Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1888-03-08
THE NEW TARIFF BILL.

ted to the Ways and Means Com mittee-
Heavy Reductions-Free List Increased.
WASHINGTON, March 1.-The chairman OF
the WAYS and Means Committee Today
submitted to the full committee the TarIff
bill upon which the Democratic members
have been at work several months. The
free list section is to take effect July /,
1883.
The measure was Immediately mado pub
lie. II proposes To fix duty on pig iron at
So q ton; on iron or steel railway bars
weighing more than twenty-five pounds to
the yard, and slabs or biiets OF steel, Sill a
ton; or iron or steel L rails weighing not
over twenty-five pounds 10 the yard, $14 a
ton; and on iron or steel fat rails punched,
SIS ton.
The bill provides for admitting FREQ of
duty after July l. ''all woods, halr OF the
alpaca, goat and other like animals. WOODS
on the skin. woolen rags, shoddy mengo,
waste and hocks." After October !. 1888,
it provides among other things for q forty
per cent. duty on wool and worsted cloth.
shawls and all manufactures or wool, not
specially enumerated; and on hannels
blankets, knit goods, women's and chill
dren's dress goods, composed IN part OF
wool.
Estimates of reductions in revenue er-
fected by the bill have not been completed
in details, but the aggregate, according to
the best information in the hands of the
committee, is fixed at S55,00o, 900. This
total includes about 224 millions on
account of the free list; 1715 millions on ac-
count of wooden goods, $1,000, 900 for china
and glassware, three-quarters of million
dollars in the chemical schedule;
something less than half q million
dollars on cotton; sl,50O,o00 on fax,
hemp and jute, and on sugar
about 81, 600, 000 There are no internal reve
nue. changes proposed by the bill This
subject was purposely left, for lack OF
time, to the consideration OF the full COM
mittee
The bill makes the following additions to
free of duty:
Timber. hewn and sawed, and timber used for
spars and in building wharVes.
Timber squared or sided.
Wood manufactured, not especially enumer-
ated or provided for.
Sawed boards, planks, deals and all other ar
ticles 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 only.
Slaves Of wood, pickets and palings, Iaths
shingles.
Clapboards, pine or spruce. Logs-provided
that If any export duty is laid upon the above
mentioned articles or any OF then al said
articles imported from said country shall be
Salt in bags, sacks, barrels or other packages
in bulk, when imported from any country which
does not charge an import duty upon salt ex-
ported from the United States.
Flax. straw. Flax not hacked or dressed.
Flax hacked known as dressed linen tow of
fax or hemp. Hemp, MANILA and other like
substitutes for hemp.
Jute butts: jute, sunni, sizal grass and other
fbers.
Burlaps, not exceeding sixty inches in width,
OF fax, jute or hemp or of which fax, jute or
hemp. or 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 bag
glng is supplied. composed in whole or in part
OF hemp, jute jute butts, fax, gunny b ags, gun
ny cloth, or other material: provided that as to
hemp and fax, lute, jute butts, sunni and sizal
grass, and manufactures thereof, except blrlapS
not exceeding sixty inches in width and bag
ging for cotton, this act shall take effect July
/, 1882
Iron steel sheets, plates, or taggers
iron, coated with tin or lead, or with u mixture
of which these metals is a component part by
the dipping or any other process, and CONNER
cially known as tin plates, terne plates and tag
gers tin.
Bees wax. gelatine and all similar prepara-
lions. Glycerine, crude, brown, or yellow. Fish
glue or isinglass. Phosphorus soap stocks, fit
only for use as such.
Soap-Hard and soft, all OF which are not
otherwise specially enumerated provided
for
Extract OF hemlo"k and other bark used for
tanning. Indigo. extracts OF, and carmine TO-
dine. resublimed. Licorice juice
Oil-Croton, hempseed and rapcseed OIL flax
seed or linseed oil. OIL cottonseed. petroleum.
Alumina-Alum, patent alum. alum substi-
tute sulphate of alumina and aIuminous cake
and alum in crystals or ground.
All limitations of natural mineral waters and
all artificial mineral waters.
Baryta, sulphate of, or baryates unmanufac-
tured BOracic acid, borate of lime and borax.
Cement-Roman, Portland and all others.
Whiting and Paris white, copper, sulphate of,
or blue vitriol.
Iron. sulphate OF, copperas, potash. crude,
carbonate OF, or fusel and caustic potash. chlor
ate of potash and nitrate of potash or saltpetre
crude, Sulphate of potash.
Sulphate of soda. known as salt cake, crude
or refined or inter cake, crude refined and
glubers' salt, sulphur, refined in rolls, wood tar
coal tar, crude.
Analine oil and its homologues, coal tar, pro-
ducts Of such naphtha. benzine. bcnisole,
dead oil and pitch. Ali preparations of coal tar,
not colors or dyes, and not acids OF colors and
dyes, logwood and other dyewoods, extracts and
decoctlonS of.
Spirits of turpentine, boneblack, ivory drop
black and bone charcoal.
Ocher AMI ochery earths, umber and lumber
earths. sienna and sienna earths, when dry.
All preparations known as essential oils, e1
pressed OILS. distilled OILS, rendered oils, aka
line, alkaloids and all combinations OF any of
the foregoing and chemical compounds by
whatever name known and not specially en-
or provided for in this act.
All barks, beans, berries, balsams buds,
bulbs, dubious roots and excrescences such as
nut gals, fruits, flowers. dried fbers grains,
gums and gum resins. herbs. leaves, hchens
nuts, roots, and stems, vegetables, seeds and
seeds OF morbid growth, weeds woods used ex-
pressly for dyeing and dried insects.
INla Hxx.&
have been advanced in value or condition by re-
Hning or grinding or by other process OF man
not specially enumerated or provided
for.
All earths or clays unwrought or unmanufact-
ured China clay or kaoline
Opium, crude. containing per centum and
over OF morphia for medic Il purposes.
Iron and steel cotton ties or hoops for bailing
purposes, not thinner than No. 20 wire gauge.
Needles: sewing, darning, knitting and all