The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-03-02
The Deta,is Of the proposed Measure.

To the Western Associated Press
WAsHIxGToN March 1.-The chairman of the
WAYS and means q mnittee 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 /, 1883. The measure was imme-
iately made public. The bill makes the fol-
lowing additions to the list Of articles which may
be imported free of duty:
Timber hewn and sawed and timber used for spars
and in building wharves; timber squared or sided
wood unmanu featured, not specially enumerated or
provided for; sawed boards panks deals and all other
articles Of sawed lumber hubs for wheels posts last
bloess, wagon-bloeks, oar-6oeks, gGn-oioeks neat
or sawed only; slaves of wood pickets and palngs,
Aths and shingles; capboards, pine or spruce logs
above men toned articles either Of them by any
country whence imported all said articles imported
from said country shall be subject to duty - now
salt in bags sacks barrels or other packa ges in
bulk when ported from any country which does not
charge import duty upon salt exported from the
FIaxstravv fax not hacked or dressed; fax hacked
known dressed linen tow of fax hemp; hemp.
manila and other like substitutes for hemp; lutte
butts iute; sum, sisal grass and other vegetable
fbresi burlaps not exceeding sixty inches in width
or either Of them shall be the component material Of
chief value. Bagging for cotton other manufact-
ures not specially enumerated or provided for in this
act suitable to the uses for which bagging is
applied composed in whole part of hemp. jute,
lutte butts flax gunnv bags gunny cloth, or other
material provided that as to hemp and fax ue jute
butts sum and sisal grass manufacture thereof
except burIaps not exceeding sixty inches in width
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Iron and steel sheets or taggers iron coated with
tin or lead or with mixture Of which these metals
Is component part by the dipping or any other pro-
cess and commercially known tin plates, terne
Beeswax. gelatne and all similar preparations;
Klyeerine, crude, brown or Yellow fish glue or sin'
Phosphorus soap stocks, fit only for such.
Soap, hardan soft all of which are not otherwise
specially enumerated or provided for
Extract of hemlock and other bark used for tan
Indigo extracts Of and carmned iodine re-subli-
corice juice oil croton, hempseed and rapeseed
oil; haxseed or lnseed oil. oil cotton, petroleum
Alu1nina, alum, patent alum, alum substitute,
sulphate Of aumna and alumanais cake and alum in
All limitations of natural mineral waters and all
artificial mineral waters
boracic acid; borate of lime and borax; cement Ro-
man, Portland and all others; whiting and paris
Copper, sulphate of, or blue vitriol.
Iron, sulphate of, copperRs.
Potash crude carbonate Of or fusil and causc pot
ash; chlorate of potash and nitrate potash. salt
petre crude suphate of potash; sulphate of soda
known Gale; crude refined inter Gale; crude or
refined and Glauber's salts.
sulphur refined in rolls; wood tar; coal tar, rudej
anine oil and its homologues; coal tar products of
such as naphths, benzine, benzole, dead oil, and
and not acids of colors and dyes ogwood and other
dye woods; extracts and decoctions of spirits OF r
coal; ocbre and ochrey earths umber ard lumber
earths; sienna and sienna earths, when dry.
oils distilled oils rendered oils, alkaline, alkalods
and all combinations of any of the foregoing, and
chemical compounds by whatever name known and
not specially enumerated provided for in this act
china clay kaoline.
Opium. crude, containing 8 per centum ana over OF
morpnia, for medicinal purposes
Iron and steel cotton ties, or hoops for baling pur
poses not thinner than No. 20 wire-gauge.
Needles, sewing. darning. knitting and all others
specially enumerated provided for in this act
and black copper and copper cement, old cop
per fit only for manufacture
gal inn matt 9th cFndAf not adu
for consumption in the arts.
Anthony as regulrs metal.
Quicksilver. chromate of iron chronic
Mineral substances n a crude state and metals
wrought not specially enumerated or provided for.
Vegetables in their natural state or in salt or brine
Chicory root, ground unground, burnt pre-
pared and all other articles used intended to be-
ased as coffee substances therefor not specially
manufactured.
Dates. plums and prunes-
Currants, Zante or other.
Meats game and poultry.
Beans peas and split peas.
Pulp for paper-makers' use.
Bibles, books and pamphlets, printed in other
languages than English. and books and pamphlets,
and all publication of foreign governments, and pub
locations of foreign societies historical scientific,
printed for gratuitous distribution.
Bulbs and bulbons roots, not medicinal.
Feathers of all kinds crude or not dressed coored
manufactured.
Finishing powder
Grease.
Grind-stones finished or unfinished
Curled hair, for beds mattresses.
Human hair, raw, unclaimed and not drawn.
lIatters' fur, not on the skin.
Hemp and rapeseed and other oseeds of like char
'e Lime.
Garden seeds.
Iinseed haxseed.
Marble Of all kinds in block, rough or squared.
Osier or willow prepared for basket-makers' use
Broom corn.
Brush wood.
Plaster of paris. when ground or calcned.
Rags, of whatever material composed.
Rattans and reeds, manufactured but not made up
into finished articles.
Paintings IN oil or water eolors, and statuary
pot otherwise provided for But the term statuary"
sna DC ID oe inctT1e PrTIessionA prooue
Stones, unmAnufaetured undressed, free stone,
granite sandstone and all building or monumental
an strings of gut or any other like material.
Waste al not specially enumerated or provided for.
The bill provides for admitting free of duty
after July l. 'all woods, hair of the alpaca goat.
Rnd other like animals; woods on the skin:
In addition TO the free list, the following
some of the most Important changes proposed by
the bill
China. ornamented. 45 per cent. advalorem now
80 cent china unornanented and esrthenware,
40 per cent. advalorem (now about 50 per cent?;
cent?
Green and cclored glass bottles, three.fourths of
one cent per pound tnow cent? There is also a
provision for adding the value of the bottles when
6lled to the value of the dutiable goods
Flint and meglass bottles and pressed glassware, 80
per cent. advalorem (now 40 per cent.G cylinder
and crown glass polished. and between 24x3o and
24x60 inches sduare Is cents per square foot.
Above that measurement % cents per square foot
nov, 20 and 40 cents, respectiyely) Unpublished
cylinder crown and common window glass, not ex-
eeeding 1Ox15 inches cent per pound. Above that,
and not exceeding 1924. Ia cent, and above that,
and not exceeding 24x31. lAs cent; all above. "a
tnow Iss and g, 2as and 27a); porcelain and
bohemian glass, 10 per cent advslorem Snow rs per
cent?
Iron-In pigs kentlede. Sc per ton (now $40
cent per poundl; iron railway bars 81 per
40 cent per poundli steel and part steel railway
lars and slabs and biets Of steel $lI per ton (now
81 per ton) iron steel Il rails. 81 per tons fiat
rails $15 per ton (now 90 and $40 cent per
pound respectively; round iron, 1 cent per pound
tnow 2-1O cent On sheet iron there is uniform
reduction of lilo cent per pound, excepting tag
gers iron. On hoop. band scroll iron, less than
eight inches in width there is reduction of lilo
cent per pound grades thinner Than No.
10 wire gauge. Cast-iron pipe of every
description, 6-l0 cent per pound (now cent?
= spikes of iron steel,