The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1890-04-03
TARIFF SCHEDULES.
Work Of the Majority of the House
Ways and Means Committee
Completed.
An Estimated Reduction of Forty
Five Million Dollars i'm the
Revenues.
SCHEDULES.

be allowed ten days in which to offer
amendments and prepare their views upon
the bill and such amendments as may be
made before the bill is reported to
the house. The bill, according to
Chairman Mckinley, will effect
reduction of 5,0O0,000 in the revenue.
The only change of special significance
made since those already noted within the
past week is in hides. which have been
placed upon the dutiable list at the rate of
15 per cent ad valorem, with proviso al
lowing drawback on exported goods made
from imported hides equal to the rate of
duty paid The additions made to the free
list are as follows:
Acids used for medicinal, chemical or
manufacturing purposes not especially pro-
vided for; agates, unmanuiactured; amber,
unmanufactured, or crude gum; analine
salts; any animal imported specially tor
breeding purposes, provided that no such
animal shall be admitted free except it be
pure bred, of a recognized breed, and has
been duly registered in the book of record
established for that breed; animals brought
into the United States temporarily, Tor
period not exceeding six months, tor the
purpose of exhibition or competition for
prizes offered by any agricultural or racing
association; also teams OF animals, includ-
ing their harness and tackle, and the
wagons or other vehicles actually owned by
persons enligrating from foreign countries
to the United States with their families,
and in actual use for the purpose of such
emigration, under such regulations as the
secretary of the treasury may prescribe;
articles in crude state used in dying or
tanning, not specially enumerated Tor in
this act; photographs which shall have
been printed and bound or manufactured
more than twenty years at the date of i'm
portation; books and pamphlets printed
exclusively in languages other than En-
glish; also books and music in raised
prints, used exclusively by the blind;
engravings, photographs, etchings, bound
or unbound, imported by authority or for
the use of the United States or for the use of
the library of congress; braids, plaits, flats,
laces and similar manufactures suitable for
making or ornamentlng hats, oonnets ana
hoods, composed of straw. chip, grass, palm
leaf, willow, osier or rattan; bristles, raw;
cabinets of old coins and medals and other
collections of antiquities, but the term AN
tiquities" as used in this act shall include
only such articles as are
SUITABLE FOR SOUVENIRS
or cabinet collections and which shall have
been produced at any period prior to the
seventeenth century; catgut, whipgut or
worm gut, unmanutactured, or not further
manufactured than in strings or cord; chic
ory root, raw, dried or undried, but un-
ground; coal tar, crude, and pitch of coal
tar; coral, uncut; dandelion roots, raw,
dried or undried, but unground; diamonds
and other precious stones, rough or uucut,
including GLACIERS and engravers' diamonds
not set and diamond dust or bort and jew
els to be used in the manufacture OF
watches; eggs of birds fish and insects-the
old provision reading eggs" fish, the
produce of American fisheries, and fish
caught by American vessels iu the G'aen
| oFf loly which form rho hnnnn-
ary between the United States and the Do
minion of Canada; floor mating manu-
factured from round or split straw, includ
! ing what is commonly kgown as Chinese
mating: currants, zante or other; dates
fruits, green, ripe or dried, not especially
enumerated or provided for in this act;
| glass plates or disks, rough cut or un-
wrought, for use in the anufacture OF optl-
! cal instruments, spectacles and eyeglasses,
| and suitable onlv for such use; grasses and
fbers, istle or tampico fiber, jute, jute butts,
MANILA, sisal grass, sunni, and all
other textile grasses or tibrous vegetable
substances, unmanufactured or undressed,
not specifically provided for in this act;
grease, degras and oils, such as are COM
monty used in soap making or in wire
drawing, or for stuffing or dressing leather,
| and as are fit only for such uses, not spe-
cially provided for in this act; human hair,
raw, uncleaned and not drawn; old scrap or
refuse India rubber which has been worn
| out by use and is fit only for remanuiac-
ture; ivory and vegetable ivory, not sawed,
cut or otherwise manufactured (the present
provision reading ivory, unmanutac-
| tured"); natural mineral waters and all min
eral waters not etferveScent or artificial, and
natural mineral salts accompanied by
THE SWORN CERTIFICATE
from the proper officers operating the
springs, showing them to be obtained by
evaporation, and shall not contain any ad-
mixture of any substance foreign to the nat
ural water of such springs molasses, testing
not above fifty-six degrees by the polar
iscope, provided that if an export duty shall
hereafter be laid upon molasses by any
country from whence the same may be i'm
ported it shall be subject to duty as pro-
vided for by law at the date OF the passage
| of this act: moss, sea weeds and vegetable
| substances, crude or manufactured, not 9TH
erwise specially provided for in this
act; needles, hand sewing and darnlng;
newspapers and periodicals, but the term
''neriodicals" as herein used shall be under
stood to embrace only unbound or paper
covered publications, containing current
literature the day and issued regularly at
| stated periods, as weekly, monthly or quar-
terly; oils, nut oil or oil of nuts, not 9th
erwise specially provided for in this act
| olive oil for manufacturing or mechanical
purposes unfit tor eating and not otherwise
/
spermaceti; whale and other fish oils o.
American fisheries, and all other article:
the produce of such fisheries; opium, crude
or runmanufactured and not adulterated, con
tanning 8 per centum and over of morphia
ores ofnickel; paper stock, pulp of grasse:
and poplar or other woods, fit only to bt
converted into paper; pearl, mother Of noj
sawed, cut, polished or otherwise manu-
factured; platina, in ingots, bars, sheets anc
wire; potash, crude or "black salts, " chic.
rate OF potash, nitrate of potash, or salt
petre, crude, sulphate of potash, crude
rags, all not otherwise specially provided
for in this act; red earth or raddle, used in
act admitting regalia free of duty il
modified by the following definitions
"Regalia" shall be held to embrace only
| such insignia of rank or office, or emblems
as may be worn upon the person or borne
| in the hand during public exercises of tht
society or institution, and shall not include
articles of furniture or fixtures, or of regular
| wearing apparel or personal property oi
individuals. Seeds, anise canary, caraway,
cardamon, coriander cotton, cummin,
fennel, fenugreek, hemp, hoarhound,
| mustard, rape, Saint Johns bread OF bean,
sugar beet, bulbs and bGlbous roots not
d5e ssad not Snd otherwise a 0wsF Specially ana
vided for in this act. Shotgun
barrel or barrels, forged, rough bored.
skins of the goat, kid and kangaroo, and oi
/ other wild animals, raw or undressed; soda,
| chlorate of sponges; sulphur or birthstone,
| crude, in bulk, sulphur ore, aspyrites, OF
sulpheret of iron in its natural state, con.
| tanning in excess of Is per oentum of sui
phur, except on the copper contained
therein, tapica, cassava or cassady, "pro-
vided the same Is not fit for use as starch
being
I ADDED AS A MODIFICATION
1 of the provision in the present law; tar and
pitch OF wood; tinsel wire, lame or lahn;
tobacco stems; turpentine, spirits of:
uranium, salts of wearing apparel and
other personal effects (not merchan-
Idisel Of persons arriving in the
United States not exceeding
$500 in value; but this exemption shall not
be held to include articles not actually in
use and necessary and appropriate for the
use of such persons for the purposes of their
Quincy and present comfort and conven-
ence, or which are intended for any other
person or persons, or for sale; provided,
| however, that all such wearing apparel and
)ther personal effects as may have been
once imported into the United States and