Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1888-03-02

| IS All Instance. lhe LOLhl amount u IehuC
ton that will arise from the extension of tbs
! free list will be something like So, 00J, 900
The reduction on wool and wooden goods vii
amount to about sl2, 900, 0OJ Where a spe
cifc duty was charged before we hav,
changed it on number Of manufactured ar
| ticles TO an al valorem standard.
"On sugar a reduction is made of I'll,
| 0OO, 900 One result Of this will be to break NJ
| the Infamous sugar trusts that have forme.
| for the purpose of increasing the price of
| that article The reductions on iron and
| steel rails, etc, are small and | think til.
| importation of such articles will not be ma
terIally increased Iron in pig is put at g
per ton. The reduction made is only I.
cents On imported tobacco, in leaf, manu-
featured and not stenmel. we have fixed
the duty Mt 50 cents per pound. Sumatra is
included. When the duty on Sumatra was
81 per pound, II good deal of it was Snug
gled and the revenue was thereby lost to the
government
son some of the articles on which we have
reduced the duty the revenue will be in-
creased, while on others it will be reduced.
Fish we have not touched That question
has always caused trouble between this coun-
try and Canada, aud involves disputes that
we don't care to encourage. We have pur-
posely left the internal revenue question out
side, and will bring in separate measure
for that. We intend to have bill on that
subject IL may lie appended in the house to
the general bill, but that am unable to say
Just now. The customs duties will be reduced
about Sj5 900 600, and in such a way that the
manufacturing industries of the country will
have no cause for needless alarm"
The bill reduces tue revenue, by the closest
estimate which can now bs made by about
NM nDD Of M frpr
extension of the free list, $l2OJO, 90 from
woolens, 81 900, 600 from sugar, Sl,5OO,000
from earthen aud glass ware. nearly s., 900, e
600 from metals, $500, 900 from chemicals,
$500, 600 from provisions, $3.50, 900 from cot
tons, nearly s. 900, 900 from hemp jute, etc,
and about So 900 from Iuudres.
Tho following additional expressions were
gathered from members of the ways and
means committee;
Mills-We believe we have compiled bill
which nobody dare defeat 1t is a bill which
would benefit all the people.
Breckenridge of Arkansas-It is bill
which will certainly pass.
MacMillan-The bill is subject to no rea-
sonable objection 1t does not injure sin
gle industry.
Reed God is still good to the Republican
party.
Mckinley The bill il in line with the
presidents message, and worse. 1t must be
defeated.
Randall will not discuss the bill with the
newspaper men. but soma OF his cOngresSion-
al friends to whom lie has uubosomed him
self quote him as saying that the bill is not
a revision of the tariff at all, but all attack
on it with Il tomahawk
careful examination of the bill shows
that the free list has been enlarged by the
addition of the following articles, the most
important being given: T.
Timber Jewn, sawed squared, or sided;
spars and wharf timber Manufactured,
not specially enumerated or provided for; sawed
boards planks, deals, aud all other articles of
sawed lumber; hubs for wheels, posts, lasts,
wagon blocks heading blocks, and all like blocks
or sticks, rOugh-hewn or sawed only: slaves, pick
cts, paings luth, shingles, Clap-buards, pine
spruce logs, None of the above are free where
the country exporting them charges an export
duty on them, and similar exception is made
on articles where an import duty is charged
such articles exported from the United States
Salt, in bags, sacks, barrels or othor package s
or in bulk.
Fax straw fax not hacklei or dressed; flax
hacked known as dressed linen tow of flax or
hemp; hemp, MANILA. and other like substitutes
for hemp; jute butts, jute; vegetable hbers; bur
laps, not exceeding sixty inches in width of flax,
jute or hemp Of which fax, jute hemp. or
either of them, shall be the component material
of chief value Baggng for cotton other
not specially enumerated or pro-
vided for in this act, composed in whole or part
of hemp, jute jute butts flax, gunny bags gunny
cloth, or of other material, provided that to
hemp and flax, jute, jute butts, sum and siSa-
grass, and manufactures thereof, except burlaps
not exceeding sixty inches in width and bagging
for cotton this act shall take effect July /, 1889.
Tin and terne plates and taggers tin; beeswax
gelatine and all similar preparations; glycerine,
AZ, Hon gsb r
phosphorus, soap stocks fit only for such;
soap hard and soft, all of which are not other
wise specially enumerated or provided for; ex-
tract of hemlock and other bark used for tanning,
croton oil, hempseed and rapeseed oil, tlaxseed
oil. Cotton.seed OIL petroleum, alumni, whiting
and paris white blue vitrol copperas, potash,
crude carbonate of, or fusel and caustic potash;
chlOrate of potash and satpetre crude, sulphate
of potash, wood tar, crude coal tar analine oil
and its homoogues 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, extract and decoctions of; spir
its Of turpentine, ocher and ochery earths, lumber
and lumber earths, sienna and sienna earths when
dry; all preparations known as essential oils, ex
pressed oils distilled oils, rendered oils alkaline
alkaloids and all combinations thereof,
All barks. beans berries, balsams, buds bulbs |
dubious roots and eXcrescences such nut gals |
fruits flowers, dried fibers, grains, gums and |
gum resins herbs, leaves hchens, nuts, roots and
stems of vegetables, seeds, and seeds of morbid |
growth, weeds, woods used expressly for dyeing, |
and dried insects. All non-dutiable crude mate |
rails but which have been advanced in value or |
condition by refining or grinding or by other pro. |
cess Of manufacture, not specially enumerated or
provided for. All earths or cays unwrought |
or manufactured Opium, crude containing |
Q per cent. and over Of morphia for medical pur- |
poses.
Iron and steel cotton ties or hoops for baing |
purposes not thinner than No. 20 wire gauge.
Needles Sewing dAruing knitting and all others
lot specially enumerated provided for IN this
let Copper Imported in the form OF ores, reg
Illus of, and black or coarse copper, and copper
cement; old copper, fit only for manufacture,
Mineral substances in crude state and metals
lnwrought not specially enumerated or provided
Tor Brick
Vegetables, in their natural state, or in salt or
jrine chicory root ground o. unground, burnt
'r prepared and all other articles used, or in
ended to be used as coffee or substance there
lore not specially enumerated or provided for;
COCOA, prepared or manufactured; dates, pumS
md primes; currants Zaute, or other figs; meats,
,ame poultry; beans pears and split peas.
Pulp for paper makers use, Bibles books and
'amphlets printed in other languages than
english and books and pamhiets for all pubhoa-
ions of foreign societies historical or scientific,
,rinted for gratuitOus distribution.
Brist!es, bulbs and dubious roots not medical,
feathers Of all kinds. crude or not dressed, col,
red or manufactured; hemp and rape seed and
iher oil seeds of like character, hme, garden
eeds, linseed or haxseed, marble OF all kinds in
lock, rough or squared; osier willow, rattans
md reeds manufactured, but not made up into
inished articles.
Paintings in oil or water colors and statuary
lot otherwise provided for; stones unmanufac-
ured or uniressed, free stone granite, sand stone