Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1888-03-02

and Means Democrats.
copyright. 1855, by the California 4ssociaied Press
WASHINGTON, March 1st.-The Ways and
Means tariff bill was given to the public
this morning, and following are some of
the changes made in the existing tariff bv
the proposed bill that are of direct interest
to the Pacific coast A II wool, hair of the
alpaca goat and other like animals. wools
on skin, wcolen rags, shoddy waste and
fiocks are placed on the free list.
Lumber, salt. petroleum, borax, boracic
acid, borate of lime, crude opium, contain
ing per cent. and over of morphia for
medicinal purposes; quicksilver, currants
lAante or other), dates, plums, prunes and
ngs ana building stone are ALL put upon the
free list
The duty on raisins is fixed at II cents
per pound a reduction of one-half cent per
pound.
Under the present tariff currants and
dates, plums and prunes pay duty each of
one cent per pound.
The bill fixes the duty on bags and bag
ging, except bagging for cotton, composed
wholly or in part of flax, hemp, iute, gunny
cloth. gunny bags, at 200 per cent. ad val
orem. The present duty is 40 per cent.
With the exception of the green fruit in
dustry of California, everything on which
.he people of the State desire protection is
knitted in this bill.
OTHER REDUCTIONS.
WASHINGTON, March 1st.-The new tariff
bill proposes to fix the duty on pig-iron at
ST per ton ; on iron ore, sleel railway bars.
weighing more than 25 pounds to the yard,
and slabs and billets of steel, $l1 per ton :
on iron or steel rails, weighing not over
% pounds to the yard, S14 per ton. and
IN rrnT Stn Hat l.,
ton.
The bill also provides, among other
things, for 40 per cent. duty on wooden
and worsted CLOTH shawls and all manu-
factures OF wool, not specially enumerated,
and on flannel blankets, knit goods.
women's and children's dress goods. COM
posed in part of wool.
The entire wood schedule not on the free
list is subjected to 80 per cent duty; all
grades of sugar are reduced by an amount
varying from one-fifth to one-fourth of the
present duties. Reductions on china and
glassware range up to II per cent, cotton
yard is reduced to 35 and 40 per cent,
beached linens to % per cent, other warns
% per cent. and cotton cloth 40 per cent.
Manufacturers wool is reduced as follows !:
Woolen and worsted cloth, flannel blankets
and knit goods, dress goods partly of wool
to 40 per cent; readymade clothing and
cloaks, 45 per cent; weddings, 80 per cent,
and carpets 80 per cent.
Papers and its manufactures are gen.
orally reduced.
Carriages 80 per cent. and watches 25 per
cent.
The estimate of the reductions in the
revenue effected by the bill has not been
completed in detail, but the aggregate, ac-
cording to the best information in the
committee, is fixed at $35 900 600. This
total includes about $22 25O,O00 on account
of woolen goods, 81, 100000 for china and
glassware, and $75000O on the chemical
schedule.
ADDITIONS TO FREE LIST
WASHINGTON, March 1st.-The Chairman
of the Ways and Means Committee TODAY
submitted to the full committee the tariff
bill upon which the Democratic members
have been at work for several months. The
free list section will take effect july /. 1888.
Among the additions to the list of articles
which may be imported free of duty are
the following: Timber of various kinds
timber or lumber, whether hewn or sawed |:
also wagon and shipping material, and ali
kinds of wood not specified in the bill !;
provided the articles mentioned are not
subject to duty in the country whence i'm
ported, otherwise the present duties to be
levied
Salt is free with the same restrictions as
timber.
Flax, hemp and various vegetable fibers,
burlaps, not exceeding sixty inches wide !;
bagging, tin plates and taggers tin. bees
wax, gelatine and similar preparations,
glycerine and CLUES, phosphorus, soap and
soap stocks, tanning bark, oils compre ssed
from seeds, petroleum and its products,
mineral waters and imitation cements, tar
and its products, turpentine, preparations
known as essential, expressed, distilled and
rendered oils, alkaline, alkaloids and vari-
GUS chemical compounds bulbs, fruits,
huts, seeds, etc, crude earths, clays and
minerals, opium crude. containing over 80
per cent. morphia for medicinal purposes
iron and steel hoops, needles, copper ores.
regulus ard old copper, nickel ore and
crude antlmony, quicksilver, chromate of
iron or chronic ore, crude minerals and
metals, unwrought and not especially
enumerated or provided for
Bricks, vegetables, meats, beans, peas,
etc, pulp for paper, Bibles, books and
pamphlets printed in other languages than
English. and books and pamphlets and all
publications of foreign Governments and
publications OF foreign societies, historical
or scientific, printed forgratuitous distribu-
ton, paintings in oil or water colors and
statuary not otherwise provided for, stone
unmanutactured or undressed hair, hat
ter's fur unstained, rags, rattans and reeds
unmanufactured.
OTHER REDUCTIONS.
In addition to the free list, the following
are some of the most important changes
proposed by the bill Iron, in pig, kent
ledge, Sc per ton, now three -tentbs of a
ant MOI MOI q
ton, now seven-tenths OF cent per pound ::
steel and part steel railway bars and slabs,
and billets of steel, S11 per ton, now SIT per
ton; iron or steel T rails. $14 per ton fiat
rails, SIS per ton, now nine-tenths and
elght-tenths OF cent per pound
respectively; round iron, cent
per pound. now II lilo cents
per pound. On sheet iron there is a uni
form reduction of one-tenth of cent per
pound, except taggers' iron. On
hoop, band or scroll iron less than
eight inches in width, there is reduction
of Lilo cents per pound on grades thinner
than No. 10 wire-gauge. Castiron pipe of
every description, Clio OF cent per pound,
now one cent per pound cut nails and
spikes, of iron or steel, one cent per pound,
now Il cut tacks, 35 per cent. ad valorem,
now about per cent. per pound railroad
tish-plates, $40 of cent per pound, now
II wrought iron, steel spikes, horse-shoes,
etc, II cents per pound, now two cents I;
steel ingots, bloom, die-blocks, blanks.
bars, bands, sheets, crankshafts and
pins, stamp-shapes, gun moulds, steel cast
ings, etc, valued at one cent a pound,
four-uenths of cent per pound valued at
more than l cent and not more than 4
cents, 40 cents ad valorem, now 45 per cent.
on all values less than cents per pound,
and from , to 81 cents per pound on higher
grades; iron and steal beams, posts, col
umns, building forms and other structural
shapes, six-tenths of cent per pound, now
II cents; steel or partly steel railway
wheels and ties, or ingots for the same, ]
cents per pound, now q iron and steel
wire remain unchanged, with the provis-
ion that no duty shall exceed so per cent.
ad yalorem; old copper and copper clippings
! for remanutacture, l cent per pound, now 8
| cents; iDgots and Chile bars. 2 cents per
J pound, now 4 rolled plates, sheets, rolled
! pipes, etc, 80 per cent. ad valorem, now 35;
| lead ore and dross, hree-fourths of a cent
per pound, now IL; pigs, bars, etc., for re-
manufacture, II cents per pound, now 2
cents; sheet, pipes and shot, q cents per
| pound, now 3; sheathing and yellow metal
80 per cent. ad valorem, now 35; nickel