Morning journal and courier., 1888-03-02
News by Telegraph
FROM ALL QUARTERS.
CHANGES IN THE TARIFF
Proposed BY The Democratic
Committee. s
4 MILLION GONE UP IN SMOKE,
New York Loses A Whole
Square.
THE ENGINEERS AND KNIGHTS.
Our Debt Reduced Over
Seven Millions.
THE NEW TARIFF BILL

WASHINGTON, March. 1.-The proposed
tariff bill was submitted to the full
ways and means committee by the
Democratic committee this morning. The
bill proposes to fix the duty on pig-iron at
Sc per ton; on iron or steel railway bars,
weighing more than twenty-five pounds to
the yard, and slabs or billets of steel, $11 per
ton, on iron or steel T rails weighing not over
twenty-five pounds to the yard, $14 per ton;
and on iron or steel flat rails punched, $15
per ton. 1t provides for admitting free of
duty after July 1, call woods, hair of the al
paca goat and other like animals. woods on
| the skin, wooden shoddy mengo, waste and
| focks." And after October 1, 1888, it pro-
| vides, among. other things, for a forty per
cent. duty on wooden and worsted cloth,
| shawls and all manufactures of wool not
specially enumerated and on hannels, blank.
cts, knit goods, womens and children's
l dress goods composed in part of wool.
| Estimates of the reduction in revenue eff
fected by the bill have not been completed
| in details, but the aggregate, according to
| the best information in the hands of the
committee is fixed at $50, 900, 600. This to-
/ tai includes about $22 1850, 900 on account of
the free list, ST, $50, 900 on account of WOOL
| en- goods, 81 GOO, 900 for china and glassware
| $3.50, 200 in the chemical schedule; some
| thing less than $500, 900 on cotton; 81, $780,
on FAX, hemp and jute, and on sugar about
| 81 100000
| The following is the proposed new free
| list:
Be it enacted, etc., That on and after the
| list day Of July, 1888, the following articles
mentioned in this section, when imported,
| shall be exempt from duty: Timber, hewn
| and sawed, and timber used for spars and in
| building wharves. Timber squared or sided
Wood unmanufactured not specially enumer-
/ ated 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
hewed OF sawed only; slaves of wood, pick
cts and palings, laths, shingles, clapboards,
pins, Or spruce logs; provided that if any exs
port duty is laid on any of the above men,
toned 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 charge an import duty
upon salt exported from the United States.
Flax straw, fax not hacked or dressed, flax
hacked, known as dressed line, tow of fax,
or hemp. MANILA, and other substitution for
hemp, jute butts, jute, sum, sisal grass, and
other vegetable Gbres, burlaps, not exceeding
sixty inches in width, of fax, of jute or
either of them, shall be the component mate
rial of chief value. Bagging for cotton or
other manufactures not specially enumerated
or provided for in this act, suitable to the
, uses for which cotton bagging is applied,
composed in whole or in part of hemp, jute,
jute butts, fax, gunny bags, gunny cloth, or
other material; provided, that as to hemp
and fax, iute, jute bats, sunni and sisal
grass, and manufacturers thereof, except
burlaps not exceeding sixty inches in width,
and bagging for cotton. This act shall take
effect July !, 1889.
Iron or steel sheets, or plates, or tsggers
iron, coated with tin or lead, or with mix
ture OF which these metals is component
part, by the dipping or any other process, and
commercially known as tin plates, terne
plates and taggers tin; beeswax, gelatine, and
all similar preparations; glycerine, crude,
brown or yellow; fish glue or isinglass; phos-
phorus; soap stocks, fit only for use such.
Soap, hard and soft, all which are not Others
wise specially enumerated or provided for;
extract of hemlock or other bark used for
tanning; indigo, extracts of and carmined;
\ iodine, resublimed; licoriee juice, OIL eroton,
hemp seed and rape seed oil, flax seed or lin
seed oil, oil of cottonseed, petroleum, alumina,
alum, patent alum, alum substitute, sulphate
of alumina, and aluminus cake and alum in
4 crys ais or ground.
and artificial mineral waters; baryta, sui
plate of, or barytes, manufactured; bora
1 cine acid, borate of limo and borax; cement,
/ Roman, Portland and all others; whiting
1 and Paris white; copper, sulphate of, or blue
vitriol; iron, sulphate of, or copperas; pot
| ash, crude, carbonate of, or fused and caustic
l potash. Chlorate of potash and nitrate of
l potash, or saltpetre crude. Sulphate of pot
| ash. Sulphate of Soda known as salt cake,
1 crude or refined, or nitre cake, crude or re-
fined, and Glaubers salt. Sulphur, refined,
4 in rolls.
Wood tar, coal tar, crude. Analine oil and
| its homologues. Coal tar, products Of such
l as naptha, benzine, benzole, dead oil and
l pitch. All preparations of coal tar, not col
ors or dyes, and not acids or colors dyes.
Logwood and other dye woods, extracts and
decoctions Of Spirits of turpentine, bone
4 black, ivory drop black and bone charcoal,
| ochre and ochary earths, lumber and lumber
4 earths, sienna and sienna earths, when dry.
i All preparations known essential oils, ex-
pressed oils, distilled oils, rendered oils, al
kaline, alkaloids, and all combinations of
1 any of the foregoing and chemical COM
pounds by whatever name known and not
specially enumerated or provided for in this
1 act. All barks, beans, berries, balsans,
buds, bulbs, dubious roots and excrescences,
T such as nut gals, fruits, flowers, dried flores,
grains, gums and gum resins, herbs, leaves,
iichens, nuts, roots and stems, vegetables,
| seeds and. seeds of morbid growth, weeds,
wood used expressly for dyeing and dried in
| scots.
All non-dutiable crude minerals, but which
have been advanced in value or condition by
4 refining or grinding or by other process of
manufacture, not especially enumerated or.
provided for; all earths or clays unwrought
| or unmanutactured; china, clay, or kaoline.
Opium, crude, containing nine per centum
/ and over of morphia, for medicinal purposes.
Iron and steel cotton ties or hoops for bailing
| purposes, not thinner than number twenty
| wire gauge. Needles-sewing, darning, knit
ting and all others not specially enumerated
or provided for in this act.
| Copper imported in the form of ores, regu-
1us of, and black or coarse 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. Anti.
mony, as regulus metal. Quicksilver.
HChromate of iron chronic ore. Mineral
substances in crude state and metals I'M
| wrought not specially enumerated or pro-
vided for; brick.
| Vegetables in their natural state, or in salt
| or brine. Chiccory root, ground or unground,
burned or prepared. Acorns or dandeicn
| root raw or prepared, and all other articles
| used or intended to be used as coffee sub
stitutes therefor, not specially enumerated
or provided for. Cocoa, prepared OF unman-
| ufactured. Dates, plums and prunes. Cur
| rants, Zante or other. Figs. Meats, game
| and poultry. Milk fresh. Egg yolks. Beans,
peas and split peas. Pulp, for papermakers'
use.
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
1 gratuitous distribution.
Bristles, bulbs and dubious roots, not med
icinal; feathers of all kinds, crude or not
dressed, colored or manufactured; finishing
| powder grease, grindstones, finished or un-
finished; curled hair, for beds or mattresses;
human hair, raw, unclsaned and not drawn:
Hatters' fur, not on the skin. Hemp and
rape seed, and other oil seeds Of like charac-
ter Lime. Garden seeds. Linseed or fax-
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 OF
ealeined. Rags, of whatever material com
| posed Rattans and reeds, manufactured but