Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1888-03-09
THE NEW TARIFF BILL
The Subcommittee Complete the Meas
ure and Submit it to Full Committee.
Large Number of Important Articles
of Commerce Placed on the Free List.
Lumber, Wood and Salt Among the Tn
taxed Articles-A General Cut is Made.
Total Reduction of Revenue Effected
by the Bill Estimated at S55, 100000.

A Long List of Articles on Which tn,
Tariff Has Been Reduced.
WASHINGTON, March 1.-The chairman
of the ways and means committee to-da,
submitted to the full committee the tariff
| bill upon which the democratic member:
have been at work for several month
The free list section is to take effect July
1st, 1888. The measure was Immediately
made public.
| IRON PRODUCTS.
The bill proposes to fix duty on pig
iron at Sc per ton; on iron or steel rail
| way bars, weighing more than twenty five
pounds to the yard and slabs or billets
of steel, $l1 per ton; on iron or steel L
rails weighing not over twenty five
pounds to the yard, $14 per ton; and on
iron or steel fiat rails punched, $1H per
| ton.
| EFFECT ON TIE REVENUE.
Estimates of reductions in revenue eff
fected by the bill have not been com
pleted IN details, but the aggregate, ac-
/ W lHt DeSb luIOImdVlOu In tlc
hands of the committee is fixed at S55,-
| 100000. This total includes about S22,-
10000 on account of the free list; $17,-
25O,O00 on account of wooden goods, ST.
00,0o0 for china and glassware, $150,OO0
In chemical schedule; something less
than $500,O00 on cotton, $1,5OO,00O on
| flax, hemp and iute, and on sugar about
| $11 ,000, 900. There is no internal revenue
| ph,n ho
| iect was purposely left, for lack Of time
| to the consideration of the full commit
| tee.
The following articles to DO admitted
| free:
Timber, hewn and sawed and timber
used for spars and in building wharves;
timber, squared or sided; wood, unman-
| ufactured, not specially enumerated or
provided fori sawed boards, plarks, deals
and all other articles Of sawed lumber;
hubs for wheels; posts, last blocks, wagon
| blocks, oar blocks, gun blocks, head
| ing blocks and all like blocks or sticks,
| rough hewn or sawed only; slaves of wood;
pickets and palings, laths, shingles; clap
boards-pine or spruce; logs-provided
that if any export duty is laid upon the
above mentioned articles 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
yided by law.
SALT, FLAX AND FIBERs ON THE FREE LIST.
Salt, in bags, sacks, barrels, or other
packages or in bulk, when imported from
any country which does not charge an i'm
port duty upon salt exported from the
United States.
Flax, straw; fax, not hacked or press
ed; fax, hackled (known as pressed linen
tow of fax or hemp;) hemp, manila and
other like substitutes for hemp; jute
butts; iute; sunni, sisal grass and other
vegetable fibers; burlaps, not exceeding
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; bag
ging for cotton or other manufactures
not specially enumerated or provided for
in this act suitable to the uses for which
cotton bagging is applied, composed in
whole or part of hemp, iute, jute butts,
flax, gunny bags, gunny cloth, or ottor
material: provided that as to hemp and
fax, jute, jute butts, SUM AID sisal grass
and manufactures thereof, except bur
laps mot exceeding sixty inches in
width and bagging for cotton this act
shall take effect July 1, 1889.
IRON Oh STEEL SHEETS FREE.
Iron or steel sheets, or plates or
taggers iron, coated with tin
er lead, or with mixture
of which these metals is componen
part, by the dipping or any other p-o-
cess, and commercially known as tin
plates, terns plates and taggers tin.
WAKES, DRUGS, OILS, ETC, FREE.
Beeswax, gelatine and all similar prep
arations; glycerine, crude brown or yell
low; fish glue or isinglass; phos phorus,
soap stocks, fit only for use as such; soap,
hard and soft, all of which are not other
wise specially enumerated or provided
for; extra cl. of hemlock and other barks
used for tanning; indigo, extracts of and
carmined, iodine, rosublimed; licorics
juice, croton oil; hem pseed and rapeseed
oil; faxsesd, or linseed oil; cottonseed
oil; petroleum, alumina, alam, pat
ent alum, alum substitute,
sulphate of alumina and alum
inous cake and alum in crystals or
ground, all limitations of natural min
ersl waters, and all artificial mineral
waters; baryta, sulphate Of, or barytes,
unmanufactured; boracic acid, borate of
lime and borax: cement, Roman, Port
land and all others; whiting and Paris
white; copper, sulphate Of, or blue vitir"l;
iron, sulphate of, or copperas; potash,
crude, carbonate of or fusel and caustic
| potash: chlorate of potash and nitrate of
potash or saitpeter crude; ulphate of
potash; sulphate of soda, known as salt
| cake, crude or refined or inter cake. crude
or refined, and glaubers salt. Sulphur,
refined in rolls; wood tar, crude coal tar;
| aniline Oil and its homologues; coal tar,
products of, such as naphtha, benzine, ben
| izole, dead oil and pitch; all preparations
| of coal tar not colors or dyes, and not acids
of colors and dyes; logwood and other
| dye woods, extracts and decoctions of
| spirits of turpentine; bone black, ivory
| drop black and bone charcoal; ocher and
ochery earths; umber and umber earths;
sienna and sienna earths, when dry; ali
| preparations known as essential oils, ex-
| pressed 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 provided for
in this act; all barks, beans, berries,
balsams, buds, bulbs, bulbous roots and
excrescences, such as nut gals, fruits,
flowers, dried fbers, grains, gums, and
gum resins, herbs, leaves, hchens, nuts,
roots and stems, vegetables, seeds and
| seeds of morbid growth, weeds, woods
used expressly for dyeiDg and dried in
| sects.
| ALL SOS-DUTIABLE CRUDE MINERALS,
but which have been advanced in value
or condition by refining or grinding or
by other process of manufacture, not
specially enumerat ed or provided for; all
earths or ciays unwrought or unmsnufac-
tured; China, clay or kaoline; opium
/ fcrude) containing 8 per centum and over
of lnorphia, for medicinal purposes; iron
and steel cotton ties or hoops for balm 2
purposes, not thinner than number TWEEN
| ty wire guage- Needles, sewing, darn
| ing, knitting and all others not specially
enumerated or provided 70. in this
| act.
! ooPPEE. NICKLE AsD oTEKg msKRALs-
CopPer-Importsd in the form of ores,
reOulus of, and black or coarse copper