The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1888-03-08

new TARIFF BILL.
Tho ariff blm at laoe Ksported to
the Full COMMITTEES on Ways
and Means.
Lumber, Salt, and Many Other
Commodities Added to the
FREQ llet.
The chairman OF tho COMMITTEES on Ways
and Means has presented the now bill to
the whole committee, and it has been print
ed Tor the benefit OF the public. It 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 10 q total'of about
$53, 600, 900. This total includes about
~. 25O. 900 on account OF the free list;
$17,25O,OOO on account Of wooden goods;
81 100000 for china and glassware;
$3.50, 900 in the chemical schedules; some:
thing less than $5OO,OOO on cotton, ST..
500. 900 on fax, hemp and iute, and sugar
about Sill 1000, 900. The ATTORNEYS and
agents of the highly protected interests arc
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 duty:
Timber hewn and sawed, and timber used
for spars and building wharves, timber
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not specially enumerated or provided for.
Sawed boards, planks, deals and oil 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 hewn or sawed only.
shingles. clapboards, pine or spruce logs,
provided, that If any export duty is laid upon
the aforementioned 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
packages or in bulk, when imported from
any country which does not charge an i'm
port duty upon salt exported from the
United States
Flax, straw; flax, not hacked or dressed:
flax. hacked, known US dressed linen tow of
substitutes for hemp; jute butts. ju:e; sum,
slsal grass and other vegetable tibres; 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 CON-
ponent material of chief values Bagging,
Tor cotton or other manufactures, not
specially enumerated or provided for in this
act suitable to the use for which cotton bag
ging is applied, composed in whole or part
OF hemp, jute. jute butts, fax, gunny bags,
gunny cloth or ether material, provided that
as to hem and fax jute. jute butts, sunni and
sisal grass, and manufactures thereof, ex-
ceRt burlaps not exceeding sixty inches in
take effect July l, 1889
IRON PLATES.
lion or steel sheets or plates, or taegers'
Iron, coated with tin or lead, or with MKT
ure of which these metals is component
part. by the dipping or any other process,
terrne plates and taggers' tin. Beeswax,
gelatine and all similar preparations Gly-
cerine (crude, brown or Yellow. fish glue or
isinglass Phosphorus, soap. stocks tit only
for use as such. Soap, hard and soft, all OF
which are not otherwise specially enumer-
ated or provided for. Extract Of hemlock
and other bark used for tanning. Indigo, ex-
tracts of and carmined. Iodine, resublimed
licorice, juice; oil, croton; hempseed and
rape seed oil; flax seed or linseed oil; oil cot
ton seed; petroleum; alumina. alum, patent
alum. alum substitute, sulphate of alumina
ground All limitations Of natural mineral
waters, and all artificial mineral waters
Baryta, sulphate of or barytes unmanufac-
tured. Boracic acid, barate of lime and
borax. Cement, Roman, Portland and all
others. Whiting and Paris white. Copper,
OF, or copperas Potash, crude, carbonate of,
or fusel and caustic potash. Chlorate OF pot
ash and nitrate of potash or saltpeter crude
Sulphate OF potash; sulphate of soda known
as salt cake, crude or refined, or nitre cake
crude or refined, and glaubersalt; sulphur,
analine oil and it's homologues; coal Tar,
products Of, 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 decoctions Of; spirits OF
turpentine; bone black, ivory drop black
and bone charcoal, ooher and ochery earths,
lumber and lumber earths, sienna and sienna
earths. when dry.
All preparations known as essential oils.
expressed oils, distilled oils, rendered oils.
alkaline, alkaloids and all combinations of
any OF the foregoing and chemical CON-
pounds by whatever name known and not
specially enumerated or provided for in this
act. All barks, beans, berries, balsams
buds, bulbs, dubious roots and excrescences,
such as nut gals, fruits, flowers, dried ibres,
grains, gums and gum resins, herbs, leaves,
lchens, nuts, roots and stems. vegetables,
seeds and seeds of morbid growth, weeds,
woods used expressly for dyeing, and dried
insects All n0n-dutiabie crude minerals.
but which have been advanced in value or
condition by refining or grinding or by other
process ses,.t OF manufacture, not specially
earths or clays Rnwrous hit or unn M
manufactured. China. clay or kasoiine.
Opium. crude, containing 8 per centum and
over of mocphta for medicinal purposes
Iron and steel cotton ties or hoops for bal
ing purposes: not thinner than No. 20
wire gauge, Needles, sewing, darnins, knit
ting and all others not specially enumer-
ated or provided for in this act Copper
imported in the form o. ores, regulus of and
black or case copper and copper cement, old
copper tit only for manufacture. Nickel in
ore, matt. or other crude form not ready for
consumption in the arts Anthony as
regulus Or metal Quicksilver, chromate of
iron or chronic ore. Mineral substances in
a crude state and metals unwrought, not
specially enumerated or provided for.
Brick; vegetables in their natural state, or in
gro3nd, 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;
onr cur :, zante or other; figs, meats, game
anu Vo'A" +, ooonS, peas ANU spit Ueas;
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
gratuitous distribution; brtstles: bulbs and
dubious roots, when not medicinal; feathers
of all kinds, crude o. not dressed, colored or
manufactured; finishing powder; grease,
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 of like charact err;
lime; garden seed, 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 or calcined !;
rags, OF whatever material composed; rat
up into finished articles: paintings in oil or