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covering articles to be exported are
duty free.
Wool is made free. This takes the
silt from under woolen manufactures
and be.ets the hope that they may re-
coGer from the languishing condition
in which they have been for a quarter
Of century, and that we may get
woolen goods at reasonable rates in
stead of at duties that on the common
er.des frequently reach 100 per cent.
and in case, two or three times that
merciless figure cloths and dress goods
ale put at 40 per cent. Clothing al
IS per cent. rates higher than the com
mittee desired. but deemed tempora.
rily necessary because our manufac-
lures have so long been excluded from
two-thirds Of the woods Of the world
that they will have to learn the art o
manufacturing with free wool. A
sliding scale is therefore added by
which the rates in the woolen schedule
a-e to come down points, with the
lapse of five years. Carpets, an in
dustry in which we will soon be indie
|
per cent for Administer, Moquette and
Wilton, 80 per cent for Brussels. while
common grades 90 down to 20 pei
cent.
The bill provides that the duties
shall be removed from wool on March
3lst, and reduced on woolen goods
July lst.
''In the silk schedule the reduction
of rates is smaller than in cotton OF
woolen fabrics.
'sSole leather is reduced from 10 to
per cent. Leather gloves are class.
flied according to material and length
and are uniformly rated at specific
cent. on the common varities and neal
40 per cent. on the fine lamb and kiG
| gloves.
"In the schedule of sundries many
articles like hatters' plush are put or
the free list. The duty on cut dia
monds, pearls and other precious stone:
is increased.
Works of art are, | am delighted
to say, put back ON the free list.
1.-The above is rapid summary o
the chief changes made by the proposed
bill and will give satisfactory idea
| believe, Of its general structure. |
is estimated that it will reduce revenue
on the basis Of the importations 0
1892 about $50,O00,00O, with an i'm
mensely larger decrease Of tax bur
dens to the American people.
The administrative law is reported
with a few additional amendments
suggested by experience of its opera
ton. That law was chiefly prepared
by Mr.. Hewitt when he was in Con
gress, and the changes proposed in on
bill are to make it more effective
while at the same time softening som,
of the features added by the McKinle,
bill that would treat the business o
importing as an outlawry, not entitled
to the protection Of the Goyernm ent. ;
The following are some Of the prin
cipal articles named in the bill and the
rates of duty imposed: Alcoholic per
fumcry 81 a gallon and 25 per cent.
chloroform, 25 cents per pound; Nor
phla, 90 cents per ounce opium
aquesus extract and tincture, 25 pc
cent. opium containing less than
per cent. of morphia and opium, pre-
pared for smoking, Sc a pound; var
nishes, 25 per cent. and sl32 addi
tiona Oh the alcohol in spirit varnishes
sponses, 10 per cent. sulphur, 20 pc
cent. iron, pig and scrap, and scra
steel, 221 per cent; Stag, blooms
ETC., % per cent. bar, 80 per cent.
beams, girders, ETC., 35 per cent.
boiler 80 per cent. forgings of iron o
steel, 80 per cent. railway bars, irol
or steel. 25 per cent. !; sheet iron galva
nized, 35 per cent steel ingots, blooms
ETC., 25 per cent. wire rods, 80 pc
cent. anchors and ship and mill forg
ings, % per cent; cast iron, 25 pc
cent. chains, 80 per cent; muzze
loading guns, 25 per cent; breec
leaders, 80 per cent; nails, 25 pc
cent; wheels, 35 per cent. brass
manufactured, 10 per cent. role
copper, 90 per cent. willow ware, 2
per cent. furniture, 25 per cent; a.
sugars above number sixteen, Dutc
standard, cent per pound. All to
bacco not enumerated above, 40 cents
Snuff 40 cents. Rice. cleaned, u cent
per pound; uncleaned, l cent; flou
and broken rice, cent; paddy : cent
Potatoes 10 cents per bushel. Vege
tables in the natural state, not spe
cially provided for, 10 per cent
Oranges, and lemons and lines, packed
10 cents per cubic foot; bulk, 81.
thousand and 80 per cent. ad ra1ore,
on the boxes Or barrels in addition
Peanuts, II cent per pound. Brand
and other spirits, manufactured fror
grain or other materials, $3.50 pc
gallon. Bay rum 81 a gallon. Ma
liquors. bottled, 80 cents per gallon
otherwise than bottled, Is cents
gallon. Cotton thread ranges from
to 35 per cent. sewing thread cotto
Al cents per dozen for hundred var
spools cotton cloth ranges from l cen
to % cents per square yard, accordin
to quality and condition, with a
ca1orem addition for higher grades
ranging from 20 per cent. to 40 pc
cent; printing paper, unsized, - pc
cent, sized, Is per cent. Among til
principal additions to the free list al
the following: Bacon and hams, bee
mutton. pork, and meats of kinds nc
specially provided for binding twin'
borax, camphor- bituminous coal, COKE
copper in all crude forms, cotton tie
iron ore, cotton seed oil, agricultur:
implements Cotton gins named) sal
soap. building materials, Except ma
Bile, lumber, timber and wood, in a
but few conditions which are numed
The metal schedule of the bill levie
almost wholly ad ralorem duties Will
the present law levies specific dutie
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