St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-03-02
It Represents the Views Of
the Majority Of the Dem
oeratic Congressman,
And Will Reduce the Govern
ment's Income About $685.
100000 Per Annum.
A Long List of Articles Placed
on the Free LSt--The
Chief Reduc tions.
Doings in the Senate and
House--General Washing
ton Intelligence.

WASHINGTON, March 1.-The chair
man Of the ways and means committee
to-day submitted to the full committee
the tariff bill upon which the Demo-
cratic members have been at work for
several months. The measure was i'm
mediatelv made public. Estimates of
reduction in revenue effected by the bill
have not been completed in detail, but
the aggregate, according to the best in
formation in the hands of the commit
tee, is fixed at S55,000000. This total
includes about S22, 250, 600 on account of
the free list, ST, 200 on account Of
Woolen goods, 81, 100000 for china and
glass ware, S150,000 in the chemical
schedules, something less than $500,000
on cotton, $l,500,000 on flax, hemp and
jute, and sugar about 81 100000 There
are no internal revenue changes pro-
posed by the bill. This subject was
purposely left, for lack OF time, to the
consideration of the full committee.
THE FREE LIST.
The bill makes the following additions
to the list Of articles which may be i'm
ported free of duty:
Timber, heWn and sawed, and timber
used for spars and in building wharves; {;
timber squared or sided; wood unma1 u
factured, not specially enumerated 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 or pal
lngs, laths, 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 i'm
ported from said country shall be sub
ject to duty as now provided by law.
packages, or in bulk when imported
from any country which does not charge
an import duty upon salt exported from
the United States. Flax straw; flax
not hacked Or dressed; flax hacked,
known as dress line; tow of flax, or
hemp; hemp, MANILA, and other like
substitutes for hemp; jute butts; jute.
Sum, sisal grass and other vegetable
fibreS; burlapS not exceeding sixty
inches IN width, of fax, jute or hemp,
or of which flax, jute or hemp, or either
of them shall be the component material
of chief value. Bagging for cotton or
other manufactures not specially emu
merated OF provided for in this act,
suitable to the uses for which cotton
bagging is applied, composed in whole
Or in part of hemp, Jute, lute butts, flax,
gunny bags, gunny cloth or other
material; provided, that as to hemp
and flax. jute, jute butts. sum and
siSal grass and manufactures thereof,
except burlaps not exceeding sixty
inches in width, and bagging for cot
tons; this act shall take effect July l,
1889. Iron or steel sheets or plates, or
taggers iron cOatad with tin or lead, or
with a mixture of which those metals
are Il component part, by the dipping or
any other process, and commercially
known as tin plates, terne plates and
taggers tin. BeeswaX, gelatlne and all
similar preparations. Glycerine, crude,
brown or yellow. Fish glue or isin-
glass, phosphorus. Soap stocks, fit
only for use as such; soap, hard and
soft, all OF which are not otherwise
Especially enumerated or provided for.
Extracts of hemlock and other bark
seed for tanning; indigo, extract of and
carmine; iodine, resubllmed; licorice
juice. Oil, cotton; hemp seed and rape
seed oil; flaXseed or linseed Oil; cotton
seed; petroleum. Alumina, alum, pat
ent alum, alum substitute, Sulphate of
alumina and aluminouS cake, and alum
in crystals OF ground; all limitations of
natural mineral waters and all artificial
mineral waters: baryta, Sulphate of, OF
baryteS, manufactured; boracic acid,
borate of lime and boraX; cement, Ro-
man, Portland and all others; whiting
and paris white; copper, sulphate of. OF
Or blue vitrol; iron, sulphate of, or cop
peras; potash, crude, carbonate of, or
fused and cauStic potash; chlOrate of
potash and nitrate of potash OF salt
petre, crude; sulphate of potash; sui
phate of soda, known as salt cake,
crude or refined. or nitre cake, crude or
refined, and glauber's-salt; sulphur,
refined, i'll rolls. Wood tar; coal
tar, crude; analine Oil and its homo
logues; coal tar, products Of, such as
naphtha, benzine, benzole, dead oil and
pitch: all preparations of coal tar not
colors or dyes and not acids of colors
and dyes. Logwood and other dye
woods, extracts and decoctions of.
Spirits of turpentine. Rome black, ivory
drop black and bone char, ochre and
ochery earths, umber and umber
earths, sienna and sienna earthS, when
dry. All the preparations known as
essential oil, expressed oils, distilled
oils, rendered oils, alkalies, alkaloids
and all combinations of any of the fore
going and chemical compounds and
salts by whatever name known, and
not specially enumerated or provided
rieS, balSamS, buds, bulbs. bulbous
roots and eXcrescences, such as nut
gals fruits, flowers, dried fibers, grain,
gums and gum resin, herbs, leaves,
lichenS, MOSES, nuts, roots and stems.
vegetables seeds and seeds of morbid
growth, weeds, woods used expressly
for drying, and dried insects. All non
dutiable crude minerals but which have
been advanced in value or condition by
refining or grinding OF by other process
of manufacture, not specially enumer-
ated or provided for. All earths or
clays unwrought or unmanutactured.
China clay OF kaoline. Opium, crude,
containing 8 per cent and over
of morphia for medical purposes.
Iron or steel cotton ties or
hoops for bailing purposes, not
thinner than No. 20 wire gauge;
all others not specially enumerated or
provided for in this act. Copper i'm
ported in the form of ores ogIlus of and
black or coarse copper and copper ce
ment, old copper fit only for manufac-
ture. Nickel, in ore, matte, or other
crude form not ready for consumption
in the arts. Anthony, as regulus or
metal. Quicksilver; chromate of iron
or chronic ore; mineral substances in
crude state and metals uDWrought or
not specially enumerated or provided
for; brick. Vegetables in their natural |
state or in salt or III brine. Chicory |!
root, ground or unground; burnt or pre- |
pared acorns and dandelion root, raw OF |