The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1888-03-02

ILuOGoIhsl0A VI Llo SOAuIutbbG0 bhA &c
considered q challenge for moderate Re-
publican support, but not more than Elk
will vote for II.
SYNOPSIS OF TIE BILL.
A List OF the Articles on the Yrss LIss
The RedustiOnS.
WASHINGTON, March 1.-The Chairman
Of the Ways and Means Committee to-day
submitted to the full committee the Tariff
bill, upon which the Democratic members
have baen at work for several months.
Tho FREQ list section is to take effect
July l, 1888 The measure was immedi-
ateIy made public, The new bill
ropoues to fix the duty on pig
iron at Elk dollars per ton; on iron
or iteBl railway bars, weighing more than
twenty-five pounds to the yard, and slAb
or billets OF steel, Sll per ton. Gu iron
and steel T rails, weighing not over twenty.
RvO pounda to the yard, Sl4 per ton; and
on iron or steel ast rails punched, $l5 per
ton.
The bill provides for admitting fres OF
duty after July let "sIl woOls, hair of the
Alpaca goat and other like animals; woods
on the skin; wooden rags, shoddy mengo,
waite and tloCks." After October /, 1888,
| 1t provides, among other things, for forty
per cent duty on woolen and worsted
cloth, shswlsand all manufactures OF wool,
not specially enumerated and on tlsnnels,
blankets, knit goods, women'a children's
dress goods composed in part OF Woois.
Estimates OF reductions in revenue az
iected by the Mills bill have no! been
completed in detail, but the aggregate, &C.
cordlng to the beat Information in the
hands OF the committee, ia fixed at $685..
100000. This total includes about twenty
two and quarter millions on account OF
tho free list, seventeen and quarter mil
liona on account Of wooden goods, s., ,600,-
OOO for china and glassware, three'qnsrt.
ere OF million dollars in the chemical
schedule, something lees than half mil.
lion dollars on cotton, one and half mil.
lion dollars on cotton; on asx, hemp and
lutte, and sugar about eleven million dol
lRT'.
Democratic members OF the Ways and
Means Committee eRtimate the amount ol
reductions at from fifty to sixty millions.
The framera of the bill claim that it re.
moves Inconsistencies OF the exciting tariff
in spirit OF fairness to all industries, that
1t breaks up trusts, corners and other dis
honest combinations, and that /. warrants
no disturbance Of businesa and cGuHes NO
injury to established interests.
Free fsh was omitted from tho bill ioI
the purpose ot relieving it from the an-
tagonism Of diplomatic questions which
would have been involved.
THE TRRE LIST.
The bill mskes the following additions
to the list Of articles which may be i'm
ported free Of duty:
Timber, hewn and sawed, and timber
used for spars and in building wharves
Timber squared or sided, Wood manu-
factured, not especially enumerated OF
provided for. Sawed boards, plauks, deals
and all other articles OF sawed lumber.
Hubs for wheels, posts, last blocks, wagon
blocks, car blocks, gun blocks, heading
blocks and all like blocks or sticks, rough
Ihewn or sawed only. Slaves of wood
picketa and pRlings, lAthg, shingles, clap
boards, pine or spruce logs. Provided
that II any export duty Is laid upon the
above mentioned articles, or either o.
them, by any country whence imported
all said artiCleB from said country shsl
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 i'm
port duty on salt exported from the United
dressed. Flax hacked, known as dressed
line. Tow OF fax or hemp. Hemp, ma
niIa and other like substitutes for hemp
Jute butts; jute. Sum, sisal grass anC
other vegetable Abers. Burlaps, not ex
ceedlng sixty inches in width, Of fax
jute or hemp, Of which fax, jute or hemp
or either OF them, shall be the component
material OF chief value. Bagging for cot
ton or other manufactures, not specially
enumerated or provided for in this eel
suitable to the uses for which cottol
bsvging is applied, composed in whole o
in part Of hemp, jnte, iute bntts, fax
gunny baHs, gunny cloth, or other mate
rial. Provided, That "a to hemp an,
flax, juGe, jute butts, eunn and s!sSl grass
and manufactures thereof, e1cspt buriap
: not exceeding sixty inches in Width, an
bsgRing for cotton, this act shall take Ell
feet July lst, 1889.
= TIN PLATES.
Iron or steel ehests or plStes, OF taggeI
7 iron, coated with tin or lead, or with
t mixture OF which these metals Is q com
poncnt part, by dipping or any other pre-
cess, and commercially known as til
plates, terms plate, and taggers tin. Bees
, wax gelatine aud all similar preparations
. plycerine, crude, brown or yellow; fsl
1 glue, or isingass; phosphorus, Sos
1 stocks, fit only for use IS such. Soap, hAr
and soft, all Of which are not otherwie
specially enumerated or provided iol
Extract Of hemloCk and other bark noe
for tanning; indigo, extracts oil, and car
1 mined iodine, reaublimed licorice, juice
o oil, Croton, hemp seed and rape seed oil
4 flaxseed, or linseed oil oil, cotton seed
petrolsum. Alumina alum, patent alum
alum spbstitute, sulphate Of slumina, an
: lRluminous cake. and RluminR crystals o
Q ground, All limitations OF natural mir
. = sfSi waters, and all artificial minsrI
WRters.
Baryte, sulphate Of, or baryseS, unmsr
uisctured borSclc acid, borSte Of lime an
= borax; cement, Roman, Portland and a
70 others; whiting and Paris white coppe
D. sulphRte Of, or blue vitriol iron, tulphRt
b oi, or copperaS; potash, crude, cArbonat
T. Of, or fused and csustic potash; Chloral
g. OF potash, and nitrate Of potash, or sal
Of peter crudei sulphate Of potash aulphSt
OF soda, known as salt cake, crude or n
nned, or inter cake, crude or refined, an
nj glAubeIs salt, sulphur, refined In roll
m W ool tar; coal tar, crudei aniline oil an
Is its homologouS; coal tar, products Of, sue
20 nAphthG, benzlne, benS ole and pitcl