Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1888-03-03
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THE TARIFF BILL AT LAST.
CHAIRMAN MILLS SUBMITS THE LONG
LOCKED FOR TARIFF BILL.

LOCKED FOR TARIFF BILL.
a List of the More Important Changes,
which, with the Extended Free List,
VIII Make q Reduction Of About Fifty
Three millions.
WASHINGTON, March 2.-The chairman
OF The ways and means committee sub
mitted to the full committee, the tariff
bill, upon which tie Democratic members
have been at work for several months.
The free-list section is to take effect July
1, 1888. Among the additions to the list
Of articles which may be imported free OF
duty, are the following: Timber. hewn
and sawed; timber used for building
wharves and for spars; timber squared or
!. sided; WOO manufactured, not especially
enumerated or provided for; hubs or
wheels, etc. slaves of wood; pickets, and
palings and laths, shingles, clapboaTds,
pine or spruce; logs; provided that il any
export duty is laid upon the above men
toned articles, or either of them by any
country whence imported, all said arti-
cles from said country snail be subject
to duty as nov provided by law. Salt
In bags, sacks, barrels or other packages, or
in bulk, when imported from any country
which does not charge import duty on
exports from the United States. Flax,
straw, flax not packed or dressed ;burlaps,
not exceeding sixty inches in width, of
which flax, jute or hemp,or e Of them,
shall be the component material of chief
value; tin plates. terne plates and taggers
tin; beeswax, gelatin, II all similar
preparations; glyCerine, crude brown or
yellow isinglass; soap, hard and soft, all
of which are not otherwise specially
enumerated or provided for; oil, croton,
flaxseed or linseed oil, ~cottonseed oil, pc
troleunl, cement, sulphates of copper and
iron, potash, slilphate Of potash, sulphur,
benzine, spirits of turpentine, all prepare
tiors known as essential oils, iron and
steel cotton ties, or hoops for paling pur-
poses not thinner than No 30 wire
gauge, needles, copper wire imported.
lin the form of fores, nickel in ore
matte or other crude form not ready for
consumption in arts, quicksilver, mineral
substances In a crude state, and metals
~unwrought not especially enumerated or
provided for; brick, vegetables in their
natural state, or IN salt or brine, cur.
rants, figs, meats, game or poultry, beans,
peas and split peas, pulp for paper max
ers' use, bibles, books and pamphlets In
other languages than English, and books
and pamphlets and all publications of for
eign governments, and publications of
foreign societies, historical or scientific,
printed for gratuitons distribution; feath-
ers of all kinds, grindstones, human hair,
raw, nnclcaned and not drawn, lime, gar
den seeds, marbles of all kinds, broom
corn, plaster of paris, painting in oil or
water eolors, and statuary not otherwise
q r<yn,,sln.1 FAR 81 n1,tM fhn. sl--,x% Ia a4,,a,,
shall be understood to include the profess
sional productions of statuary of The
sculptor only.
Insaddition to the free list the follow
ing are some of the Important changes
proposed by the bill: Iron in pigs, SO per
ton; now 3T10 cent per pound. Iron, rail
=wssysfi;sEs, vi per ton 0 I'll e%aTf@Ier
pound. Steel and part steel RAILWAY bars
and slabs, and billets of steel, S11 per ton;
now S1T per ton. Iron or steel rails, S14
per ton; fiat rails, $i5 per ton; now 9-10
and $40 cent per pound, respectively.
Round iron, ! cent per pound; now / 2-10
cents per pound. On sheet iron, there is
q uniform reduction OF lilo cent per
pound, excepting taggers iron. On hoop,
band, or scroll iron less than eight inches
IN width, there is a reduction OF 1-10 cent
per pound on CRATES thinner than No. 10
SsstiR1 SOS SuSU 49, PiRSSoA GfTly NCr
scription, 6-10 cent per pound; now / cent
per pound. Cut nails and spikes of iron
or steel, ! cent per pound; now III cent,
Cat tacks, s. per cent. adj valorem;
now about 3 cents per pound.
Railway fish plates, $40 cent per
pound; now IN. Wrought iron or steel
spikes, horseshoes, ETC., TX cent per
pound; now 2 cents. Steel ignots, blooms,
die block blanks, bars, bands, sheets,
cranks, shafts and pins, stamps, paper
gun moulds, steel castings, etc. valued at
] cent apound,, 4-10 cent per pound; val
.ued at more than / cent and not more
than 4 cents, DO per cent adyalorem, o
45 per cent on all values less than A
cents per pound, and from 2 to 8I cents
per pound OF higher grades. Iron or steel
beams, posts, columns, building forms
and other structural shapes, 6-10 cents
per pound; now ~ cent. Steel or partly
steel railway wheels and tires, or ignots
Tor same, IL cent per pound; now az
cents. Iron and steel wire remain I'M
changed, with the provision that no duty
Shall exceeds6 go per cent. nd valorem. Old
copper and copper clippings for remanu
factufe, cent per pound; now B
cents. IgaDts and chill bars, 2
cents per pound; now cents.
cents. Rolled plates, sheet rolled pipes,
etc, 30 per cent. ad vaiprem; now 35 per
cent. Lead o eand dross, " cent per pound;
now TX cent. Pigs, bars, etc, for re.
manufacture IL cent; now 2 cents.
Sheet, pipes and SHOT, ~ cents; now 8
cents. Shooting and yellow metal; 30
per cent ad valorem; now SO per cent.
Nickel, ore or MATTE, 10 cents per pound,
or nickel contained therein; now 10 cents
Zinc and spelter in pigs or for remanu
f~acture, N cent per pound, in sheets 2
cents per pound, row IL and az cents,
respectively. Hollow ware, ~ cents per
pound; NOV 3 cents. Needles Of all
kinds, 20 per cent ad val0reln; now 25
and 50 per cent Cabinet or house furni-
tnse, wood, 80 per cent. ad valorem; now
30 per cent. Manufactures of hard
woods, 30 per cent. ad yalorem now 35 per
CEN Wood manufactures unenumer-
ated, 30 per cent. ad yalorem; now 35 per
cent. Sugar, not above No. 16 d. s., is as
follows. Tank bottoms, syrups, etc, not
above IS degrees polariscope, liz cent
per hundred, and for every additional de-
gree Srl00 cent per pound; above 6 d. s.,
and not above 30, 2.20 cents per pound;
above 20 d. $. az cents per pound. The
present duties range from 1.Ri cents per
pound below ia d. $. to 3JG cents per
pound for sugar above 20ds THE lower
gradesof molasses are unchanged, butthat
testing above 46 degrees is reduced from
s to . cents per gallon. Confectionery,
40 per cent. ad valorem; now 10 cents per
pound. All leaf tobacco manufactured is
fixed at 3S cents per pound, and the pres.
emit distinction between Sumatra and or.
dinary wrapping tobacco is abolished.