Western appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1885-18??, 1888-10-06
A RIVAL 10 The MILLS BILL.

Revenue OF About &S6,OOO,cOO-A Syn
opsis of the Measure.
WASHINGTON, Oct 4.-Senator Allison,
from the Committee on Finance, re.
ported back the House Tariff bill with
an amendment in the nature of a
substitute. 1t was placed on the
calendar and ordered to be printed.
According to the estimates made by
the committee, the bill provides for
up approximately as follows: Sugar, $27,
$4,000; free list, Sc, 500, 600; tobacco in-
ternal revenue), S24 500, 600; alcohol in the
arts, V,0OO,OoO; other reductions in Gus.
toms, S5,O00,00O
The bill embodies an entire revision OF
the tariff schedules and the administrative
features of the present law proposing
the re-enactment of all such feat
ures as in the opinion of the majority of the
committee ought not to be changed. The
following synopsis contains the principal
changes, as compared with the present law
the rates of the present law being given
in parenthesis with each item (excep,
when the article is not enumerated in ex
listing law:
The following the additions to the free
list: Acorns, raw, dried or undr;ed; baryta, sui
plate of, OR barytes manufactured; bees
wax; books and pamphlets printed exclusively
in languages other than English; braids plaits
flats, laces etc, for ornamenting hats; bristles
| raw or manufactured; bulbs and Dubious
roots not edible; chicOry root, raw dried or I'm
dried, but ungrouAd; coal slack or culm
coal tar: crude; curling stone handles
currants zante or other, dried; dandelior
roots, raw, dried or undried, but un
ground; eggs and yelks; feathers and
downs OF all kinds, crude and un
int info huttc
ramic: sssal grass; sum; all other textile
grasses fbrous substances, unmanu.
featured or undressed; floor mating,
known as Chinese mating; grease
and oils, such as are commonly used
in soap making mine drawing,
etc.: human hair, raw, uncleaned and not
drawn; mineral waters, not specially enumer.
ated: molasses testing not above Sc degrees
olive Oil for manufacturing or mechanical
purposes; nut OIL oil of nuts
OPIUM crude or manufactured for smok.
ing; potash crude carbonate; pot
ash, caust:c or hydrate; potash, nitrate OF,
or saltpetre; potash, sulphate OF; potash,
chlorate Of; rags, all not enumerated; hemp
seed, rape seed, sponges, sand, tar and pitch OF
wood turpentine.
Also logs railroad ties, ship timber and
ship plauiing, and all lumber, wire rope, iron
and steel materials used in construction and
equipment Of vessels built in the United States
FOR foreign account and ownership. for the pur-
pose OF being employed in the foreign trade,
and all articles of foreign production needed
for the repair of American vessels engaged ex-
cluSively in foreign trade
The internal-revenue section Of the BILL so
FAR as 1t relates to TOBACCO, provides that after
February l, 1889, manufacturers of cigars shall
pay a special tax of s. annually The tax
on cigars, cheroots. and on all cigar
cites weighing more than three pounds
featured or sold after that date, shall be
N.Oo per thousand, and on cigarettes weighing
less than three pounds to the thousand so
cents per thousand, and said tax shall be paid
by the manufacturer. 1t repeats all laws
restricting the disposition of tobacco by
farmers and producers, and all laws
imposing taxes on manufactured tobacco and
snuff, and the special taxes required by law to
be paid by manufacturers of and dealers in leaf
tobacco, retail dealers in leaf tobacco, dealers
IN manufactured tobacco, snuff and CIGARS ped.
oilers or tobaccos, snuff and cigars. and manu-
facturers of snuff. 1t provides for rebate on
all original and unbroken packages held by
manufacturers or dealers at the time the re-
peal goes int effect.
1t also repeats all laws limiting, restricting
or regulating the manufacture, sale or expor.
tation Of tobacco or snuff.
