The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-10-26

/ Leather suitable for conversion into
manufactured articles shall pay duty ac-
cording to articles intended; 80 per cent.
| Kid gloves, S1.75 to S325 dozen, accord
| ing to size; suedes, so per cent; leather
| gloves, 80 per cent, with from 80 cents to
| 81 dozen additional, according to style;
provided that all gloves represented to be
below their grade shall pay s. dozen ad-
| ditional, and that no gloves shall pay less
| than so per cent. The old duty on these
| gloves was 50 per cent.
Miscellaneous manufactures show a gen.
eral reduction Of about p per cent in the
various rates of duties.
Common tobacco pipes of clay, Is cents a
gross; IS per cent.
Hatters' plush, 10 per cent; % per cent.
Silk and alpaca umbrellas, So per cent;
50 per cent.
Umbrellas, ETC., covered with other ma
terial, IS per cent; 40 per cent
Sticks for umbrellas, etc, plain, IS per
cent; covered. 80 per cent; 50 per cent
CHANGES IN THE FREE LIST.
In the free list the following changes are
made:
Animals imported for breeding purposes
must be of pure blood of recognized
breed and duly registered in the book OF
record established for that breed The old
law admitted such animals on proof salts
factory to the secretary Of the treasury;
also the teams of persons coming into the
United States from foreign countries.
Wild animals intended for exhibition in
geological collections for scientific and ed
ucational purposes, and not for sale or
profit, are also admitted free.
The provision providing for the return
free of duty of articles of American manu-
facture once sent out of the country is ex-
tended to make its terms more explicit
and to prevent fraud.
Boiling cloths TO come in free must not
be suitable for manufacture into wearing
apparel
Straw braids, ETC., for making or orna-
menting hats and bonnets dutiable at 90
per cent. are added.
Cotton waste, or flocks, is made free
Precious stones other than diamonds,
rough or uncut, GLACIERS and engravers'
diamonds not set, and watch jewels are in
cluded.
Free eggs are limited to those of birds,
fish and insects.
Fashion plates engraved on cotton are
made free.
The provision about fish which stands
in the old law, Fresh for immediate con-
sumption" reads, Fish, the product of
American fisheries, and fresh or frozen fish
Excepting salmon) caught in fresh waters
by American vessels or with nets or other
devices owned by citizens of the United
States"
The following are added to the free list:
Currants, dates, jute, jute butts. sisal
grass, sum, other textile grasses, unman-
ufactured grease, sour orange juice, paper
stock and other waste. phosphate for other
than fertiliZing purposes, potash; seeds and
dubious roots, not edible; sugars under
No. 16 Dutch Standard AID all forms of
sugar and molasses below that grade; tar
and pitch, tobacco stems, turpentine;
nickel and nickel matte, with this proviso:
That ores of nickel and nickel matte, con-
tanning more than 10 per cent. of copper,
shall pay a duty of = cent pound on the
copper contained therein.
The following provisos are inserted re-
speeding the subjects named: The term
periodicals" shall be understood to en-
brace only unbound or paper covered pub
locations, containing current literature of
the day and issued regularly at stated peri
DDS, as weekly, monthly or quarterly.
The term ''regnlia" shall be held to en-
brace only such insi ma of rank, or Office,
or emblems as may be worn upon the per
son or borne in the hand during public ex-
ercises of the society or institution, and
shall not include articles of furniture or
fixtures, or of regular wearing ap-
parel not personal property of individu-
ais. There are numerous restrictions
made in the list combining the articles
named to their unn2nufactured state
in order to enable tLcm to come with |
in the law. All raw or manufactured |
articles not named in the act shall pay a |
duty of 10 per cent All manufactured ar
ticles, 20 per cent.
IN nearly 81! she casa.; cf change from |
ad valorem to specific duties the change is |
an increase as the article has declined in |
price since the first duty was placed on it. |
Many ingenious calculations have been |
made as to the proportion Of total imports 1
which come in free under the Mckinley /
bill, some placing the amount as high as 4
one-half and others at less than third; 4
but it Is impossible to estimate it with any /
exactness, as nothing but experience will /
show how much the import of any article .
will increase or decrease by reason Of low
ering or raising the duty. The new bill |
contains many minute provisions as TO the
method of its administration-too numer-
Gus to cite here and not interesting to the
general reader.