The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1888-03-08
REVENUE REFORM.
A Bill Reported by the House Ways
and Means Committee
For Reducing the Treasury A"cumu-
latIng Millions.
An Aggregate of $55.OOO,OOO Az
fected by the Bill,
And Twenty-Five and a Fourth Mil
lions on the Free List.
A Full List Of Articles Subject to a
Change.

Change.
WASHINGTON, March 1.-The chair
man of the ways and means com
mittee to-day submitted to the full
committee the tariff bill upon which
the democrat members have been at
work for several months. The free
list section is to take effect July 1, lSSS.
The measure was Immediately made
public. The new tariff bill proposes
to fix duty on pig iron at So per ton,
on IRON and steel railway bars
weighing more than twenty-five
pounds to the yard and slabs or
billets of steel, 81 per ton, ON iron or
steel ''t'' rails weighing not
over twenty-five pounds to the
yard SI4 per ton, and on iron
or steel fiat rails punched SIS per ton.
The bill provides for admitting free of
duty after July lst all woods, hair of
the alpaca goat and other like animals,
woods on ''T'' skin, wooden rags, shod-
dy mengo waste and fiocks; and after
October l, 1888, it provides among
other things for a 40 per cent duty on
wooden and worsted cloth shawls and
all manufacturers on wool, not special
ly enumerated, and on fannels,
blankets, knit goods, womens' and
childrens' dress goods composed in
part of wool. The bill makes the fol-
lowing additions to the list of articles
which may be imported for duty:
Timber used for spars and in building
wharves; timbered squared or sided;
wood manufactured, sawed boards,
planks, deals and all other articles of
sawed lumber, hubs for wheels, posts,
last blocks, wagon blocks, car blocks,
gun blocks and all like blocks or
sticks rough hewn or sawed on the
stages of wood, pickets and polling,
laths, shingles, clapbOards, 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 provided by law; salt in bulk when
imported from any country which does
not charge an import duty upon the
salt imported from the United States;
jute butts, jute sum, sisal grass and
other vegetable fibres, burlaps not ex-
ceeding sixty inches in width of fiat
bagging for cotton or other manufac-
lures suitable to the uses for which
cotton is applied. This act shall take
effect July LIST. 1889. Iron or steel
sheets or plates or tagger's iron con-
mercially known as tin plates, tin
plates and lagger's tin, bees wax,
gelatin and all similar preparations,
glycerine, fish glue or isinglass, phos-
phorous, soap stocks fit only for use as
such soap, extracts of hem
lock and other bark used for
tanning, indigo, iodine, resublimed
licorice juice, oil of croton, hemp seed
and rape seed oil, flax seed or linseed
oil, cotton seed oil, petroleum, alumina,
alum, alum substitute, etc. All imita-
tions of natural mineral waters and all
artificial mineral waters, many chem
icals, wood tar, coal tar, crude and
products not colors, dyes or acids, ami
line oil and its homologues, benZine,
beniZole, dead oil and pitch, logwood
and other dye woods, turpentine, bono
black, ivory, drop black and bone
charcoal, ochre and all kinds of
ochrey earths, lumber and unamber
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 foregoing, and
chemical compounds; all banks, beans,
berries, balsams, buds, bulbs, Dubious
roots, and eXcrescenceS, such as nut
gals, fruits, flowers, dried fibres,
grains and gum, raisins, herbs, leaves,
Hchens, nuts, roots, and stems,
vegetables seeds and seeds of
morbid growth, weeds or woods used
expressly for dyeing, and dried insects.
All earths or clay unwrOught or I'M
manufactured china clay or kaoline,
opium crude containing 8 per centum
and over of morphia, for medicinal pur-
poses. Iron and steel cotton ties or
hoops for baling purposes. Needles,
copper or nickel in crude form, anti
mOny, quicksilver, mineral substances
in crude state. brick, vegetables,
ehicory root and all other articles used
or intended to be used as coffee. Cocoa.
dates, plums, prunes, currants, figs,
meats, game and poultry. Beans, peas.
and split peas. Pulp for paper makers
use. Bibles, books and pamphlets
printed in other languages than Eng
lish. Bristles, bulbs, and dubious
roots not medicinal, and feathers of
all kinds. Finishing powder, grease
grindstone, curled hair, human hair,
raw matters fur, not on
skin hemp, and rape seed and other
oil seeds of like character. Lime,
garden seed, linseed, or flax seed mar
BILE, osierer, willow, broom corn, brush
wood, plaster of Paris bags, rattans
and reeds, paintings in oils and water
colors and statuary. Stone unmanu-
featured or undressed, free stone
granite, sandstones, and all building
or monumental stone. All strings of
gut or any other like material. TalloW
waste.
DUTIES ON METALS.
Metals are to pay duties as follows:
Pig iron, SO per ton; iron railing bars
81: steel ditto, Sll: bar iron rolled or
hammered, per cent per pound; iron
slabs, blooms, hoops, 80 per cent ad-
Yancement; iron bars, blooms, billets
in the manufacture of which charcoal
is used, $40 per ton; iron or steel ''Tr
rails, SIS per ton; round
iron in coils or rods and
rolled iron, unenumerated, one cent
per pound; other manufactured iroI
one cent per pound, with few minol
exceptions; old copper clippings. one
cent per pound. copper, unmanufac
tured, two cents per pound; lead one
and one-quarter cents per pound, il
sheets two and one-quarter cents pc
pound; nickel, in ore. ten cents peI
pound; zinc spelter, two cents PEE
pound; hollow ware p cents pe
pound; machine needles, 20 per cent
The entire wood schedule is subjected
to 80 per cent duty.
All grades of sugar are reduced by al
amount varying from one-fifth to on
fourth of the present duties. Cotton
yarn is reduced to 35 and 40 per cent
bleached linen to % per cent, cotto
cloth 40 per cent; Wooden an
worsted cloths reduced To 40 per cen,
flannels, blankets and knit goods, 4
per cent; dress goods partly of WOO
40 per cent; ready made clothing. 4
per cent; cloaks, 40 per cent; webbing:
80 per cent; carpets, So per cent; pape
and its manufactures are ger
orally reduced; carriages, 8
per cent; watches, % per cen
ALL leaf tobacco unmanufactured
fixed at thirty-five cents per pound, an
the present distinction between Sumi
abolished.
In addition to the free list the &c