Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1888-03-07
CUTTING DOWN TAXES.
The Ways and Means Tariff Bill
Made Public,
1t Will Reduce tho Revenue About S63,
100000 Annunlly-Large Additions
MadO to tho Tree List-Inter.
nal Taxes Not Touched.
THE NEW TARIFF BILL

WASHINGTON March 2.-The chairman OF the
Ways and Means Committee yesterday SUBJ
mltted 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 /, 1883. The
measure was immediately made public. 1t
makes the following additions to the free list:
Timber, hewn and sawed, and timber used
for spars and in building wharves. Timber,
squared or sided. Wood, manufactured, not
specially enumerated or provided for. Sawed
boards, planks, deals, and oil 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 and palings laths, shingles. Clap
boards pine or spruce Logs provided
that il any export duty is laid upon the
aforementioned articles, or either Of
them, by any country whence imported, oil
said articles imported from said country shall
be subject to duty as now provided by law.
Salt in bugs, sacks. barrels or other packages,
or in bulk, when imported from any country
which does not charge an import duty upon
salt exported from the United States.
Flax, straw; flax not hacked or dressed
Flax, hacked (lnown dressed linen
tow OF fax or hemp. Hemp, ma
nilla. and other like substances for
hemp. Jute butts; jute Sum, sisal grass
md other vegetable abers. Burlaps, not exceed
ing sixty inches in width of fax jule or hemp, or
OF which flax jute or hemp. or either of them,
Shall be the component material Of chief value.
Bagging for cotton or other manufactures
not specially enumerated or provided for in
this act suitable to the uses for which cotton
bagging is applied composed in whole
! or part OF hemp, lute, jute butts,
dax, 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 buraps not ex-
ceeding sixty inches in width and bagging for
cotton this act shall take effect July /, 1885,
Iron or steel sheets, or Plates or taggers iron,
coated with tin or lead, with mixture Of
which these metals are component part,
by dipping or any other process, and COM
mercially known as tin plates, tern plates
and taggers tin. Beeswax. gelatne and all
similar preparations. Glycerine, crude,
brown or yellow. Fish glue or insinglass.
Phosphorus, soap Stocks fit only for use as
such. Soap, hard and Soft all Of which are no
otherwise specially enumerated provided
for. Extract Of hemlock and other bark used
for tanning. Indigo, extracts Of and carmined.
Iodine, resublimed. Licorice-juice. Oil, croton.
Hempseed and rapeseed oil. FlaX-seed or lin
seed oil. Oil, cotton-seed. Petroleum. Alum
ni-Alum, patent alum, alum substitute, sui
plate OF alumina and alumnous cake, and
alum. Whiting and paris white. Copper-Sul-
phate OF, or blue vitrol. lron-Sulphate OF, or
copperas. Potash, crude, carbonate of, or fusel
and caustic potash. Chlorate of potash and nj
trate OF potash, or saltpeter crude. Sulphate
OF potash. Sulphate Of soda, known as salt
cake crude or refined or inter cake, crude or
refined, and glaubers salt. Sulphur, in rolls.
Wood tar. Coal tar, crude. Aniline Oil and its
homologues. Coal tar and products of, such as
naphtha Benzine, benziole, dead oil and pitch.
All preparations Of coal-tar-not colors dyes
and not acids of-colors and dyes. Logwood
and other dye-woods, extracts and decoctions
OF. Spirits OF turpentine. Bone black, ivory
drop black and bone charcoal Ocher and
ochery earths lumber and lumber earths, sienna
and sienna earths, when dry. All prepare
tons known essential oils, expressed oils,
distilled oils, rendered oils, alkaline, alSaloids
and all combinations Of any Of the forego-
ing, and chemical compounds of whatever
name known, and not specially enumerated
or provided in this act AL barks, beans,
berries, balsams, buds dubious roots and en-
crescences, such as nut gals, fruits, flowers,
dried fbers, grains, gums and gum resins,
herbs, leaves, ichcns, nuts roots and stems of
vegetables, seeds and seeds OF morbid growth,
weeds, woods used expressly for dyeing, and
dried insects. All non-dutlable crude materi-
ais but which have been advanced in
value or conditions by refining or
grinding or by other process OF manu-
facture, not specially enumerated or provided
for. All earlhs or clays unwrought
manufactured. China, clay or kaoline. Opium,
crude, containing per cent. and over of
morphia for medicinal purposes. Iron and
steel cotton ties or hoops for baling purposes,
not thinner than No 20 wire gauge. Needles
sewing, darning, knitting and all in this act.
Coprer-imported in the form of ores, regulus
OF, and black or coarse copper and copper
cement; old copper, tit only for manufacture.
Nickel-;n ore, matt, or other crude form not
ready for consumption in the arts. Anthony,
regulus or metal. Quicksilver, chromote of
iron, or chrome ore. Mineral substances in
a crude state and metals unwrought, not spe-
cally enumerated or provided for. Brick. Veg
etables-in their natural state, or in salt or
BRINE. Chicory root, ground or unground, burnt
or prepared, and all other articles used, or
intended to be used, as coffee substances
therefore, not specially enumerated or provided
for. C0coa-prGpared or manufacturers; dates,
plums and pruneS; currants-Zante, or other;
figs; meats, game and poultry; beans, peas and
split peas. Pulp for paper makers use. Bibles,
books and pamphlets printed in other Ian
guages than English and books and pamphlets
for all publications of foreign governments and
publication of foreign societies, historical or
scientific. pr nted for gratuitous distribution.
Bristles. Bulbs and dubious roots not med
ical Feathers of all kinds, crude or not dressed,
colored or manufactured. Finishing powder.
Grease. Grindstones, finished or unfinished.
Curled hair for beds mattresses Human
hair - Raw, uncleaned and not drawn.
Hatters' fur not on the skin. Hemp and
rape seed and other Oil seeds of
like character Lime. Garden seeds. LIN
seed or ffaxsecd. Marble of all kinds, in block,
rough or squared. Os er or willow, prepared for
basket-makers' uses. Broom corn. Brushwood.
Plaster OF paris. when ground or calcined.
Rags, OF whatever material composed.
Rattans and reeds. manufactured, but
not made up into finished articles.
Paintings in oil or water colors, and statuary
not otherwise provided for but the term
"statuary" shall DO understood to include
professional product ons Of 9 atuary or OF q
sculptor only.] Stones, manufactured or un-
dressed, free stone, granite, sandstone and all
building or monumental stones. All strings of
gut or any other like mater ul Tallow Waste,
all not specially enumerated or provided for.
Metals are to pay duties Us follows:
Pig iron, $8 per ton. Iron railway bars, a..
Steel railway bars, I'll. Bar iron, rolled or
hammered. y OF cent per pound Not less
than inch de and OF an inch tn ok. In
larger measurement, cent per pound. Iron
slabs, booms, loops, IS per cent. ad valorem.
Iron bars, blooms, billets, in the manufact-
ure OF which charcoal ia used, $50 per
ton, Iron or steel ct" rails, SIS ton.
Round iron, in coils or rods. and rolled iron,
enumerated, cent per ound. Sheet iron
(thin), cent per pou d. Black taggers Qron),
30 rer cent. Hoop-ron, ! cent per pound.
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