The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1888-03-07
SLICING THE TARIFF
Some Of tie MRS Important Chsngss Pro-
pcsed Ii Oar Import Dn!lss.
Earge Additioss 10 tho Free List, Inciud-
ins wooI-Changes IN Mttals-1he
Reductions in Manufactured
Woois Duties.

jill pm M1lCn TIC DCLAOSAoAAO
have been at work for several months.
The free list section is to take effect July l,
1855 The MEASURE was Immediately made
public. The bill makes the following adj
.ditions to The list of articles which may be
imported free OF duty:
Timber. hewn and sawed, and timber used
Tor spsTs and in building wharves. Timber
squared or sidsd. Wood, unmanutactured, not
foards. D anks, deals and all other articles OF
sawed lum ber- Hubs for wheels, posts, last
Soeks wagon blocks oar 1iSe s gun or
rough hewn or sawed only. Slaves OF wood
Pickles and palinEs laths, shingles. Clap
boards, pine or spruce Logs.
Provided that if any export duty is laid upon
ihe above mentioned articles, or either OF them,
sy any country whence imported, all said srLi.
rrss imported from said country shall be sub
ject to duty as now provi led by law.
Gait in bags sacks barrels, or other packages
In bulk, when imported from any country
salt exported from the United States
Flax, straw. Flax not hacked or dressed.
Flax hacked, known as dressed linen tow OF
substitutes for hemp; jute butts, jute, sum,
kisal grass and other vegetable nbers: Burlaps,
not exceeding sixty inches in width, OF fax,
lutte or hemp, or Of which faJ, ju'e or hemp,
. or either OF them, shall be the CON ponent ma
teriai of the chief value.
Bsoging for cotton or other manufactures not
specially enumerated or prov ided for in this
act, suitable TO the uses for which cotton bag
ging Is applied, composed in whole or part OF
hemp juIe, jute butts, flax, gunny bags, gunny
clOth, or other material; provided, that as to
hemp and fax, jute jute butts, sunn and sisal
grass, and manufactures thereof. eneept bullaps
not exceeding sixty inches in width, and bag
ging for cotton, tins act shall take effect July l.
i, 1889.
Iron OF steel sheets or plates, or taggers 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 aud taggers tin
Beeswax, gelstine, aud all similar prepare
lions.
GIycerine. crude, brown or yellow
Fish, glue or lslDg ass.
Phosphorus, soap stocks, fit only for use as
y Soar hard or soft, all OF which are not other
wise specia lly enumerated or provided for
Extract OF hemloCk and other bark used for
tanning. Indigo, extracts OF and carmined.
Iodine, Iesublimate Licorice, juice.
Oil-CToton, hemp seed and rape seed OIL flax
s3ed or linssed oil, oil cotton, ps tr0leum
Administrator, patent alum, alum substi-
tute sulphate Of aiumina, aud aluminous cake,
and alum in cIysta 5 II ground.
AL limitations of natural mineral waters and
81 artificial mineral waters.
Bsryta- SulDhsIe of or barytes unmsnufse-
tuIed.l
Boracie-Borate Of lime and borax
Ce Lent -RomSD, Portland and all others.
Whiting and parts white.
COpper-Sulphate OF or blue VitriOl
Iron-SHi phate OF or cOpperas
Potash-Crude carbonate of or fusel aud caus-
tic potssh chlorate of potash and nitrate pot
ash or saltpetre, crude sulphate OF potash. sui
phaie of SODA known ss cake crude or refined
Or inter cake crude, or refined and glubers salt,
6ulphur refined in rolls.
Wood tar. coal tar, crude. sniline oil and its
nomol9gnes, coal tar products OF, such as nap
AL preparations OF coal tar. not Colors OF dyes
and not acids Of eOlOrs aud dyes.
LoGwood and other dye woods, extracts and
decoCtions of.
Spirits of turpentfne
Boneblsck, ivory or. black and bone char
coal ocher ard Ochery earths, lumber and UNI
he ufn aWnA
dry.
