Huntsville gazette., 1888-03-03
MR.. MILLS TARIFF BILL
PRESEN TED TO THE LOWER HOUSE
OF CONGRESS.


1t for Several Months-No Provision:
for Internal Revenue.
WASHINGTON, March 2.-The chairman OF
the ways and means committee has submit
te to the full committee the tariff bill upon
which the Democratic members have been at
work for several months. The free list sec
ton is to take effect July 1, 1888 The meas
ure was Immediately made public.
The bill makee the following additions to
the list of articles which may be imported
free of duty:
Timber hewn and sawed and timber used
for spars and in building wharves; timber
squared or sided; wood manufactured, not
specially enumerated or provided for; sawed
boards, planls, 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 and shingles; clap
boards, 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 bags, sacks, barrels or other pack
ages, 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; ;
fax, hacked, known as dressed linen tow of
flax or hemp; jute butts; jute; sum, sisal
grass and other vegetable fibers; burlaps, not
exceeding sixty inches in width, of flax, jute
or hemp, or of which fax, jute or hemp,
or either of them, shall be the COM
ponent material of chief value bagging for
cotton or other manufactures not specially
enumerated or provided for in this act suita-
BILE to uses for which cotton bagging is ap-
piled, composed in whole or part Of hemp,
jute, jute butts, flax, gunny bags, gunny
cloth, OF other material; provided that as to
hemp and flax, jute, jute butts sum and
sisal grass, and manufactures thereof, ex
cept burlaps not exceeding sixty inches in
width and bagging for cotton, this act shall
take effect July l, 1899.
Iron or steel sheets, or plates, or taggers
iron, coated with tin or lead, or with mix
ture of which these metals is a component
part by the dipping or any other process,
and commercially known as tin plates, telne
plates and taggers tin.
Beeswax, gelatine and all similar prepara-
tions; glycerine, crude, brown or yellow;
fish glue or isinglass; phosphorus, soap
stocks, fit only for use as SUCH soap, hard
and soft, all of which are not otherwise
specially enumerated or provided for
Extract of hemlock and other bark used
for tanning; indigo, extracts of and car
mined iodine, resublimed; licorice, juice.
Oil, croton; hempseed and rapeseed oil !;
flaxseed or lnseed oil; oil, cottonseed; pc
troleunl.
Alumina, alum, patent alum, alum substi
tute, sulphate Of alumina and aluminous
cake, and alum in crystals or ground all i'm
itations of natural mineral waters and all
artificial mineral waters; baryta, sulphate of
or barytas manufactured; boracic acid,
borate of lime and borax; cement Roman,
Portland and all others; whiting and Paris
white; copper, sulphate of or blue vitriol;
iron, sulphate of or copperas potash, crude,
carbonate of, or fusel and caustic potash;
chlorate of potash and nitrate of potash or
salt peter crude; sulphate of potash; sui
phate of soda, known as salt cake, crude OF
refined OF inter cake, crude or refined, and
glaubers salt; sulphur, refined in rolls; wood
tar; coal tar, crude; aniiine 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 decoc-
tions of.
Spirits of turpentine; bone black, ivory
drop black and bone char; ocher and ochery
ea-ths, umber and umber earths, sienna and
sienna earths, when dry
All preparations known a. essential oils
expressed oils, distilled oils, rendered OILS, al
kalies, alkalaids, and all combinations Of
any Of the foregoing, and chemical com
pounds and salts by whatever name known,
and not specially enumerated or provided for
in this act.
All barks, beans berries, basams, buds,
bulbs, bulbons, roots and excrescences, such
as nut gals, fruits, flowers, dried fibres,
grains, gums, and gum resins, herbs, leaves,
lichens, moses, nuts, roots, and stems, vege
tables, seeds, and seeds of morbid growth,
weeds, woods used expressly for dyeing, and
dried insects.
All non-dutiable crude minerals but
which have been advanced in value or con-
dition by refining or grinding, or by other
process of manufacture, not specially enunl
Grated or provided for.
All earths or clays unwrought or unmanu-
factured, China clay or kaoline; opium,
crude, containing per cent. and over NOR
phia for medicinal purposes.
Iron and steel cotton ties or hoops for
baling purposes, not thinner than No. 20
wire gaug1; needles, sewing, darning, knit
ting, and all others not specially enumerated
OF provided for in this act; copper imported
in the form of ores, regulus of, and black or
course copper and copper cement, old copper
fit only for remanufacture; nickel in ore,
motto, or other crude form not ready for
consumption in the arts; antimony, as
regulus or metal: quicksilver; chromate Of
iron OF chronic ore mineral substances in
crude state and metals Unwrought, not
specially enumerated or provided for; brick.
Vegetables in their natural state or in salt
or brine; chicory root, ground or ungroun1,
burnt or prepared: acorns and dandelion
root, raw or prepared, an all other articles
used, or intended 70 be used as coffee or sub
stitutes therefor, not specially enumerated
or provided by; cocoa, prepared or manufao-
tured; dates, plums and prunes; currants,
seante or other; fgs
Meats, game and poultry; milk, fresh; egg
yelks; beans peas and split peas
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