The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1893-12-11
REVISED TARIFF BILL
Some Of the More Important
Changes = Commissioner
Blount's Appointment.

WASHINGTON, Dec. II, 1s93.-The follow
ing are the more important changes made in
the Tariff bill. The revised copy of which
was laid before the full Ways and Means
Committee this morning
The schedule of cotton wards is raised on
an average of about five per cent. A new
class is created, not exceeding twelve cents
per pound in value, on which the rate is
twenty per cent. Yarns valued at over
twelve and not exceeding twenty cents per
pound are put put at twenty-five per cent.
Up to thirty cents per pound, thirty per
cent. Up to forty cents per pound, thirty
per cent.
All laces and embroideries of fax, jute.
cotton and other vegetable fbres, are raised
from 35 to 40 per cent.
Saxony, Wilton and velvet carpets are
advanced from so to 35 per cent Velvet and
tapestry carpets are advanced from 25 to 80
per cent, and the same advance is made in
tapestry brussels, treble ingram and Vene-
tian carpets.
An advance is made III wool Dutch carpets
from twenty to twenty-five per cent, and in
druggets and bookings and felt carpeting
like advance is made in other carpets not
specially provided for. Tin plate is changed
from an advalorem duty of forty per cent
to specific duty of one and one-ffth cent
effect until October l next
Pocket knives and razors are fixed at a
uniform rate of As per cent.
The duty on pearl buttons is again fixed at
line measurement at the rate of one cent per
line, and the ad valorem duty charged from
40 per cent. to is per cent.
The provision for ivory on the free list is
amended SO as to read:-"Sawed or cut in
to logs" instead of simply sawed or cut
Duties are restored on planed lumber at
the rate of fifty cents per thousand feet for
each side planed; 81 for planed, tongued and
grooved on one side, and S1.50 when planed,
tongued and grooyed on both sides.
READY BY WEDNESDAY.
Chairman Wilson does not believe that
more than two days will be devoted to a
consideration of the measure in Com
mfttee. He said this morning that it ought
to be ready to report to the House
by Wednesday of this week, but that
it was doubtful when the majority report
would be finished, From present appear
ances the report will not be ready before the
last of the week.
The general outline of the minority report
is nSM being written. The details will not
be added until the report by the majority is
in the hands of the Republicans. Under the
most favorable circumstances the minority
report will not be completed for ten DAYS
from this date.
2HORNBMOWER NOMINATION..
The Hornblower nomination was discussed
informally in the Senate Committee on the
Judiciary this morning, and went over unit
Thursday,
STAR CHAMBER HUMBUG.
Mr.. Hoar introduced resolution in the
Senate today asking by what authority
Commissioner Blount had been appointed
and proceeded to comment upon the fact
that information which had been given tc
the Senate under the seal of confidence had
been supplied by the State Department
to the representatives of four news
papers 4hat were known to be jealous
thorough going, almost unscrupulous sup
porters of the administrations The appoint
ment of Commissioner, with paramount
authority, as a representative of the United
States in those islands, Mr. Hoar regarded
as being as gross violation of the constitu-
tion of the United States as was ever
charged upon or imputed to any public
official