Western appeal., 1888-03-10
CUTTING DOWN TAXES.
The Ways and Means Tariff Bill
Made Public. i.

The Ways and Means Tariff Bill
Made Public.
It VIII Reduce the Revenue About $685.
100000 Annually-Larg Additions
Made to the Free List-Intsr-
nal Taxes Not Touched.
THE NEW Tariff BILL
WASHINGTON, March 2.-The chairman OF the
Ways and Means Committee yesterday sub
mltted 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 Immediately made public. It
makes the following additions to the fre list:
Timber, heWn and sawed. and timber used
for spars and in building wharves Timber,
squared or sided. Wood. unmanufactured. not
specially enumerated or provided for. Sawed
boards, planks, deals, and oil other articles OF
Sawed lumber. Hubs for wheels, posts, last
blocks, wagon blocks, oar blocks, gun blocks,
heading blocks and all like blocks or sticks
roughSheWn or sawed only. Slaves OF wood.
Pickets and palings, laths, shingles Clap
boards, pine or spruce. Logs - provided
that il any export duty is laid upon the
aforementioned articles, or either OF
them, by any country whence imported, all
said articles imported from said country shall
be subject to duty as now provided by law.
Salt in bags, sacks. barrels or other packages,
or in bulk, when imported from any country
which does not charge an import duty upon
salt exported from the United States.
Flax, straw; fax not hackled or dressed.
Flax, hackled (known as dressed linen
| tow of fax or hemp). Hemp, ma
nilla. and other like substances for
hemp. Jute butts; jute. Sum, sisal grass
I and other vegetable Abers. Burlaps, not excend-
ing sixty inches in width, OF flax .jule hemp,o
OF which fax, jute or hemp. or either OF them,
shall be the component material Of chief value.
Baggng 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, Jute, jute butts,
flax, gunny bags, gunny cloth, or
other material; provided that as to hemp and
fax, jute, jute butts, sum and sisal grass, and
manufactures thereof, except burlaps not ex-
| ceeding sixty inches in width and bagging for
cotton, this act shall take effect July /, 1889.
Iron or steel sheets, or plates, or taggers iron,
| coated With tin or lead, or with mixture of
which these metals are a component part,
by dipping or any other process, and COM
mercially known as tin plates, tern plates
| and taggers tin. Beeswax. gelatne and all
similar preparations. Glycerine, crude,
brown or yellow. Fish glue or insinglass.
Phosphorus, soap stocks, tit only for use as
SUCH Soap, hard and soft, all Of which are no
| otherw Sc specially enumerated or provided
for. Extract OF hemlock and other bark used
for tanning Indigo, extracts of, and carm,ned.
Iodine resublimed. Licorice- juice. Oil, croton.
Hempseed and rapeseed oil. Flax-seed or lin
seed oil. Oil, cotton-seed. Petroleum Alum
| ni-Alum, patent alum, alum substitute sui.
phate Of alumina and auminous cake, and
alum. Whiting and paris white. Copper-Sul-
phate OF, or blue vitrol. Iron-Sulphate OF, or
copperas. Potash crude, carbonate of, or fusel
and caustic potash. Chlorate OF potash and nj
trate OF potash, or saltpeter crude. Sulphate
of potash. Sulphate OF soda, known as salt
cake, crude or refined, or ni1er cake, crude or
refined, and glaubers salt. Sulphur, in rolls.
Wood tar. Coal tar, crude. Aniline oil and it's
homologues. Coal tar and products of, such as
naphtha. Beuzine. benz:ole, 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 ana decoctions
OF. Spir1 It's of turpentine. Bone black, ivory
drop black and bone charcoal Ocher and
| ochery earths, lumber and umber earths, sienna
and sienna earths when dry. All prepara-
| tions known as essential oils, expressed oils,
distilled oils rendered oils, alkaline, alkaloids
and all combinations OF any of the forego.
ing, and chemical compounds Of whatever
name known, and not specially enumerated
or provided in this act. All barks, beans,
| berries, balsams,a buds, dubious roots and ex-
crescences, such as nut gals, fruits, flowers,
dried fbers, grains, gums and gum resins,
herbs, leaves, lichens, nuts roots and stems of
vegetables. seeds and seeds OF morbid growth,
weeds, woods used expressly for dyelng and
dried insects. ALI non-dutlable crude materi-
ais but which have been advanced in
value or conditions by refining or
grinding or by other process OF manu-
faCtllrp Snnnia11u Tod =
for. All earths or clays unwrought or un-
manufactured. China, clay or kaoline. Opium
| crude, containing 9 per cent. and over of
morphia for medicinal purposes. Iron and
steel cotton ties or hoops for baling purposes,
not thinner than No 20 wire gauge. Needles-
sewing, darning, knitting and all in this act.
CopGer-lmported in the form of ores, regulus
| OF, and black or coarse copper and copper
cement; old COPPER, fit only for manufacture
Ntckel-in ore, matt, or othe crude form not
ready for consumption in the arts Antimony
regulus or metal. quicksilver chromote Of
iron, or chrome ore. Mineral substances in
crude state and metals unwrought, not spe-
| clally enumerated or provided for Brick. Veg
etables-ln their natural state, or in salt or
brine. Chicory root, ground or unground burnt
| or prepared, and all other articles used, or
| intended to be used, as coffee or substances
| therefore, not specially enumerated or provided
| for. Cocoa-prepared or manufactured; dates,
| plums and prunes; currants-Zante, or other;
hgs; meats, game and poultry; beans, peas and
spHt peas. Pulp for paper makers use. Bibles,
books and pamphlets printed in other Ian
| guages than English, and books and pamphlets
1or all publications of foreign governments and
publication OF foreign societies. historical or
scientific. pr nted for gratuitous distr. BUTTON
| Bristles. Bulbs and dubious roots not med.
ical. Feathers of all kinds. crude or not dressed
colored OR manufactured. Fin shing powder
L Grease CHrn0ctprpc fDiS
Curled hair for beds or mattresses. Human
halr ~ Raw, uncleaned and not drawn
| Hatters' fur not on the skin. Hemp and
| rape seed and other oil seeds of
like character. Lime. Garden seeds. Lin
seed or faxseed. Marble Of all kinds, in block
rough or squared. Os er or willow, prepared for
basket-makers uses. Broom corn. Brushwood
Plaster OF paris. when ground or calcined
Rags, OF whatever material COMPOSED
Rattans and reeds. manufactured but
not made up into finished articles
Paintings in oil or water colors, and statuary
not otherwise provided for. But the term
"statuary" shall be understood to include
professional productions of a s.atuary or OF q
sculptor only.] Stones, unmanufactured or un-
dressed, free stone, granite, sandstone and all
building OF monumental stones. All strings of
gut or any other like material. TaIlow Waste,
all not specially enumerated or provided for.
Metals are to pay duties as follows:
Pig iron, SIS per ton. Iron railway bars, ST.
Steel railway bars, s11. Bar iron, rolled or
hammered, y OF cent per pound. Not less
than inch de and as of an inch tn ck. In
larger measurements cent per pound. iron
slabs, booms, loops IS per cent. ad valorern.
Iron bars, blooms. billets in the manufact-
ure OF which charcoal is used $40 per
ton. Iron or steel '.T' rails, SIS ton.
Round iron, In coils or rods, and rolled iron,
enumerated, cent per round Sheet iron
thin), cent per pound. Black taggers (ron),
80 per cent. Hoop.iron, cent per pound.
Cast-iron pipe, 6-1Oof / cent per pound. Nails,