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Speech.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 3.-The Senate finance
committees substitute for the Mills tariff
bill embodies entire revision of the tariff
schedules and administrative features of
the present law, and proposing the re-enact-
mont of all such features as in the opinion
of the majority of the committee ought not
to be changed.
The following are the additions to the
free list: Acorns, raw, dried or undried;
baryta sulphate of, or barytes unmanufac-
tured; beeswax; books and pamphlets
printed exclusively in language other than
English; braids, plaits, laces, etc, for orna-
ments: hats; bristles; raw or unmanu-
factured bulbs and bulbaos roots
not edible; chicory root, raw
dried Or undried, but ground; coal slack or
culm; coal tar; crude curlingstone;
handles; currants. zante, or other dried;
dandelions, roots, raw, dried or undried, puo
unground; eggs and yolks; feathers and
downs of all kinds; crude and unmanufact.,
ured jute, jute butts, MANILA, ramie,
slsal grass, sum and all other tex
tile grasses, or fibrous substances,
manufactured or undressed; floor
mating, known as Chinese mating.
grease and oils, such as are commonly used
i'll soap making or wire-drawing, etc. 4;
human hair, raw, uncleaned and not drawn;
mineral waters not specially enumerated;
molasses testing not above So; olive oil for
manufacturing or mechanical purposes; nut
oil and oil OF nut; opium, crude or manu-
factured for smoking; potash, crude car
Donate; potash, caustic or hydrate; potash,
nitrate Of, or saltpeter; potash, chlorate of;
rags, all not enumerated; hemp seed;
rope seed; sponges; sand; tar and
fish remains on the free list, but
with the following important reservation:
Except when frozen or packed in ice or
otherwise prepared by any process for
preservation" Fish covered by this exoep-
tion are classed with other foreign caught
preserved fish at one-half cent per pound as
in the present law
committee, the tariff bill provides for
total reduction Of about S75, ,000, 900, made
up approxim tely as follows:
Sugar .............. .........,...... SN, ,759 900
Iree llst ..........-...... ........--.- b,SOuOuO
Tobacco dnternal revenuel. l............ 2l,5o0 900
Alcohol used in the arts)... ........ 7,OO00O0
Other reductions in customs. S.o0O,0O0
The majority and minority reports will
be submitted formally tomorrow, and VIII
be made public then.
SHERMAN SPEAKS ON IT.
Mr.. Sherman got permission to make
some remarks on the tariff bill, as be in
tended to leave the city this after Don. He
went over the provisions of the bill In some
detail, contrasting them with the provisions
of the House bill, and stating the aggregate
amount of revenue reduction proposed by it
as $73, 1888, 900. The reduction was on few
articles. The tax ON sugar was reduced
one-half, or $27, 600 900. There was an en-
tire removal OF the tax on manufactured
tobacco, except as to cigars, the reduction
of the revenue there being S24, $40 900. The
tax on alcohol used in the arts, $6,425, 900,
was repealed, but he doubted very much
whether thi project could be carried out
without giving rign r extensive frauds
On other articles -iere was a reduction of
$S,l00,000.
NO DISCRIMINATION.
There was not a single item in the Senate
bill which discrimiuated as the House bill
did. between sections # the country, ,alth ugh
1t did reduce the duty sugar from S3 per
cent TO Al per cent. and on rice from over
100 per cent. to over 30 per cent. He char
acterized it as very conservative bill.
IL 1t could be taken up free
from party asperities and could
be considered on its merits, he believed ID
could be made the most perfect revenue
measure ever placed on the statute books.
The issue between the two bills was to be.
he said, tried before the people. 1t was a
plain. fair, square issue between a tarig
for revenue only and tariff for
revenue and protection. IL was question
whether articles necessary for human life
should be made by American labor or by
foreign labor. Whether the wages of Amer
ican iaborers should depend upon the wages
Of foreign laborers, or should depend upon
the American policy Of protecting all forms
of labor and production.
CARLISLE GETS THE NEWS
Speaker Carlisle, who has not fully recov-
cred from the fatigue Of his VIRGINIA trip.
was lying down in mis- private Office, at the
House, whel word was brought to him that
the republicans of the Senate finance com.
mittee had at last reported tariff bill.
This good news made the speaker
feel well again. He and the
other revenue reformers have kent the
House here just TO give the finance commit.
tee a chance TO report tariff bill He felt,
as did Mr.. Turner Of Georgia, the only
democrat OF the ways and means COMMITTEES
in town, that all the efforts they had made
to force the republican position on the tariff
had been crowned with success. The
speaker, like the other revenue reformers,
had been apprehensive lest the republicans
should take the first advice OF
Chairman Quay and refuse to act upon the
Mills bill at all. Now that the republican
bill has been actually reported by the
finance committee, it matters not that they
have taken Mr.. Quay's second advice and
trown the responsibility for 1t on the
finance committee.
A SHAM.
Tho country will understand that it is the
republican bill cutting down the tariff reve-
nue. over $4,000, 900. or course IL is q
sham. No one in or out Of the finance com.
mittee expects it 10 be brought to vote.
1t Il not the bill that would be reported IL
there was any prospect Of passing 1t. But
such as it Is, IL is a concession to the popu-
lar demand for tax reduction and tariff re-
form, and as such an acknowledgement that
the democrats Of the House attempted to
satisfy the people when they passed the
Mills bill. IL is a recognition of the fact
that the ST. Louis, and not the
Chicago CONVENTION expressed the popular
desire As the speaker said: "If the Mills
bill is step toward free trade. so Is this
bill II this bill is the embodiment OF the
peoples will, the Mills bill is much more so-
The Senate tariff bill is conglomeration Of
the Randall bill, which formed its basis
and the suggestions Of various monopoliess
together with the uniervaluation bill pre-
sented by the finance committee last year.
its free list, while it represents, according
to Mr.. Allison's estimate, 81, 500, 600.
contains NC important raw mate-
rials or necessaries Of life, and its chief
aa..ts aa.a.-