Western appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1885-18??, 1888-10-06
a RIVAL 10 The MIlLs BILL.

opsis of the Measure.
i WASHINGTON, Oct. 4-Senator Allison,
from the Committee on Finance, re-
ported back the House Tariff bill with
an amendment in the nature of a
substitute. It was placed on the
calendar and ordered to be printed.
According to the estimates made by
i the committee, the bill provides for
total reduction Of about s75, coo, 900, made
up approximately as follows: Sugar, ST..
$4,000; free list, SC, SOC, 600; tobacco lin
ternal revenue), So, SOC, 600; alcohol in the
arts, $1,000, 900; other reductions in Gus
toms, sS,O00,000.
The bill embodies an entire revision OF
the tariff schedules and the administrative
features of the present law proposing
the re-enactment of all such feat
ures as in the opinion of the majority Of the
committee ought not to be changed. The
following synopsis contains the principal
changes, as compared with the present law,
the rates of the present law being given
in parenthesis with each item Except
when the article is not enumerated in ex-
listing law:
The following are the additions to the free
list: Acorns, raw, dried or undried; baryta sui
phate OF, or barytes manufactured; bees
wax; books and pamphlets printed exclusively
in languages other than English; braids, plaits,
flats, laces, etc, for ornamenting hats; bristles,
raw or manufactured; bulbs and dubious
roots not edible; chicory root, raw, dried or un
dried, but ungrouad; coal slack or culm
coal tar. crude; curling stone handles:
currants, zante or other, dried; dandelion
roots raw, dried or undried, but un.
ground; eggs and yelks; feathers and
downs OF oil kinds crude and un.
manufactured; jute: jute butts manila;
ramie: sissal grass; sum; all other textile
grasses or fbrous substances. unmanu.
featured or undressed; floor mating,
known as Chinese mating; grease
in soap making or mine drawing,
etc.: human hair, raw, uncleaned and not
drawn; mineral waters, not specially enumer.
ated: molasses, testing not above Sc degrees
olive oil for manufacturing or mechanical
purposes; nut oil, or oil OF nuts
opium crude or manufactured for smok,
ing; potash, crude carbonate; pot
ash, caust!c or hydrate; potash, nitrate Of
or saltpetre; potash, sulphate OF; potash,
chlorate OF; rags all not enumerated; hemp
seed, rape seed, sponges, sand, tar and pitch OF
wood, turpentne. re
Also logs, railroad ties, ship timber and
ship planking, and all lumber, wire rope iron
and steel materials used in construction and
equipment OF vessels built in the United States
pose OF being employed in the foreign trade,
and all articles of foreign production needed
for the repair of American vessels engaged ex.
clusively in foreign trade.
The internal-revenue section OF the bill, SC
far as it relates to TOBACCO, provides that after
February 1, 1889. manufacturers of cigars shall
pay a special tax of So annually. The tax
on cigars, cheroots. and on all cigar.
cites weighing more than three pounds
per thousand which shall be manu-.
featured or sold after that date, shall be
800 per thousand, and on cigarettes weighing
less than three pounds to the thousand, 5(
cents per thousand, and said tax shall be paid
by the manufacturer 1t repeats all laws
restricting the disposition of tobacco by
farmers and producers and all laws
imposing taxes on manufactured tobacco and
snuff, and the special taxes required by law tc
be paid by manufacturers of and dealers in Leaf
tobacco, retail dealers in leaf tobacco dealers
In manufactured tobacco, snuff and cigars, ped
dlers OF tobaccos, snuff and cigars. and manu-
fncturers OF snuff. 1t provides for rebate or
all original and unbroken packages held by
manufacturers or dealers at the time the re-
peal goes into effect.
1t also repeats all laws limiting, restricting
or regulating the manufacture, sale or expor
tation of tobacco or snuff. f. g.
