The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1888-03-08
CUTTING DOWN TAXES.
The Ways and Means Tariff Bill
Made Public.
It VIII Reduce the Revenue About $685.
100000 Annuaiiy-Large Additions
Made 20 the Free List-Intcr-
nal Taxes Not Touched.


Ways and Means Committee yesterday sub
mitted 10 the full committed the Tariff bill
upon which the Democratic members have
been at work for several months. The free
list section 10 10 take eject July ], 1888 The
measure was Immediately made public II
makes the following additions TO the free list:
Timber hewn and sawed, and timber used
Tor spars and in building wharves. Timber.
squared or sided Wood, manufactured. not
specially enumeratedor provided 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 and all like blocks or sticks
rongh-hewn or sawed only. Slaves of wood.
Pickets and palings, laths, shingles. Clap
boards, pine or spruce Logs = provided
that II any export duty is laid upon the
aforementioned articles, or either OF
them, by any country whence imported, all
said articles imported from said country shall
be subject 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 IN import duty upon
salt exported from the United States.
Flax, straw; fax not hackled or dressed.
Flax, hacked Cknown as dressed linen
tow OF fax or hemp. Hemp, ma
nilla, and other like substances for
hemp. Jute butts; jute Sum, sisal grass
and other vegetable nbers. Burlaps, notexceed-
ing sixty inches in width, of fiaxiute or hemp,or
OF which fax, jutc or hemp, or either of them,
shall be the component material OF chief value.
Baggng for cotton or other manufactures
not specially enumerated or provided for in
this act suitable to the uses for which cotton
baggtng is applied, composed in whole
or part OF hemp Iute, jute butts,
iiax, gunny bags, gunny cloth, or
other material; provided that as TO hemp and
fiax, iute, jute butts, sum and sisal grass, and
manufactures thereof, except buraps not ex-
ceeding sixty inches in width and bagging for
cotton, this act shall take effect July !, 1889.
Iron or steel sheets, or plates, or taggers iron,
coated with tin or lead or with q mixture of
which these metals are a component part,
by dipping or any other process, and COM
mercinlly known as tin plates, tern plates
and taggers tin. Beeswax. gelatine and all
sirnilinr preparations. Gycerine, crude,
brown or yellow Fish glue or insinglass.
Phosphorus, soap stocks, fit only for use as
such. Soap, hard and soft, all OF which IRE no
otherwise specially enumerated or provided
for. Extract of hemlock and other bark used
for tanning. indigo extracts of, and carmined.
Iodine, resubiimed. Licorice-juice. Oh, croton.
Hempseed and rapeseed oil. Flax-seed or lin
seed oil. OH, cotton-seed. Petroleum. Alum
ni-Alum, patent alum, alum substitute, sui
plate Of alum.na and aluminous cake, and
alum. Whiting and paris white. Copper-Sul-
phate OF, or blue yitrol. IroR-Sulphate OF, or
copreras. Potash, crude, carbonate of, or fusel
and caustio potash. Chlorate OF potash and nj
trate OF potash, or saltpeter crude. Sulphate
OF potash. Sulphate of soda, known us salt
cake, crude or refined, or inter cake, crude or
refined, and glaubers salt. Sulphur, in rolls
Wood tar. Coal tar, crude. Aniline oil and its
homologues. Coal tar and products OF, such as
naphtha. Beuzine, benziole, dead oil and pitch.
AL preparations OF coaltar-not colors or dyes
and not acids of-colors 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 lumber earths, sienna
and sienna earths, when dry All prepare
tions known as essential oils, expressed oils,
distilled oils, rendered oils, alkaline, alkaloids
and all combinations OF any of the forego-
ing and chemical compounds OF whatever
name known, and not specially enumerated
or provided in this act. All barks, beans,
berries, balsams, buds, dubious roots and ex-
crescences, such as nut gals, fruits, flowers,
dried hbers, grains, gums and gum resins,
herbs, leaves, Hchens, nuts roots and stems OF
vegetables seeds and seeds OF morbid growth,
weeds, woods used expressly for dyeng, and
dried insects. All non-dutiable crude materi-
ais but which have been advanced in
value or conditions by refining or
grinding or by other process OF manu-
facture. not specially enumerated or provided
for. All earths or clays unwrought or I'M
manufactured. China, clay or kaoline. Opium,
crude, containing per cent. and over OF
morphia for medicinal purposes. Iron and
steel cotton ties or hoops for baling purposes,
not thinner than No 20 wire gauge. Needles
sewing. darning, knitting and all in this act.
