Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-03-08
VEGETABLES, NUTS, FRUIT, ETC

salt or brine; chickory root, ground or
unground, burnt or prepared, and all 9th
or articles used or intended to be used as
coffee or substances thereof, not special
~ enumerated or provided for; cocoa,
prepared or manufactured, dates, plums
and prunes, c1rrants, zante or other; figs;
meats, game and poultry; beans, peas
and split peas; pulp, for papermaker's
use.
BIBLES, BOOKS AND PAMPHLETS,
printed IN other languages than English:
and books and pamphlets and sill publ
cations OF foreign governments and pub
hcatlons of foreign societies, historical
or scientific, printed for gratuitous dis
tribution.
ShisiLhS' BULBS, FEATHERS, HAIR AND
SEEDS.
Bristies. bulbs and bulbous roots M.
medicinal: feathers of all kinds, crude or
not dressed, colored or manufactured. fin
ishing powder, grease, grindstones, fin
isned or unfinished, curled hair. for beds
or mattresses; human hair, raw uncleaned
and not drawn; hatters' fur, not on the
skin; hemp and rape seed. and other oil
seeds, linseed or f1axseed.
MARBLE, osIER, BROOM CORN, Rags, ETC.
Marble of all kinds in block. rough or
squared; osier or willow prepared for bas-
ket- makers use; broom corn, brushwood;
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 statuary not
otherwise provided for. The term ''stat-
uarY" shall be understood to include pro-
fessional productions of statuary or of
sculptor only.
WOOL, HAIR AND THEIR PRODUCTS.
The bill provides for admitting free of
duty after July 1, sail woods, hair of the
ALPACA goat and other like animals;
woods on the skin; wooden rags, shoddy,
mengo, waste and hocks." And after
Oct. 1, 1888. it provides among other
things for 40-per cent. duty on wooden
and worsted cloth, shawls and all manu-
features of wool, not specially enumer-
ated; and on hannels, blankets, knit
goods; women's and chpdren's dress goods
composed in part OF wool.
ARTICLES ON WHICH DUTIES ARE REDUCED.
In addition to the free list the follow.
ing are some OF the most important
changes proposed by tie bill:
All leaf tobacco manufactured is
fixed at 33 cents a pound, and the pres
ent distinction between the Sumatra or
the ordinary wrapping tobacco is sbol-
ished.
Metals are to pay duty as follows: Pig
iron, SIS per ton; iron railway bars, 81;
steel, $11; bar iron, rolled or hammered,
% cent per pound, not less than IA inch
wide and g inch thick. In larger meas.
uremeut, one cent per pound.
Iron slabs, blooms, loops, 35 per cent.
ad valOrem; iron bars, blooms, billets;
in the manufacture of which charcoal is
used, $50 per ton; iron or steel tee rails,
$15 ton; round iron in coils or rods
and rolled iron unenumerated, 1 cent
per pound; sheet iron, thin, L cent per
pond; black taggers iron, 80 per cent;
hoop iron, cent per pound; cast iron
pine, Scent per pound; nails l cent per
pound; tacks, 80 per cent; auvils, anchors
ETC., IL cents per pound; rivets, ETC., ~
cents per pound sledges, axles, etc, ~
cents; chains, 2 cents per pound; saws,
80 per cent; files, So per cent; ingots
and blooms, 40 cent per pound wire
and manufactures thereof are left I'M
changed; provided that the duty exceeds
so per cent; old copper clippings, | cent
per pound; lead, 4 cents per pound; in
sheets, Pa cents per pound; nickle, in
ore, 10 cents per pound; zinc spelter, 2
cents per pound; hollow ware, ~ cents
per pound; machine needles, 20 per cent.
TIE ENTIRE WOOL SCHEDULE
is subjected to 80 per cent. duty. All
grades of sugar are reduced by an
amount varying from one-ffth to one
fourth Of the present duties. Cotton
yarn is reduced to 80 and 40 per cent,
bleached linens to So per cent; other
yarns % per cent Cotton cloth 40 per
cent.
The manufactures of wool are reduced
as follows: Wooden and worsted cloths, to
40 per cent; far nels, blankets and knit
goods, 40 per cent; dress goods, partly of
wool, 40 per cent; ready made clothing,
45 per cent; cloaks, 45 per cent: webb
ings, so per cent; carpets, 30 per cent;
paper and its manufactures are generally
reduced: carriages, 30 per cent; watches,
% per cent.
Bunting 40 per cent. ad valorem (now
ten cents q yard and 80 per cent Rd va
loren. Women ard childnen's dress
goods, coat Innings. Italians, etc, 10 per
cent. ad valorem (present duties range
from cents per yard and 80 per
cent. ad valorem TO 9 cents per yard
and 40 per cent. ad valorem. Clothing
ready made and wearing apparel of every
description of wool, except knit goods
40 per cent. ad valorem (now 40 cents per
pound and 35 per cent. ad valorem).
rem (now ranging from cents
per yard for hemp or jute, to 40 cents
per yard and 80 per cent. ad valorem for
Administer and other high grede); paper,
sized or glued, Is per cent. sd vaIorem,
and printing paper unsized. u per cent.
ad valorem (noW Is and 20 per cent?;
Rutta percha manufactured, and hard
rubber articles, 30 PER cent. ad valorem
now 35:) India rubber fabrics, boots and
shoes, Is per cent ad valorem (now 800
marble, sawed, dressed. slabs and paving
tiles, IS cents per cubic foot (now $L10)
marble, manufactured, and not enumer-
ated, 30 per cent. advalorem, (now SOY
The reductions in china, glass and glass
ware are sTee ping.
The remainder of the bill, twenty five
printed pages, Is made up entirely of the
leading features of the old Hewitt adj
ministration bill, such as a similarity of
the clause intended TO
GUARD AGAINST sEUGGLING,
excmpting theatrical scenery and ward
robes when intended for temporary use
in the o. g., and the tourists wearing
apparel; clause providing for the tax
alton of cartoons or coverings: sec
ton intending to prevent false in
voices and Gndervaluations and pro-
viding for the punishment of personc
guilty of these offenses; the extension of
warehouse privilege to three years;
abolition of allowance for damage IN
warehouses; abolition of all fees upon
entries of imported goods and the requir-
ments that the invoices shall be submit