St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1888-03-10
THE TARIFF BILL.
The Bill to Revise the Tariff at Last Com
pleted and Made Public-Articles Added
to the Free List, Together with Change 8
and Qualifications in Others.

The Bill to Revise the Tariff at Last Com
pleted and Made Public-Articles Added
to the Free List, Together with Change
and Notifications in Others.
WASHINGTON, March 2.-The chairman
of the ways and means committee yester-
day submitted to the full committee the
Tariff bill, upon which the Democratic
members have been at work for some
months. The measure was Immediately
made public. The bill makes the following
additions to the list of articles which may
be imported free of duty. The free list
section is to ia fe effect July /. 1888:
Timber hewn o. 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 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,
clapboards, pine or spruce logs provided, that
| II any port duty is laid upon the above-men-
| toned articles, or either OF them, by any coun-
try 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 i'm
| ported from any country which does not charge
an import duty upon salt exported from the
| United States Flax straw. Flax not hacked
| or dressed; fax hacked, known as dressed
line tow of fax or hemp; hemp, MANILA and
other like substitutes for hemp. Jute butts,
| Jute. SUNNI sisal grass and other vegetable
| fibres. Burlaps. not exceeding sixty inches in
width, OF flag, lute Or hemp, or of which fax,
iute 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, suit
able to the uses for which cotton baggng is ap-
piled, composed in whole or in part of hemp,
Jute, jute butts, fax, gunnybags, gunnycloth or
other material; provided that as to hemp and
flax, jute, iute butts, sum, and sisal grass
and manufactures thereof, except burlaps not
| exceeding sixty inches in width and bag
gng for cotton. Iron or steel sheets
or plates, or taggers' iron, coated with
tin or lead or with a mixture OF which
these metals is component part, by the dip
ping or any other process and commercially
known as tin plates, terne plates and taggers
tin. Beeswax, gelatine and all similar prepa-
rations. Glycerne, crude, brown or yellow.
Fish glue or isinglass Phosphorus. Soap
stocks fit only for use as such. Soap hard and
SOFT all OF which are not otherwise specially
enumerated or provided for. Extract of hem
lock and other bark used for tanning. Indigo,
extracts Of and carmine. Iodine, resublimed.
Licorce juice. Oil. croton, hempseed and rape
Petroleum Alumina, alum, patent alum, alum
substitute, sulphate of alumina and aluminous
cake, ard alum in crystals or ground. All i'm
1tatlons Of natural mineral waters and all arti-
ficial mineral waters. Baryta sulphate of, or
barytes, unmanufactured. Boracc acid. bor-
ate of lime and borax. Cement, Roman, Port
land, and all others. Whiting and paris white.
Copper, sulphate of, or blue vitriol. Iron, sui
phate of, or copperas. Potash, crude, carbon
ate of, or fused and caustic potash. Chlorate
of potash and nitrate 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, refined in rolls.
Wood tar. Coal tar, crude. Analine Oil and it's
homologues. Coal tar. products of, such as
naptha, benzine. benzole, dead oil and pitch.
All preparations of coal tar not colors or dyes,
and not acids OF colors and dyes. LogWood and
other dyewoods. extracts and decoctions of.
Spirits turpentine. B3neblack, ivory drop
black and bone charcoal. Ochre and ochery
earths, lumber and umber earths, sienna and
sienna earths, when dry. All preparations
known as essential oils expressed oils, distilled
oils, rendered oils, alkalies, alkaloids and all
combinations Of any of the foregoing and chem
ical compounds and salts by whatever name
known, and not specially enumerated
provided for in this act. All barks,
BEANS berries, balsams, buds, bulbs, bulbous,
flowers, dried fibers, grains gums and gum
resins, herbs, Ichens, moses, nuts, roots and
stems, vegetables, seeds and seeds of morbid |
growth, weeds, woods used expressly for dye
ing and dried insects All non-dutlable crude |
minerals, but which have been advanced in |
value or condition by refining or grinding, or |
by other process of manufacture, not especially |
enumerated provided for. ALI earths or |
elays unwrought or manufactured. China clay |
or kaoline. Opium, crude containing nine per |
cent. and over of morphia for medicinal pur-
poses Iron and steel cotton ties or hoops for |
baling purposes not thinner than number |
twenty wire gauge. Needles, sewing, darning, |
knitting and all others not especially enumerat-
ed or provided for in this act Copper, import
ed in the form of ores, regulus OF, and
black or coarse copper and copper cement, old |
copper fit only for remanufacture. Nickel, in
ore, matte, or other crude form not ready for
consumption in the arts. Anthony, as re-
gulus or metal Quicksilver. Chromate of |
iron or chrome ore. Mineral substances in q
crude state or metals unwrought or not spec
tally enumerated or provided for. Brick.
Vegetables in their natural state or in salt or
brine. Chicory root, ground or unground,
burnt or prepared acorns, and dandelion root,
raw or prepared, and all other articles used at
or intended to be used as cofee or subtitutes
therefor and not specially enumerated or pro-
vided for. Cocoa, prepared or manufactured
Dates, plumS and pruneS, currantS, Seante or
other. Figs. Meats, game and poultry. Milk, |
fresh. Egg yelks. Beans, peas and split peas.
Pulp for paper makers use. Bibles, books and
printed in other languages than En-
glish, and books and pamphlets and all publica-
tions of foreign Governments. and publica-
tions Of foreign societies, historical u scien-
tific, printed for gratuitous distribution. Bris-
ties. Bulbs and bnlbous roots not medicinal.
Feathars of all kinds, crude or not dressed.
colqkd op manufactured. Finishing powder
GreT Sc. Grindstones, finished or unfinished
CuriA5 hair for beds or mnstttrasses. Human
hair, Eay, uncleaTed anysspxdf drawn. Hatters'
fur rsa on tfayskn. Hemp and
rape sehp and s,fher oil seeds of
like d hraag5p, N4ime. Garden seeds.
Linseed or of1'naxselH Marble Of all kinds in
block, rough or SHARED. Osier or willow, pre-
pared for basf fft-makers' use. Broomcorn,
Brush-wood Easter of paris, when ground OF
calcined. Bags, of whatever material COM
posed. Rattans and reeds manufactured but
not made up into finished articles. Paintings
in oil or water colors and statuary, not other
wise provided for; but the term ''statuary''
shall be understood to include professional pro-
auctons of statuary or OF sculptor
only. Stones, unmanufactured or un-
dressed free stone granite, sand stone,
and all building or monumental stone.
All strings Of gut or any other like ma
serial. Tallow. Waste, all not specially emu
nerased or provided for. All woods, hair of the
alpa:s goat, and other like animals Woods on
he skin. Woolen rags shoddy, mungo waste