Huntsville gazette., 1888-03-03

reeds manufactured but not made up into
furnished articles.
Paintings In oil on water colors and statu-
ary not otherwise provided for. But the
term ''statuary" shall be understood to in
clude professional productions Of statuary
or of a sculptor only.
Stones manufactured or undressed, free
stone, granite, sandstone and all building or
monumental stone; all strings Of gut or any
other like material; tallow; waste, all not
specially enumerated or provided for.
All woods, hair of the a plca, goat, and
other like animals: woods on the skin; woolen
rags, shoddy, mungoay waste and focks
The reductions made under the earthen
and glassware schedule are as follows:
China and porcelain to 45 and 40 per cent
brown earthenware and common stoneware
20 per cent, other earthen and archery ware
s. per cent. Tiles 20, 80 and 80 per cent.
Green and colcred glass bottles, etc, three
fourths of a cent per pound flint and wine
glassware 80 per cent advalorem cylinder
and crown glass, polished, not exceeding a
measurement of two feet by five feet fifteen
cents per square foot; above the size named,
twenty iv, cents per foot; unpolished cylin-
der, crown and common window glass, one
cent to one and three-quarters of cent per
pound, according to size; cast polished plate
glass unsilvered from twenty to forty cents
per foot, according to s.ze; ulsilvered ditto
or looking glass, from twenty five to forty
five cents, according to size; porcelain and
Bohemian glass, stainel glass, ETC., 40 per
cent. advalorem.
Metals are to pay duties as follows: pig
iron, So per ton; iron railway bars, S11; steel
ditto, sl1; bar iron, rolled or hammered,
seven-eighths of one cent per pound, not less
than one inch wide and three-eights of on e
inch thick; in larger measurements, one cent
per pound; iron states, blooms, loops, 35 per
cent advalorem; iron bars, blooms, billetS
in the manufacture of which charcoal is
used, $40 per ton; iron or steel rails, SIS
per ton; round iron in carts or rods and
rolled iron unenume -ated, one cent per pound !;
sheet iron, thin, one cent per pound; black
taggers iron, 80 per cent; hoop IRON, one
cent per pound; cast iron pipe, six-tenths of
one cent per pound; nails, one cent per
pound; tacks, 35 per cent. anvilS, anchors,
ETC., one and one-half cent per pound; rivets,
ETC., 1-2 per cent per pound; hammers,
tubes, sledges, axles, etc, ditto; chains, two
cents per pound; saws, so per cent; files, 81
per cent: ingots and blooms, four-tenths of q,
cent per pound.
Wire and manufacturers thereof are left
unchanged, provided that no duty exceeds
80 per cent; old copper clippings, one cent
per pound; copper, unmanufactured, two
cents per pound; lead, one and one-quarter
cents per pound; in sheet. two and quarter
cents per pound; nickel In ore, ten cents per
pound; zinc spleters two cents per pound !;
hollow ware, two and a half cents per pound :;
machine needles, % per cent.
The entire wood schedule is subjected to 30
per cent duty.
All grades of sugar are reduced by an
amount varying from one fifth to one-fourth
Of the present duties.
Cotton yarn is reduced to 35 and 40 per
cent. bleached linens to % per cent. other
yarns 25 per cent cotton cloth to 40 per
cent.
The manufactures Of wool are reduced as
follows: Woolen and worsted cloths to 40
per cent hannels, blankets and knit goods,
10 per cent. dress goods, partly of wool, 40
per cent. ready made clothing, 45 per cent. :;
cloaks, 45 per cent: WEDDINGS, 20 per cent. :;
carpets, 30 per cent
Paper and its manufactures are generally
reiuced carriages, 80 per cent. watches, 25
per cent.
The administrative provisions constitute
the most voluminous part of the BILL and
embrace the provisions compiled by Mr..
Hewitt i'll the Forty y-ninth congress and in
corporated in the Morrison tariff bill Mr..
Hewitts provisions abolishing the Office of
merchant appraiser and providing new meth
DDS of re -appraisement are omitted The en-
tire system of damage allowances on i'm
ported goods injured during transportation,
is abolished. The period for which imported
merchandise can be kept in bonded ware
houses is extended from one to three years
The duties on boxes, cartons and other in
side coverings of merchandise, which passes
into the hands Of consumers, are revised
Duties on packing charges are revised
What is known as the 'similultuie" clause
of the tariff is re-enacted with such wording
as to make clear when enumerated articles
can be classified as assimilating to enumer-
ated articles. Importers declarations are
substituted for importers oaths in all Gus
toms matters, and importers are authorized
to make declarations before notaries instead
of at the customs house The recommenda
tlons made as to protests, appeals and suits
by Secretary Manning in a special re-
quest to congress two years ago, are all
adopted
The penalties are made more stringent for
bribery, or feelng inspectors of customs or
for any irregularities in inspection of bag
gage. The government is authorized to
bring suit for the value of merchandise
fraudulently imported, after such mercan
disc has passed into the hands of the inn
porter The other provisions are all of a
minor character
The bill as submitted contains no provis-
ions as to internal revenue, it being under
stood that the Democratic members are pre-
pared to submit an internal revenue bill at
an early day.
Democrat members of the ways and means
committee estimate the amount # reduction
made by the bill at from S40,0o0,0 900 to 500
000, 600.
Parcel Post With Canada
WASHINGTON, March 2.-The new parcels
posts convention between the United States
and Canada, which was signed by Postmaster
General Villas and NJ .Clellan. goes into effect