Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1888-03-01
tween the United states and China and the laws

PUBLIC BUILDING BILLS.
In the consideration morning hour, the House,
In committee Of the whole, proceeded to the con-
sideration of public building measures
The committee agreed to bills for buildings at
Bridgeport. Conn, and boboken, n j., at limited
st OF 800 900 and $65 600 respectively and the
House raJiried its action
The moo. was then accorded 10 the committee on
foreign affairs, and Mr. Belmont (N.Y.), under in
structions from that committee, called up the
INT resolution accepting the Invitation of the
ID the International exhibition TO be held In Paris
In 1889.
REVISING THE TARIFF.
The Bill Prepared by Democratic
Member Of the Ways and Means
THE FREE-LIsT LARGELY EXTENDRD-SONE RATES RE-
DUCED-ksTIMATED TOTAL REDUCTION OF THE REV.
ENUE s55, ,OOO, ,OO0-NO INTERNAL REVENUE CHANGES
so FAR.
The tariff bill was submitted to the whole ways
and means committee this morning by the demo-
cratic majority. 1t starts out with long free
list, omitting wool, which Is reserved for treat
ment In another section Of the bill, in connection
with the woolen and worsJed cloths Tue first
proposition is that and after the 1st day Of July,
1855, the following articles shall be exempt from
importation duty:
The EXTENDED FRRE-LIsT.
Timber, hewn and sawed, and timber used for
spars and building wharves; timber squared or
sided; unmanufactured wood not especially enum-
Grated or providedfOr; sawed boards planks, DEALS
and all other articles OF sawed lumber; hubs for
wheels, posts, last-blocks, wagon-blocks oar
blocks, gun-biocks, heading blocks and all like
blocks or STICKS rOugh hewn or sawed only; slaves
OF wood; picketS and palIngs; lathS; shingles;
capboards, pne or spruce; logs; provided. tnaL II
any export uuty Is Lad upon the aforementioned
articles, or either OF them, by any couatry whence
imported ala said articles imported from said cOun-
Try snail be subject 10 duty as now provided by
law.
Salt, In bags sacks, barrels, or other Packages
or In bulk, wnen Imported HON any country winch
does not charge an Import duty UPON salt exported
from The Unl,ed States.
Flax straw; fax, not hacked or dressed; max,
hacAicd known as dressed line; tow OF max, or
nenp; henp, IN mia, and Otner ike substitutes
for hemp; Jute butts; Juie; sum, SlSal-gra,A
and otuer vegetable nUers; burlaps, not exceed
Ing sixty inches IN widtn, Of ax, Ju.e or hemp. Or
OF whlcu TAX, Jute. or hemp, or either OF them,
shall Ue the component lndterial OF chief value
oagglng Tor COTTON, or otner manufactures not es-
peclaliy enumerated or provided for IN this act
suitable 70 The uses for which cotton bagging Is
applied. composed Ia who.e or In part or hemp,
Jute, JuLe butts, NIX, sunny bags, gunny clolhs
Or otner material, provided, tnat a, 10 hemps and
max, Jute, Jute butts, sunni, and slssu-grasS, aud
manuIac ures thereof, except bur. aps not exceed
Ing sixty inches in widLn, and Dagging lOr cotton
tins act snail take effect July /, 1852
Iron or steel sheets OF piaLe, or taggerS iron
coated With ln or lead, known As TIN piaLeS terne
plates and taggers TIN.
giycerine, cfud, brown or yellow; nsn-glue or
lsinglass; phOsphorus soap stocks, lit Tor other
use; soap, haru OF soit, all which are not OLher-
wise ESPECIALLY enumerated or provided Tor; eX.
tract OF hemlOck and other Dark used for tanning;
indigo, extracts Of, and carmine; iodine, resuO-
lined; ncOrice-julce; OIL, croton; hemp-seed and
rape-seed OIL nax-seed or iinseed Oil; OIL cotton
seed; petroIeuin; alumtna-aium, patent alum,
alum substitute, suipnate OF alumIna, and aluIni-
nom Ia in ~ "a A
limitations oi natural mineral aterS and all arti.
