The daily morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1883-1899, 1893-11-28

WILSON'S TARIFF BILL
The Measure Given to the Pub
lie Yesterday.
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PREDICTIONS ARE Fuffh = =
The Most Radical Advocates of Re-
form Conciliated by Its
Provisions.
Associated Press.

Associated Press.
Washington, Nov 27.-The new DEM
ocratic tariff bill has been given out.
It's provisions fulfill every expectation
of those VINO predicted it would be a
measure of radical reform. In many
respects it is a surprise even to dem
oorats, as it is unprecedented in many
of it's provisions. The free list is of
liberal scope, sufficient to satisfy the
most radical advocates Of reform, and
the repudiation of the principle OF re-
ciproeity is decisive and emphatic. Thus
the bill in addition to tariff reforms,
will, of passed. necessitate the read
justment of the treaties with South
American countries, which enjoy practi-
cal or theoretical reciprocity with the
United States. The bounty on sugar,
instead of being repealed at once, is to
be repealed b yeasy graduations, and
will not reach its full effect till litter
the close of the present century.
The main features are two: First
The adoption wherever it seems practi-
cable, of ad valorem instead of specific
duties. Second-The freeing from taxes
of those great materials of industry
that lie at the basis of production. The
following articles have been added to
the free list: Bacon, hams, beef, NUT
ton pork, meats Of all kinds, prepared
or preserved and not otherwise pro-
vided for; baryta, binding twine, dade
pico fibre, MANILA, sisal, or sum, single
ply, measuring not more than 600 feet
to the pound; blue vitriol, bone car
coal, bituminous and shale and slack
or cut; coke, coal tar colors or dyes not
specially provided for, oxide of cobalt,
copper ores, old copper, clippings from
new copper, all compositions of which
copper is the chief component of value,
regulus and black copper and copper
cement copper plates, bars ingots, pigs,
cther forms; copperas, cotton ties, dia-
monds, dust or bort jewels used in the
manufacture of watches ard clocks,
fresh fish, undressed furs, iodine, re-
sublimated iron ore, including magni-
ferrous iron, dross or burnt pyrites, sui
phur, or pyrites in natural state, lard,
lemon juice, mica and crude metallic
minerals and unwrought metals, ochre
and ochery earths, sienna and sienna
earths, umber and umber earths, cot
ton seed oil, paintings and statuary,
plows, tools, disc harrows, harvesters
reapers, drills. mowers, horse rakes, cul-
tivators threshing machines, cotton
gins, plush, black for making mems
hats, quicksilver, salt, silk not further
advanced in manufacture than card
ing or combing, soap, not otherwise pro-
vlded for; sulphate of soda or salt cake
or nitre cake, sulphuric acid, tallow and
wool grease, straw, burr stone bound
into millstones, free stone, granite sand
stone, limestone and other building or
monumental stone, except marble un-
dressed, all wearing apparel and other
personal effects, timber, hewn and
sawed, spar and wharf timber, squared
or sided timber, sawed boards, planls,
deals, other lumber lath, piclSels, pal
ings, shingles, slaves, manufactured
wood, provided the same duties as now
exist shall obtain in all cases in which
an. export duty is laid on any article
in the above Schedule; chair cane or
reeds; woods. namely, cedar, lignum|
vitae, lakewood, ebony, box, granadilla,
mahogany, rosewood, rattan-wood, all
forms of cabinet woods, in log, rough,
or hewn; manufactured bamboo and
rattan; manufactured briar-root, or
briar wood, reeds, and sticks Of part
ridge, HARDWOOD. plmento. Grange, myr-
tie, or other woods in rough; all wool
Of sheep. hair of camel, goat. alpaca,
and other like animals, wool and hair
ph bhAAif hdiins ydAht WASH, Cdi0 WdHlb,
burr waste. rags, including all waste
or rags composed wholly or in part Of
wool.
Chairman Wilson, Of the ways and
means committee, makes the following
statement: "The duty on opium is re-
duced. In the iron and steel schedule,
free ore, on account Of the discovery
that bessemer ores in the lake regions
and foundry ores in Alabama, will give
us supremacy in this great line of man
fracture. Pig iron is reduced from
s6.72 per ton, equivalent to 30 to 90 per
cent, to a uniform dnty Of % 1-2 per
cent; steel rails from $13.A per ton,
equal to rs per cent. to 25 per cent;
tin plates are reduced nearly one-half,
to 40 per cent, which would allow the
existing mills to live and flourish; nick
Ell is free; lead ore only IS per cent; sil-