The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1888-10-04
THE NEW TARIFF BILL
The Work of the Senate Sub
Committee.
"A REDUCTION OF s75,OOO.OoO.
The Details OF the Work Of the Re'
publican Tariff Legislators-
The Free List.
The senate Tariff Bill.


committee on finance substitute for the
Mills tariff bill embodies an entire revi-
sion of the tariff schedules and admin
istrstive features of the present law,
promising a re-enactment of all such
features as, in the opinion of majority
of the committee ought not to be
changed. According to an estimate
made by the committee, the bill pro-
vides for a total reduction of abont
.$75, 900 900 made up approximately as
follows: Sugar, $27, 759, 600; free list,
Sc 100000; tobacco, (internal revenue)
-S25, 800, 900; alcohol in the arts, 81 1901
COO; other reductions in customs, $8 900,
coo. The majority and minority reports
will be submitted formally tomorrow
and will then be made public.
ADDITIONS TO THE FREE LIST.
The following are all additions to the
free list: Acorns, baryta, sulphur of
parytes, manufactured beeswax, books
and pamphlets printed exclusively in
languages other than English, braids,
plats, Iaces, etc., for .ornamenting hats,
bristles unmanufactured, bulbs and bull
ground, coal slack or calm, coal tsr
crude, curling-stone handles, currants
dried, dandelion roots unground, eggs,
feathers and downs of all kinds. I'M
manufactured jute, MANILA, ramie, all
other textile grasses or fbrous SUBJ
stances, unmanufactured Chinese floor
mating, grease and oils used in soap
making or mine-drawing, etc.. human
hair raw, mineral matters, molasses
testing not above Sc degrees, olive oil
for manufacturing or mechanical pur-
poses ,Eut oil, opium crude, potash, rags,
all not enumerated; hemp iced, rape
seed. sponges, sand, tar and pitch OF
wood, turpentine.
PRINCIPAL CHANGES.
The following synopsis contains the
principal changes compared with the
present law. the rates by the present
law being given in parenthesis with
each item, except when the article is
enumerated in the existing law
schedule. Wool and manufactures of
wool (class; fication the same as in the
present law, first and second class,
and all hair of alpaca, goat and other
like animals, IL cents a pound 10 to
E6c). Third class, exceeding in value
IL cents p pound-six pounds, (5c). All
other wastes composed who'll y or in part
of wool or Worsted, 80 cents pouLd.
All woods and hair of Alpaca, goat, or
other animals which have advanced by
sny process of manufacture beyond the
washed or secured condition, not 9TH
erWise provided for in this act will be
subject to the same duties that are i'm
posed on manufacturers of wool not
especially enumerated or provided for
IN this act. Shawls, manufacturers OF
wool, not exceeding 40 cents per pound,
35 cents per pound and in addition
thereof, IS per cent. ad valorem; 35
cents and 40 per cent; above 40 cents
and not exceeding 60 cents per pound,
35 cents per pound and 40 per cent ad
valorem; 80 and 40 cents, 35 and 40 per
cent; above 60 cents per pound, 40
cents q pound, 40 cents ad valorem.
Flannels, blankets, hats, valued at 40
cents per pound, so per cent. ad val
orem, rs cents and 30 per cent. and 35
cents and 40 per cent. Woman's and
children's dress goods, Italian cloths,
etc., made in Part OF wool and
valued at not exceeding Is
cents per square yard, 40 per
cent. ad va'orem (5c. and 80 per cent. }
containing some silk and which silk is
not the component material of chief
value and not otherwise provided, lilo.
per square yard and in addition thereto
40 per cent. ad valorem, (5o. and IS per
cent. and &c. and 40 per cent? accord.
ing to value, provided all goods of the
character enumerated or advertised in
this paragraph weighing over four
ounces per square yard, shall pay a
duty of 40c. per pound and 40 per cent.
ad valorem. 1850. and 40 per cent.
Wome =, a. d children's dress good,
Italian cloths, etc., composed wholly
of wool, lie. per square yard and 40 per
cent. ad Valorem, Q0c. and 25 per
cent? All such goods with selvaL D,
made wholly or IN part of
other material AMI all such goods n
which threads, wholly, or IN part, OF
other materials, have been introduced
for the purpose of changing the classif-
cation of duty, IL cents per square
yard, and 40 per cent ad valorem; 9
cents and 40 per cent; provided that all
such goods Weighing over ounces per
square yard shall pay DUTY of 40 cents
per pound and 40 per cent. ad valorem.
Clothing made not enumerated. Ali
goods made on knitting frame and all
pile fabrics composed wholly or in part
of wool, made up or manufactured
wholly or in part, 40 cents per pound
and 40 per cent. ad valorsm, 40 cents
and 35 per cent Cloaks, dolmans,
jackets, all except knit goods, composed
wholly or in part of wool. As cents per
pound and 40 per cent. ed valorem AS
per cent and 40 per cent? Endless
bolts of felts for paper or printing
machines. 20 cents per pound and 80
per cent. ad valorem GO cents and IS
per cent?
THE SUGAR SCHEDULE.
All sugars not above No. Is, Dutch
Standard in color, tank bottom syrups
of cane juice, concentrated melada, con-
cert and concentrated moIasses, testing
by polaniscope, not above rs degrees
and 10 cents per pound (now 1.45),
and for every additional degree
shown by polamiscope, 2-10o cents
additional, now 100 cents all sugars
. above number Is and not above num-
Der is, I5s. now S2.75; all sugar above
number 16 and not above number 20
1ss cent. now3 cents; all sugars above