Copper-imported in the form OF ores, regulus
Of and black or coarse copper and copper
cement; old copper, fit only for manufacture.
Nickel--in ore matt or other crude form not
ready for consumption in the arts. Anthony,
regulus or metal. Quicksilver, chromote of
iron, or chrome ore. Mineral substances in
n crude state and metals unwrought not spe-
cinlly enumerated or provided for. Brick. Veg
etables--in their natural state, or in salt or
brine. Chicory root, ground or unground, burnt
or prepared, and all other articles used or
intended to be used, as coffee or substances
therefore, not specially enumerated or provided
for Cocoa-prepared or manufactured; dates,
plums and prunes; currants-Zante, or other;
figs; meats, game and poultry; beans, peas and
split peas. Pulp for paper makers use. Bibles,
books and pamphlets printed In other Ian
guages than English. and books and pamphlets
for all publications OF foreign governments and
publication OF foreign societies, historical or
scientific pr nted for gratutous distribution
Brfstles. Bulbs and dubious roots not med
icai Feathers OF all kinds crude or not dressed
colored or manufactured Finishing powder
Grease Grindstones, finished or unfinished
Curiod hair for beds or mattresses. Human
hair = Raw, unceaned and not Drawn.
Hatters fur not on Tho skipg ncmp and
raoe seed and pte~s oil seeds OF
like character Lime. Garden seeds. LIN
seed or ffaxseed. Marble of all kinds, in block,
rough or squared. Oser or willow, prepared for
Dasket-makers' uses. Broom corn. Brushwood
Plaster OF paris. when ground or calcined.
Rags, OF whatever material composed
Rattans and reeds. manufactured, but
not made up into finished articles.
Paintings in oil or water colors and statuary
not otherwise provided for. but the term
"stataary shall be understood to include
professional productions OF statuary or OF
sculptor onIy.l Stones, manufactured or un-
dressed free stone, granite, sandstone and all
building or monumental stones. All strings Of
gut or any other like material. Tallow. Waste,
oil not specially enumerated or provided for
Metals are TO pay duties as follows:
+ Pig iron, s. per ton. Iron railway bars, q.
Steel railway bars, ti1 Bar iron, rolled or
hammered. = Of I cent per pound. Not less
than inch wide and 96 OF an inch thick In
larger measurement cent per pound. Iron
slabs, booms, loops IS per cent. ad valorem.
Iron bars, blooms. bllets In the manufact-
ire Of which charcoal is used, go per
ton Iron or steel "Tn rails. s15 ton.
Round iron. In coils or rods, and rolled iron,
enumerated cent per round Sheet iron
tthin). cent per pound, BLACK taggers IRON
10 per cent Hoop-iron, cent per pound.
f.ast-iron pipe, 6-f0 OF mt per pound. Nails,
cent per pound. Tacxs, 50 per cent. Anvils,
anchors. etc, TX cents per pound. Rivets,
etc. TX cents per pound. Scdges, axles, etc,
ditto. Chains, cents per pound. Saws, 80
per cent. Files. IS per cent. Ingots and
blooms, 40 OF a cent per POUND. Wire
and manufactures thereof are left unchanged,
provided that the duty exceeds 80 per
cent. Old copper clippings, cent per pound.
camper. unmanufactured, cents per pound.
Lead IL cents per pound; in sheets. IN cents
per pound. Nickel, in ore, 10 cents per round
z nc spelter, cents per pound Hollow
ware, eii cents per pound. Machine needles
20 per cent
The emit re wood schedule is subjected TO 30
per cent duty. All grades Of sugar are reduced
by an amount varying from one-nfth to one
fourth Of the present duties. Cotton yarn is
reduced to IS and 10 per cent; bleached linens
10 IS per cent; other yarns % per cent Cot
ton cloth. 20 per cent.