Alcohol to be used in the industrial arts is
relieved from the payment of an internal-rev
enue tax; provision is made for bonded alcohol
warehouses and safeguards are provided
against fraud. There is prohibition against
the use of any distilled spirits upon which the
internal-revenue tax has not been paid in the
manufacture Of tinctures, proprietary articles.
liquors. corGials, bltters, or other alcoholic
compounds which are used or sold as bever-
ages.
Nearly every article in the chemical schedule
shows reduction from the present rate of
DUTY, fannie acid being reduced from 81 to %
cents, and morphia and all salts from 81 an
ounce to 80 cents. Extracts of logwood and
other dye woods and barks for dyeing or tan
ming, not especially provided for, l cent a
pound (now ~ per cent. and 20 per cent ad
valoreml.
Oil-Castor. 20 cents per gallon (now so
cents); cod liver, Is cents (now % per cent? J:
croton, 30 cents NOW so cents: cottonseed, 10
(nOW 20 cents; olive Said, 35 cents NOW IS
cents); seal, whale and other fish OIL cents
(nOw 23 per cent?
Paints and COlorS-Blues, Berlin, Prussian
chinese and others containing ferocyanide of
iron, cents per pound NOW 20 rer cent and 25
per cent?: yellow, green and other chronic COL
ors, AZ cents (now % per cent?; ocher sienna
lumber earths, dry, 4 cent per pound (now q
cent?; ultramarine blue, AS cents NOW 81:
wash blue containing utramarine. cents per
pound NOW 20 per cent?; vermillion red or
quicksilver colors, II cents NOW IS per cent
Farnlshes, including so-called gold size or
Japan, 40 per cent. ad valoreu, and on spirit
Varnlshes for the alcohol contained therein, 50
per gallon additional NOW ranging from ~ PEI,
cent to el.3j per gallon and 40 per cent?
Backing Of all kinds % per cent.
UNI; sulphate of copper, cents per
pound; refined camphor, cents per pound !;
oorax, crude, cents, refined, cents per
pound; cements, cents per hundred pounds ;
chloroform, 30 cents per pound; sulphuric
ether, 30 cents per pound; morphine 80 cents
per pound; medical appropriations, essences,
medcated wines, etc. 30 cents per pound cos
metlcs and toilet preparations, so per centum
ad vnlorem.
Animals. alive. horses and mules, $50 head
(now 20 per cent. ad yalorem); cutie more
than year old, IS per head (now 20 per cent ad
vulorem); hogs and sheep, 80 cents (now 20 per
cent. ad valorem).
Beans per bushel, IS cents now 10 Dor cent.
cd valorem); beans and mushrooms, prepared
or preserved, 25 cents per gallon (now 30 per
cent. ad valorem); cabbages. cent each tnow 10
per cent. ad valorem. Chickery root, burnt or
roasted, cent per pound NOW %; ground or
6ranu1ated in rolls or otherwise prepared, IA
cents; cocoa butter or cocoa butterine, 81
cents NOW 20 per cent?. Dandelion root and
acorns, prepared and other articles used as
coffee or substitutes, not especially cnumer-
ated, ~ cents per pound (nowa q.
Extract Of meat, all not specially provided
for. IS cents per pound \now 20 per cent ad
valorem); fluid extract of meat Is cents per
pound (now 20 per cent. ad valorem).
Grapes, / cent a pound now 20 per cent?:
oranges, lemons or lines, in packages of
III cubic feet or less, 10 cents per pack
age demons now is cents and oranges 10
cents box>; exceeding IA and not ex-
ceeding 3la cubic feet, 20 cents demons
now ID cents, oranges IS ccnts); exceed
ing s,a and not excecding5 cubic feet, 40 cents
(now 80 cents per barely; exceeding 5 cubic
feet, for every additional foot or fractional
part, cents; in bulk, $50 per 1000 tnow %
per cent. ad valorem: lemons, " per 1000;
oranges, SLIGO per 1,O0O:) ginger or ginger root,
preserved. and citron, preserved or candled, 4
cents per pound (now 35 per cent. ad yalorem);