The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1888-03-08
CUTTING DOWN TAXES.

CUTTING DOWN TAXES.
The Ways and Means Tariff Bill
Made Public.
II VIII Reduce the Revenue About oB3,-
100000 AnnusI'y-Largs Additions
Made to tho Free List-Intsr-
nsl Taxes No. Touched.
THE NEW tariff BILL
WASHINGTON, March 2.-The chairman OF the
Ways and Means Committee yesterday sub
mltted to the full committee the Tariff bill
upon which the Democratic members have
list section 10 TO take effect July ], 1883 The
measure was Immediately made public. II
makes the following additions TO the free list:
TIMBER, hewn and sawed, and timber used
for spars and in building wharves. Timber.
squared or sided. Wood. unmanufactured. not
specially enumerated or provided for. Sawed
boards, planks, deals. and oil other art cles 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 palings, laths, shingles. Clap
boards. pine or spruce. Logs - provided
that II any export duty Is laid urcn 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 law.
Salt in bags, sacks barrels or other packages,
or In bulk, when imported from any country
which does not charge IN import duty upon
salt exported from the United States.
Fax, straw; dax not hackled or dressed.
Flax, hackled (known as dressed linen
tow Of fax or hcmp). Hemp, ma
nilla, and other like substances for
hemp. Jute butts: jute. Sum, sisal grass
and other vegetable nbers. Burlaps not exceed
ing sixty incnes 10 width. Of FAX ,tute or hemp,or
Of which fax, jute or hemp, or either Of them
shah 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
bagglng II applied, composed In whole
or part Of hemp Jute, jute butts,
flax, gunny bags ganny cloth, or
flax, tute, jute butts, sunni and sisal grass, and
manufactures thereof, except burlaps not ex-
ceeding sixty inches In width and bagging for
cotton, this act shall take effect July ], 1882
Iron or steel Sheets or plates, or taggers iron,
coated with tin or lead or with o mixture or
which these metals are . component part
by dipping or any other process, and COM
mercially known ~ tin plates, tern plates
and taggers tin. Beeswax. gelatine and all
similar preparations. Glycerine. crude
brown or yellow. Fish glue or insinglass
Phoaph. rus, Aoap stocks, fit only for use as
such. Soap, hard and soft, all Of which are no
otherw % specially enumerated or provided
for. Extract Of hemlock and other bark used
for tanning. Indigo, extracts OF, and carmined.
Iodine, resublimed. Licorice-juice. Oil, croton.
Hempsecd and rapcsoed oil. Flax-seed or lin
seed oil. OH. cotton-seed Petroleum. Alum
A1s~vra sSNsS sf@rAlA
phate OF alum ma acd alum nous cake, and
alum Whiting and pars white. Copper-Sul-
phate Of, or blue vitrol Iron-Sulphats OF. or
copperas Potash, crude, carbonate OF, or fusel
and caustic potash. Chlorate OF potash and nj
trate Of potash, or saltpeter crude. Sulphate
OF potash. Sulphate OF soda, known us salt
cake, crude or refined, or inter cake, crude or
refined, and glauDers salt. Sulphur, in rolls.
Wood tar Coal tar, crude. Aniiine oil and its
homologues Coal tar and products Of, such as
naphtha. Benzine. benz.ole, dead oil and pitch.
All preparations Of coal-tar-not colors or dyes
and other dye-woods, extracts and dccoctions
of. Spir IS OF turpentine. Bone black, ivory
drop black and bone charcoal Ocher and
ocheEy earths, umber and umber eartLs, sienna
AMI sienna earths, when dry. All prcpara-
tons known Us essential oils, expressed oils.
