The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1888-03-02
THE NEW TARIFF BILL.
A Measure to Reduce the
Revenue 100000.
ARTICLES ON THE FREE LIST.
Tt ShouId be Entitled Bin for the
Relief of Taxpayers-GeneTa
News Notes.
The Tariff Bill.

WASHINGTON, March 1.-The chair
man OF the ways and means committee,
to day, submitted to the full committee
the tariff bill upon which Democratic
members have been at work for several
months. The free list section is to take
effect on July l, 1888. The measure will
be immediately made public. Among
the additions to the list of articles which
may be imported free OF duty are the
following: Timber of various kinds,
timber or lumber whether keWn or
sawed, also rough wagon and
shipping material, and all kinds
OF wood not specified in the bill, pro-
yided the articles mentioned are not
subject to duty In the country whence
imported, otherwise the present duties
will be leIled-salt, with the same re-
s'rictious as timber. flax, hemp and
various vegetable fibres; burlaps, not
exceeding sixty inches wide, bagging,
tin plates and taggers' tin, beesWaS,
gelaIine and similar preparations OF
glycerine and glue, PHOSPHORUS, soap
and SOAP stocE, tanning bark, oils COM
pressed from see1s, petroleum and It's
products, mineral waters and imita-
lions, cements, tar pnd its products;
turpentine, preparations known as es-
sentials of pressed, distilled and rem
dered oils. alkaline, alkaloidS and Va
rious chemical compounds, bulbs.
fruits, nuts, seeds, ctc.; cruoe eartbs,
CLAWS and minerals; opium. crude, con-
tanning over 9 per cent. morphla.
for medicinal purposes, iron, steel
hoops ard needles; COPPER ores;
regulus and old copper, nickle ore and
crude anthony, quicksilver, cromate
of iron, or chrome ore, crude mineral
and metals unwrought, and not spec
ially enumerated or provided for; brick,
vegetables, meats, beans, peas, etc.:
pulp for paper, bibles, books and
pamphlets, printed in other language
than the English, and books and
pamphlets and all publications OF for
eign governments and pu0lics-
tions of foreign societies, histori-
cal or scientific, printed for gratultous
distribution; paintings IN Oil or
water coIOrs and stationary not other
wise % owl e1 for; stone, unmanufac-
tured or undres Sed; hair, matters fur,
unstained, rags, rattans and reeds, pig
iron at IS per ton; iron or steel railway
bars, Weighing more than twenty-five
pounds to the yard, and slabs or blllets
of steel. Sill per ton; on iron or steer
rails weighing not over twenty tlVe
pounds TO the yard, $14 per ton, and on
iron or steel fiat rails punched. $40 per
ton. The bill provides for admitting
free of duty after July 1st:-All woods,
hair of the alpaca goat and other like
animals, woods on the skin. Weolen
rags, sboddy, meneo, waste and focks
and after October 1st, 1888, 1t provides
among otner things for 40 per cent
duty on wooden and worsted cloth
shawls and all manufactures OF wool,
not specially enumerated, and on
fannels, blankets, knit goods, women
and children's dress goods, com
posed in part of wool. The
entire wood schedule not on the
free list is subjected to 81 per cent. duty.
All grades of sugar are reduced by an
amount varying from one-hfth to one
fourth of the present duties. Reductions
on china and glassware range up to l.
per cent. Cotton yarn is reduced to 81
and 40 per cent. bieached linen to 81
per cent, other yarns Is per cent, cot
ton cloth 40 per cent. Manufacturers
wool is reduced as follows: Wooden
and worsted cloth, flannel blankets
and knit goods, dress goods. party
of wool, to 40 per cent; ready~made
clothing and cloaks, 40; weddings, so
carpets, 30; paper and its manufactures
are generally reduced carriages, 80 pei
cent; watches, 25; all leaf tobacco, un'
manufactured, fixed at IS cents pei
pound, and the present distinction be-
| tween Sumatra and ordinary wrapping
| tobacco is abolished. The recommend
atoms made as to protests, appeals ano
suits by Secretary Manning, in specia
report to Congress Two years ago, are
ali adopted. The penalties are made
more stringent for bribery or feeling 81
| inspector of customs. or for any irregu
| iarities in the inspection of baggage
| Government is authorized to bring sui
| for the value OF merchandise fraudu-
lentlv imported, after such merchan-
disc has passed into the hands of i'm
porters. Other provisions are all of ;
minor character.
Estimates of the reductions in tn
revenue affected by the bill, have no
been completed in detail, but aggregated
according to the best information in tn
hands of the committee, it is fixed g
S55 OOO OO0. This total includes abou
$50 $50, 0GO on account of the free list
l$l7 250, 0C0 on account of wooden goods
81 coo, 900 for china and glassware, $3.50
OOO in the chemical schedule, somethiD
less than $500,000 on cotton, 81 500 90
on flax, hemp and jute, and sugar abou
$11, 100000.
There is no internal revenue change
p. opposed by the bill. This subject wa
purposely left for lack of time to be cor
sidered by the full committee. The ad
min, stratiVe provisions constitute th
most voluminous part of the bill an
embrace the provisions compiled
Hewitt il the Forty-ninth Congress
and incorporated in the Morrison bill
Hewitt's provisions abolishing the offic
of merchant appraiser are omitted. III
entire system of damage allowance O
imported goods injured during trans
portation is abolished. The period fC
which imported merchandise can
kept in bonded warehouses is extende
from one to three years. Duties O
boxes, cartons and other inside cover
Iings of merchandise which pass into til
hands of consumers, are revised ais
the dc tiesson packing charges. What
known as the "similitude" clause lari
is re-enacted with such wording as I
make clear when unenumerated article
E non bo classified &c acSirojlo,iDo