Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1888-10-11
NEW TARIFF BILL.
A MEASURE WHICH PROVIDES FOR A
TOTAL REDUCTION OF ABOUT S15,-
000,000.

TOTAL REDUCTION OF ABOUT S15,-
O00,000.
The Senate finance committees sub
stitute for the Mills tariff bill, which was
introduced in the Senate last week, en-
bodies an entire revision of the tariff
schedule and the administrative features
of the present law, proposing the re-
enactment of all such features as in the
opinion of the majority of the committee
ought not to be changed.
The following synopsis contains all
the changes, as compared with the pres
ent law, the rates by the present law be-
ing given in parenthesis with each item
Except when the article is not enumer-
ated in the existing law. The follow
ing are the
ADDITIONS To THE FREE LIST:
Acorns, raw, dried OF undried: baryta,
Sulphate of, or baryteS unmanufactured; :;
beeswax; books and pamphlets, printed
exclusively in nlanguages other than Eng
lish; braids, plaits, flats, laces, etc, for
Ornamenting hats; bristles, raw or IN
manufactured; bulbs and dubious roots,
not edible; chicory root, raw, dried or
undried, but ground; coal stack or culm:
coal tar, crude; curling stone handles;
currantS, Zante or other dried; dandeliOn
roots, raw, dried or undried, but un-
ground; eggs and yolks; feathers and
downs of all kinds, crude and unmanu-
factured; jute; jute butts; MANILA ;ramie;
| SiSal grass; sum.
All other textile grasses of fibrous sub
stances unmanufactured or undreSsed;
| floor mating, known as Chinese mating;
grease and oils, such as are commonly
used in soap making or mine drawing,
etc; human hair, raw, uncleaned and
not drawn; mineral waters, not specially
enumerated; molaSses testing not above
| Sc degrees; olive oil for manufacturing
or mechanical purposes; nut oil or oil of
nut; opium crude or unmanufacturedf for
smoking; potash, crude carbOnate;potash
cauStic or hydrate; potash, nitrate of, or
salt petre; potash, sulphate of; potash,
chlOrate of; rage, all not enumerated;
hemp seed; rape seed; sponges; sand:
tars and pitch of wood; turpentine.
SCHEDULES.
Wool and manufacturers of wool (the
classification of woods is that of the pres
ent laW)-WOOls of the first and second
class and all hair of the alpaca goat and
other like animals II cents per pound
40 to 36c); woods of third class, exceed
ing in value twelve cents per pound, six
cents per pound, (5c); top slubbing and
all other wastes, composed wholly or in
part of wool or wOrSted, 80 cents per
pound; all woods and hair of the alpaca !
goat or other animals, which have been |
advanced by any process of manufacture |
beyond the washed or secured condition, |
not otherwise enumerated or provided |
for in this act, shall be subject to the |
duties as are imposed upon manufactures
of wool not specially enumerated or pro- |
vided for in this act; wooden cloths, |
Shawls and all manufactures of wool not |
enumerated, valued at not exceeding
forty cents per pound, 35e per pound,
and in addition thereto 35 per cent. ad
valorem (35 cents and IS and 40 per
cent?; above forty cents andnot exceed
ing sixty cents per pound, 30 cents per
pound and 40 per cent. ad valOrem (35
and 40 cents and 35 and 40 per cent u;
above sixty cents per pound, 40 cents
per pound and 40 per cent. ad valorem;
flannels, blankets, hats, ETC., valued at
above soc per pound, 4Oc per pound and
40 per cent. ad valorem GA cents and 35
per cent, and 35 cents and 40 per cent?
women's and children's dress goods,
Italian cloths and made part of wool and
valued at not exceeding fifteen cents per
square yard, &c per square yard, 40 per
cent. ad valorem &c and 35 per cent?;
containing an admixture of silk, and in
which silk is not the component material
of chief value, and not otherwise provid-
ed, lie per square yard, and in addition
thereto 40 per cent. ad valOrem (5c and [
35 per cent. and &c and 40 per cent. ac-
cording to value provided that all goods
of the character numerated or described
in this paragraph, weighing over ounces
per square yard, shall pay duty of 40
cents per pound, and 40 per cent. ad
valorem (35c and 40 per cent?; wOmen's !
and children's dress goods, Italian cloths
and composed wholly of wool and lie
per square yard, and so per cent. ad va q,
lOrem doe and 25 per cent?; all such !
goods with salvages made wholly or in
part of other materials, and all such
goods in which threads made wholly or :
in part of other materials, have been in
troduced for the purpose of changing !
the classification for duty lie per square !
yard and 40 per cent. ad valorem (9c and !
10 per cent?; provided, that all such
goods going over four ounces per square
yard. shall pay duty of 40c 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 of wool, made up or manufactured
wholly or in part, 40c per pound and 45 q
per cent. ad valorem (40c and 35 per {
cent?; cloaks, dolmans, jackets, etc, etc, '.
except knit goods composed wholly or
IN part of wool, made up wholly or in .
oar) 45c per pound and As per cent. ad
7alorem (45c and 40 per cent?; endless 4
belts or felts for paper or printing ma 4
,hines, zoe per pound and 30 per cent.
I'd valorem (20c and IS per cent?
SCHEDULE E. n
Sugar-Al sugars not above thirteen 7
Dutch standard in color; Tank bottoms, {
yrups of cane juice or of beet juice 5
nelada, concentrated melada, concrete U
,r concentrated molasseS, testing by 5
not above as degrees 7-lOc
Der pound (now $4,000; and for every
additional degree shown by polariscope, -.
: -100c additional (now 4-1OOc); all Sug- Il
lrs above number thirteen and not above Il
lumber sixteen, 1sc (now q 1-lOOc); all I
sugar above number sixteen and not d
lbOve number twenty, 1Sc NOW 3c); all e
ugars above number twenty, &c NOW u
~; molasses testing above 56 degrees Il
ic per gallon (now 3; sugar candy and
III confectionery, including chocolate =.