distilled oils, rendered oils alkaline, alkaloids
and all combinations OF any OF the forego-
ing. and chemical compounds OF whatever
name known. and not specially enumerated
or provided in this act. All barks, beans,
berries, balsams, buds, bulbous roots and ex-
crescences such 80 nut CALLS fruits, flowers,
dried fbers, grains, gums and gum resins,
herbs, leaves, lichens, nuts roots and stems or
vegetables, seeds and seeds OF morbid growth,
weeds. woods Used expressly for dye,ng, and
dried insects. All non-dutiablo crude mUteri-
ais but which have been advanced In
value or conditions by efning or
gr nding or by other process Of manu-
facture, not specially enumerated or prov ded
for. All earths or clays unwrouRht or un-
manufactured. China, clay or kaolinc. Opium,
crude, containing . rer cent. and over of
morphia for medicinal purposes. Iron and
steel cotton ties or hoops for baling purposes,
not tn nner than No 20 wire gauge. Needles
sewing. darning, knitting and all in this act
Copi er-importcd in the form OF ores, regu!us
OF, and black or coarse copper and copper
cement; old copper, tit only for manufacture.
Nlckcl-in ore, matt, or other crude form not
ready for consumption In the arts. Antimony.
rcgulus or metal. Quicksilver, chromote OF
iron, or chrcm ore. Mineral substances in
. crude state and metals unwrought, not spe-
cally enumerated or provided for Brick. Veg
etables-in their natural state. or in salt or
brine. ChfcOry root, ground or unground, burnt
or prepared, and oil other articles used, or
intended to be used, rs coffee or substances
therefore, not specially enumerated or provided
plums and prunes; currants-Zante, or other;
dgs; meats, game and loultry: beans, peas and
split peas. Pulp for paper makers use. Bibles,
books and pamphlets print, d in other lan-
guages than English and books and pamphlets
for all publications. OF foreign governments and
scientific. pr nted for gratuitous distr but on.
Bristles. Bulbs and bu.bous roots not med
tcal. Feathers Of all kinds. crude not dressed,
colored o. manufactured. Fin sting powder.
Grease. Grindstones, finished or unfin shed.
Curled hair for leds pr mattresses. Human
hair : Raw. uncleaned and not drawn.
Hatters' fur not on the skin. Hemp and
, rape seed and other OIL seeds OF
like character. Lime. Garden seeds. Lin
seed or daxseed. Marble OF all kinds, in block,
rough or squared. Os or or willow prepared for
basket-mukers' uses. Broom corn. Brushwood.
Plaster Of pars. when ground or calcined.
Rags. OF whatever material composed
Rattans and reedA manufactured, but
not made up into finished articles.
Paintings in oil or water colors, and statuary
not otherwise provided for. But the term
"statuary" shall be understood to include
profess. onal product ons OF satuary or OF
sculptor only.l Stones, manufactured or un-
dressed, free stone, granite, sandstone and oil
building or monumental stones. All strings OF
gut or any other like material Tallow. Waste,
all not specially enumerated or provided for.
Metals arc to pay duties a. follows:
Pig iron, u per ton. Iron railway barn, n.
Steel railway bars, Ill. Bar iron, rolled or
hammered OF cent per pound. Not less
than inch VIDE and = OF an inch tn ok. In
larger measurement cent per pound. Iron
slabs, booms, loops, IS per cent. ad valorem.
Iron bars, blooms. billets, In the manufact-
uro Of which charcoal 10 used, 20 per
ton. Iron or steel ct" rails, rs . ton.
Round iron, In colts or rods. and rolled iron,
enumerated, cent per round. Sheet iron
(thin), cent per pound. Black taggers dronl,
80 per cent Hoop-iron. ! cent per pound.
Castiron pipe, Clio OF oent per pound. Nails,
cent per pound. Tacks, IS per cent Anvils,
anchors, ETC., IL cents per pound Rivets,
ETC.. III cents per pound. Sledges, axles, etc.,
ditto. Chains, cents per pound. Saws, 80
per cent Files, IS per cent Ingots and
blooms, 40 OF cent per pound. Wire
and manufactures thereof are left UNCHANGED,
provided that the duty exceeds 50 per
cent Old copper clipp ngs, cent per pound.
Copper, manufactured, 2 cents llr pound.
Lead, ~ cents per pound: In sheets, 2A cents
per pound. Nickel in ORE, 10 cents ner round.