Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1888-03-02
HERE IT is.
The Tariff Bill Given to the
Public.
A VERY CONSERVATIVE MEASURE.
E.lty-Fiye Millions Of Unnecessary Revenue
Topped OFT and Not an Industry
Injured.
A VERY CONSERVATIVE MEASURE.
SOME TRUSTS" KNOCKED OUT,
For Instance the Steel Rail and the Sugar
TrusS-The Duties on Hard and
Soft Steel are Eveaed Up.

WASHINGTON, March 1.-Tbe Chair
man Of the Ways and Means Committee
to-day submitted to the full committee the
Tariff bill, upon which the Democratic
members have been at work for several
months
The tree list section is to take effect July
I, lSsS. The measure was Immediately
made public.
The new Tariff bill proposes to fix duty
on pig iron at S. per ton; on iron OF steel
railway bars, weighing more than % pounds
to the yard, and slab OF billets Of steel, Sll
per tor. On iron and steel T rails, weigh
ing not over 25 pounds to the yard, 81
per ton; and on iron or steel Hat rails
punched, $l5 per ton.
The bill provides for admitting free OF
duty after July 1st 'all woods, hair Of the
Alpaca goat and other like animals; woods
on the skin; wooden rags, shoddy mengo,
waste and hocks." After October lst,
1SsS, it provides, among other thing, for a
forty per cent. duty on wooden and worsted
cloth, shawls and all manufactures of wool,
not especially enumerated; and on fau-
nels, blankets, knit goods, women's and
children's dress goods composed in part OF
wool.
THE FREE LIST.
The bill makes the following additions
to the list Of articles which may be I'M
ported free Of duty:
Timber, hewn aud sawed, and timber
used for spars and building wharves Tim
Der squared or sided. Wood uumanutac-
tursd, not specially enumerated OF pro
vided for. Sawed boards, planks. 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,
hewn or sawed only. Slaves OF wood,
picSets and palings, laths, shingles, clap
boards, pine OF spruce logs
Provided, that If any export duty il
laid upon the above mentioned articles or
either Of them, by any country whence
imported, all said articles from said Coun-
try shall be snhject TO duty as now pro
yiiCd by law.
salt, ia bags sacks. barrels or other
packages, or in bulk. when in ported from
any country which does not charge an im-
pOr, duty upon suit exported from the
United States.
Flax straw. Flax not hackled or dress.
ed. Flax Lackled, known a. dressed line
Tow OF lax or hemp. Hemp, manila and
Othsr like substitutes for hemp. Jute
butts, jute, sum, si-al grass, and other
vegetable Gbsrs. Burlaps not exceeding
sixty inches IN width, ofhtN, juts OF hemp.
OF which liN, iute or hemp, OF either of
them, shall hs ;he component material OF
chiet value. Bagging for cotton or other
manufactures, not specially enumerated
or provided tor IN this act, suitable to
the uses for which cotton baggiug Is
applied, composed in whole or in part OF
hemp, iu.e, juts butts, daX gunny bags,
guuuy cloth OF other material.
Provided, That as to hemp and lax,
iuts, iute butts, sum and sisal grass, and
manufactures thereof, except hurlaps not
exceeding sixty inches in width, and bag
giug for cotton, this act shall take effect
| July lst, l--9.