Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1888-03-07
THE NEW TARIFF BILL.
REPORTED TO THE FULL COM
MTTTEE OF THE HOUSE.
"A General Cut in the List of Protected
~Goods-Lumber, Wool and Salt
Placed on the Free
List-A Syn
opsis.

mittee the tariff bill upon which the
Democratic members have been at
work for several months. The free list
section is to take effect July l, 1888.
The measure was Immediately made
public.
The bill proposes 90 fix duty on pig
iron at IS per ton; on iron or steel rail-
way bars, weighing more than twenty
five pounds to the yard and slabs Or
billets of steel, $11 per ton; on iron Or
steel I rails weighing not over twenty
five pounds to the yard, $14 per ton;
and on iron or steel fiat rails punched,
SIS per ton.
Estimates of reductions in revenue eff
fected by the bill have not been COM
pleted in details, but the aggregate, &C
cording to the best information in the
hands of the committee is liked
at s55,OO0,OOO. This total includes
the Tree list, ST., 250,000 on account OF
wooden goods, $1,6O0,OOO for china and
glassware, 150,0OO in a chemical sched-
ule; something less than $500 900 on cot
ton, ST. 100000 on flax, hemp and jute,
and on sugar about 81 100000. There
lis no internal revenue changes proposed
by the bill. This subject was purposely
left, for lack of time, to the consldera-
ton of the full committee.
The bill provides for admitting free of
duty after July l, "all woods, hair of the
Alpaca goat and other like animals:
woods on the skin; wooden rags, shoddy
October /, 1888. it provides among other
things for 40 per cent. duty
on wooden and worsted cloth,
shawls and all manufacturers of
wool, not specially enumerated; and
on fannels, blankets, knit goods, wom-
ems and children's dress goods COM
posed in part Of wool. The bill makes
the following additions to the list of ar
ticles which may be imported free of
duty:
Timber, hewn and sawed and timber
used for spars and in building wharves;
timber, squared or sided; wood, unman-
ufactured, not specially enumerated or
provided for; sawed boards, planks,
deals, and all other articles of sawed
lumber; hubs for wheels; posts, last
blocks, wagon blocks, oar blocks, gun
blocks, heading blocks and all like
blocks or sticks, rough hewn or sawed
ings, laths, shingles; clapboards-pine
or spruce; logs-provided that if any
export duty is laid upon the above
mentioned articles or either of them by
any country whence imported, all said
articles imported from said country
shall be subject to duty as now provid-
ed by law.
Salt, in bags, sacks, barrels, or other
packages or in bulk, when imported
from any country which does not charge
an import duty upon salt exported from
the United States.
Flax, straw; flax, not hacked or
dressed: flax. hacked (knOWn as
pressed linen tow OF fax or hemp);
hemp, mania and other like substitutes
for hemp; jute butts; jute; sum, sisal
grass and other vegetable fbers;
burlaps, not exceeding sixty inches
in width, of flax, ute or hemp,
either of them, shall be the component
material of chief value; bagging for
cotton or other manufactures not
specially enumerated or provided for
in this act suitable to the uses for
which cotton bagging is applied
composed in whole or part OF
hemp. jute, jute butts, flax, gunny
bags, gunny cloth, or other material;
provided that as to hemp and fax, jute,
jute butts, sum and sisal grass and man
ufacturers thereof, except burlaps lot
exceeding sixty inches in width and
bagging for cotton, this act shall take eff.
feet July !, 1889.
Iron or steel sheets, or plates, or tag
gers iron, coated with tin or lead, or
with mixture of which these metals is
component part, by the dipping or
any other process. and commercially
known as tin plates, terne plates and
taggers tin.
Beeswax, gelatine and all similar
preparations, glyycerine. crude. brown,
or yellow; fish glue or lslnglass; phos-
phorus, soap stocks, fit only for use as
such; soap, hard and soft, all of which
are not otherwise specially enumerated
or provided for; extra ci. of hemlock
and other barks used for tanning;
indigo, extracts ofand carmined, iodine,
resublimed; hcorice juice; croton oil;
hempseed and rapeseed oil; haxseed or
hnseed oil; cottonseed oil; petroleum
alumina, alum, patent alum, alum sub
stitute, sulphate of alunina and
aluminous cake and alum in
CRYSTALS or ground; all limitations of nat
ural mineral waters, and all artificial
mineral waters; baryta, sulphate of, or
barytes, manufactured; boracic acid,
borate Of lime and borax; cement, Ro-
man, Portland and all others; whiting
and Paris white; copper, sulphate of,
or blue vitirol; iron, sulphate of, or cop
peras; potash, crude, carbonate of or
fusel and caustic potash; chlorate of
pOId6u &Hd 1l1lIdCC VI pOiclOA VI cdlCDCCCI
crude; sulphate of potash; sulphate of
soda, known as salt cake, crude or
refined or inter cake, crude or refined
and glaubers salt. Sulphur, refined. in
rolls; wood tar, crude coal tar; aniline
oil and its homologues; coal tar, products
of, such as naphtha, benZine, benizole,
dead oil and pitch; all preparations of
coal tar not colors or dyes, and not acids
of colors and dyes; logwood and
other dye woods, extracts and decoc-
tons Of spirits Of turpentine; bone
black, ivory drop black and bone char
coal; ocher and ochery earths, lumber
and umber earths, sienna and sienna
earths, when dry; all preparations
known as essential oils, expressed oils,
distilled oils, rendered oils, alkaline,
alkaloids and all combinations Of
any OF the foregoing and cneml-
cal compounds by whatever name
known and not specially enumerated
or provided for in this act.