Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1888-03-02


feeling inspectors of customs or for any ir-
regularities in inspection of baggage. The
bill as submitted contains no provisions as
to internal revenue, it being understood
that the democratic members are prepared
to submit an internal revenue bill at an
early day. Estimates of reductions In the
revenue affected by the bill have not been
completed in detail, but the aggregate is
fixed at $55,O00,000. This total includes
about $22250.OO0 on account of the free
list; $17, ,250, 600 on account of wOOlen goods:
81 SOC, 900 for china and glassware; $750OOO
in the chemical schedule; something less
than $500, 900 on cotton; $1,500,OOO on fax,
hemp and jute, and sugar about $11 100000.
OTHER PROPOSED CHANGES.
Among other proposed changes in duties
are the following: Penknives, razors, ETC.,
IS per cent ad valorem, now so per cent;
pens, IS per cent, now IL cents per gross;
type metal, 15 per cent, now 20; cabinet or
house furniture, wood, 80 percent, now IS:
manufactures of hard woods, 80 per cent,
now 35; wood manufactures, unenumer-
ated, 30 per cent, now IS.
SUGAR,
not above No. Is D. S., is as follows: Tank
bottoms syrups. ETC.. not above Is degrees
polarized, one and fifteen-hundredth cents
per pound, and for every additional degree
three-hundredths cent per pound; above
No. 16 A. S. and not above 20, two and
twenty-hundredths cents per pound; above
The present duties range from one and
forty-hundredths cents per pound below
IA D. S. to three and half cents
per pound for sugars above 20 d. S.
The lower grade of molasses is unchanged,
but that testing above 46 degrees is re-
duced from Sto6 per cents per gallon.
10 cents per pound. All leaf tobacco un-
manufactured is fixed at S5 cents per
pound and the present distinction between
Sumatra and ordinary wrapping tobacco is
abolished. Starch cent per pound, now
from to 219 cents per pound. Rice,
cleaned, 2 cents; uncleaned, IL cents per
peanuts q to cent per pound, now to
III cents; cotton thread, yarn, warps.
value not exceeding 40 cents per pound, 35
per cent ad valorem. The present duties
range from 1Oper cent in Is cents value to
5O per cent on cotton valued at 81 per
pound. All cotton cloth, 40 per cent ad
valorem, provided tarletons, mulls and
crinolines shall not pay more than Is per
cent ad valorem; special cotton, 40 per
cent ad valOrem, now at a minimum duty
of Z cents per twelve spools; ducks, linen,
canvas, handkerchiefs. lawns and other
manufactures of flax, jute, or hemp not
specially provided for, 25 per cent ad
valOrem, and linen collars, cuffs and
now uniform at IS per cent ad valorem;
oil cloths, rs per cent ad valOrem, now 40;
clothing ready made and wearing apparel
of every description of wool except knit
goods, As per cent ad valOrem, now 40 per
pound and IS per cent ad valOrem; clOaks,
dOlmans and other outside garments for
ladies and children, wholly or in part of
wool, 40 per cent ad valOrem, now IS per
pound and 40 per cent ad valOrem; paper,
sized or glued, 15 per cent ad valOrem, and
printing paper unsized IL per cent ad valO-
rem, now 10 and 20 per cent; envelopes, 80
per cent ad valOrem, now IS; blacking, 20
per cent ad valOrem, now Is; carriages and
parts not enumerated. 80 per cent ad valo-
rem, now IS: matches, Is per cent ad
valOrem, now S5; stoves of all descriptions,
40 per cent, now SO; gutta percha manufac-
tured and hard rubber articles, 30 per cent
ad valOrem, now 35; pipes and Smokers
articles not enumerated, so per cent ad
valorem, and clay pipes Is per cent ad
valorem, now 20 and IS respectively.
THE REMAINDER OF THE BILL,
twenty-five printed pages is made up en-
tirely of the leading features of the old
Hewitt administration bill and is similar
in the clauses intended to guard against
smuggling the exempting Of theatrical
scenery and ward robes when intended for
temporary use in the United States and
tOuriStSs wearing 9nnQrQl s.s