The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1893-12-08
THE TARIFF BILL.
Provisions of the Measure Made
Public.
Great Changes In schedules-Importeat
Additions TO the Free List-To Take
Effect After March L,
1894.

WASHINGTON, Nov. 2S.-The new DEM
ocratic tariff bill was given to the public
Yesterday. Its provisions fulfill every
expectation of those who had predict
ed that it would be radical measure
of reform In many respects it is a sur
prise even to the democratic members
of congress, as it is unprecedented in
many of its provisions.
The following is the proposed free
list in detail:
On and after March l. 1924, the following ar
ticles will be added to the free list: Articles
for the use United States: bacon and hams,
beef mutton and pork, and meats Of all kinds,
prepared or preserved. not specially provided
for: all binding Irvine manufactured in whole
or in part from istle or tapioca fiber, MANILA,
sisal grass or sum, of single ply and measur-
ing not exceeding 80 feet to the pound; birds,
stuffed. not suitable for millinery ornaments,
and birdskins prepared for preservation, but
not further advanced in manufacture; blue
yitriol, or sulphate of copper: bone char. suita-
bic for use in deodorizing sugars: coal. bitumin-
Gus and shale, and coal slack or cut: coke
crude coal tar asd all preparations and
products OF coal tar, not colors or dyes, not
specially provided for: oxide of cobalt: copper
imported in the form of ores; old copper. fit
only for manufacture clippings from new cop
per and AL composition metal of which copper
is a component material of chief value not
specially provided for: regulus OF copper and
black or coarse copper and copper cement cop
per in plates, bars ingots or pigs and other
forms not manufactured, not specially pro-
vided for. copperas, suphate of iron; lotion
ties of iron steel cut to lengths punched or
not punched with or without buckles for belt
ing cotton diamond dust or bort and jewels to
be used in the manufacture of watches or
clocks yolks Of eggs of birds, fish and insects
do Of all nd PGnpcially
yided for. fresh fish; furs, urdressed iodine re-
sublinated iron ore. including manganiferous
iron ore and the dross or resduum from burnt
pyritss, and sulphur ore and pvrites; sulphur
Of iron in its natural state: lard; lemon juice
lime juice and sour orange juice mica and
metallic mineral su stances in a crude state
and metals unwrought not specially provided
for: ochre and ochery earth: sienna and sienna
earths lumber and lumber earths not specially
provided for in this act, cotton seed oil, paint
tngs, in oil water colors, and statuary, not
otherwise provided for plows, tools and disc
harrows, harvesters reapers drills. mowers,
horse rakes, cultivators, threshing machines
and cotton gins plush, black for making mems
hats; quicksilver: salt; silk, partially manu-
featured from coeoons or waste silk and not
farther advanced or manufactured than carded
or combed silk: all soap not otherwise
specially provided sulphate of soda, or salt
cake or nitre cake. sulphuric acid tallow and
wool grease, including that known commercial
ly as degras or brown wool grease straw; burr
stone rounded up into mi lstones, free stone,
granite, sandstone, limestone and other build
ing or monumental, except marble. unmanu-
featured or undressed, not specially provided
for all wearing apparel and other personal eff
fects without regard to their value upon their
identity being established under such rules and
regulations as the secretary of the treasury
may prescribe; timber, hewn and sawed, and
timber used for spars and in building wharves,
,Iaar fr,,lNa ad arl, ala yIyc
deals, and other lumber. laths, pickets and
palings, shingles, slaves of wood Of all
kinds and manufactured wood, pro-
vided that if any export duty is
laid from abroad upon the above men
toned articles, or either of them, all such
ticles shall be subject to duty as now provided
by law; chair cane, or reeds; woods; including
cedar, lignum vita, Lakewood, ebony, box,
grandila, mahogany, rosewood tirSood and
all forms OF cabinet woods in los, rough or
hewn; bamboo and rattan. unD' Anufactured;
briar root or briar wood, and similar wood I'M
manufactured. reeds and sticks OF partridge.
hair wood pimento, orange, myrtle and other
woods in the rough or not further manufact-
ured than cut into lengths suitable for UNI
brellas, parasols, sun shades whips or walking
canes all wool of the sheep, hair OF the camel
goat, alpaca and other like animals. and all
wool and hair on the skin, nois. yarn waste,
card waste, burr waste rags and fogs, includ
ing all waste or rags composed wholly or in
part OF wool
The metal schedules are almost
wholly ad valorem duties as follows:
Iron in pigs, 22li per cent ad valorem.
All iron in slabs. blooms, loops or other forms
more advanced than pig iron and less finished
than iron in bars, 25 per cent.
Bar iron, rolled or hammered iron, in coils or
rods and bars, or shapes of rolled iron, 81 per
cent
Beams, Orders, ioists, angles, channels, car
truck channels, and other structural shapes of
iron or steel 81 per cent ad valorem
Boiler or other plate iron or steel except saw
plates not thinner than No. ID wire gauge,
sheared or unsheared, and skip iron and steel,
sheare1 or rolled in grooves, 80 per cent
ForSings of iron or steel, or forged iron or
steel mbiIed, 81 per cent: hoop, band OF
scroll iron or J;eel, 81 per cent
Railway bars made Of iron or ste l. and rail-
way bars made in plrt of steel, common or
black. including all iron or steel commercially
known a common or taggers' iron or steel and
skip iron or steel, IS per cent
All iron or steel sheets or plates and all
hoop, band or scroll iron, exc .pting what are
known commercially as tin plates, tern
plates and taggers' tin, or when galvanized
coated with zinc or spelter or other
metals, or any alloy Of those metals. IS per
cent ad valorem
Sheet iron sheet polished, planShed or
glanced, u per cent ad valoremL
Sheets or plates of iron or steel or taggers
iron or steel coated with tin or lead or with a
mixture. commercially known as Tin plates and
taggers' tin, 40 per cent
Steel ingots, cogged ingots. bl oms and slabs,
sheets and plates not specially provided for in
this act, and steel in all forms and shapes not
specially provided for, - per cent sd valorem
Anchors, or parts thereof of iron or steel and
wrought iron for ships and forgings Of iron or
steel for vessels steam engines and locomo-
tives, p per cent ad valorem-
Boiler or other tubes. pipes flues or stays OF
wrought iron or steel, - per cent
Cast iron pipe OF every description, p per
cent. ad valorem.
Chains OF all kinds made of iron or STEEL 80
per cent ad valorem.
Penknives or pocketknives of all kinds, or
parts thereof and razors or razor blades.
finished or unfinished, valued at not more than
60 cents per dozen, IS per cent ad valorem;
above that - per cent
Table knives, forks, steels AMI all carving
cooks ana butchers knives forKs and steels,
all sines finished ana unfinished, 81 per cent
ad valoTem-
Musk-ts muzzle-loading shotguns and sport
ing rifles and parts thereof, = per cent ad va
loren. (No changel
Sporting, breech-loading shotguns and pis-
tolls and parts thereof. 81 per cent ad valorem
Cut nails and cut splints Of iron and steel
horseshoe nails hob nails and all other wrought
Iron or steel nails not specially provided for, y
per cent
Needles for knitting or sewing machines,
crochet needles and tape needles and bodkins
OF metal - per cent (present law, y per cent?.
Crosscui saws, circular saws, hand. back and
all other saws, = per cent
Screws, 81 per cent. ad valorem-
wheels or parts thereof, made OF iron or steel
and steel tired wheels for railway purposes,
whether wholly or partly finished, and iron or
steel locomotive car or other railway ties or
parts thereof, wholly or partly manufactured,
ner cent ad valorarn