Sacramento daily record-union., 1888-10-04
THE CAPITAL.
SHERMAN EXPLAINS THE MERITS
OF THE TARIFF BILL.
War Departments Proscriptive
Policy-Land Cases-Etc.
ESPECIAL DISPATCHES TO THE REcoRD-uN1os. ]
sEvENTY-F1vE MILLIONS.

ESPECIAL DISPATCHES TO THE REcoRD-uN1oN.l
SEvENTY-FIVE MILLIONS,
Tariff Reduction that Does Not Threaten
Home Industries.
WASHINGTON, October 3d.-The Senate
Committee on Finance substitute for the
Mills tariff bill embodies the entire revision
of the tariff schedules and the administra-
tive features of the present law, promising
a re-enactment of all such features as in
the opinion of the majority of the commit
tee ought not to be changed.
According to the estimate made by the
committee, the bill provides for total re-
duction of about $75,000,00O, made up ap-
proximately as follows: Sugar, $27 ,759 600 !;
revenue), $24,500,000; alcohol in the arts,
81, 100000 The other reductions in the
customs are SIS, 900.
The majority and minority reports will
be submitted formally tomorrow and be
then made public.
The following are all the additions to the
free-list Acorns. baryta, sulphate of pryi-
tes (unmanufactured) beeswax, books and
pamphlets printed exclusively in languages
other than English, braids, plaits, flats,
laces, ETC., for ornamenting hats; bristles
not edible; chicory root (unground); coal
stack or culm; coal tar (crude); custing
stone handles, currants (dried); dandelion
roots (unground); eggs, feathers and downs
of all kinds (unmanufactured); jute,
manila, ramie, all other textile grasses or
fibrous substances unmanufactured; Chi
! nese floor mating grease oils used in soap
| making or wire-drawing, etc.; human hair
raw; mineral waters, molasses Testing not
above 56o); olive Oil, for manufacturing or
| mechanical purposes; nut oil, opium
| (crude), potash, rags (not all enumerated),
hemp seed rape seed, sponges, sand tar
and pitch of wood, turpentine.
The following synopsis contains the
| principal changes compared with the pres
ent law, the rates by the present law being
given in parentheses with each item, ex-
cept when the article is not enumerated in
the existing law:
Wool and manufactures of wool (classi-
| fication same as the present law.
First and second class, and all hair of
alpaca, goat and other like animals, IL cents
per pound (12 to 16 cents).
Third class (exceeding in value II cents
per pound1 cents per pound; top slabbing
| and all other wastes, composed wholly or
| in part of wool or worsted, 80 cents per
pound. All woods and hair of alpacas,
goat or other animals which have advanced
| by any process of manufacture beyond a
| washed or secured condition, not otherwise
provided for in this Act, will be subject to
| the same duties imposed upon manu-
| factures of wool not especially enumerated
| in this Act.
Woolen cloth, shawls, all manufactures of
wool not enumerated and valued at not
exceeding 40 cents per pound, 35 cents per
pound, and in addition thereto 35 per cent
Id IL A
above 40 cents and not exceeding 60 cents
per pound, 30 cents per pound and 40 per
cent. ad valorem-35 and 40 cents and 35
| and 40 per cent; above 60 cents per pound,
| 40 cents per pound and 40 cents ad valorem.
| Flannels, blankets, hats, etc., valued at
above 60 cents per pound 40 cents per pound,
40 per cent. ad valorem-24 cents and So
per cent. and 50 cents and 40 per cent.
Womens and childreu's dress goods,
Italian cloths, ETC., made part of wool and
valued al not exceeding Is cents per square
yard, 6 cents per square yard and 40 per
cent. ad vaiorem-5 cents and 30 per cent
Containing admixture of silk and in which
the silk is not the component material of
chief value, and not otherwise provised, II
cents per square yard, and in addition
thereto 40 per cent ad valorem-5 cents and
35 per cent. and cents and 40 per cent,
according to value. Provided, all goods of
| the character enumerated or advertised in
| this paragraph, weighing over four ounces
per square yard shall pay duty of 40 cents
per pound and so per cent. ad valorem-35
cents and 40 per cent.
Women's and children's dress goods of
| italian cloths and composed wholly of
wool, IL cents per square yard and 40 cents
per cent. ad valorem-10 cents and 25 per
cent. All such goods with selvages made
wholly or in part of other material, and all
such goods in which threads wholly or in
part of other materials have been intro
| duced for the purpose of changing the
classification for duty, IL cents per square
yard and 40 percentum ad valorem-9 cents
and 40 per cent. Provided, that all such
| goods weighing over four ounces per square
yard shall pay a duty of 40 cents per pound
/ and 40 per cent. ad valorem. Clothing,
! ready-made, not enumerated.
| All goods made on knitting frames, and
all pile fabrics composed wholly or in part
I OF wool, made up or manufactured wholly
or in part, 40 cents per pound and 45 per
cent ad valoTem-40 cents and 35 per cent.
| Cloaks. dolmans jackets, etc., except knit
goods, composed wholly or in part of wool
and made up wholly or in part, 45 cents
| per pound and 45 per cent. ad yalorem-45
cents and 40 per cent.
| Endless bolts or felts for paper or print
ing machines, 20 cents per pound and 80
per cent. ad valorem-20 cents and 80 per
| cent.
Manufacturers of cigars are to pay spe-
| cial tax of So year, bonds to remain as at
present; cigarettes weighing more than
| three pounds, 81 so per thousand less than
| three pounds, so cents per thousand. The
| tax on producers and dealers is repealed,
and rebate is given on all original un-
broken packages of manufactured tobacco
snuff, cigars, cheroots and cigarettes. The
| laws regulating the manufacture, sale and
expectation Of tobacco are repealed.
Alcohol to be used in the industrial arts
is exempt from internal taxation, but the
precautions relating TO the manufacture
| importation and sale are retained Alcohol
for the manufacture of articles, prepara-
tions, compounds, ,acetic and other acids and
medical drugs or chemicals made according
to directions of the United States or from
| other national formulas is also free from
internal taxation, but this does not include
the use of distilled spirits, proprietary ar
ticles, wines, liquors, cordials, bitters and
! alcoholic compounds.
In the dutiable lists the rate on boracic
acid and refined borax is fixed at cents
per pound; crude borax, cents; coiorine
for brandy, wine or other liquors, so pei
cent. ad yalorem morphia or morphine
90 cents per ounce; olive oil fit for salad
purposes, go cents per gallon; extract oil
opium for medical uses, 40 per cent
In the earthenware schedule, the duty is
as follows Common brown earfhen ware
20 per cent; decorated china, porcelain
bisque, etc., ware, 55 per cent; undecorated
so per cent; plain glass bottles, holding not
less than one pint, and demijohns and car
boys, cent per pound; common window
glass, 1Oxl5 inches square, Ii cents pei
pound; not exceeding 1924 inches square
| IL cents per pound.
- There are but few changes of importance
from the existing law in the metal schedule
Iron ore is fixed at rs cents per ton: pig
| iron, 3 of cent per pound; axles or forg-
| ings OF axles, cents per pound. There is
a reduction in chains. Those not less than
three-quarters of an inch in diameter is
paying l-6 cents per pound; less than
! three-quarters of an inch in diameter. Is
Railway bars made of iron and steel. and
railway bars made in part of steel, Trails
snd punched iren or steel fiat rails, 7-1O OF
L cent per pound. Railway fish-plates or
splice bars, made of iron or steel, 1 cent
peg pound; rivets of iron or steel, d cents