Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1893-12-08
THE NEW TARIFF BILL.
THE MCKINLEY BILL SLASHED
RIGHT AND LEFT.
Agricultural Implements, Wool and
Tariffs Reduced on Sugar, Tobacco,
Liquors, Fruits, Etc. (Ad Infinitum.)

tariff bin to supersede the present Nc
Kinley bill. The bill provides that on
and after tho LIST of March 1894, the
following articles are TO be added TO
the free list:
Articles for the use of the United
States: Bacon and hams, beef, mutton
ana pork, and meats of all kinds, pre-
pared or preserved, not specially pro-
Vided for i'll this act, Baryta, all bind
ing twine manufactured in whole or in
part from textile or tampico fiber, manil-
la, sisal grass, or sum, of single ply and
measuring not exceeding tCv feet to the
pound; birds, stuffed not suitable for mil
llhery ornaments, and bird skins, pre-
pared Tor preservation, but not further
advanced in manufacture; blue vtriol
or sulphate of copper; bone charcoal,
suitable for use in dccolorizing sugars;
coal, bituminous and shale and coal.
SLACK or cut; coke; coal tar; crude, and
all preparations and products of coal
tar not colors or dyes not specially pro-
Vided for in this act; oxide Of cobalt cop
per imported in the form of ores; old
copper, fit only for manufacture, clipping
from new copper, and all composition
metal of which copper is component
material of chief value not specially pro-
Vided for in this act; regulus Of copper
and black or coarse copper, and copper
cement; copper in plates bars, ingots or
pigs; and other forms, not Manufactured,
not specially provided for in this act;
copperaS or sulphate of iron; cotton ties
OF iron or steel cut to lengths, punched
or not punched, with or without buckles,
for boiling cotton; diamonds. dust or
bort and jewels TO be used in the manu-
facture Of watches or clocks; yolks of
eggs of birds, fish and insects; downs OF
all kinds, crude, not specially providei
for in this act; fresh fish furs, undrossed;
iodine, resublimated iron ore, including
manganiferouS iron ore also the dross O"
residuum from burnt sulphur ore a
sulphuret of iron IN the natural state
lard; lemon juice, lime juice and S ur
orange juice; mica and metallic mineral
substances i'm crude state and metals
m for In
this act; ochre and ochery earths. STEM
ma and sienna earths lumber and lumber
earths, not specially provided for in this
act; cotton seed oil, paintings, in oil or
water colurs, and statuary, not Other
wise provided Tor in this act; plows. tools
and disc harrows, harvesters, reapers,
drills, mowers, horse rakcs, Cultivators,
t::rashng machines and cotton gins;
plush, black for making mems hats;
quicksilver, salt, silk partly manufac-
tureC rom cocOons or from waste silk
ana not farther advanced or manufac-
tuTed than Carded or combed silk; soap,
all not otherwise specially provided for
in This act; sulphate Of soda or salt cake,
su.phuric acid tallow and wool grease,
including that known commercially as
degras or brown wool grease; straw, burr
stone, bOung up INTO small stones, free
stone, granite, sandstone. limestone and
other building or monumental, except
marble, manufactured or undress q,
not specially provided for in this act;
all wearing apparel and other personal
effects shall be admitted free of duty
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 timber,
squared or sided; sawed boards, plank,
deals and other lumber; laths, pickets
and pallngs, singles, slaves of wood OF
all kinds, wood manufactured, pro-
vided, that If any export duty is laid
upon the above mentioned articles, or
either OF them, all said articles imported
from said country shall be subject 10
duty as now wrought or manu-
featured rattans or reeds; wrought
or manufactured rattans or reeds,
woods, namely, cedar, lignum vitae, lance
rosewood, satinwood and all forms of
cabinet wood in log, rough or hewn
briar root or briar wood. and similar
wood manufactured; bamboo reeds and
sticks or partridge, HARDWOOD, pimento,
orange, myrtle and other woods, in the
rough, or not further manufactured than
cut into lengths, suitable for sticks for
umbrellas, parasols, sUnshades, whips or
walking canes; all wool of the sheep, hair
or the camel, goat, alpaca and other like
animals and all wool and hair on the
skin, noils, yarn waste, card waste, bur
waste, rags and Nocks, including all
waste, or rags, composed wholly or in
part Of wool.
The. metal schedules are almost wholly
by ad yalOrem duties as follows. Iron
in pigs, 20 10 per centum, 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
centum: Bar iron, rolled or ham
mered iron, in coils or rods and bars or
shapes Of rolled iron, 80 per centum.
Beams, Orders, joists, angles channels
car trucks, channels and all other struct-
ural shapes OF iron or steel, IS per cert
um Boiler or other plate iron or steel,
10 wire gauge, sheared or unsheared and
skelp iron or steel, sheared or rolled in
grooves, 30 per centum. Forgings of
iron or steel or forged iron or steel COM
bined, so per centum. Hoop band or
scroll iron or steel, 30 per centum. Rail
way bars, made, of iron or steel, and
railway bars made in part of steel, COM
mon or black, including all iron or steel
commercially known as common or black
taggers, iron or steel and skelp iron or
steel, IS per centum. Ali iron or sheets
. or plates and all hoop, band or scroll
iron, excepting what are known CONNER
cially as tin plates, terne plates and tag
gers tin, when galvanized or coated with
zinc or spelter or other metals or any
alloy of these metals, 50 per centum al
valorem. sheet iron or steel, polished.
planiShed or glanced, - per centum ad
valorem. Sheets or plates OF iron or
steel or taggers iron or steel, coated with
tin or lead or with a mixture CONNER
cially known as tin plates and taggers'
tin, 10 per centum. Steel ingots, cogged
ingots, blooms and slabs, sheets and
plates not specially provided for in this
ect, and steel in all forms and shapes
not specially provided for, % per centuu
ad valorem. Anchors or parts thereof of
iron or steel and wrought iron for ships
and forFings of iron or steel for vessel.
steam engines and locomotives, 25 per
centuy1 ad valorsm. Boiler or other
tubGs pipes, nuC3 or stays Of wrought
iron or steel, Is per centum. Cast iron
pipe Of every description, IS per centum
ad valorem. Chains of all kinds made
OF iron or steel 80 per centum ad val
orcm.
Penllnives or pocketknives Of oil kinds
or parts thereof and razors or razor
blades, flashed or unfinished, valued at
not more than sixty cents per dozen IS
per centum ad valorem; above that 40 per
centum. Table knives, forks. steels and
all carving cooks and butchers knives
forks and steels, all sizes. finished or un-
finished, 30 per Centum ad yalorem
Muskets, muzzze- loading shotguns and
sporting rifles and parts thereof. q per
centum ad valorem. (No changeD Sport
ing, breech-loading shotguns and pistols
and parts thereof, 90 per centum al VAL
orem. Cut nails and cut spikes OF iron
and steel, horseshoe nails. hobnails and
all other wrought iron or steel nails not
specially provided for, % per centum
Needles for knitting or sewing machines
crochet needles and tape needles and
bodlSins of metal, % per centum. pres
ant, Is per centum) Crosscut saws, mill,
Dit and drag saws, circular saws, hand,
X. oil Of