ncial mineral waters; DagyLa, sulphaJe OF, bar
ytes, unmanuiaclured; boracic acid, borate Of
lime ana DoraX; cement, Roman. lland, and ali
Others; whiting ana Paris white; "copper" sulphate
OF, Or blue vitrlol: iron, suiphate Oh or cOpperas;
potash, crude, Carbonate vi, or fused and caustlc
potash; chlOrate or potash and nItrale OF potash
or saltpeter crude; suIphaIe OF potash; sulphaJe
OF soda, known as SAT- cake, crude or refined,
or inter Cake, crude or refined, and Glaubers salt
sulphur, refined, In rolls; wood lar; coal tar,
crude; anime oil and It's hOmOlOgues; coal tar,
prouucts or, such as naphtha, behzine, benzole,
drab OIL, and pltch; all preparations OF coai-tar,
not colors or dyes, and hot acids OF colors and
dyes; lOgwOod ana Otner dyewoods, extracts and
decOctiOns or; spirits or turpentine; DOne-black,
ivory drop-black, and bone Char; Ocher and ocnery
earths, uInUer and lumber earths, sienna and
sienna eafLn, when dry; all preparations known
essential Oils expressed Oils, distilled oils rem
dered oils, aikal1es, alkaloids, and all cOmbina-
tons OF any or the foregoing, and chemical COM
pounds ana salts by whatever name known, and not
especially enumerated, &C.
AL barKs, beans berries, balsams, buds, bulbs
dubious roots anGexcrescenceS, such as nut CALLS
fruits, flowers, dried nberS grains, gums and gum
resins herbs, leaves. hchens, mosses nuts, roots
and stems; vegetables, seeds, and seeus or morbid
grown; weeds, woods Used expressly for dyeing,
All nOn-dutiable crude minerals, but which have
been advanced in value or cOndiLOn by refining or
grinding, or by other process OF manufacture, not
specially enumerated or provided Tor. All earthS
or ciayS unwrOught or unmanuractured; Cnina
clay or kaOnne; opium, crude, containing per
centum and over OF morphia, for medicinal pur-
q md r for nal
Ing purposes, not thinner Lnan number twenty
wire gauge; needles, sewing, darning, knitting,
and all Others hot specially enumerated or pro-
vided Tor In this act; "copper" imported In form OF
ores, reguldS OF, and black or coarse copper and
copper cement, old copper ut only lor remanurac-
ture; Nickel in ore matte or other crude form not
ready for consumption in the arts; antimony, as
regulus or metal; quicksilver; cnromate OF iron or
chronic ore; mineral substances In crude state
and metals unwrOught not specially enumerated
Vegetables In their natural state or In salt or
brine; chiccory root ground or unground, burnt or
prepared; acOrnS and dandeliOn root, raw pre-
pared, and all other articles used or intended to
be used as coffee, other substitutes Thereon not
manuIactured; dates, plums, and prunes; cur
poultry; iFesh mix; egg selks; beans, peas, and and
Pulp, for paper-makers use; Bibles. books and
pamphlets printed in Other languages than
English, and books and pamphlets ana all pub
locations Of foreign governments s. and publications
OF foreign societies. historical or scienLic prints
for graJultous distribution.
BristleS, bulbs and dubious roots, not medtcinal:
feathers OF all kinds, cruue or not dressed cOi0red
or manufactured; finished powder; grease; grind
stones, finished or unfinished; curled hair, for beds
or mattresses; human hair, raw, unclaimed, and
not drawn; hatters' furs, not on the skin; nemp
and rape seed, and other Oil-seed OF like Character
lime; garden seeds; nnseed or naxseed; marble OF
ali kinds. In block, rough or squared OSier or will
low, prepared Tor DaSket-makerS' use; brOOm-corn;
brusn-wOOd; plaster paris, when ground or CAL
clned; rags OF whatever material composed; Fat
AN reeds n
into finished articles.
Paintings, III Oil or water col0rs and stauary not
otherwise provided for, but the term ''Statuary"
shall We understood to include professional prOduc-
lions OF statuary or OF sculptor only; stones
sandstone, and all Duliding or monumental sLOne;
ali strings OF gut or any other ike material; tai
low; waste, all not specially enumerated or pro-
vided for.
THIS together with all woods, hair OF the alpaca,
goat, and other like animals: wool on the skin;
wO0len rags, shOddy, munro, waste, and 1OckS
Provlued for in the third section OF the bully, make
up the free list.
NO CHANGE IN INTERNAL RHyINUB YET.
The bill as presented touches only on the Gus
toms duties and includes amendments to the Law
and general provisions relating to the administra-
tion OF the customs laws The internal revenue
features Will be added later. In many cases the
specinc duties have been changed 70 ad valorem,
and statement exact per cent OF reduction on
the various items has not yet been completed.
ESTIMATED REDUCTION Or s5O,0O0.OOO
1t Is estimated that the reduction In the customs
revenues will amount TO $50,O00,00O, or q little
more The internal-revenue clause VIII add to this
probably 0OO0 600 1t Ia still uncertain whether
brandies as we'll Il is understood that there was
an expression against the repeal OF tax on fruit
brandy oy majority Of one yesterday. But this