The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1893-11-30
FOR RAISING A REVENUE
THE NEW TARIFF BILL MADE PUB
Lie ny CHAIRMAN WILSON.
Compared With the Revenue of 1892
the Present BiII VIII Reduce the
Amount $4,000, ,OOO-Many Articles
ON the Free List. --

Washington, Nov. ZS.-When the ways
and means committee met Chairman
Wilson laid the new tariff bill before the
entire committee. The following aru-
cles have been placed on the free list:
BGcon and hams, beef, mutton and
pork, and meats of all kinds, prepared or
preserved, not especially provided for in
this act.
Baryita, all binding twine manufact-
ured in whole or in part from istle or
Tampico fiber, Manila, sisal grass or
sunna, of single ply, measuring not e1-
ceeding 600 feet to the pound.
Birds, stuffed, not suitable for millinery
Ornaments, and bird skins prepared for
preservation but not further advanced in
manufacture.
Blue vitriol, or sulphate of copper.
Bone cha1, suitable for use in decol0r-
izing sugars.
Coal, bituminous and shale and coal,
slack or cut.
Coke, coal tar, crude and all prepara-
tions and products of coal tar, not cOlors
or dyes, not specially provided for in
this act.
Cobalt, oxide of.
Copper, copperas or sulphate of iron.
Cotton ties. Of iron or steel cut to
lengths, punched or not punched, with
or without buckles, for betting cotton.
Diamonds, dust or bort, and jewels to
be used in the manufacture Of watches
Or clocks.
Yolks of eggs of birds, fish and insects.
Downs of all kind, crude, not specially
prov ided for in this act.
Fresh fish.
Furs, undressed.
Iodine, resublimated iron ore, 1nclud-
iLG manganiferous iron ore, also the
dross or residium of the burnt pyrites
and sulphurous pyrites, or sulphuret OF
iron in it's natural state.
Lard, lemon juice, lime juice and sour
orange juice.
Mica and metallic mineral substances
in a crude state and metals unwrought,
not specially provided for in this act.
Ochre and ochry earths, sienna and
sienna earths, lumber and lumber earths,
not specially provided for in this act.
Cotton seed oil, paintings, in oil Or water
colors, and statuary, not otherwise pro-
vided for in this act.
Plows, tools and disc harrows, har-
vesters, reapers, drills, mowers, horse
rakes, cultivators, threshing machines
and cotton gins; plush black for making
mems hats.
Quicksilver.
Salt; silk, partially manufactured from
cocoons, or from waste silk, and not
further advanced or manufactured than
carded or combed silk; soap, all not
otherwise specially provided for in this
act.
Sulphates of soda, or salt cake, OF
nitre cake, sulphuric acid.
Tallow and wool grease, including that
known commonly as degras or brown
wool grease.
Straw, burr stones, bound up into mill
stones; freestone, grarite, sandstone;
Limestone and other building or moau-
nrcntaf, except marble, manufactured,
not specially provided for in this act.
All wearing apparel and other personal
effects shall be admitted free of duty,
without regard to their value upon their
identity being established under such
rules and regulations as the secretary
of the treasury may pre scribe.
Timber, hewn and sawed, and timber
used for spars and in building wharves:
timber squared or sides, sawed boards,
planks, deals, and other lumber; laths,
piokets and palings; shirSles; slaves of
wood of all lands; wood manl factured,
provided that If any export duty is laid
upon the aforementioned articles, or
either of them, all said articles imported
from said country shall be subject to
duty as now provided by law.
Chairman Wilson gave out a statement
explanatory of the bill and defending the
me- asure. Compared with 1892 the pres
ent bill will reduce the revenue about
$5O,OOO,OO0. Mr.. Wilson says:
Sugar has been a difficult subject to
deal with. Raw sugar was transferred
to the free list by the Mckinley bill be-
cause nearly all the taxes paid ON it
went into the public treasury. A strong
desire amongst members of the COM
m:ttee was to put an ad velorem duty of
&c or 25 per cent On it, and to abolish
the bounty at onct. After much consid-
era ton it was decided to reduce to one
half the duty on refined sugars, and to
1epeal the bounty one-eighth each year,
leaving raw Sug"r ul.ta1ed at present
In the tobacco schedule those rates were
sought which would bring most revenue
The present taxes of $2.75 per pound on
wrapper leaf have blotted out many
small establishments end actually inl-
paired revenue. We make the rates 81
and $L75 per pound on wrapper leaf and
35 and 50 cents per pound on filler to-
t6tcO, unstemmed and stemmed in each,
Manufactures of tobacco are put at 40
cents. Cigars are reduced from $3.50
per pound and 25 per cent ad valoreln to
$3 per pound and 25 per cent"