The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1888-03-02
THE NEW TARIFF BILL.
PRESIDENT CLEVELAYDS SU0GES-
TIOY ADOPTED BY THE ROUSE.
Report Of the Committee on Ways and
Means-The Tariff Recommended to be
Reformed About .s55, 200. 900 -Yester.
days Proceedings In Congress-&c.

Means-The Tariff Recommended to bs
Reformed About .s53, 900. 900 Yester.
days Proceedings In Congress-&c.
WASHINGTON, March 1.-The chairmau
OF the Ways and Meals Committee TO
day submitted to the full committee the
tariff bill upon which the Democratic
members have been at work for several
months. The measure was Immediately
made public. The bill makes many ad.
ditions to the list OF articles which may
be imported
FREE OF DUTY
Among them are timber, hewn and
sawed, boards, slaves, pickets, shingles
and logs; provided-that II any export
duty Is laid upon any OF the above men
toned articles. by any country whence
imported, all articles so imported shall be
subject TO duty ms now provided salt,
fax, hemp. burlsps, bagging for cotton,
10 take effect July /, 1892 iron. steel
sheets and Tin plates, soap and soap
stocks. petroleum, indigo extracts, linseed
oil, alum, all artificial mineral waters,
copperas, potash, sulphate of soda, Goa,
tar, dyewoods, spirits of turpentine, bone
black, all preparations known as essential
oils, barks, beans, berries, bslsam and
bulbous roots, earths or clays unmsnu-
featured, kaoline, opium, cotton ties,
needles, copper ores, crude nickel ore,
antimouv brick, vegetables, chicory root,
Cocoon, dates, currants, figs, paper pulp,
bibles, books and pamphlets printed in
other language than English, and books
and pamphlets and all publications Of
foreign governments, and publications
OF foreign societies, historical or scientific,
printed for grstuitous distribution.
Curled hair, human hair, marble in
blocks, rags.
Griudstones, feathers, bristles, plaster
of paris, seed oils, hatters' furs, all sub.
slituies for coffee, refined sulphur, boray,
Writings and cement, dried herbs and
Insects for dyeing, beeswax. isinglass and
all substitutes for hemp
Slatuary, not otherwise provided for
But the term "statuary" shall be under.
stood to include professional productions
OF statuary or Of a sculptor only; all
building or monumental stone, tallow,
all woods, hair of the alpaca, goat, and
other Ike animals, and woods on the
skin.
THE DUTY ON METALS
Metals are to pay duties as follows I:
Pig iron, 50 per ton iron railway bars,
81 steel railway bars, 81 bar iron,
rolled or hammered, Of cent per
pound not less than one inch wide and
three eighths of one inch thick In larger
measurements / cent per pound iron
slabs, blooms, loops, 3j per cent. dd caLO-
rem ; iron bars, blooms, billets, in the
Manufacture of which charcoal is used
$50 per ton iron or steel tie rails, $40 a
ton.
Round iron in coils or rods and rolled
iron uncnumerated, l cent per pound !;
sheet iron, thin, cent per pound black
t0ggers' iron, 30 per cent; hoop iron,
cent per pound; cast iron pipe, 10 of |
cent per pound; nails, cent per pound ;
tacss, 80 per cent; anvils, anchors, etc q,
/. cents per pound riyets, etc, II cents
pei pound; hammers, tubes, sledges,
axles, etc, ditto chains, cents per
pound saws, 80 per cent. files, 35 per
cent; ingots and blooms, 4l0 of cent
per pound.
Wire and manufactures thereof are left
unchanged, provided that no duty ex
ceeds 50 per cent.
Old copper clippings, cent per pound !;
copper, unmanuiaclured, cents per
pound; lead, It cents per pound; In
sheets, 2t cents per pound nickel, in
ore, 10 cents per pound; zinc spelter,
? cents per pound hollow ware, 2t cents
per pound machine needles. 20 per cent
THE ENTIRE WOOD SCHEDULE
is subjected TO 80 per cent. duty. All
grades OF sugar are reduced by an
amount varying from one-tifth to one
fourth OF the present duties.
coTToNs AND YARNS.
Cotton yarn, reduced to IS and 40 per
cent; bleached linens, to 25 PER cent;
other yarns, IS per cent; cotton cloth to
40 per cent.
DUTY on SUGAR.
Sugar not above No 10, Dutch standard
1900 cents per pound; above this,
2 s-l00 cents and p per pound. Moasses,
4to cents gallon, according TO test
Sugar candy, not colored, cents pound
All other confectionery, 40 per cent. ad
SaL0rem.
GLASS AND EARTHENwARE.
China and porcelain 45 and 40 per
cent; brown earthenware, 20 per cent
other earthenwsre. 35 per cent; green
and glass bottles, { OF cent per pound /;
polished cylinder and crown glass, Is TO
% cents per square foot, according to
size
TOBACCO
Ali tobacco In leaf, unmanufactured
and not stemmed, s. cents spound.
WOOL.
The manufactures of wool are reduced
as follows: Woolen and worsted cloths,
to 40 per cent; tisnnels. blankets and
kni, goods, 40 per cent. dress goods
partly Of wool, 40 per cent; ready made
clothing, As per cent; cloaks, IS per
cent. weddings, 80 per cent.
Carpets, 35 per cent. Paper and its
manufactures are generally reduced
Carriages, 30 per cent. watches, 25 per