, 1888-03-02
The Tariff Bill.

members have been at work for several
months, the free list section to take effect
July |, 1888. The measure was immedi-
ately made public. Among the additions
to the list OF articles which may be i'm
ported free of duty are the following:
Timber Of various kinds, timber or
lumber, whether hewn or sawed; also
rough wagon and shipping material and
all kinds of wood not specified in the bill,
provided the articles mentioned are not
subject to duty in the country from
whence they are imported; otherwise the
present duties will be levied. Salt with
the same restricts as timber; fax, hemp
and various vegetable fibres; burlaps not
exceeding sixty inches wide; bagging, tin
plates, time plates, and taggers' tin; bees
wax, gelatine and similar preparations;
glycerine and CLUES; phosphorus, soap
and soap stocks; tanning bark, oils com
pressed from seeds; petroleum and its
products; mineral waters and limitations;
cements, tar and its products. Turpen-
tine and preparations known as essential,
expressed, distilled and rendered oils; al
kallne, alkaloids and various chemical
compounds; bulbs, fruits, nuts, seeds, etc.
Crude earths, clays and minerals,
opium, crude, containing over 9 per cent
of morphia, for medicinal purposes, iron
and steel hoops, needles, copper, nickel
ore and crude -antimonY; quicksilver,
cromate OF iron or cromie ore, crude
mineral and metals u%nwrought and not
specially enumerated or provided for.
Brick, vegetables, meats, beans, peas,
etc; pulp for paper-bibles, books and
than English, and books and pamphlets
and all publications Of foreign govern
ments and publications of foreign societies
historical or scientific, printed for gratui-
tuous distribution; paintings in oil or
water colors and statuary not otherwise
provided for. Stone, manufactured, or
undressed; hair, batter's fur unstained,
rags, rattans and reeds, unmanufac.
tured.
The new tariff bill proposes to fix the
duty on pig iron at Sc per ton; on iron
ore, steel railway bars, weighing more
than 25 pounds to the yard and slabs or
blllets of steel Sll per ton; on iron or
steel L rails weighing not over 25 pounds
to the yard $l4 per ton: and on iron or
steel fiat rails punched $l5 per ton. The
bill provides Tor admitting free of duty
after July all woods, hair of ALPACA,
goat and other like animals, woods on
skin, wooden rags, shoddy, mung1, waste
and 1ocks." And after October |. SSS, it
provides among other things for 40 per
cent duty on wooden and worsccd cloth.
shawls and all manufacturers wool
specially enumerated, and on ~fannels,
blankets, knit goods, women and chill
dren's dress goods, composed in part of
wool.
The entire wood schedule not on the
free list is subjected to the 80 per cent
duty. All grades of sugar are reduced
by an amount ranging from One-fifth to
cne-fourth of the present duties. The
reductions on china and glassware range
up to II per cent. Cotton yarn is re-
duced to So and 40 per cent; bleached
linens to % per cent; other yarns % per
cent; cotton cloth 40 per cent. Manufac.
and worsted cloth, hannels, blankets and
knit goods. Dress goods, partly of wool,
40 per cent; ready made clothing and
cloaks As; weddings so per cent; carpets
80 per cent; paper and its manufactures
are generally reduced. Carriages 80 per
cent; watches 25 per cent.
The estimates Of reductions in the rev.
enue effected by the bill have not yet
been completed in detail, but aggregate,
according to the best information, S55,-
000, 1000. This total includes about twenty
two and a quarter millions on account Of
the free list, seventeen and a quarter mil
lions on account of wooden goods, 81 ,600,-
600 for china and glassware, three quart
ers or a million dollars in the chemical
schedule, something less than half n mil
lion dollars on cotton, one half million
dollars on flax, hemp and jute, and sugar
about eleven million dollars. There is no
internal revenue changes proposed by the
bill. This subject was purposely left for
lack of time to the consideration of the
full committee. The administrative pro
visions constitute the most voluminous
part OF the bill and embrace the pro.
visions compiled by Hewitt in the forty
ninth congress and incorporated in Nor
rison's bill. Hewitt's provisions abolish
ing the Office of merchant appraiser and
providing new methods of appraisement
are omitted.
The entire system of damage allowance
on imported goods injured during trans
portation is abolished. The period for
which imported merchandise can be kept
in bonded warehouses is extended from
one to three years. The duties on boxes,
cartoons and other inside coverings of
merchandise which pass into the hands
of onsumc are revived; also the duties
on packing charges. What is known as
the ''similitude" clause OF the tariff is re-
enacted with such wording as to make clear
when unenumerated articles can be classi.
fed as assimilating to enumerated artl-
Giles. Importers declarations are substi.
tuted for importers oaths in all custom
matters and importers are authorized to
make declarations before ~nOtarie5 instead
| of Mt the customs house.
All leaf tobacco unmanufacturcd is
fixed at 80 cents per pound, and the pres
cut distinction between Sumatra and or
binary wrapping tobacco is abolished.
The recommendations made as to pro-
tests, appeals and suits by Secretary Man
ming in his special report to congress two
years ago, arc all adopted.
The penalties are made more stringent
for bribery or feeling inspectors of Gus
toms, or for any Irregularities in the in
spcction of baggage. The government is
authorized to bring suit for value of NOR
chandisc fraudulently imported, after such
merchandise has passed into the hands of.
the importers.
The other provisions arc all Of minor
character.
Hotel Burned.
SUFFER- CREEK, Gala, March This
afternoon the Sutter hotel roof was dis