Omaha daily bee., 1888-03-02
THE MILLS TARIFF MEASURE.
The Great Unknown Turned Loose
on an Indulgent People.
ADDITIONS TO THE FREE LIST.
No Provisions as to Internal Revenue
Estimated Reduction in Reve.
nue. $4,000, O,OOO-synop.
sis of the Bill.
The Tariff Bill.

tho ways and means committee to-day SUD-
mitted TO the full committee the tarih bill
upon which the democratic members have
been at work for several months. The free
list section is to take effect July /, 1888
The measure was Immediately made
public. Among the additions to the list OF
articles which may be imported Tree OF duty |
nre the following: Timber hewn and sawed; |
timber used for building wharves and for |
spars; timber squared or sided; wood manu- |
factured not especially enumerated or pro- |
yided for; hubs or wheels, etc; slaves OF
wood, pickets and pailings and laths, shin
giles, clapboards, pine or spruce; logs; pro-
vided that if any export duty is laid opon
the above mentioned articles, or either OF
them by any country whence imported, all
said articles from said country shall be sub
jcct 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 import duty on exports
from the United States. Flax,
straw, fax not packed or dressed.
burlaps, not exceeding sixty inches in width,
of which fax, iute or hemp, or either OF
them, shall be the component material OF
chief value; tin plates, terne plates and
taggers tin; beeswax, gelatin, and all similar
low isinglass. soap, hard and soft, all of
which are not otherwise specially enume-
rated or provided for; oil, croton, fiaxseed
or lnseed oil, cottonseed oil, petroleum,
cement, sulphates of copper and iron potash,
sulphate of potash, sulphur, benzne, spirits
Of turpentine, all preparations known as es-
sential oils. iron and steel cotton ties, or
hoops for paling purposes not thinner than
No. 20 wire gauge, needles, copper wire i'm
ported in the form Of fores, nickel in ore
matt or other crude form not ready for
consumption in arts, quicksilver, mnerai
substances in n crude state and metals un-
wrought, not especially enumerated or pro-
vided for; brick, vegetables in their nat
ural state, or in salt or brine, currants f1gs,
meats, game or poultry, beans, peas ana spnt
peas, pulp for paper makers use, bibles,
books and pamphlets in other languages than
English, and books and pamphlets and all
publications of foreign governments and pub
locations of foreign societies, historical or
scientific, printed for gratultous distribution;
feathers Of all kinds, grindstones, human
hair, raw, uncleaned and not drawn, lime,
garden seeds, marbles OF all kinds,
Dp%ngs DpGom i1rn oil Passr Water aoors paa and
statuary not otherwise provided for But
the item "statuary" shall be understood to
include the professional productions of statu-
ary Of the sculptor only.
are some of the most important changes
proposed by the bill: Iron IN pigs, $6per ton;
now $40 cent per pound. Iron, railway
Steel and part steel railway bars and slabs,
and billets of steel, 81 per ton; now $l7 per
ton. Iron or steel rails, ga per ton; fiat rails,
&l5 per ton; now $40 and $40 cent per pound,
respectively. Round iron, cent per pound !;
now 2lO cents per pound. On sheet iron,
there is q uniform reduction of lilo cent per
pound, excepting taggers iron. On hoop,
band or scroll iron less than eight inches in
width, there is reduction OF l-lo cent per
pound on CRATES thinner than No.
10 wire guage. Cast iron pipe of every de-
scription, 6-l0 cent per pound; now cent per
pound. Cut nails and spikes OF iron or steel,
35 per cent ad valorem; now about cents
per pound. Railway fish plates, $40 cent per
pound; now IA. Wrought iron or steel
spikes, horse shoes, etc, ~ cents per pound
blanks, bars, bands, sheets, cranks,, shafts
and pins, stamps paper gun moulds, stee
castings, etc, valued at cent pound Al
cent per pound; valued at more than cent
and not more than cents, 40 per cent al yal
orem; now As per cent on all values
less than cents per pound, and from
grades. Iron or steel beams. posts
shapes, $40 cents per pound; now IA cents
Steel or partly steel railway wheels and tires
or ingots for same, ~ cents per pound
now 2la cents. Iron and steel wire remain
uucuauRcu, WIN pToNlSiou ho uuVy
shall exceed GO per cent ad valorem. Olt
copper and copper clippings for remanufac
ture, cent per pound; now cents: lngot!
and chill bars, cents per pound; now
cents. Rolled plates, sheet rolled, pipes
etc, 80 per cent ad valorem; now s5 per cent
Lead ore and dross,.& cent per pound; nov
~ cents. Pigs, bars, etc, for remanufac
re. tare - cents; no% cents; cntss Sheet meS
pipes cents saa ssSs; sSs;athins and Sa''' yellow ov
metal, 30 per cent ad valorem; now 35 pc
cent. Nickel, ore or matte, 10 cents pc
pound, or nickel contained therein; now L
cents. Zinc and spelter in pigs or for re
manufacture, II cents per pounds in sheet
2 cents per pound; now ~ and 2]9 cents
respectively. Hollow ware, s>9 cents pc
pound; now cents. Needles of all kinds
20 per cent ad valorem now % and 30 per cent
Cabinet or house furniture, wood, 30 per cen
ad valorem; now 35 per cent. Manufacture
of hard woods, 80 per cent ad valorem; nov
35 per cent. Wood manufactures unenumel
ated, 30 per cent ad valorem; now 30 per cent
Sugar. not above No. Is $, is as follows
Tank bottoms, syrups, etc, not above 10 de
grees polarioscope, l.l5 cents per hundred
and for every additional degree 3l0O cent
per pound; above 10 d. 5. and not above y
2.2O cents per pound; above 20 d. $. 2l9 cent
per pound. The present duties range frol
1.40 cents per pound below IA d. 5. to 3]9 cent
per pound for sugars above ~ d. $. In
lower grade of molasses is unchanged, bl
that testing above 46 degrees is reduced froi
s to q cents per gallon. Confectionery, I
per cent ad valorem; now 10 cents per pounl
All leaf tobacco manufactured is fixed at y
cents per pound, and the present distinctio
between sumatra and ordinary wrapping tt
bacco is abolished. Starch, cent per pound
now from 9 to a11 cents per poun'
Rice, cleaned, cents; uncleaned, - cent,
now - and a cents respectively Paddy,
cents per pound; now | y cents. Raisns, Il
cents per pound; now cents Mustard i
bottles, ground or preserved, 6 cents pc
pound; now 10 cents. All cotton cloth, 4
per cent ad valorem, provided tarletan
mulls and crinolines shall not pay more tina
25 per cent ad valorem; the present tart
divides cotton cloth into twelve classes, wit
duties ranging from 2l5 cents per squai
yard for less than 100 threads TO the squai
inch, to 40 per cent ad valorcm on colore
cottons exceeding 200 threads to the squai
inch. Spool cotton, 40 per cent ad valoren
now at a minimum duty OF cents per
spools. Duck, linen canvas, hnndkerchlef
lawns or other manufactures of flax, iute
hemp, not specially provided 10
25 per cent ad valorem, and line
collars, cuffs and shirts, % per cent q
valorem; now uniform at 20 per cent {
valorem. Flax, hemp and iute yarns, % p
cent I'D valorem; now IS per cent ad valorer
Linen, thread, twine, etc, % per cent {
valorem; now 35 per cent Oil cloths, % p
Cent a1 valoram. no\v al per cent. Go