The Portland daily press., 1888-03-02
DEMOCRATIC TARIFF REVISION.
The Proposed Bill Increasing the
Free List About s22, 1850, 900.
Wool, Lumber and Salt Among the
Additions.
An Estimated Reduction of Revenue
of About s55, 100000

An Estimated Reduction of Revenue
of About s55, 900, 900.
WASHINGTON, March 1.-The Chairman
of the Ways and Means committe today sub
mitted to the full committee the tariff bill
upon which the Democratic members have
been at work for several months. The
measure was Immediately made public. The
bill in full is as follows;
| Be 10 enacted. ETC.:
That on ana after the first day Of July,
| 1885. the following articles mentioned IN this
section, when imported. shall be exempt
| from duty: Timber, hewed and sawed and
| timber used for spars and In building
wharyes; timber Iuared or sided; wood
manufactured not specially enumerated or
provided for; sawed poaIds, pianks, qeals %
for wheels; posts, lasts, blocks, wagon
blocks. oar blocks, gun blocks, heading
blocks and all like blocks or sticks, rough
hewn or sawed only; slaves of wood, pick
cts and palings, laths, shingles, clapboards,
| pine or spruce logs.
A Reciprocity Provision.
Provided, that if any export duty is laid
on the aforementioned articles. or either Of
them, by any country whence imported, all
said articles imported from said country
shall be subject to duty asnow provided by
law.
Salt or the Ffse List.
Salt in bags, sacks, barrels or other pack
ages, or in bulk, when imported 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 hackled, known as dressed line
Tow of flax or hemp, hemp manila, and 9TH
er like substitutes for hemp: jute butts, lute
sum, sisal grass and other vegetable fbres
burlaps not exceeding sixty inches in width.
of flax, of jute or hemp, or Of which flax,
jute or hemp, or either of them, shall be the
component material of chief value. Bag
ging for cotton or other manufactures not
specially enumerated or provided for in this
act suitable to the uses for which cotton bag
ging is applied, composed in whole or in
part of hemp. jute, jute butts. fax, gunny
bags, gunny cloth or other material; proyld-
ed, that as to hemp and fax, jute, Jute butts,
sum and sisal grass and manufactures
thereof, except burlaps, not exceeding sixty
inches in width, and bagging for cotton,
this act shall take effect July l, 1889. Iron
or steel sheets or plates or tag
gers iron, coated with tin or lead or
with a,mixture of which these metals is a
component part, by the dipping or any
other process, and commercially known as
tin plates, terne plates and taggers' tin, bees
wax, gelatine and all similar preparations !;
glycerine, crude, brown or yellow; fish glue,
or isinglass; phosphorus;, soap stocks, nj
l.. So, ne cttoh hard and S0ft- all
which are not otherwise specially enumerat-
ed or provided for, extract of hemlock or
other bark used for tanning; indigo, extracts
of and carmined; iodine, resublimed; lco-
rice juice, oil, croton, hemp seed ana rape
seed oil, fiaxseed or linseed oil, cotton
seed, petroleum, alumina, alum, patent alum,
alum substitute, sulphate of alumina, and
aluminus cake and alumina, crystals or
ground; all limitations of natural mineral
waters and artificial mineral waters; haryta,
sulphate of, or barytes, manufactured; /;
boracine acid, borate OF lime and borax; /;
cement, Roman, Portland aDd all others !;
whiting and paris white, copper, sulphate OF
or blue vitriol; iron. sulphate OF, or copper
as potash, crude, carbonate OF, or fused
and caustic potash; chlorate OF potash and
nitrate of potash or saltpetre crude; sui
phate of potash, sulphate of soda, known as
salt cake, crude or refined, or nltre cake,
crude or refined. and glauber's SALT; sui
phur, refined in rolls; WOOD tar; coal tar,
tar products of such as naphtha, Denzlne,
benzoline, dead oil and pitch; all preparations
of coal tar not col0rs or dyes, and not ACIDS
of colors or dyes; logwood and other dye
woods, extracts and dec0ctiOns OF; spirits OF
turpentine; bone black; ivory, dropblack
and bone charcoal, ochre and oehery earths; :;
umber and umber earths; sienna and sienna
earths when dry; all preparations known as
essential oils, expressed oils, distilled oils,
rendered oils, alkaline, alkaloids and all
combinations of any of the foregoing and
chemical compounds by whatever name
known and not specially enumerated or pro-
vided for in this act; all barks, beans, ber-
ries, balsams, buds, bulbs, DUBIOUS roots ana
excrescences, such as nut gals, fruit, flow
ers, dried fbers, grains, gums and gum res
ins, herbs. leaves, lichens, nuts. roots and
stems, vegetables, seeds and seeds OF morbid
growth, weeds, woods used expressly Tor dye
ing and dried insects. All non-dutlaDle
crude minerals, but which have been ad-
vanced in value or condition by refining or
grinding, or by other process of manufacture
not specially enumerated or provided 1or.
All earths or clay unWrougnt or un-
manufactured; china, clay or kaoilne I;
opium crude, containing nine per centum
and over of morphia, for medical purposes
iron and steel, cotton ties and hoops Tor ball
ing purposes, not thinner than No. 20 wire
gauge; needles, sewing, darnlng, knitting
and all others not specially enumerated or
provided for in this act; copper, imported
in the form of ores, regulus OF, ana plack OF
coarse copper and copper cement, old copper
fit only for manufacture; nickel, IN ore matt
or other crude form not ready fori consump-
tiOn in the arts; antimony, as regulus or
metal; quicksilver, chromate of iron or
chronic ore; mineral substances In crude
state and metals, unwrought not specially
enumerated or provided for; brick. yegeta-
bles in their natural state or in salt or prime.
Chicory root ground or ungrSund, ournt ra y OF OF
| prepared. Acorn and dandell0n root, raw OF
| prepared, and all other articles used or IN
| intended to be used as coffee or substitutes
| therefor, not specially enumerated or pro-
| vided for Cocoa. prepared or manuIactuied
dates plums and prunes; currants, Aante or
fresh; egg yolks; beans, peas and split
peas; pulp for paper maker makers use; 81
in other languages than the English,
and pamphlets and all publications pdiN
foreign societies, historical or scientific,
printed for gratuitous distribution. Bristles,
bulbs and dubious roots, not medicinal
feathers of all kinds, crude or not dressed,
| colored or manufactured; finishing powder,
| grease, gripdstone finished or unfinished
| curled hair for beds or mattresses; human
hair, raw, uncleaned and not drawn, hat
ters' fur, not on the skin, hemp and rape
seed and other oilseeds of like character
marble of all kinds, in block, rough o OF
squared. Osier or willow prepared Ioi
basket makers use, broom-corn,, brush
wood, plaster of paris, when ground or cal
cined, rags of whatever material composed
rattans and reeds, manufactured but moi
made up 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
| productions of statuary character or OF q
sculptor only. Stones, manufactured o.
undressed freestone, granite, sandstone ans
all building or monumental stone; al
strings of gut or any other like materials
talloW. waste, all not specially enumerated
or provided for.
A Reduction OF s55, 200, 900.
Estimates of reduction in revenue affecte'
by this bill have not been completed in de
tail, but the aggregate, according to the bes
information in the hands of the committee
is fixed at S55,oO0,OOO. This total include
about 500, ,250, 600 ON account of the free list
ST. ,25O,OOO on account of woolen goods. 81,
600, 900 for chin and glassware, $750,0OO in tn
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