All preparations known as essential oils. ex-
pressed oils. distilled oils, rendered oils aka
line, sksloios and all combinations Of any
Df the foregoing and chemical compounds by
whatever name known and not specially enum-
Erat6d or provided tor in this act.
AL Oarks, beans berries, balsams, buds bulbs
0slloous ro0ts and excrescences, such as nut
gals, resins, herbs, leaves lichens, nuts roots
and stems, vegetables. seeds and seeds OF NOR
sDld growth weeds woods used expressly for
cyeing and dried insects.
All non-dutiable, crude minerals, but which
Ssve been advanced in valae or Condition nv
refining or grinding or by other processes of
manufacture, not especially enumerated or
ured.
China, clay or kaolfn
Opium, crude, containing per centum and
over OF morphia, for medicinal purposes
Iron and steel cotton ties or hoops tor billing
purposes, not thinner than number twenty Wire
Nsedles-sewing. 1arnirg, knitting AMI all
others not specially enumerated or provided for
COpper-Imported in the form OF ores, reeulus
OF, and black or coarse copper and copper ce-
uent Old copper ht only for manufacture.
Nickel I'm ore, matt or other crude form not
ready Tor consumption in the arts. Anthony,
IS Iegulqs or metal. Quicksilver, ehromate Of
Mineral substances in a crude stats and met
als unwrought not specially enumerated or
Vegetables in their natural state or in salt or
brine.
Chicory root. ground or unground burnt or
prepared, and all other articles used or intended
10 be used as coffee or substance therefor not
speciaLly enumerated or provided for. Cocoa,
Dates, Plums and prunes, currants, sesnte or
other. Figs.
Meats, same and poultry.
Beans, peas and split peas
f'ulp for paper makers use.
bibles, books and pamphlets printed in other
languages than English, and books and pamDh-
meAts and publcs tons OF foreign societies,
historical or scientific, printed for gratuitoUs
distribution,
Brfsles.
Bulhs and bultous roots, not medicinal.
Feaiher Of all binds crude or not dressed,
coiored or manufactured
Finishing powder.
Grindstones finished or unfinished.
Curled hair, for beds or mattresses; human
hair. raw, unclaimed and not drawn.
Hatters' fur, not on the skin.
Character lime, garden seeds, llnseed or flax
Marble of all kinds, in block. rough or
squared.
Osier, or willow prepared for basket.mskers'
use; broom corn, brush wood.
Plaster OF Paris, when ground or calcined.
Rags OF Whatever material com posed.
Rattans and reeds, manufactured but not
made ND intofDished articles
Paintings in oil or water colorS. and statDary
not otherwise provided for. But the term
ssstatuRIy shall be understood to include pro-
iessiopal predictions Of a statuaTy or OF
sculptor only.
Stones, manufactured or undressed Free
stone, granite, sandstone and ali building or
monumental stone.
AL strings Of gut or any other like material.
TalIoW.
Waste-An not specially enumerated or pro-
Yf1ed for.
\ In addition to the free list the following
are some of the most important changes
in the bill;
Chira, ornsmente6, IS per cent advalorem
Tnow e. per cent?; China, unornamented and
earth CII-ware, 20 per cent. advalorem (now S.
Der cel ,, and eaustic tiles 30 per cent. adva-
loren loW s. per cent }: green and colored
glass iOttles three-foUrths cent per pound tnow
one cent?. There is also q provision for adding
fle vslue Of bottles when filled TO the value OF
ne dutiable goods. Flint and lime-glass bot
4leS ard pressed glassware, 30 per cent. advalo,
rem (noU 30 per cent?; cylinder and crown
rlase. polished and between "A by 30 and q By
60 inches square, Is cents per square foot, above
zhat measurment IS cents per square loot NOV
der, crown and common window glass not ex-
peeding 10 by is inches, l cent per pound; above
chat and not exceeding 16 by ~, IL cents;
Above that and not exceeding "a BIZ 81, IL cents: