Morning journal and courier., 1888-10-04
News by Telegraph
 FROM ALL QUARTERS. REPUBLICAN TARIFF BILL. Protection Still, With $75,-
 100000 Reductions. SENATOR SHERMAN EXPLAINS IT. The Presidents Reform"
 Record RiddIed. ANOTHER PANIC IN WHEAT. Mir. Blaine's Opinion Of
 Pension VetOes.
ANOTHER PANIC IN WHEAT.
REPUBLICAN TARIFF BILL.

DoAntnG More ShafplY the GfeaG
 Issue Between ssTar1R for Protec-
 tion's and ssTariG for Revenue''-The
 Duty on Sugar Reduced $97,OOO, 900.
 WAsHINaToN, Oct. 3.-The Senate finance committee's substitute for the Mills tariff bill embodies an entire revision of the tariff schedules and the administrative features of the present law, proposing the re-enactment of all such features as in the opinion of the majority of the committee ought not to be changed. According to tae estimates made by the committee the bill provides for total reduction of about $75, ,OOO 900, made up ap- proximately as follows: Sugar $27, 759, ,000, free list $6, 500, ,OO0, tobacco Gnternal reve- nue) $24, 800, 900, alcohol in the arts g, ,000,- GOO, other reductions in customs $9,000, ,000.
 The following are the additions to the free list:
 Acorns, raw, dried or undried. Baryta, sulphate of, or barytes, unmanufactured. Beeswax Books and pamphlets printed ex- clusively in languages other than English. Braids, plaits, flats, laces, etc., for orna- menting hats. Bristles, raw or unmanufao- tured. Bulbs and bulbus roots not edible. Chicory root, raw, dried or undried, but un- ground. Coal, stack or culm. Coal tar, crude. Curling-stone handles. Currants, Zante or other, dried. Dandelion roots, raw, dried or undried, but unground. Eggs and yolks. Feathers aud downs of all kinds, crude and unmanufactured.
 Jute, jute butts, manila, ramie, Sisal grass, sum; all other textile grasses or f1brous sub stances, unmanufactured or undressed. Floor mating, known as Chinese mating.
 Grease and oils, such commonly used in soap making or mine drawing, etc.; hu- man hair, raw uncleaned, and not drawn; mineral waters, not specially enumerated; molasses testing, not above 56 degrees; olive oil for manufacturing or mechanical purposes, nut oil or oil of nuts, opium, crude or un- manufactured, for smoking; potash, crude carbonate; pntash, caustic or hydrate; pot ash nitrate of, or saltpetre; potash, sulphate of; potash, chlorate of: rags, oil not enum- erated; hemp seed, rape seed, sponges, sand, tar ana pitch of wood, turpentine.
 Fresh fish remains on the free list, but with the following important reservation, except when frozen or packed in ice or otherwise prepared by any process for prese vation.
 Fish covered by this exception re classed with other foreign caught preserved fish at one half cent pound as in the present law.
 THE INTERNAL REVENUE SECTION.
 The internal revenue section of the bill so far as it relates to tobacco provides that after February 1, 1889, manufacturers of cigars shall pay special tax of s annually. The tax on cigars, cheroots and on all cigarettes weighing more than three pounds per thou sand, which shall be manufactured or sold after that date, shall be $1.50 per thousand; :; and on cigarettes weighing less than three pounds to the thoussud, fifty cents per thou sand; and said tax shall be paid by the manufacturer. It repeals all laws restricting the disposition of to- bacco by farmers and producers, and all laws foIo snuff, and the special taxes required by law to be paid by manufacturers of and dealers in leaf tobacco, retail dealers in leaf tobacco, dealers in manufactured tobacco, snuff, and ciSars, peddlers of tobrcoo, snuff, and cigars, and manufacturers of snuff. It provides for q rebate on all original and unbroken pack ages held by manufacturers or dealers at the time the repeal goes into effect February first, 18S9) It also repeals all laws limiting, re- stricting, or regulating the manufacture, sale, or exportation of tobacco or snuff. Al cohol to be used in the industrial arts is re- ieved from the payment of an internal-reve- nue tax; provision is made for bonded alco- hol warehouses, and safeguards are provided against fraud.
