The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1888-03-09
The TARIFF BILL

members have been at work for some
months. The measure was Immediately
made public. The bill makes the following
additions to the list of articles which may
be imported free of duty. The free list
section is to take effect July !. 1888;
Timber hewn or sawed and timber used for
spars and in building wharves. Timber squared
or sided. Wood, manufactured, not specially
enumerated 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 port duty is laid upon the above-men-
toned articles, or either Of them, by any coun-
try whence imported, all said articles imported
from said country shall be subject to duty as
provided by law. Salt in bags, sacks,
barrels or other packages,or IN bulk, when i'm
ported 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 dressed
Hne tow Of fax or hemp; hemp, MANILA and
other like substitutes for hemp. Jute butts,
iute. sum, sisal grass and other vegetable
fbres. Burlaps, not exceeding sixty inches in
width, of Gag, jute or hemp, or Of which fax,
iute or hemp, or either Of them, shall be the
component material OF chief value Baggng
fer cotton or other manufactures, not specially
enumerated or provided for IN this act, suit
able to the uses for which cotton bagging is ap-
phed, composed in whole or in part of hemp,
jute, jute butts, fax. gunnybags, gunnycloth 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 bag
g.ng for cotton. Iron or steel sheets
or plates, or taggers' iron, coated with
tin or lead or with mixture OF which
taese metals is n component part, by the dip
ping or any other process and commercially
known as tin plates, terne plates and taggers
tin. l3eeswax, gelatine and all similar prepa-
rations. Glycerne, crude, brown or yellow.
Fish glue or isinglass. Phosphorus Soap
stocks fit only for use as such, Soap, hard and
IT, all OF which are not otherwise specially
enumerated provided for. Extract OF hem
lock and other bark used for tanning. Indigo,
extracts of, and carmine. Iodine, resublimed.
Ljcorlcs juice. Oil croton, hempseed and rape
seed oil Faxseed or 1inseed oil. Oil, cotton seed.
| Petroleum. Alumna, alum patent alum, alum
substitute, sulphate of alumina and alum1nous
/ cake, and alum in crystals or ground. All i'm
itations cf natural mineral waters and all arti-
/ fetal mineral waters. Baryta, sulphate Of or
/ barytes, manufactured. Boracic acid bor-
/ ate OF lime and borax. Cement, Roman, Port
| land, and all others. Whiting and paris white.
| Copper, sulphate of, or blue vitriol. Iron, sui
| phate OF, or copperas. Potash, crude, carbon
! ate OF, or fused and caustic potash. Chlorate
of potash and nitrate of potash or saitpeter,
/ crude. Sulphate of potash. Sulphate OF Soda
| known as salt cake, crude or refined,
inter cake, crude or refined and
glaubers salt. Sulphur, refined in rolls.
| Wood tar. Coal tar, crude. Analine oil and its
/ homologues. Coal tar, products Of such as
/ naptha, benzine. benzole, dead oil and pitch.
! All preparations of coal tar not colors or dyes,
4 and not acids of colors and dyes. Logwood and
other dyewoods. extracts and decoctions OF.
/ Spirits turpentne. B1neblack, ivory drop
! black and bone charcoal. Ochre and ochery
| earths, umber and umber earths, sienna and
sienna earths, when dry. All preparations
known as essential oils, expressed oils, distilled
| oils, rendered oils, alxalies, aIkaloids and all
/ combinations Of any OF the foregoing and chem
| ical compounds and salts by whatever name
| known, and not specially enumerated
| or provided for IN this act. All barks,
| beans, berries, balsams, buds, bulbs, bulbous.