Alcohol to be used in the industrial arts is
relieved from the payment of an internal-re
euue IaX. provision IS made for bonded alcohol
warehouses ana safeguards are provided
against fraud There is q prohibition against
the use OF any distilled spirits upon which the
lnternal-reVenue tax has not been paid In the
manufacture of tinctures, proprietary articles
liquors. corGials, bltters, or other alcoholic
compounds which are used or sold as beyer
ages.
Nearly every article In the chemical schedule
shows reduction from the present rate Of
duty, fannie acid being reduced from 81 to 2;
cents, and morphia and all salts from 81 ar
ounce to 80 cents. Extracts of logwood an6
other dye woods and barks for dyeing or tan
ming, not especially provided for, j cent a
pound lnow 10 per cent. and 20 per cent. ad
valoreml.
Oil-Castor, 30 cents per gallon NOW sc
cents); cod liver, IS cents (now rs per cent?
croton, 30 cents NOW so cents); cottonseed, II
{now 25 cents; olive suld, s. cents now IS
cents); seal, whale and other fish oil 6 cents
{now 2o per cent?.
Paints and Colors--Blues, Berlin. Prussian
Chinese and others containing feroCyanide O.
iron, s cents per pound (now 20 rer cent and 2.
per cent? yellow, green and other chronic col
ors, AZ cents (now 95 per cent?; ocher, sienna
umoer earths, dry, 4 cent per pound (now Y
cent?; ultramarine blue, as cents NOW 81
wash blue containing ultramarine. cents pc,
pound (now 20 per cent?; vermillion red OF
quicksilver colors, II cents NOW rs per cent }
Varnlshes, including so-called gold size OF
Japan, 40 per cent. ad valorem and on spirit
Varnishes, for the alcohol contained therein s.
per gallon additional now ranging from ~ pc,
cent to el.35 per gallon and 40 per cent?.
Backing OF all kinds 23 per cent
UNI: sulphate of copper, cents per
pound' refined camphor, cents per pound
borax, crude, cents refined, 5 cents pc,
pound; cements, cents per hundred pounds
chloroform, 30 cents per pound; sulphuric
ether, 30 cents per pound; morphine. 80 cents
per pound; medical preparations essences.
medicated wines, ETC., 40 cents per pound: cos.
net1cs aud toilet preparations, so per centum
I'D valOrem.
Animals, alive. horses and mules, SO O hea(
(now 20 per cent. I'D valorem); cattle more
than year old, IS per head (now 20 per cent &C
vulorem); hogs and Sheep 80 cents (now 20 ne,
cent. ad Valorem).
Beans, per bushel, 25 cents NOW 10 Dor cent
nd Valorem); beans and mushrooms, prepared
or preserved, % cents per gallon (now 30 pc,
cent. ad valorem); cabbages, cent each (now Il
per cent ad valorem. Chickery root, burnt o,
roasted, cent per pound (now %; ground O,
graduated in rolls or otherwise prepared, IL
cents; cocoa butter or Cocoa butterine, az
cents (now 20 per cent?. Dandelion root an6
acorns, prepared, and other articles used as
coffee Or subs titutes, not especially cnumer
ated, ~ cents per pound (noW q.
Extract Of meat all not specially provided
for. IS cents per pound (now 20 per cent. ad
valorem); fluid extract of meat Is cents per
pound (now 20 per cent. ad valorem).
Grapes, cent pound NOW 20 per cent?
oranges, lemons or lines, in packages Of
Ii cubic feet or less, 10 cents per pack
age demons now Is cents and oranges II
cents box); exceeding X and not ex
ceeding 31a cubic feet, 20 cents demons
now 30 cents, oranges IS cents); exceed
ing 2h and not excecding5 cubic feet, 40 cents
(now 80 cents per barreD; exceeding cubic
feet, for every additional foot or fractional
part, cents; in bulk, $3.50 per 1000 now q
per cent. ad valorem: lemons, " per 1000;
oranges, SLIGO per 10000 ginger or ginger root
preserved. and citron, preserved or candied,
cents per pound now IS per cent. ad valorem);