 There is prohibition against the use of any distilled spirits upon which the internal revenue tax has not been paid in the manu- facture of tinctures, cordials, bitters or oth- CT alcoholic compounds which are used or sold as beverages.
 Other provisions of the bill are as follows (existing raies in parenthesis):
 Wool and manufactures of wool (the classi- fication of wools is that of the present law. Wools of the first and second class and all hair of the alpaca, goat and other like ami mals, Il cents per pound 1O and 12 cents). Wools of the third class. exceeding in value 12 cents per pound, cents per pound. Top slubbinR and all other wastes com- xuhnlly nr n mart 0f yvOrafad 20 per pound. All wool and hair of the alpaca, goat or other animals, which have been ad- vanced by any process of manufacture beyond the waahed or scored condition not other wise enumerated or provided for in this act, shall be subject to the same duties as are im- posed upon manufactures of wool not special ly enumerated or provided for in this act. Woolen cloths, shawls and all manufactures of wool not enumerated valued at not exceed ing 40 cents per pound, 35 cents per pound, and in addition thereto 35 per cent ad valo- rem (35 cents and 35 and 40 per cent.) Above 40 cents and not exceeding GO cents per pound, 35 cents per pound and 40 per cent. ad valorem (35 and 40 cents and 30 and 40 per cent) Above 60 cents per pound, 40 cents per pound and 40 per cent. ad valo- rem. Flannels, blankets, hats, etc., valued at above 60 cents per pound, 40 cents per pound, and 40 per cent. ad valorem GA cents and B per cent. and 9 cents and 40 per 060I.t WOu0ub Auu CD1luTOnS ulSSH goods, Italian cloths, etc., made part of wool and valued at not exceeding 15 cents per square yard, cents per square yard, 40 per cent ad valorem 0 cents and 35 per cent. containing an admixture of silk and in which silk is not the component material of chief value, and not otherwise provided, Il cenCs per square yard, and in addition thereto 40 per centum sd valorem 0 cents and B per cent. and cents and 40 per cent, according to value). Provided, that all goods of the character enumerated or described in this paragraph, weighing over four ounces per square yard, shall pay duty of 40 cents pel pound of 40 per cent. ad valorem (35 cents and 40 per eent.)
 Suesr-Au sugars not above thirteen Dutch standard in color. Tank-bottoms, syrups of cane juice or of beet juice melada, con. centrated melada, concrete and concentrated molasses testing by polariscope not above 7t degrees, 7-10c. per pound (now 45-100c. ) \ and for every additional degree shown by polariscope, 2-100c additional (now 4-100c. All sugars above number thirteen, and no l above number sixteen, 13sc. (now 75-100c. All sugar above number sixteen ani not above number twenty, 15sc ! (now cents). All sugars above numbe | twenty 3 cents (now 31S). Molasses testing
 above 56 degrees cents per gallon (now 8 Sugar candy and all confectionery, including | chocolate, confectionery made wholly or il ! part or sugar V6lueQ d1 1S ccAeS UT 4csS t pound and on sugars after being refined whel | tinctured, eolored or in any way adulterated 1 cents per pound (now and 10 cents). Glu
 cose or grape sugar 4 cent 60 per cent a | valorem.
 Nails-Cut 1c per pound (now 1114(; wir nails longer than inches and above No. 1S
 2c pound (now 4; between 1 and inches P (now A.
 Wines, liquors, etc.: Still wines, inelud
 ing ginger wine, cordial or vermouth, i
 casks, SO cents gallon. Fluid malt extrae in casks, 20 cents gallon, in bottles or jugi 40 cents, solid or condensed, 40 per cen
 Cherry, prune and other juices, not enume
 ated, containing not more then 24 per cen
 of alcohol, six cent per gallon, eontainin
 more than 24 per cent. of alcohol, $2 ps
 gallon, 20 per cent Ginger ale, beer, lemor l ade. soda water and other ssreated waters, plain green or colored moulded, or presse
 glass bottles, containing not more that 4
 . pint, 25 cents dozen. Containing mo- than 4 pint and not more than 11s pints, !
 cents 8 dozen, but not separate duty shall I assessed on the bottles, if imported otherwi than in plain green or colored, moided pressed glass bottles, or in such bottles CO tainipg more than k pints each, 30 cents gallon, 20 per cent. And in the last cass Il