The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1888-03-09
CUTTING DOWN TAXES.
The Ways and Means Tariff Bill
Made Public.
1t Will Reduce the Revenue About $685.
100000 Annually-Large Additions
Made to the Free List-Inter-
nal Taxes Not Touched.
THE NEW TARIFF BILL.


nal Taxes Not Touched,
THE NEW TARIFF BILL.
WASHINGTON, March 2.-The chairman of the
Ways and Means Committee yesterday sub
| mitted 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 /, 1885, 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, unmanufactured, 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 and palings laths shingles. Clap
boards, pine or spruce Logs provided
that if any export duty is laid upon the
aforementioned articles, or either of
them, by any country whence imported, all
said articles imported from said country shall
be subject to duty as now provided by law.
Salt in bags, 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, hacked (known as dressed linen
tow OF flax or hemp. Hemp, ma
nilla, and other like substances for
hemp. Jute butts; jute. Sum, sisal grass
and other vegetable ibers. Burlaps, not exceed
ing sixty inches in width, of fax juIe hemp, or
OF which fax, jute or hemp, or either of them
shall be the component material of chief value.
Baggng 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
fax, 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 burlaps 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, or with a 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. Glycerne, 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 or 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. Fiax-seed or lin
| seed oil. Oil, cotton-seed. Petroleum. Alum
ni-Alum, patent alum, alum substitute, sui
phate of alumina and aluminous cake and
alum. Whiting and paris white Copper-Su-
plate Of or blue vitrol. Iron-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 or 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
lions known as essential oils, expressed oils,
distilled oils rendered oils, alkaline, alkaloids
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. All barks, beans,
berries, balsams, buds, dubious roots and ex-
crescences such as nut gals, fruits, flowers,
dried fibers, grains, gums and gum resins,
herbs, leaves lichens, nuts roots and stems OF
II.
weeds, woods used expressly for dyeing, and
dried insects. All non-dutlable crude materi-
gals 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 earths or clays unwrought or I'M
manufactured. China, clay or kaoline. Opium,
crude containing per cent. and over of
morphia for medicinal purposes. Iron and
ctpo1 h<>a, hnJir
not thinner than No 90 wire gauge. Needles
sewing, darning, knitting and all in this act.
Copper-imported in the form of ores, regulus
or and black or coarse copper and copper
cement; old copper, fit only for manufacture.
Nickel-in ore matt or other crude form not
ready for consumption in the arts Anthony,
regulus or metal. Quicksilver chromote of
iron, or chronic ore. Mineral substances in
crude state and metals unwrought, not spe.
cially 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 or substances
therefore, not specially enumerated or provided
for. Cocoa-prepared or manufactured; 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
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 or mattresses. Human
hair - Raw, unclaimed and not drawn.
Hatters' fur not Oh the skin. Hemp and
rape seed and other oil seeds of
like character. Lime. Garden seeds LIN
seed or faxseed. Marble Of all kinds, in block
rough or squared Os:er or willow, prepared for
basket-makers' uses. Broom corn. Brushwocd
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 be understood to include
professional productions of statuary or Of a
sculptor only.l Stones, manufactured or un-
dressed, free stone, granite, sandstone and all
building or monumental stones All strings of
gut or any other like material. Tallow. Waste
all not specially enumerated or provided for.
Metals are to pay duties as follows:
Pig iron, S. per ton. Iron railway bars, ST.
Steel railway bars, s11. Bar iron, rolled or
hammered of cent per pound Not less
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 is used, $40 per
ton. Iron or steel at" rails, SIS a ton.
Round iron, in coils or rods, and rolled iron,
enumerated, cent per pound. Sheet iron
(th'n), cent per pound. Black taggers Gron),
30 per cent. Hoop-iron, / cent per pound.
Cast-ron pipe, Clio of cent per pound. Nails,
cent per pound. Tacks, 35 per cent. Anvils,
anchors, ETC., ia cents per pound. Rivets,
etc., Ia cents per pound. Sledges, axles etc.,
ditto. Chains, cents per pound. Saws, 30
per cent. Files, IS per cent. Ingots and
blooms, 40 of cent per pound. Wire
and manufactures thereof are left unchanged,
provided that the duty exceeds so per
cent. Old copper clippings, cent per pound
Copper, manufactured, 2 cents per pound.
Lead, IA cents per pound: il sheets. ~ cents
per pound. Nickel, in ore, 10 cents per round.
Zinc spelter, cents per pound. Hollow
ware, 21a cents per pound. Machine needles,
20 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-ifth to one
fourth of the present duties. Cotton yarn is
reduced TO 35 and 40 per cent; bleached linens
to 25 per cent; other yarns 25 per cent Cot