Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-03-09
TIE NEW TARIFF.
The Bill, Upon Which the Democrats
Have Been at Work so Long,
Submitted.
List OF Articles iPIsced Upon the Free
List and Those uuiiSbls Under
lis Provisions.
AL Woods VIII be Admitted to the Country
Free of DutY-When It VIII
Take Eject.

nAShlAGIONi MATCH line ClAlrLlal
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 several months.
The free list section is to take effect July
l, 1888. The measure was Immediately
made public.
The new tariff bill proposes to fix the
duty Cn pig iron at Sc per ton; on iron or
steel railway bars, weighing more than
twenty-five pounds to the yard, and slabs
or billets of steel, Sll per ton; on iron
or steel T rails, weighing not over TWEEN
ty- ave pounds to the yard, Sl4 per ton,
and on iron or steel nat rails punched,
Sl5,per ton.
The bill prov des for admitting free OF
duty after July all woods, hair Of Alpaca
goat, and other like snimaIs; woods on
skin, WOODEN rags, ssoddy, waste AMI
f0cks; and after October l, 1888, it pro-
vides among other things for 40 per cent.
duty on wooden and worSted cloth, shsWls
and all manufactures of wool not spe-
Cislly enumerated; and on finnels, bIan-
kets, knit goods, women's and children's
dress goods, composed IN part Of wool.
THE FREE LIST.
The bill makes the following additions
to the dist of articles which may be i'm
ported free OF duty: Lumber, heWn and
sawed, and timber used for spGrs and in
building wharves; timber, squared or
sided; wood, manufactured, not spe-
cially enumerated or provided for; sawed
boards, planks, q all other articles of
sawed lumber; hubs for wheels, posts,
last blocks, wagon blocks, cBr blocks,
gun blocks, heading, blocks, and all like
blocks or sticks, rough, heWn or
sawed only; slaves of wood, pick
els and palings, lsths, shingles
Clspboards, pine or spruce logs, pro-
vided that II suy export duty is laid upon
the above mentioned article, or either of
them, by any country whence imported,
all said articles imported from said coun-
try shall be subject to duty as now pro-
vided by law; salt in bags, sacks, barrels
or other packages in bulk, when imported
from any country which does not charge
import duty upon salt exported from the
United States; fax straw, fix not hsckIed
or dressed, fix hacked, known as dressed
linen tow of fax or hemp; hemp, MANILA
and other ike substitutes for hemp;
iute butts, jute, sunn and sisal grass and
other vegetable hbres; burlaps, not ex-
ceeding sixty inches in width Of fax, jute
or hemp, or of which fax, jute or hemp or
either of them shall be the component
material Of chief value; bsggiug for cot
ton or other manufactures not especially
enumerated or provided for in this set
suitable to uses for which cotton bsgging
is applied, composed in whole or part OF
hemp, iute, jute butts, fax, gunny bags,
gunnY cloth or other m4terisl, pro-
vided that as to hemp and fax, jute,
jute butts, sum and sissl glass and
manufactures thereof, except burlaps,
not exec eding sixty inches in width ami
begging for cotton. Iron and eel sheets
or plstes, or taggers iron coated with tin
or lead or with mixture of which these
metals is the component part, by dipping
or any other process, and commercially
known as tin plates, terne plate and tag
gers tin; beeswsx, gelEtine, and similar
preparations; glycerine, crude brown or
yellow fish glue or isingglass
for use as such; sosD, hard aud
soft, 81. of which are not otherwise spe-
cislly Enumerated as provided for; tx-
tract of hemlock and other bark used for
tanning; indigo extract Of, and csrmined
iodine, resubleded licorice juice, oil GRO
ton, hemp seed and rape seed oil, fax
seed or linseed oil, oil OF cotton seed, pc
troleum, sluminum, patent alum, alum
substitute, sulphRte of elUminS, and
luminous cake, and alum in crystals or
ground, all limitations of natural mineral
waters, and all artificial mineral waters,
bsryta, sulphAte of, or bsrytes uumenu
ctured; borscic acid, borste OF lime,eId
borsx; cement, Roman, Portland and 9th
ers; whiting and Paris white; copper,
sulphete of, or blue vitriol; iron, sui
phorate Of, or copperGs; potash, crude,
carbonate of aud caustic potash; seplo-
rate of potash and nitrate OF potash or
saltpetre crude; salphate of potash; sui
phAte of sods, known as salt cake, crude
or refined, or nitric cake, crude or re-
fined, or gIaubers salt; sulphur, refined,
in rolls; wood tsr, coal tar, crude;
aniline oil and its homologues;
coal tar, products of, such
as napths, berzine, benzolIs and pitch;
all preparations of coal tar not colors, or
dyes, and not acid Of colors and dyes;
log wood and other dye woods, extract
and other decoctions; spirits Of turpen-
tine; bone black, ivory drop black and
bone charcoal; ocher and orchery, earths,
umber aud lumber earths; SIENNA and
SIENNA earths when dry; all preparations
known as essential oils, expressed oils,
distilled oils, rendered oils, alks-
line; alkAloids and all combinations
Of any of the foregoing and
chemical compounds by whatever
name known and not especially enumer-
ated or provided for in this act; all
banks, beans, berries, balsams, buds,
bulbs, Ibulbons roots, and essences, such
as nut gals, fruits, flowers, dried fbers,
grains, and gum rosins, herbs, leaves,
lichens, nuts, roots, and stems, vegets-
BILE seeds, and seeds Of moroid growth,
weeds, woods, used expressly for dyeing,
and dried insects; all non-dutiable or
crude minerals, but which have been sd
vauced in value or condition by refining
or grinding or other process of manu-
fscture not specially enumerated or pro-
vided for; all esrths or clsys,
unwrought or manufactured; china,
clay or ksoline; opium, crude containing
8 percentum ard over Of morphia Tor
medical purposes; iron and steel, cotton
ties or hoops for baling purposes not
thinner than No. 20, wire gsuge; needles,
sewing, dsrnIng, knitting and all others
specially enumerated or provided for in
this act; copper, imported as ore or ores
regulus of, and black or coarse copper
copper cement, old copper, fit only fol
manufacture; nickel in ore matter Other
than the crude form, not resdy for CON
sumption in the arts; and money SIS
regulus or metal; quicksilver; chromium
of irou or chronic ore; mineral substances