The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1890-04-11
NEW TARIFF BILL.

Provisions Of the New Tariff Bin Presented
by the Majority Of the House Ways and
| Means Committee.
WASHINGTON, April 1.-At a special
meeting of the Ways and Means Com
mittee yesterday Chairman Mckinley
presented the Republican Tariff bill.
The minority will be allowed ten days
in which to offer amendments and pre-
pare their views before the bill is re-
ported to the House. The bill, accord.
ing to Chairman Mckinley, will effect a
reduction of S45. 600. 600.
Hides have been placed on the duti-
able list at fifteen per cent ad valorem
with proviso allowing a drawback on
exported goods made from imported
hides equal to the rate of duty paid.
The duty on tin plate is doubled and .
duty of ~ cents per pound imposed
on Mexican lead and silver ores
The additions made to the free list are
as follows:
Acids used for medicinal, chemical or
manufacturing purposes, not spec ally pro-
| vided for; agates, unmanufactured: amber.
| manufactured or crude gum; analine
| salts; any animal imported especially for
breeding purposes, provided that no such
animal shall be admitted free except It be
pure bred, of recognized breed. and has
been duly registered In the book of record
established for that breed (the Secretary OF
the Treasury may prescribe regulations for
the strict enforcement Of these provisions)
animals brought Into the United states for
| period not exceeding six months for the
| purpose Of exhibition or competition for
| prizes offered by any agricultural or racing
b,,So "A hall 1Snn In
cordapce with the res ulations prescribed
| by the Secretary of the Treasury; also teams
| of animals, including their harness. tackle
and the wagons or other vehicles actually
| owned by persons emigrating from foreign
countries to the United States with their
| families and in actual use for the pur.
pose OF such emigration under such
regulations rs the Secretary of
the Treasury may prescribe; articles
| In a crude safe used In dyeing or tanning
not specisliy enumerated for, in the sack,
barrel or hogshead. Books and pamphlets
| printed exclusively In languages other than
English. also books and music in raised
prints used exclusively by the bind. En-.
| cravings, pilot graphs, etc, things bound
or unbound, imported by authority CT for
the use Of the United States, or for the use Of
| the library of Congr' IS. Braids, p ats laces
and SINH ar manufactures suitable for max
| ing or orn amenting hats, bonnets and hoods,
| composed of straw. chip, grass, palm leaf,
| willow. osier or rattan.
Cabinets of old coins and medals and other
| collections Of antiQuities-but the term San
| tiquities," as used in this act. shall include
only such articles as are suitable for souve-
| Mrs or cabinet collections and which shall
have been produced at any period prior to
| the seventeenth century; catgut, whiprut or
| wormgut, manufactured or not further
manufactured than in strings or cord; chic
DRY root, raw, dried or undried, but I'M
ground: coal tar, crude, and pitch Of coal
tar; coral, uncut.
Daudelion roots, raw, dried or undried,
but unground; diamonds and other precious
stones, rough or uncut, including glaciers
and engravers' diamonds, not Set, diamond
dust and jewels to be used in the manufac-
ture of watches; drugs, such as barks, beans,
berries, balsams, buds, bulbs and dubious
roots, excrescences, such as nutgalls, fruits,
flowers, dried flbers and dried insects,
grains, gum and gum resin, herbs, leaves,
lichen MOSES, nuts, roc IS and stems, spices,
vegetables, seeds, aromatic and seeds of
morbid growth, woods used expressly for
dyeing, any of the foregoing which are not
edi lie and are in crude state and not ad-
vanced in value or condition by refining or
grinding, or by any other process of manu-
facturs, and not specially provided for in
this act
provision reading eggs.
Fish. the product Of American fisheries
and fish caught by American vessels in the
open waters of the lakes when within the
boundary between the States and the Do
minion Of Canada; floor mating, manufact.
ured from round or split straw, including
what Is commonly known as Chinese mat
ting; fruits, green, ripe or dried, not es.
pecially enumerated or provided for in this
act
Glass plates or disks. rough cut or I'M.
wrought, for use in the manufacture of
optical Instruments, spectacies and eye
glasses and suitable only for such use.
Grasses and fibers, Tampico fibers, jute,
tute butts, manila, Sisal grass, sum and all
other textile grasses or fibers of vege-
table substances manufactured or
undressed, not specifically provided for in
this act
Grasses AMI oils, such as are commonly
used in soap making or in wire drawing or
for stuffing or dressing leather and such as
are fit only for such uses, not specially pro-
vided for in this act
HUMAN hair, raw, unclcaned and not
d,awn.
Old Scrap or refuse india ubber which has
been worn cut by use and Is fit only for man
ufacture.
Ivory and vegetable ivory not sawed, cut
or otherwise manufactured, the present pro-
visions reaiing ''ivory" manufactured.
Natural mineral waters and all mineral
waters not efervescent or artificial, and
mineral salts.
the polarscope; provided that IL an export
duty shall hereafter be laid upon molasses
ty any country from whence the same may
be imported, it shall be subject to duty as
provided by law at the date Of the passage
of this act.
Moss, seaweeds and vegetable substances,
crude or manufactured. not otherwise spe-
officially provided for in this act.
Newspapers and periodicals, but the term
"periodicals" as herein used she'll be under
stood to embrace only unbound or paper
covered publications, containing current
Literature of the day and issued regularly at
stated periods, as week y, monthly or quar-
terly.
Nut oil, or oil OF nuts, not otherwise spe-
cisl y provided for. olive oil for manu-.
featuring and mech snical purposes. unfit for
eating and not otherwise provided for in
this act; altar of roses, sperm ceti, whale
and other fish oils Of American fisheries and
all other artic es the produce Of such fish
cries
Opium, crude or unmanufactured and not
adulterated, containing per centum and
over of morphia
Ores of nickel.
Paper stock, pulp Of grasses and poplar or
other woods fit only to be converted into
parer.
Pearl, mother Of not sawed, cut, polished
or otherwise manufactured.
Platina, incots, bars, sheets and wire.
Potash, crude "biack salts" chlorate Of
potash. nitrate of potash or saltpeter, crude;
sulphate OF potash, crude.
Rags, all not otherwise specially provided
for by this act.
Red earth, or raddle, used In polishing
lenses.
The provision in the old act admitting re-
galia ee Of duty Is modified by thu follow
Ing defniti n: "Regalia shall be held to
embrace only such insignia Of rank or office
or emblems, as may be worn upon the per-
son or borne in the hand during public ex-