Los Angeles daily herald., 1888-03-02
REDUCED REVENUES.
Many Additions Proposed
to the Free List.
NEW DUTY SUGGESTIONS,
An Estim ted Difference of About
$55,00O,00O to the Ma
tiOn's Income.

$55,00O,00O to the Ma
tion's Income.
Associated Press Dispatches to the HERALD I
WASHINGTON, March 1.-The Chair
man of the Ways and Means Com
mittee to-day submitted to the full
mnittee the Tariff bill, upon which
Democratic members have been at
work for several months. The free
list section takes effect on July LIST,
1888, and the measure will imme-
diately be made public. Among the
additions to the list of articles which
may be imported free OF duty are the
following: Timber, various kinds of
lumber whether hewn or sawed, also
rough wagon and shipping material
and all kinds of wood not specified in
the bill, provided that the articles
mentioned are not subject to duty in
the country whence imported, other
wise the present duties ale to be
levied. Salt has the same restric-
tions, as also timber, fax, hemp and
various vegetable fabrics, burlaps not
exceeding sixty inches wide, bagging,
tin plates, time plates and taggers,
tin, beeswax, gelatine and similar
preparations, glycerine and CLUES,
phosphorus, soap and soap stocks,
tannery barks, oils compressed from
seeds, petroleum and its products,
mineral waters, imitation cements,
tar and its products, turpentine, pre-
parations known as essential, ex-
pressed, distilled and rendered oils,
alkaline, alkaloids and various chem
ical compounds, bulbs, fruits, nuts,
seeds. etc., crude earths, clay and
minerals, opium crude containing
over 80 per cent. of morphine for
medical purposes, iron, steel hoops,
needles, copper ores, regulars and old
copper, nickel ore and crude antimo-
ny, quicksilver, cromate of iron or
cromic ore, crude mineral and
metals unwrought and not spec
cially enumerated or provided for,
bricks, vegetables, meats, beans, peas,
ETC., pulp for paper, bibles, books and
pamphlets printed in other language
than English, and books and
pamphlets and all publications of
foreign governments, and the publica-
ton OF foreign societies, historical or
scientific printed for gratuitous dis
tribution, paintings in oil or water
colors, and statutory not provided for,
stone unmanufactured or undressed,
hair, hatters' fur, unstained rags, rat
tans and reeds unmanufactured.
DUTY CHANGES.
In addition to the free list, the fol-
lowing are some of the most import
ant changes proposed by the Bill:
Iron, in Pig, Kentledge, 5000 per
ton, (now $40 C. per pound); iron,
railway bars, $11 per ton, (now 7-1Oc.
per pound) steel and part steel rail-
way bars and slabs and billets of
steel, $1l per ton, (now SIT per ton) !;
iron or steel T rails, $l4 per ton, fiat
rails $15 per ton, (now 9-10 cents and
$40 cents per pound respectively !;
round iron, cent per pound, (now
2.10 cents per pound). On sheet
iron there is an uniform reduction of
Ito per pound, excepting Tagger's
iron on hoop, band or scroll iron less
than eight inches in width, there
is reduction of ITO cents per pound !;
on grades thinner than number 10,
wire gauge, cast iron pipe ofevery de-
scription, Clio cents per pound, (now
c. per pound) cut nails and spikes of
iron or steel l cent per pound (now
10: cut tacks 30 per cent. ad valo-
rem, (now about cents per pound)
railway iish-plates $40 cents per
pound (now II cents; wrought iron,
steel spikes, horse shoes, etc., IL
cents per pound, (now cents); steel
ingots, bloom, die blocks, blanks,
bars, bands, sheets, crankshafts
and pins, stamp shapes, gun moulds,
stoel castings, etc, valued at cent a
pound, 4-10 cent per pound; valued
at more than l cent, and not more
than cents, 45 per cent. ad valorem
(now 40 per cent. on all values less
than 4 cents per pound and from 2 to
81 cents per pound on higher
grades; iron or steel beams, posts,
columns, building frames and other
structural shape 6-10 cent per
pound (now 10; steel or partly
steel railway wheels and tires or in
gots for the same, 11s cents per pound
(now 21s). Iron and steel wire
remains unchanged, with the provision
that no duty shall exceed go per cent.
ad valorem. Old copper and copper
clippings for re-manufacture, l cent
per pound (now cents); ipgots and
Chill bars, 2 cents per pound (now AZ
rolled plates, sheets, rolled pipes,
etc., 80 per cent. advalorem (now 35)
lead ore an. dross, q cent per ponnd
(now ~; pigs, bars, etc., for re-
manufacture, IA cents (now q sheet
pipes and shot, "a cents (now 3);I
sheathing and yellow metal, 80 per
cent. ad valorem (now 35); nickel
ore or matte, 10 cents per pound
on the nickle contained therein, (now
Is cents), zinc and spelter in pigs, or
for remanufacture IL cent per pound,
in sheets cents per pound (now *
and q cents re spectively).
Manufactures and wares not special
ly enumerated, composed wholly or in
part Of copper ,65 per cent.ad valorem,
and Of other metals 40 per cent. ad
valorem (now uniform at45 ad valorem)
Cabinet or house furniture, wood, 30
nor cont ad valorom. (nOW 3ij): wood