
per cent; other yarns Is per cent and cot
ton cloth to 40 per cent.
THE MANUFcTUREs OF WOOL
are reduced as follows: Woolen. and
;wOrsted cloths to 40 per cent; tlapnels,
blankets and knit goods to 10 per cents
dress goods, partly Of wool, to 10 per cent?