St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-03-02
It Represents the Views Of
the Majority Of the Dem
oeratie congressman,
And viii Reduce the Govern
ment's Income About $685.
100000 Per Annum.
A Long List of Articles Placed
on the Free L st--The
Chief Reduc tons.
Doings in the Senate and
HouSe--General Washing
ton Intelligence.

WASHINGTON, March 1.-The chair
man Of the ways and means committee
to-day submitted to the full committee
the tariff bill upon which the Demo
cratic members have been at work for
several months. The measure was i'm
mediatev made public. Estimates of
reduction in revenue effected by the bill
have not been completed in detail, but
the aggregate, according to the best in
formation in the hands of the commit
tee, is fixed at so, COOS 900. This total
includes about So, 250,O00 on account of
the free list. l7,250,0O0 on account of
wooden goods, Sl,G0O,0O0 for china and
glass ware, $i5O,O00 in the chemical
schedules, something less than 100000
on cotton, $l,50O,OO0 on flax, hemp and
Jute, and sugar about ST., 100000. There
are no internal revenue changes pro-
posed by the bill. This subject was
purposely left, for lack OF time, to the
consideration of the full committee.
THE FREE LIST.
The bill makes the following additions
to the list of articles which may be i'm
ported free of duty:
Timber, heWn and sawed, and timber
used for spars and in building WharyeS;
timber squared OF sided; wood unmal. u
featured, not specially enumerated or
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, rough, heWn or sawed
only; slaves Of wood; picketS or pal
lngs, laths, clapboardS, pine or spruce;
logs, provided that If amy export duty is
laid upon the above mentioned articles
or either of them, by any country
whence imported, all said articles i'm
ported from said country shall be sub
Ject to duty as now provided by law.
packages, or in bulk when imported
from amy country which does not charge
an import duty upon salt exported from
the United States. Flax straw; flax
not hacked or dressed; flax hacked,
known as dress line; tow of flax, or
hemp; hemp, MANILA, and other like
substitutes for hemp; jute butts; jute.
Sum, SiSal grass and other vegetable
fibreS; burlapS not exceeding sixty
inches IN width, of fax, jute or hemp,
or of which flax, jute or hemp, or either
of them shall be the component material
OF chief value. Bagging for cotton OF
other manufactures not specially emu
merated or provided for in this act,
suitable to the uses for which cotton
bagging is applied, composed in whole
or in part of hemp, Jute, Jute butts, flax,
gunny bags, gunny cloth or other
material; provided, that as to hemp
and flax. jute, jute butts. sum and
SiSal grass and manufactures thereof,
except burIapS not exceeding sixty
inches in width, and bagging for cot
tons; this act shall take effect July l,
1889. Iron or steel sheets or plates, or
taggerS iron cOatad with tin or lead, or
with a mixture of which those metals
are component part, by the dipping or
any other process, and commercially
known as tin plates, terne plates and
taggerS tin. BeeSwaX, gelatlne and all
similar preparations. Glycerine, crude,
brown or yellow. Fish glue or ISM
glass, phosphorus. Soap stocks, fit
only for use as such; soap, hard and
soft, all OF which are not otherwise
Especially enumerated or provided for.
seed for tanning; indigo, extract of and
carmine; iodine, reSublmed; licOrice
juice. Oil, cotton; hemp seed and rape
seed oil; tlaXseed or linseed oil; cotton
seed; petroleum. Alumina, alum, pat
ent alum, alum substitute, Sulphate of
alumina and alumin0uS cake, and alum
in ryStalS or ground; all limitations of
natural mineral waters and all artificial
mineral waters: baryta, Sulphate of, OF
baryteS, manufactured; boracic acid,
borate of lime and boraX; cement, Ro-
man, Portland and all others; whiting
and paris white; copper, sulphate of. OF
Or blue vitrol; iron, Sulphate of, or cop |
peraS; potash, crude, carbonate of, or |
fused and cauStic potash; chlOrate of |
potash and nitrate of potash or salt |
petre, crude; sulphate of potash; sui |
phate of soda, known as salt cake,
crude Or refined; or nitre cake, crude OF
refined, and glauber'S-salt; sulphur,
refined, in rolls. Wood tar; coal |
tar, crude; analine oil and its homo |
logues; coal tar, products Of, such as
benZine, benzole, dead Oil and |
pitch: all preparations of coal tar not |
colors or dyes and not acids of colors |
and dyes. LOgwoOd and other dye |
woods, extracts and decocti0nS of. |
Spirits of turpentine. Rome black, ivory |
drop black and bone char, ochre and |
ochery earths, umber and lumber |
sienna and sienna earthS, when |
dry. All the preparations known as |
oil, expressed oils, distilled |
oils, rendered oils, alkalieS, alkalOidS |
and all combinations of any of the fore
going and chemical compounds and !
salts by whatever name known, and
not specially enumerated or provided
for in this act. All banks, beans, ber-
rieS, balSamS, buds. bulbs. dubious
roots and eXcreScences, such as nut
gals fruits, flowers, dried fibers, grain,
gums and gum resin, herbs, leaves,
liChens, MOSES, nuts, roots and stems, |
seeds and seeds OF morbid
growth, weeds, woods used expressly |
for drying, and dried insects. All non
dutiable crude minerals but which have !
been advanced in value or condition by |
refining or grinding OF by other process |
of manufacture, not specially enumer-
ated or provided for. All earths or
clayS unwr0ught or manufactured.
China clay or kaoline. Opium, crude,
9 per cent and over
Of morphia for medical purposes.
Iron or steel cotton ties or
hoops for balllng purposes, not
timer than No. 20 wire gauge;
needles, sewing, darning, knitting and
al others not specially enumerated or
ported in the form of ores ogulus of and
black OF coarse copper and copper ce
nent, old copper fit only for manufac-
ure. Nickel in ore. matte, or other
rude form not ready for consumption
n the arts. Anthony, as regulus or
metal. Quicksilver; chromate of iron
II chronic ore; mineral substances in a
rude state and metals unwrought or
lot specially enumerated or provided
or; brick. Vegetables in their natural
tate or i'll salt or III brine. Chicory
DOT, ground or unground: burnt or pre-
pared acorns and dandpiion root, raw or