Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-03-02
THE new TARIFF.
The Bill, Upon Which the Democrats
Have Been at Work so Long,
Submitted.
List Of Articles Placed Upon the Free
List and Those Butiable Under
Its Provisions.
All WOODS VIII be Admitted to the Country
Free OF DutY-When &c VIII
Take Eject.

submitted to the full committee the tariff
bill upon which the Democratic members
have been at work for several months.
The free list section Is to take effect July
L, 1883. The measure was Immediately
made public.
The new tariff bill proposes to fix the
duty en- pig iron at Sc per ton; on iron or
steel railway bars, weighing more thsn
twenty five pounds to the yard, and slabs
or billets of steel, s11 per ton; on iron
or steel T rails, weighing not over TWEEN
ty-aye pounds to the yard, sl4 per ton,
and On iron or steel fat rails punched,
Sl5,per ton.
The bill provides for admitting free OF
duty after July all woods, hair Of Alpaca
goat, and other like animals; woods on
skin, wooden rags, shoddy, waste and
1ocks; and after October l, 1888, it pro-
vides among other things for 40 per cent.
duty on wooden and worsted cloth, shawls
and all manufactures of wool not spe-
cially enumerated; and on fan nels, blan.
kets, knit goods, women's and children's
dress goods, composed IN part Of wool.
THE FREE LIST.
The bill makes the following addition
to the list Of articles which may be i'm
ported free Of duty: Lumber, heWn and
sawed, and timber used for spars and In
building wharves; timber, squared OF
sided; wood, unmsnufactured, not spe-
cislly enumerated or provided for; sawed
boards, planks, ar d all other articles OF
sawed lumber; hubs for wheels, posts,
last blocks, wagon blocks, car blocks,
gun blocks, headiDgiblocks, and all like
blocks or sticks, rough, heWn or
sawed only; slaves of wood, pick.
els and pslings, laths, shingles
clspbosrds, pine or spruce logs, pro-
vided that if auy export duty is laid upon
the above mentioned article, or either of
them, by any country whence imported,
all said articles imported from said coun-
try shall be subject to duty as now pro-
vided by law; salt In bags, sacks, barrels
or other packages in bulk, when imported
from any country which does not charge
import duty upon salt exported from the
United States; fax straw, fax not hacked
or dressed, fax hacked, known as dressed
linen tow Of fax or hemp; hemp, MANILA
and other like substitutes for hemp;
jute butts, jute, sum and sisal grass and
other vegetable fbres; burlaps, not ex-
ceeding sixty inches in width of fax, iute
or hemp, or Of which fax, jute or hemp or
either of them shall be the component
material of chief value /; bagging for cot
ton or other manufactures not especially
enumerated or provided for in this act
suitable to uses for which cotton bagging
Is applied, composed in whole or part of
hemp, lute, jute butts, fax, gunny bags,
gunny cloth or other material, pro-
vIded that as to hemp and fax, lutte,
jute butts, sum and sisal glass and
manufactures thereof, except burlaps,
not exceeding sixty inches in width and
bagging for cotton. Iron and eel sheets
or plates, or taggers iron coated with tin
or lead or with mixture Of which these
metals is the component part, by dipping
or any other process, and commercially
known as tin plates, terne plate and tag
gers tin; beeswax, gelatine, and similar
preparations; glycerine, crude brown or
yellow fish glue or isinggIass
phosphorus; soap stocks, strictly
for use as such; soap, hard and
soft, al. of which are not otherwise spe-
cislly enumerated as provided for; ex.
tract Of hemlock and other bark used for
tanning: indigo extract Of, and csrmined
iodines resubleded licorice juice, Oil cro-
ton, hemp seed and rape seed oil, fax
seed or linseed oil, oil Of cotton seed, pc
troleum, aluminium, patent alum, alum
substitute, sulphate Of Glumina, and
luminous cake, and alum in crystals or
ground, all limitations of natural mineral
waters, and all artificial mineral waters,
baryta, sulphRte of, or bsrytes unmsnu,
featured; boracic acid, berate of limeia1d
borax; cement, Roman, Portland and otn-
ers; whiting and Paris white; copper,
sulphste of, or blue vitriol; iron, sui
phorate of, or copperas; potash, crude,
carbonate OF and caustic potash; seplo-
rate OF potash and nitrate OF potash or
saltpetre crude; salphate of potash; sui
plate of soda, known as salt cake, crude
or refined, or nitric cake, crude or re-
fined, or gleubers salt; sulphur, refined,
in rolls; wood tar, Coal tar, crude;
aniline Roil and its homologues;
coal tar, products of, such
as naptha, benzine, benzolls and pitch;
all preparations of coal tar not colors, or
dyes, and not acid of colors and dyes;
log wood and other dye woods, extract
and other decoctions; spirits Of turpen-
tine; bone black, ivory drop black and
bone charcoal; ocher and orchery, earthF,
umber and lumber earths; SIENNA and
SIENNA earths when dry; all preparations
known as essential oils, expressed oils,
distilled oils, rendered oils, aka
line; alkaloids and all combinations
of any of the foregoing and
chemical compounds by whatever
name known and not especially enumer-
ated or provided for in this act; all
barks, beans, berries, balsams, buds,
buaes, ioulbons roots, and essences, such
as nut gals, fruits, flowers, dried fibers,
grains, and gum rosins, herbs, leaves,
lichens, nuts, roots, and stems, yegets-
BILE seeds, and seeds of MORBID growth,
weeds, woods, used expressly for dyeing,
and dried insects; all non-dutieole or
crude minerals, but which have been ad-
vanced in value or condition by refining
or grinding or other process of manu-
facture not specially enumerated or pro-
vided for; all earths or ciaJa,
unwIought or manufactured; china,
clay or kaoline; opium. crude, containing
9 percentum and over Of morphia for
medical purposes; iron and steel, cotton