New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1888-03-07
NEW TARIFF BILL.
The Tariff Bill at Last Reported to
the Full Committee on Ways
and Means.
Lumber, Salt, and Many Other
Commodities Added to the
Free List.

commodities Added to the
Free List.
The chairman of the committee on Ways
and Means has presented the new bill to
the whole committee, and thas been print
ed Tor the benefit OF the public It will
probably be presented to the House
| on or about the 18th. Thelatest estimates
made by the committee on ways and
| means OF the reductions is a totallof about
500, 600, 600. This total includes about
| S22,25O, 600 on account Of the free list;
l12oo, OOOon account OF wooden goods;
$l,600o0o for china and glassware;
/ 500, 600 in the chemical schedules; some
thing less than 100000 on cotton, ST.
ooo 900 on flax, hemp and iute, and sugar
| agents OF the highly protected interests are
making their way to Washington, and al
ready denounce the whole bill and threat
en- its defeat.
| OUTLINE OF THE BILL.
The bill makes the following additions to
the list of articles which may be imported
free Of duty:
Timber hewn and sawed, and timber used
for spars and building wharves, timber
J squared and sided. Wood manufactured,
not specially enumerated OF provided for.
Sawed boards, planks, deals and all other
articles of sawed lumber. Hubs for wheels,
gun blocks, heading blocks and all like
blocks or sticks, rough hewn or sawed only.
Slaves of wood, pickets and palings, laths,
shingles, clapboards, pine or spruce logs,
provided, that if any export duty is laid upon
the aforementioned articles or either of
them by any country whence imported, all
said articles imported from said country
! shall be subject to duty as now provided by
law Salt in bags, sacks, barrels or other
packages or in bulk, when imported from
any country which does not charge an i'm
port duty upon salt exported from the
United States
! Flax, straw; fax, not hacked or dressed;
flax, hacked known as dressed linen tow of
flax or hemp; hemp, MANILA and other like
substitutes Tor hemp; jute butts, jute; sunni,
sisal grass and other vegetable lbres; bur-
laps, not exceeding sixty inches in width, OF
fax iute or hemp, or of which flax juUe or
I hemp, or either of them, shall be the COM
ponent material of chief values. Bagging,
for cotton or other manufactures, not
specially enumerated or provided for in this
act suitable to the use for which cotton bag
ging is applied, composed in whole or part
Of hemp, jute, jute butts, flax, gunny bags,
gunny cloJh or ether material provided that
as to hem and flax jute, jute butts, sum and
slsal grass, and manufactures thereof, ex-
cept burlaps not exceeding sixty inches IN
width and bagging for cotton, this act shall
lake effect July 1, 1889
IRON PLATES
lion or steel sheets or plates, or taggers'
iron, coated with tin or lead or with MKT
ure of which these metals is component
part, by the dipping Or any other process,
and commercially known as tin plates,
terrne plates and taggers' tin. Beeswax,
gelatine and all similar preparations. City,
cerine (crude, brown or Yellow, fish glue or
tsinglass. Phosphorus, soap, stocks fit only
for use as such. Soap, hard and soft, all OF
which are not otherwise specially enumer-
otoG lo1 70, oF
and other bark used for tanning. Indigo, ex-
tracts of and carmined. Iodine resublimed
| licorice, juice; Oil, croton; hempseed and
rape seed oil; flax seed or linseed oil; oil. cot
ton seed; petroleum; alumina. alum, patent
alum. alum substitute, sulphate of alumina
and alum1nous cake, and alumni crystals or
ground. All limitations of natural mineral
waters, and ali artificial mineral waters
Baryta, sulphate of or barytes unmanufac-
tured. Boracic acid barate of lime and
borax Cement, Roman Portland and all
others. Whiting and Paris white Copper,
sulphate of, or blue vitriols. Iron, sulphate
OF, or copperas. Potash, crude carbonate of,
OF fusel and caustc potash. Chlorate of pot
ash and nitrate OF potash OF saltpeter crude
Sulphate OF potash; sulphate of soda known
as salt cake, crude or refined, or nitre cake
crude or refined, and glaubersalt; sulphur,
refined in rolls; wood tar; coal tar, crude;
anaiine oil and it's homologues; coal 5ar
products IF, such as naphtha benztne, ben
cole, 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 decoctons Of; spirits of
5urpentine; bone black ivory drop black
and bone charcoal ocher and ochery earths
nmber and lumber 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 chemical COM
pounds by whatever name known and not
specially enumerated or provided for in this
act ALI banks, beans, berries, balsams,
buds, bulbs, Dubious roots and eXcrescences,
such as nut gals, fruits, flowers, dried fbres,
grains, gums and gum resins, herbs, leaves,
lichens, nuts roots and stems, vegetables,
seeds and seeds OF morbid growth, weeds
woods used expressly for dyeing, and dzed
insects. All non-dutiable crude minerals
but which have been advanced in value or
condition by refining or grinding or by other
process OF manufacture, not specially
enumerated or provided for. All
manufactured. China, clay or kasoline
Opium, crude, containing 8 per centum and
over of mocphia for medicinal purposes
Iron and steel cotton ties or hoops for bal
ing purposes. not thinner than No. 20
wire gauge. Needles, sewing, darnins, knit
ated or provided for in this act Copper
| imported in the form OF ores, regulus of and
black or case copper and copper cement, old
copper fit only for manufacture. Nickel in
ore, matt, or other crude form not ready for
consumption in the arts. Anthony as
regulus or metal. Quicksilver, chromate of
IRON or chronic ore Mineral substances in
q crude state and metals unwrought, not
specially enumerated or provided for
| Brick; vegetables in their natural state or in
/ salt or brine; chicory root, ground or I'M
ground, burnt or prepared, and all other ar
ticles used or intended to be used as coffee,
or substances therefor, not especially enum-
Grated or provided for; cocoa, prepared or
| manufactured; dates, plums and prunes;
currants, zante or other; figs, meats, game
and poultry; beans, peas and split peas;
| pulpa, for papermakers use.
BOOKS AND PAMPHLETS
Bibles books and pamphlets printed in
other languages than English. and books and
| pamphlets and all publications of foreign
governments, and publications of foreign
societies, historical or scientific, printed for
gratuitous distribution; bristes; bulbs and
| dubious roots, when not medicinal; feathers
of all kinds, crude OF not dressed, colored or
| manufactured: finishing powder. grease