Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1888-03-03
THE BILL IN DETAIL.
The Provisions of the Measure Sub
mitted to the Committee.

The chairman of the Ways and Means COM
mittee, on Thursday, submitted to the full
committee the tariff bill upon which the demo-
cratic party have been at work for several
months. The bill makes the following ad-
ditions to the list of articles which may be
imported free of duty
Timber hewn and sawed and used for spars
and in building wharves, timber squared or
sided, wood manufactured not specially enum-
Grated or provided for, sawed boards, planks.
deals and all other articles 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, clapboards, pine
or spruce logs, provided that if any export
duty is laid upon the above mentioned arti-
Giles on either of them by any country whence
imported, all said articles imported from said
country shall be subject to duty as now pro-
vided by law: salt in bags, sacks. barrels or
other packages or in bulk. when imported
from any country which does not charge any
import duty upon salt exported from the
United States flax, straw. fax not hacked
or dressed, flax hacked, known as dressed,
line tow of flax or hemp, hemp, manila. and
other like substitutes for hemp, jute, bulk
jute, sum, sisa grass and other fibres, veteta-
BILE fibres, burlaps, not exceeding 60 inches
in width of tax, jute OF hemp or either of
them shall be the component material of the
chief value. Bagging for cotton or other
manufactures not especially enumerated or
provided for in this act suitable to the use
for which cotton bags are applied, compressed
in the whole part of the jutc, jute butts flax,
Il. II.
provided as to hemp fax. jute, jute butts,
sum and ssa grass and manufactures there
of except buraps, not exceeding sixty inches
in width and bagging for cotton. This act
shall take effect July LIST 1886; iron ore,
steel sheets or plates or taggers' iron coated
with tin or lead or with mixture of which
either Of these metals is component part, by
dipping or any other process and commercially
known as tin plates and taggers, tin, bees wax,
gelatine and other similar prepations;
glyeerine, crude, brown or yellow. fish. glue
or isingglass, PHOSPHORUS, stocks fit only
for use as such soap, hard or soft, all of
which are not otherwise especially enumera-
ted or provided for, extract of hemlock and
other bark used for tanning, indigo, extracts
of and carmiued, iodine resablimed hcorice
juice, oil croton, hemp seed and rape seed
oil, flax seed or linseed oil, oil cotton-seed, |
petroleum, alumins, alum. patent alum, |
alum substitute, sulphate of alumina, alumni |
nous cake and alum in crystals or round, all |
imitation of natural mineral waters, and all
artificial mineral waters, baryta, sulphate of. |
or barytes manufactured, boracic acid, |
borate of lime and borax, cement, Roman,
Portland and all others. Whiting and Paris |
white copper, sulphate of. or blue vitrol,
iron, sulphate of, or copperas, potash crude,
carbonate of or fused and caustic potash,
chlorate of potash and nitrate of potash or
saltpetre crude, sulphate of potash, sulphate
of soda known as salt cake, crude or refined,
or nitre cake crude or refined and
Glauber's salt, sulpher refined in rolls,
wood tar, coal tar. crude aniline oil and its
coal tar, products of such as
naptha, benzine, benzole, lead oil and pitch,
all preparations of coal tar, not colors or
dyes, and not acids of colors and dyes, log
wood and other dye woods. extracts and