The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1888-03-10
THE NEW TARIFF BILL.
REPORTED TO THE FULL COM
MITTEE OF THE HOUSE.
General Cut In the List of Protected
Goods-Lumber, Wool and Salt
Placed on the Free
List-A SYN
opsis.


chairman of the ways and means com
mittee to-day submitted to the full COM
mittee the tariff bill upon which the
Democratic members have been at
work for several months. The free list
section is TO take effect July /, 1888.
The measure was Immediately made
public.
The bill proposes to fix duty on pig
iron at IS per ton; on iron or steel rail
way bars, Weighing more than twenty
five pounds to the yard and slabs or
blllets of steel, $ll per ton; on iron or
steel L rails weighing not over twenty
five pounds to the yard, $l4 per ton;
and on iron or steel flat rails punched,
Sl5 per ton.
Estimates of reductions in revenue eff
fected by the bill have not been COM
pleted in details, but the aggregate, ac-
cordlng to the best information in the
hands of the committee is liked
ut s55,000,000. This total includes
about s22, ,250,0OO on account OF
the free list, $l7 ,250,000 on account OF
wOolen goods, 81 100000 for china and
glassware, l50, 900 in chemical sched-
ule; something less than $500, 900 on cot
ton, 81 ,500,0 ,0C0 on flax, hemp and jute,
and on sugar about $l1,O00,0O0. There
is no internal revenue changes proposed
by the bill. This subject was purposely
left, for lack of time, to the considera-
ton of the full committee.
The bill provides for admitting free OF
duty after July l, "all woods, hair of the
Alpaca goat and other like animals:
woods on the skin; WOODEN rags, shoddy
6.
October l, 1888. it provides among other
things for 40 per cent. duty
on woolen and worsted cloth,
shawls and all manufacturers OF
wool, not specially enumerated; and
on Hannels, blankets, knit goods, wom-
ems and children's dress goods COM
posed in part of wool. The bill makes
the following additions to the list of ar.
ticles which may be imported free OF
duty:
Timber, hewn and sawed and timber
used for spars and in building wharves;
timber, squared or sided; wood, unman-
ufactured, not specially enumerated 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 hewn or sawed
only; slaves of wood; pickets and pal
ings, laths, shingles; lapboards-pine
or spruce; lOgs-provided that if any
export duty is laid upon the above
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 provid-
ed 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, flax, not hackled or
pressed; flax, hacked (known as
pressed linen tow o. flax or hemp);
hemp, mania and other like substitutes
for hemp; jute butts; jute; sum, sisal
grass and other vegetable fibers;
burlaps, not exceeding sixty inches
in width, of flax, jute or hemp,
or of which fax, jute or hemp, or
either of them, shall be the component
material 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 part of
hemp. iute, jute butts, flax, gunny
bags, gunny cloth, or other material
provided that as to hemp and flax, jute,
jute butts, sum and sisal grass and man
ufacturers thereof, except burlaps lot
exceeding sixty inches III width and
bagging for cotton, this act shall take eff
feet July ], 1889.
Iron or steel sheets, or plates, or tag
gers iron, coated with tin or lead, or
with a mixture of which these metals is
a 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 as
such; soap, hard and soft, all of which
are not otherwise specially enumerated
or provided Tor; extra cl. of hemlock
and other barks used for tanning;
indigo, extracts ofand carmined, iodine,
resublimed; licorice juice; croton oil;
hempseed and rapeseed oil; flaxseed or
linseed oil; cottonseed oil; petroleum
alumina, alum, patent alum, alum sub
stituto, sulphate of alumina and
CRYSTALS or ground; all limitations of nat
mineral waters; baryta, sulphate of, or
barytes, unmanu iactured; boracic acid,
borate of lime and borax; cement, Ro-
man, Portland and all others; whiting
and Paris white; copper, sulphate of,
or blue yitirol; iron, sulphate of, or cop
peras; potash, crude, carbonate of or
fusel and caustic potash; chlorate of
potash and nitrate of potash or saltpeter
crude; sulphate of potash; sulphate OF
soda, known as salt cake, crude or
refined or inter cake, crude or refined,
and glaubers salt Sulphur, refined in
rolls; wood tar, crude coal tar; aniline
oil and its homologues; coal tar, products
of, such as naphtha, benzine, benizole,
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 decoc-
tions of spirits of turpentine; bone
black, ivory drop black and bone char
coal; ocher and ochery earths, umber
and umber 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
cal compounds by whatever name
known ard not specially enumerated
or provided for in this act
all barks, beans, berries, balsams, buds,
bulbs, bulbous roots and excrescences,
such as nut gals, fruits, flowers, dried
fibres, grains, gums and gum resins,
herbs leaves, lfchens. nuts, roots and
stems. vegetables, seeds and seeds of
morbid growth, weeds, woods used ex-
presslv for dveing and dried insects.
All non-dutia BILE crude minerals, but
which have been advanced in value or
condition by refining or grinding or by
other process of manufacture, not spec
iallv enumerated or provided for; all
earths or clays unwrought or unmanU-
factured; China, clay or kaoline; opium
(crude) containing per centum and
over of morphia, for medicinal purposes;