The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1888-03-08
NEW TARIFF BILL.
The Tariff Bill at Last Reported to
the Full Committee on Ways
and Means.
Lumber, Salt, and Many Other
Commodities Added to the
Free liSt.

Lumber, Salt, and Many Other
Commodities Added to the
Free List.
The chairman OF the committee on Ways
and Means has presented the new bill to
the whole committee and it has been print
ed for the benefit of the public. 1t will
probably be presented to the House
on or about the 18th. Thelatest estimates
made by the committee on ways and
means OF the reductions is a total ,of about
$53, 900, 900. This total includes about
S22, ,2oO, 900 on account OF the Tree list;
S17,25O, 900 on account OF woolen goods;
81 1900 900 for china and glassware;
$3.50, 900 i'll the chemical schedules; some
thing less than $4,000 on cotton, ST.
500, 900 on flax, hemp and jute, and sugar
about S11, 1,000.0 900. The attorneys and
agents OF the highly protected interests are
making their way to Washington. and al
ready denounce the whole bill and threat
en- Its defeat.
OUTLINE . f THE BILL.
The bill makes the following additions to
the list Of articles which may be imported
free OF uuty:
Timber hewn and sawed, and timber used
for spars and building wnaryes, timber
squared and sided Wood manufactured,
not specially enumerated or provided for.
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 if any export duty is laid upon
the ve-mentioned 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 cnarge an i'm
port duty upon salt exported from the
United States.
Flax, straw; flax, not hacked or dressed; !;
flax. hacked, known as dressed linen tow OF
flax or hemp; hemp. MANILA and other like
substitutes for hemp; jute butts, jute; sunni,
Slsal grass and other vegetable hbreS; bur-
laps, not exceeding sixty inches in width, of
flax jute or hemp, or OF which flax jute or
hemp, or either of them, shall be the COM
ponen1 material of chief values. Bagging.
for cotton or other manufactures, not
specially enumerated or provided for in tils
act suitable to the use for which cotton bag
ging is applied, composed in whole or part
Of hemp, jute. jute butts, flax, gunny bags.
gunny cloth or ether material, provided that
as to hem and flax jute, jute butts, sunni and
Sisal grass, and manufactures thereof, eX-
cept burlaps not exceeding sixty inches IN
take effect July l, 1889.
IRON PLATES
hon or steel sheets or plates, or taggers'
iron, coated with tin or lead, or with MKT
ure of which these metals is a component
part, bv the dipping or any other process,
ana commercially known as tin plates,
terrne plates and taggers' tin Beeswax,
gelatine and all similar preparations City,
cerine (crude brown or Yellow. fish glue or
isinglass. Phosphorus, soap. stocks fit only
fer use as such. Soap, hard and soft, all of
which are not otherwise specially enumer-
ated or provided for. Extract of hemiock
and other bark used for tanning Indigo. eX-
tracts of and carmined. Iodine, resubtimed
licorlce, juice; Oil. croton; hempseed and
rape seed Oil; flax seed or linseed oil; oil cot
ton seed; petroleum; alumina, alum, patent
alum. aium subst tute, sulphate of alumina
and alumlnous cake. and aiumin crystals or
ground. All imlt-tions Of natural mineral
waters, and all artificial mineral waters
Baryta, phate of or barytes unmanufac-
tured Boraclc acid, barate of lime and
borax. Cement, Roman, Portland and all
others. Whiting and Paris white Copper,
sulphate of, or blue vitrlols Iron, sulphate
of, or copperas. PotaSh, crude, carbonate of,
or fusel and caust;c potash. Chlorate of pot
ash and nitrate of potash or saltpeter crude.
SuIphate OF potash; sulphate of soda known
as salt cake, crude or refined, or nitre cake,
crude or refined, and glaubersalt; sulphur,
anaiine oil and It's homologues; coal car,
products uf, such as naphtha, benZine, ben
zole. 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 decoctons of; spirits of
turpentine; bone black, ivory drop black
and bone charcoal, ocher and Ochery eartns.
umber and umber earths, sienna and sienna
earthS, when dry.
All preparations known as essential oils,
expressed oils, distilled oils, rendered oils,
alkaline, alkaIoids and all combinations of
any of the foregoing and chemical COM
pounds by whatever name known and not
specially enumerated or provided for in this
act Ali barks, beans, berries, balsams
buds, bulbs, bulbous roots and excrescences,
such as nut gals, fruits, flowers, dried fbres,
grains, gums and gum resins, herbs, leaves
lichens, nuts, roots and stems. vegetables,
seeds and seeds of morbid growth, weeds,
woods used expressly for dyeing, and dried
insects. All non-dutiabie crude minerals.
but which have been advanced in value or
condition by refining or grinding or by other
enumerated or provided for. All
earths or CLAWS unwrought or un-
manufactured. China, clay or kasoline.
Opium. crude, containing 8 per centum and
over of morphia for medicinal purposes.
Iron and steel cotton ties or hoops for bal
wire gauge Needles, sewing, darnine knit
ting and all others not specially enumer-
ated or provided for in this act Copper
imported in the form OF ores, regulus of and
black or case 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 Antimony as
regulus or metal. Quicksilver, chromate of
iron or chronic ore. Mineral substances in
crude state and metals unwrought, not
specially enumerated or provided for.
Brick; vegetables in their natural state, or in
salt or brine; chicory root, ground or un-
ground, burnt or prepared and all other ar
ticles used or intended to be used as coffee,
or substances therefor, not especially enum-
Grated 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;
pulpa, for papermaker's use.
BOOKS AND PAMPHLETS.
Bibles, books and pamphlets printed in
other languages than English, and books and
pamphlets and all publications of foreign
governments, and publications of foreign
societies. historical or scientific, printed for
gratu tous distribution; bristes; bulbs and
bulbous roots when not medicinal; feathers
of ali kinds, crude or not dressed, coiored or
manufactured; finishing powder; grease,
grindstones, finished or unfinished; curled
hair for beds or mattresses; human hair,
not on the skin; hemp and rape seed
and other oil seeds of like charact er;
lime; garden seed, lnseed or flax seed.
Marble of all kinds, in block, rough or
squared; osier or willow prepared for basket
makers use; broom corn; brush wood;
plaster of paris, when ground or calcined !;
rags Of whatever material composed; rat
tans and reeds, manufactured. but not made
up into finished articles; paintings in oil or
water colors and sratuary not otherwise pro-
vided for. But the term @statuarv" shall be
understood to include professional produc-
tions of statuary or of sculptor only.
Stones unmanufactured or undressed, free
stone. granite, sandHtune, and all building
or monumental. All Strings of gut or any
other like material. Tallows. Waste, all not
specially enumerated or provided for.
SOME IMPORTANT CHANGES.
In addition to the free list the following
are some of the most important changes pro-
posed by the bill:
China, ornamented, 45 per cent ad val
orem, now 80 per cent; china, unorna-
mented and earthenware. 40 per cent ad
valorem now about 55 per cent, and caustlc
tiles 80 per cent ad vAloren, now 80 per
cent; green and colored glass bottles, three
fourths cent per pound, now one cent