roots and excrescences such as nut-galls, fruits,
| flowers, dried fbers, grains, gums and gum
/ resins, herbs lichens, MOSES, nuts, roots and
| stems, vegetables seeds and seeds Of morbid
| growth, weeds. woods used expressly for dye
! ing and dried insects. All non-dutiable crude
| minerals, but which have been advanced in
value or condition by refining or grinding, or
| by other process of manufacture, not especially
| enumerated or provided for. All earths or
/ clays unwrought or manufactured. China clay
! or kaollne. OPIUM, crude, containing nine per
| cent and over OF mOrphia for medicinal pur-
| poses. Iron and steel cotton ties or hoops for
baltng purposes, not thinner than number
| twenty wire gauge. Needles sowing. darning-
| knitting and all others not especially enumerat
ed or provided for in this act. Copper, import
ed in the form OF ores, regulus OF, and
| black coarse copper ana copper cement. OlC
/ copper fit only for remanutacture. NICKEL, IN
ore, matte, other crude form not ready fol
consumption in the arts. Anthony, as re
gulus metal. Quicksilver. Chromate Of
iron or chrome ore. Mineral substances in
crude state or metals unwrought not spec
tally enumerated or provided for. Brick
| Vegetables in their natural state or in salt OF
brine. Chicory root, ground or unground
| burnt or prepared acorns and dandeliOn root
raw or prepared, and all other articles used al
or intended to be used as coffee or subtitutes
therefor and not specially enumerated or pro
vided for. Cocoa, prepared or manufactured
Dates, plums and prunes, currants, seante o.
| other. Figs. Meats, game and poultry. Milk
fresh. Egg yelks, Beans, peas and split peas
| Pulp for paper makers use. Bibles, books ant
pamphlets, printed in other languages than En-
gIish, and books and pamphlets and all publica
| tions OF foreign Governments. and publica
tions Of ign societies, historical or scien
tfc, printed for gratuitOus distribution. Bris
ties. Bulbs and dubious roots, not medicinal
| Feathers Of all kinds, crude or not dressed
| colored or manufactured. Finishing powder.
| Grease. GrfndstOnes, finished or unfinished
Curled hair for beds or mattresses. Human
hair raw uncleaned and not drawn. Hatters
fur. not on the skin. Hemp ant
rape seed and other oil seeds o
like character. Lime. Garden seeds
Iinseed or flaxseed Marble of all kinds ii
block rough or squared. Osier or willow, pre-
pared for basket-makers' use. Broomcorn
} Brush-wood. Plaster of paris, when ground o
ealclned. Bags, Of whatever material com
posed. Rattans and reeds manufactured bu
not made up into finished articles. Painting
I in oil or water colors and statuary, not other
wise provided for; but the term ''statuary'
shall be understood to include professional pre-
, duct5ons OF statuary or of a sculpto
only. Stones, manufactured or ur
dressed, free stone granite, sand stone
and all building or monumental stone
| All strings OF gut any other like ma
| terial Tallow Waste, all not specially enJ
| merated or provided for. All woods, hair of tn
ar1svva n
q the skin. Wooden rags, shoddy, mungo vast
and dOcks.
. The reductions made under the earthen an
glassware schedules are as follows: Chin
: and porcelain to 45 and 30 per cent. Brow
earthenware and common stoneWare. 20 pt
? cent. other earthenware, IS per cent. Tiles, 2
| So and so per cent Green and eolored gla'
bottles, etc, three-fourths of q cent per pound
I Cylinder and crown glass, polished, not e.
8 ceedfnR a measurement Of two feet By five fee
{ | IS cents per square foot; above the siz
named, 25 cents per foot Unpolishe
cylinder, crown and common window glass
cent to Ia of cent per poun
according to size. Cast polished-plate glas
4 | unsilvered, from p to 40 cents per foo
f according to size. Unsilvered. or looking -glas
from % to 4j cents, according to size
Porcelain and Bohemian glass, stained gIas.
3 etc, 20 per cent ad valorem-
= Metals are 10 pay duties as follows: Pig trol
9 g per ton. Iron railway bars, al Steel, dit
q 81. Bar iron, rolled or hammered, :
cent per pound, not less than one inc
wide and three-eighths OF an inch thick;
=" larger measures, I cent per pound Iron slab
o blooms, loops, b per cent ad valoreH
Iron bars, blooms. billets, in the mauufa ctui
OF when charcoal IS used, so per ton. Iron
. steel Trails, SIS per ton. Round iron in col
or rods and rolled iron enumerated ! Gel
per pound. Sheet-iron thin, cent pe
n pound. Black taggers' iron, 80 per cent. Hoe
iron. / cent per pound. Cast iron pipi
6-1o OF cent per pound. Nails, eel
= per pound Iacks, 3 per cen
Auviis, anchors, etc, IL cents per pounG
: Rivits etc, "a cents per pound
:. Hammers, tubes. sledges. axles etc
y 5itta Chalns. . cents per pouna Saws.