The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1888-03-09
'The 9emorrat.
THE TARIrF BILL

THE TARIFF BILL
Below will be found the tariff bill as
prepared BY the democratic members of
the Ways and Means committee
Among the additions to the list OF arti-
cles which may be imported free of duty
are the following Timber Of various
kinds, timber or lumber, whether hewn or
sawed also rough wagon and shipping
material and all kinds of wood not specl.
fed In the bill, provided the articles men.
tiened are not subject to duty In the coun-
try from whence imported otherwise the
present duties are to be levied.
Salt meets with the same restrictions as
timber fax, hemp and various vegetable
hbers also burlaps not exceeding sixty
inches wide and bagging. Tin plates and
taggers' tin, beeswax, gelatine and similar
preparations, glycerine and glass, phospo-
rus, soap, soap stocks, tanning bark, oil
pressed from seeds, petroleum and its pre-
ducts, mineral waters and imitation ce.
ments, tar and its products, essential tur-
psntine preparations, distilled, expressed
and rendered oils, alkalines and alkaloids
and various chemical compounds, bulbs,
fruits, nuts, seeds, etc, crude earths, clays
and minerals, opium (crude, containln
over 90 per cent Of morrhia, for medical
purPosesD iron, steel, hoops, needles, copper
eres and old copper, nickel ore and crude
antsmony quicksilver, chromate of iron or
chronic ore, crude minerals and metals
unwrOught and not specially enumerated
or provided for, brick, vegetables, meats,
beans, peas, etc, pulp for paper, bibles,
books and pamphlets printed in other Ian
guages than English, and books and pamph-
lets and all publications of foreign govern
ments, and publications of foreign socie-
ties, historical and scientific, printed for
gratuitous distribution, paintings in oil or
water colors and statwary not otherwise
provided fOr, ,stene manufactured or un-
dressed, hair, hatters' fur unstained, rags,
rataRs and reeds unmanufactured.
THE REDUCTION on IRON.
In addition to the free list the following
are some Of the most important changes
proposed by the bill.
Iron, In pig kentledge, So per ton, now
three-tenths of a cent per pound iron,
railway bars,S per ton, now seven-tenths
of ceRt per pound steel and part steel
railway bars and slabs and billets of steel,
$II per ton, now Supper ton ;iron or steel
I rails, $r4 per ten, hat rails, srs per ton,
now nine-tenths and eight-tenths OF a cent
per Pouad, respectively round iron, one
cent per pound, now one and two-tenths
cents per pound.
On sheet iron there is uRiform reduc-
ton of One-tenth of cent per pound, ex-
cept on taggers' iron.
On hoops, band or scroll iron less than
eightinches in width, there is a reduction
of one-tenth cent per pound on grades
thinner than No. 10 wire gauge and cast
iron pipe of every description six-tenths
cent per Pound,(now one cent per pound :
cut nails and spikes of iron or steel one
cent per Pound(Row one and one-quarter0 }
(At @-~A1 D PSI C@tAL AZ " AOO1t
3cents per pound railway fish plates, $40
cents per pound(now x cents > wrought
iron steel spikes, horseshoes, etc, ~ cents
per pouHd, (now cents } steel ingots,
bloom-die blocks, blanks. bars, bands, sheets,
crank-shafts and pins, stamP-shapes, gun
molds, steel castings, etc, valued at cent
pound, 4-Io cents per pound valued at
more than I cent and not more than 4
cents, IS per cent ad valorem, (now IS per
cent on all values less than ) cents per
pound, and from to 3A cents per pound
on higher grades) Iron on steel beams,
post columns, Building forms and ether
structural shaPes,6-Io of a centper pound,
(now 10 Steel or partly steel railway
wheels and the tires or ingots for the same,
~ cents per Pouad, (now Az
Iron and steel wire remain unchanged,
with provision that no duty shall exceed
90 per cent ad valorem.
COPPER AND LEAD.
Old copper and copper clippings for
remanufacture, 1 cent per Pound, (now 3
cents > ingots and Chile bars,s cents, ,(now
4 ) rolled plates, sheets, rolled pipes, etc, 80
per cent ad valorem, (now 3s)
Lead ore and dross, n cent per pound,
(now IK > pigs, bars, etc, for renanufac-
ture, X cents, now ~ Sheets, pipes and
SHOT aH cents, (new 81 Sheathing and
yellow metal, 30 per cent ad vaIOrem(now
IS.
Nickel ore, or matte, 10 cents per pound
or nickel contained thereins( (now IS cents.)
Zinc and spelter in pigs, or for remanu-
facture, * cents per pound in sheets, 4
cents per pound, (now ~ and ~ cents,
reapectivelvl