Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-03-08
Lumber, Wood and Salt Among the I'm
taxed ArticleS-A General Cut is Made.
Total Reduction of Revenue Effected
by the Bill Estimated at S55,000,000.

WASHINGTON, March 1.-The chairman
of the ways and means committee to-day
submitted 20 the full committee the tariff
bill upon which the democratic members
have been at work for several months.
The free list section is 80 take effect July
lst, 1888. The measure was immediately
made public.
/ - IRON PRODUCTS.
The bill proposes to fix duty on pig
iron at Sc per ton; on iron or steel rail-
way bars, Weighing more that twenty-five
pounds to the yard and slabs or billets
of steel, S11 per ton; on iron or steel
L. rails weighing not over twenty-five
pounds to the yard, S14 per ton; and on
iron or steel fat rails punched, SIS per
ton.
EFFECT ON TIE REVENGE.
Estimates of reductions in the revenue
effected by this bill have not been com.
pleted in details, but the aggregate, &C
cording 20 the best information in the
hands of the committee is fixed at S55-
100000. This total includes about $22,-
100000 on account of the free list; ST.
100000 on account of wooden goods, ST.
100000 for china and glass ware, $4,000
in chemical schedule; something less
than 100000 on cotton, $4,500,O0O on
fax, hemp and jute, and on sugar about
$11,000,O00. 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
| committee.
THE FOLLOWING ARTICLES TO BE ADMITTED
| FREE.
Timber, hewn and sawed, and timber
used for srars and in building wharves;
| timber, squared or sided; wood, unmanu-
featured, not specially enumerated or
! provided for; saved 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 only; slaves of wood;
| pickets and palings, laths, shingles, clap
boards-pine or spruce; logs-provided
that if export duty is laid upon the above
mentioned articles or either of them by
any company whence imported. all said
articles imported from said country shall
be subject to duty as now provided by
law.
SALT, FLAX AND FIBERs ON THE FREE LIST.
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 press
ed; fax, hacked (knOwn as pressed linen
tow of fax or hemp0 hemp, manila and
other like substitutes for hemp; jute butts;
iute; sum, si5al grass and other vegetable
fibers; burlaps, not exceeding sixty inches
in width, of fax, jute or hemp, or either
of them, shall be the component material
of chief value; bagging for cotton or
other manufactures not specially enumer-
ated or provided for in this act suitable to
the uses for which cotton bagging is ap-
piled, composed in whole or in part of
hemp, jute, jute butts; fax, gunny bags,
gunny cloth, or other material; provided
that as to hemp and fax, iute, jute butts,
sunni and sisal grass and manufactures
thereof, except perhaps not exceeding
sixty inches in width and bagging for cot
| ton this act shall take effect July /, 1889.
IRON OR STEEL SHEETS FREE.
Iron Or steel sheets, or plates or taggers
iron, coated with tin or lead, or with
mixture of which these metals is com
ponent part, by the dipping or any other
process known as tin plates, terne plates
and taggers tin.
WAKES, DRUGS, OILS, ETC, FREE.
Beeswax, gelatine and all similar prep
arations; glycerine, crude brown or yell
low; fish glue or is1nglass; PHOSPHORUS,
soap stocks, fit only for use as such; soap,
hard and soft, all of which are net other
wise specially enumerated or provided
for; extra cl. Dc hemlock and other barks
- a
carmine6, iodine, roenbiimed; licorice
juice, croton oil; hempseed and rapeseed
oil; fiaxseed, or Iinseed oil; cottonseed
oil; petroleum, aluLnina, alum, pat
emit alum, alum substitute, sulphate of
aIumina and aluminous cake alum in
crystals or ground, all limitations of nat
urai mineral waters, aEd all artificial
mineral waters; baryta, sulphate of, or
baretes, manufactured; bOracic acid,
borate of lime and borax; cement, Roman
Portland and all others; whiting and Paris
white; copper, sulphate of Or blue vitrjol;
iron, sulphate of, or copperas; potash
crude, carbonate of or fusel and caUstic
potash; ehlorate of potash and nitrate OF
patash or saitpeter crude; sulphate Of
potash; sui phate of soda, known as salt
cake, crude or refined or inter cake, crude
or refined, and CHAMBERS salt. Sulphur,
refined in rolls; wood tar, crude coal tar;
aniline oil aud its homologaes; coal tar,
products of, such az naphtna, beDZine,
benzjole, dead oil and pitch; ali prepare
tioDs Of coal tar not colors or dyes, and
not acids of coIors and dyes; logwood and
other dye woods, extracts and decoctions
of spirits of turpentine; bone black, ivory
drop black and bone charcoal: ocher and
ochery earths; lumber and umber earths;
sienna and sienna earths, when dry; all
preparations known as essential oils, ex
pressed 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, all barks, beans, berries, bal
sans, buds, bulbs, Dubious roots and
excrescences, such as nut gals, fruits,
flowers, dried fb,rs, grains, gums. and
gum resins, herbs, leaves, lichens, nuts,
roots and stems, vegetables, seeds and
seed Of morbid growth, weeds, woods
used expressly for dyeing and dried in
sects.
ALL NoN-DUTIABLE CRUDE MINERALS,
,ut which have been advanced in value
or condition by refining Or grinding or
By other process of manufacture, not
specially enumerated or prouided for; all
earths or clays unwrought or unmanufac-
tured; China, clay or kaoline; opium
(cr1de) containing per ceDtum and
over of morphia, for medicinal purposes;
iron and steel cotton ties or hoops for
bailing purposes, not thinner than num-
Der twenty wire guage. Needles, sewing, |
darning, knitting and all others not speci- |
ally enumerated or provided for in this
act.
COPPER, NICKLE AND OTHER MINERALS.