Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1890-04-10
NEW TARIFF BILL.
Provisions of the New Tariff Bill Presented
BY the Majority of the House Ways and
NEo~u~

BY the Majority OF the House W3ys 2n0
Means Committee.
WASHINGTON, April AT 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
reduction of s45. 600. 600.
Hides have been placed on the duti-
able list at fifteen per cent ad yalorem
with a 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
q 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, unmanufactureds AMBER
manufactured or crude gum; anaine
salts; any animal imported especially Tor
breeding purposes, provided that no sucn
animal shall be admitted free except 1t be
pure bred Of q recognized breed, and has
been duly registered in the book OF record
established for that breed (the Secretary OF
the Treasury may prescribe regulations LOT
the strict enforcement of these provisions)s
animals brought into the United States Tor
a period not exceeding six months for the
purpose of exhibition or competition Tor
prizes offered by any agricultural or racing
association-but bond shall be given in &C
cordance with the regulations prescribed
by the Secretary of the Treasury; also teams
of animals, including their harnes tackle
and the wagons other vehicles actually
owned by persons emigratfng from foreign
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families and in actual use for the pur-
pose of such emigration under such
regulations as the Secretary OF
the Treasury may prescribe; articles
in a crude g ate used in dyeing or ing
not specially 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 Unit ed States, or for the use OF
the library of Congrs So Brafds, p ats. laces
and SINH. ar manufactures suitable for max
ing or ornamenting hats, bonnets and hoods.
composed of straw. chip, grass, palm leaf,
willow. Csfer 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; catSut, Ut or
wOrmgut manufactured or not further
manufactured than in strings or cord; chic
DRY root, raw, dried OF undried, but un-
ground; coal tar, crude, and pitch of coal
tar; coral, uncut.
Dandelion roots, raw dried OF 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,
ha Ind III hnlhOnS
roots, excrescences, such as nutgalls, fruits,
flowers, dried ibers 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 a crude state and not ad-
vanced in value or condition by refining or
grinding, or by any other process of manu-
factur-. and not specially provided for in
this act
Eggs of birds, fish and insects-the old
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 Can ada; floor mating, manufact-
ured from round 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.
wrought, for use in the manufacture of
optical Instruments, spectacles and eye
glasses and suitable Only for such use.
Grasses and fbers, Tampico fbers, jute,
iute butts, man lila, Sisal grass, sum and all
other textile grasses or fberS of vege-
table substances unman ufactured or
undressed, not specifically provided for in
this act
used in soap making or in wire drawing or
for stuffng or dressing leather and such as
fit only for such uses, not specially pro-
vided for in this act
Human hair, raw, uncleaned and not
drawn.
Old scrap OF refuse India rubber which has
been worn out by use and is I'll only for man
ufacture.
or otherwise manufactured, the present pro-
visions reaifng "iTory' unlnanufactured.
Natural mineral waters and all mineral
waters not eHervescent or artificial, and
mineral salts.
Molasses, testing not above so degrees by
the poiariscope; provided that if an export
duty shall hereafter DE laid upon molasses
By any country from whence the same may
be imported, it shall be subject to duty as
provided by law at tho date of the passage
of this act.
Moss, seaweeds and vegetable substances,
crnde or manufactured, not otherwise spe-
cificallv provided for in this act.
Newspapers and periodicals, but the term
~periooicals' as herein used shall 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-
teKay.
Nut oil, or oil OF nuts, not otherwise spe-
cial provided for. olive oil for manu-
featuring and mech ical purposes. unfit for
eating and not otherwise provided for in
this act: altar of roses, sperm Get, whale
and other fish oils of American fisheries and
all other artic. es the produce Of such fish,
cries
Orium, crude or manufactured 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, polls he'd
or otherwise manufactured.
Platina, ingots, bars. sheets and wire.
Potash, crude "black 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-
gala fee OF duty is modified by the follow
ing definiti 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-
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