The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1888-03-02
Ways and Means Committee Reports.
A Synopsis of the Proposed Meas
ure Shows q Great Change.
The Presidents recommendation
Suit the Committee.
Raw Material, Iron, Wood and
Wool, on the Free List.
Likewise Salt, Begging and Cotton
Ties-The Duty ON Pig Iron and
Steel Rails, si4-Sugar and
Cotton Cloth Reduced.

\ WASHINGTON, March 1.-The chairman
.oi the ways and means committee today
Submitted to the full committee the tariff
Nbill 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.
The bill proposes 10 fix the duty on pig
!. iron at 50 per ton, on iron ore steel railway
4 bars weighing more than twenty pounds
per yard, and slabs or billets Of steel, $ll
per ton. On iron or steel I rails, weighing
not over twenty-five pounds 10 the yard,
Sl4 per ton, and ON iron or steel fiat rails
punched, sl4 per ton.
The bill provides for admitting free OF
duty after July !, "all woods, hair of the
alpaca, goat and other like animals; wool
on the skin; woolen rags, shoddy mengo,
waste and ilocks."
After October l, 1855, II provides among
other things for 40 per cent. duty on
woolen or worsted cloth, shawls and all
manufactures OF wool, not specially emu
merated; and Of lanncls, blankets, knit
goods, women's and children's dress goods
composed in part Of wool.
The bill makes the following additions
TO the list OF articles which may be i'm
ported free oi duty:
Timber hewn and sawed and timber
used for spars and in building wharves.
Timber squared or sided. Wood unmanu.
featured, not specially enumerated or pro-
vided for. Sawed boards, planks, deals
and all other articles Of sawed lumber
Hubs for wheels, posts, last blocks, wagon
blocks, oar blocks gun blocks, heading
blocks aud all like blocks or sticks, rough
hewn or sawed only Slaves Of wood.
Pickets aud palings, laths, shingles. Clap
boards, pine or spruce. Logs-provided
that il any export duty Is laid upon the
above mentioned articles OF either OF them
by any country whence imported, all said
articles imported from said country shall
be subject TO duty rs now provided by law.
Salt in bags sacks, barrels or other pack
ages in bulk, when imported from any
country which does not charge nm export
duty upon salt exported from the United
States.
Flax, straw, FAX not hacked or dressed,
flax hacked, known rs dressed linen tow
OF flax or hemp. Hemp, MANILA and
other like substitutes for hemp; jute butts;
jute. Sunn, sisal grass and other vegeta-
bic fibers; burlaps, not exceeding sixty
inches in width, Of fax, jute or hemp, or
OF which flax, jnte or hemp, or
either Of them shall be the component ma
terial OF chief value. BagGng for cotton
or other manufactures not specially emu
merated or provided for In this act suita-
BILE for the uses for which cotton bagging
il applied, composed in whole or in part OF
hemp, jute, jntc butts, fax, gunny bags,
gunny cloth or other materially provided,
that as TO hemp and fax, jute, jute butts,
sum and sisal grass. and manufacturers
thereof, except burlap not exceeding sixty
inches in width, and baggng for cotton,
this act shall take effect July lst, 1889.
Iron or steel sheets or plates, or taggen'
iron coated with tin or lead, or with mix
turc Of which these metals is n component
part by the dipping or any other process,
and commercially known as tin plates and
taggcrs' tin.
Becswax, galatinc and all similar prepa-
rations.
Glycerine, crude, brown or yellow.
Fish, glue or isinglass.
Phosphorus scrap stocks ft only for Use
~ such.
Soap, hard and soft, all ofwhich are not
otherwise specially enumerated or pro-
Extract OF hemlock and other bark used
for tanning. Indigo, extracts Of, and car
mined. Iodine, resublimated. Licorice
Juice. Oil, croton. Hemp seed and rape
seed oil. Flax seed or linseed oil. Oil,
cotton seed. Petroleum.
Alumina, alum, patent alum, alum sub
stitute, sulphate OF alumina, and alumni
ous cake and alum In crystals or ground.
: All limitations OF natural mineral waters
and all artificial mineral waters Baryta,
sulbhate, or barytas unmanuiacturcd.
Boracic acid, borate Of lime and borax.
Cement, roman, Portland, aud all others.
Whiting and paris white. Copper, sui
phaio OF, or blue wtiol. Iron, sulphate
Of or copperas. Potash, crude, carbonate
OF, or fuscl and caustic potash. Chlomte
OF potash and nitrate oi potash, or salt
pctrc crude. sulphate Of potash. Sui.
phate Of soda, known as salt cake, crude
or refined, or inter cake, crude or refined
and glubem salt. Sulphur, refined in
rolls. Wood tar. Coal Tar, crude. Ami.
line oil and It's bomologies. Coal
tar, products OF, such as naphthaj
bcnzine, bcnizole, dead oil and pitch. All
preparations Of coal tar, not coloB or dyes,
and not acids Of colors and dyes. Logwood
ana OtnCf uyc WOousi cNuncts hhu hcCoV-
tons Of. Spirits OF turpentine. Bone
.black, ivory drop black aud bone char
coal. 0ohcr and ochery earths, umber
and umbcr carths, sienna and sienna
earths, whom dry. All preparations known
as essential oils, expressed oils, distilled
oils, rendered oils, alkaline, alkaloids and
all combinations Of any Of tho foregoing
chemical compounds by whatever name
known and not especially enumerated or
provided for In this act.
All barlxs, beans, berries, balsams, buds,
bulbs, bulbous roots and excrescenccs,
such as nut-galls, fruits, flowers, dried
fibcrs, grains, gums and gum-rcsns, herb
seavcs, lichens, nut roots and stems, vegc-
tables, seeds and seeds OF morbid growth,
weeds, woods used expressly for dying,
and dried insects. All non.dutiable crude
minerals, but which have been advanced
IN value or condition by refining or grind
ing or by other process Of manufacture
not specially enumerated or provided for
All earths or clays unwrought or unmanii'
facturcd. China, clay or kaoline. Opium
crude, containing per ccnium and o,ol
81 morphia, for medicinal purposes.
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