The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1893-11-28
NEW TARIFF BILL.
The Changes Proposed in the
Existing Law
A MOST RADICAL MEASURE.
-rsny Important Additions to the
Free List.
A MOST RADICAL MEASURE.
HEAVY OUTS IN IMPORT DUTIES.

wool. Coal, Lumber. Salt. Iron Ore and
Works of Art Added to tho Frcc List.
The Bounty on Sugar to be Abolished
by Degrees and tho Tariff On Tint Ar I
tieIe Reduced from onc-hulf to One ,
fourth of n Cent Per Pound.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 2S.-The tariff bill, /
complete in all particulars save as to the /!
internal revenue features, was made pub /
lie by Chairman Wilson yesterday. The |
minority will have ten days to frame OBJ |
5eotlons and make recommendations. The
following articles are placed on the free
list:
Ainmonin pntimony: apples of all kinds
not specially provided for In this act;
bacon and hams, beef, mutton and pork,
and meats Of all kinds not specially pro
vided for in this act; baryta including
birytes earth binding twine. measuring
not exceeding six hundred feet TO the
pound birds. stuffed, not suitable for mil
liucry ornament, and bird skins, prepared
for preservation; blue vitriOl; bone char,
suitable for Use in decolOrizing sugars; all
publications OF foreign governments, and
publications containing observations of
scientific phenomena and tho results of
scientific observations; boraT, crude or
bOrate of soda, or boratc of lime camphor
Of all kinds; cluys or carths, unwrought
or manufactured, not specially pro-
yided for In this act.
Coal, coke, coal tar, and all preparations
and products of coal tar, not cOlors or
dyes, not specially provided for in this
act; oxide of cobalt; copper, and all com
position metal of which copper is n com
poncut material OF chief value not spec
lnlly provided for in this act; cork wood
diamonds, jewels to be used in the man
uinCture of watches Or clocks; yolks of
sggs of birds. fish and insects; downs OF
hi kinds not specially provided for in this
act; fresh fish. flrs, undressed; extracts
G pastes of indigo and carmines.
Iodine, iron ore, lard, lemon juice, lime
Juice and sour orange juice, mica and me-
tsllic mineral substances in II crude state
and metals nnwrOught not specially pro-
vided for In this act: milk, nickel, nickel
pxide, alloy Of amy kind in which nickel is
the component material oi chief value;
pchre and lumber, not specially provided
foe in this act; cotton seed and crOton oil,
paintings in oil or water colors and statu-
ery not otherwise provided for in this act,
but the term 'statuary' herein used shall
BE- understood to include only such profess
sional productions in marble stone nlahas-
Ter or metal of n statuary or sculptor only;
peas. vines OF all kinds commonly known
- nursery eek, not specially provided
Tor in this act pluws, harrows, haryesters,
rsspers, drills, mowers horse rukcS culti-
vators, threshing machines ard cotton
ginS, plush composed Of silk, or of silk
and cotton and used exclusively Tor max
ing mems hats; quick silver ......
Salt lDuI the coverings shall pHy the
same rate of duty as If imported scpar-
1ase. ", provided that salt imported from
any country which imposes II duty upon
salt exported from the | niird Stute, shall
pay the same rate of duty now provided
By law; silk partially manufactured, and
not farther advanced or manufactured
than caried or combcd silk: soap, all not
otherwse especially provided for in this
act sulphate of soda, or salt cake or nitre
cake; sulphuric acid; talluw and wool
grease; straw; burr stone, bound up into
milistones. freestone, granite, sandstone,
limestone. and other building or monu-
mental, except marble, manufactured
OF undresscd, not specially provided for in
this act
All wearing apparel and other personal
- affects shall he admitted free OF duty with
out regard TO their value, upon their ident-
lty being established under such rules
anu ISH Hilutli'llS rs IHt sttItltTS bl UG
treasury may prescribe; timber, hewn
and sawed, and timber used for spars and
In building wharNes; timber, squared or
sided sawed boards, plank, deals and
other lumber pine clap bonrds; spruce
clap boards: buhs for Wheels posts, last
blocks, wagon blocks, oar blocks, gun
blocks. heading and all lake blocks or
sticks, rough hewn or sawed only laths,
pickets and palings shingles slaves of
wood of all kinds, wood unmanufactured,
provided, Tint il any export duty is laid
npon the above mentioned articles, or
si,her of them, all sa id articles imported
frum said country shall be subject to duty
asuow provided by law.
Chair cane or reeds wrought or manu-
thctured from rattans OF reeds. Woods,
namely, cedar, lRnum yitn, lancewood,
sbony, box, granudilla, mahogany, rose
wood. satin wood aud all forms Of cabinet
woods, in the log, rough or hewn, bamboo
and rattan manufactured, briar root or
brlar wood, and similar wood manufac-
tured, or not further manufactured than
gut into blocks suitable for the articles
Into which they are intended to he con
yerted; bamboo reeds and sticks of part
ridge, hair wood. pimento, orange, myrtle,
and other woods not otherwise specially
provided for in this act, in the rough, or
not further manufactured than cut into
lengths suitable for sticks for umbrellas
parasols, sunShHdes, whips or walking
canes; and India malacca joints not fur
ther manufactured than cut in suitable
lengths for tho manufactures into which
they are intended to be converted; all wool
Of the sheep, hair OF the camel, goat, al
pnca and other like animals, and all wool
and hair on the skin, nOils, yarn waste,
card waste, bur waste, rags and fiocks i'll
ending all waste or rags composed wholly
pr i'll part OF wool.
Some of the Changes
Some of the most important changes
hom the Mckinley tariff law are as fol-
bows:
Pig iron, 2ata per cent ad valorcm; iron In
slabs, etc, 25 per cent; bar and rolled iron,
boiler or other plate iron, forgings Of iron or
steel, and hoop. band or scroll iron or steel, 30
per cent. structural iron and railway bars of
Iron or steel, 30 per cent. Under the present
law these .iclcs are taxed at S-lU of per
cent. 10 cent per pound
All iron or steel sheets or plates and all
hoop. hand or scroll iron. excepting what ara
known commercially in plates, torne
plntes' and tagger's tin, when galvanized or
coated with zinc spelter or other metals, OF
any alloy OF those metals, a. per cent. ad
yAlorefn. Sheet iron or sheet steel, polished
planished or glanced, by whatever name do
Rignated 81 per cent ad valorem. Sheets OF
platss of iron or steel, OF tagger S iron or steel
coated with Tin or lead, or with a mixture OF
which these metals, or either of them, is a
component part and commercially known al
tin plates, terne plates and tagger's tin, 10 pei
oepL. ad valorem.