Semi-weekly south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1883-1889, 1888-03-09
The New Tariff Bill
SUBMITTED BY THE CHAIRMAN
CT THE WAYS AND MEANS
COMMITTEE TO THE
FULL COMMITTEE.
A Synopsis of the Articles Placed
Upon the Free List.

A Synopsls OF the ArtloIes FIaee
Upon the Free List.
WASHINGTON, March 1.-The Chair
man of the Ways ana Means Com
mittes to-day submitted to the full
committee the tariff bill upon which
the Democratic members have been al
work for several months. The free
list section is TO take teffect July l,
1888. The measure was Immediate
ly made public.
The new tariff bill proposes to fix
duty on pig iron at So per ton, on
iron or steel railway bars, weighing
more than twenty-five pounds to the
yard, and slabs, or billets of steel, Sill
per ton; on iron, or steel Il rails
weighing not over twenty-five pounds
TO the yard, $l4 per ton, and on iron
or steel flat rails punched Sl5 per ton.
The bill provides for admitting free
of duty after July l, "All woods, hair
of the alapaca, goat, and other like
animals; woods on the skin, woeJ9Iif
rags rags. sh0 %Aa a RsP'o October /, 1855,
it provides among other things a 40
per cent. duty on wooden and worsted
cloth, shawls and all manufactures
of wool, not specially enumerated {;
and on flannels, blankets, knit goods,
women's and children's dress goods
composed in part of wool.
THE FOLLOWING Is A SYNOPSIS.
The bill makes the following addi-
tions TO the list of articles which may
be imported free of duty:
Timber hewn and sawed, and tim
Der used for spars and in building
wharves. Timber squared or sided.
Wood manufactured, not spec
tally enumerated, or provided for.
Sawed boards, planks, deals and all
other articles of sawed lumber.
Hubs for wheels, posts, last blocks,
gun blocks, heading blocks, and al
like blocks or sticks, rough, hewn OIL
sawed only.
Slaves of wood.
Pickets and palings, laths, shingles
clap boards.
Pine or spruce logs-provlded tina
If any export duty is laid upon tn
above mentioned articles, or any o
them, by any country whence i'm
ported, all said articles imported iron
said country shall be subject to dut.
as now provided by law.
Salt in bags, sacks, barrels, or 9th
er packages in bulk, when imports
from any country which does nc
charge an import duty upon salt eS
ported from the United States.
Flax, straw. Flax not hacked o
dressed. Flax hacked, known a
dressed linen, tow or fla; or hemp.
Hemp, manila, and other like sui
stitutes fer hemp.
Jute butts, jute.
Sum, sisal grass and other vegeta
BILE fibres.
Burlaps, not exceeding sixty inche
in width, of flax jute or hemp; OF
of which fax, jute or hemp, or an
of them, shall be the component ma
terial of chief value.
Bagging for cotton, or other man
ufactures not spot, specially enumel
ated, or provided for in this act, sui
able 10 the uses to which cotton bag
ging Is applied, composed in who'll
or part Of hemp, jute, jute butts, fla
gunny bags, gunny cloth, or otht
material /; provided that as to hem
and flax, jute butts, sum and sisI
grass, and manufactures thereof, e1
cept burlaps not exceeding sixt
inches in width and bagglng for col
Ton, this act shall take effect July
1889.
Iron or steel sheets, or plates, c
taggers iron, coated with tin or lea
or with mixture of which thel
metals is a component part, by Il
dipping or any other process, al
commercially known as tin plate
terne plates, and taggers' tin.
Beeswax, gelatine, and all simili
preparations.
Glycerine, crude, brown or yellow
Fish, Glue or isingass.
Phosphorus soap stocks, fit onl
for use as such.
Soap, hard and soft, all of who
are not otherwise specially enume
atcd, or provided for.
Extract of hemlock and other bar
used for tanning.
Indigo, extracts OF, and carmlne'
Iodine, resublimed.
Licorice-juice.
Oil, croton.
Hempseed and rapeseed oil.
Flax seed, or linseed oil.
Oil, cottonseed.
Petroleum.
Alumina-alum, patent alum, alul
substituted, sulphate of alumina, an
aluminous cake, and alum in crystal
or ground.
All limitations of natural miners
waters and all artificial mineral WI
tiers.
Baryta, sulphate Of, or barytes III
manufactured.
Boric acid, borate lime and bora
Cement, Roman, Portland and a
others.
Whiting and Paris whiting.
Copper, sulphate of or blue vitro
Iron, suiphate OF, or copperas'
Potash, crude, carbonate of or fus'
land caustic potash, chlorate of po
ash, and nitrate OF potash, or sa
petre, crude, sulphate of potash.
Suiphate of soda, known as sa
cake, crude, or refined, or inter cak
crude, or refined, and glubers' salt.
Aniline oil and its homologues.
Goal far. products of, such as napf