Huntsville gazette., 1893-12-02
FLAX ANnd LITE pRnnrcrs.

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Yarn, made OF iute. 20 per cent. ad valorem;
| present law, 50 per cent. Cables, cordage aad
twine except binding twine), ID per cent ad
valorem.
| Burlaps, not exceeding 80 inches in width
! containing not over 40 threads TO the square
inch, counting warp and filing. and bags for
grain made OF such burlaps, 20 per cent ad
valorem.
Bagging for cotton gunny cloth and all SINH
lar material suitable for covering cotton, Is
per cent. ad yalorem.
Linen collars and cuffs and shirts and all
articles of wearing apparel not especially
provided for, 35 per cent. ad valorem.
All manufactures of fax, hemp, jute or other
vegetable fiber except cotton, 30 per cent. ad
valorem; present law, from ? cents per pound
| to 40 per cent. ad valorem.
Sole leather, per cent ad valorem present
law 10 per cent
| Bend or betting leather, 10 per cent. ad va
| loren: no change
| Leather made into shoe uppers or vamps or
| other FORMS 20 per cent. ad valorem.
The glove schedule has been entirely rear
| ranged, and differs from the Mckinley law
| quite materially.
| Printing paper, unsized, for books and news
papers, II per cent. ad valorem; present law,
| 13 per cent
| Surface-coated papers and manufactures
| thereof, card boards photographic prints, ex-
| cept Illustrations when forming part of
| periodical newspaper, or in printed books,
| photographs, autographs and scrap albums, %
| per cent ad valorem: present law, 35 per cent.
Envelopes, 20 per scent ad valorem; present
| duty. Is per cent.
| Playing cards, 10 cents per package and 30
| per cent. ad valorum; present duty, so cents
per package.
THE FREE LIST.
| On and after the 1st OF March. 1894 the fol-
lowing articles are to be added to the free list:
Articles for the use of the United States
| bacon and hams, beef mutton and pork and
meats of all kinds, prepared or preserved. not
| specially provided for IN this act; baryta. all
| binding twine manufactured in whole or in
| part from istle or tapioca fiber manila.
| slsal grass or sem, OF single ply
| and measuring not exceeding 600 feet to
| the pound: BIRDS stuffed not suitable for mil
| linery ornaments, and birds skins, prepared
| for preservation, but not further advanced In
| manufacture; blue vitriol sulphate of cop
per; bone charcoal suitable for use
In deodorizing sugars; coal, bituminous
| and shale and coal. slack or cut;
-cokei coal tar, crude and all preparations or
| rrodq6ts of coal tar, not colors or dyes, not
specially provided for in this act; oxide OF
| cobalt; copper imported In the form of ores;
| old copper, fit only for remanufacture. clip
| pings from new copper, and all composition
| metal OF which copper is a component ma
| for in this act; regulus OF copper
| and black or coarse copper. and copper cement,
| copper in plates bars ingots pigs and other
| forms, not manufactured, not specially pro-
vided for in this act; copperas, or sulphate
OF iron; cotton ties of iron: cotton ties of
| iron or steel cut IN lengths punched or not
| punched, with or without buckles. for belt.
| ing cotton diamond, dust or bort. and Jew-
| els TO be used in the manufacture of watches
OF clocks; yolks eggs of birds, fish, and in
sects downs CT al kinds, crude, not specially
provided for in this act; fresh fish, furs I'M
dressed; iodine, resublimated iron ore includ-
ing mangantferous iron ore, also the dross
residuum from burnt pyrites and sulphur and
pyrites sulphuret of iron in its natural state:
lard, Jemon-iuice lime juice and sour orange
| Juice, mica and metallic mineral substances In
a crude state, and metals unwrought, not spe-
cially provided for in this act; ocher and
ochery earths, sienna and sienna earths, UNI
Der and umber earths, not specially provided
for in this act; cotton-seed oil, paintings in
oil water colors and statuary not other
wise provided for in this act: plows
| tools and disc harrows harvesters, reapers.
| drills, mowers, horse rakes, cultivators,
threshipg machines and cotton gins;
| plush, black, for making mems hats; quick
| silver salt silk, partially manufactured from
| cocoons or from waste silks and not farther
advanced or manufactured than carded or
| combed silks soaps all not otherwise special
| " provided for in this act; sulphate of soda,
| or salt cake or nitre cake sulphuric acid, tai
low and wool grease, including that
| known commercially as degras or
| brown wool grease, straw, burr stone,
| bound up into millstones; freestone,
| granite, sandstone, limestone and other build
| ing monumental stone except marble, un-
manufactured or undressed. not specially pro-
| vided for in this act; all wearing apparel and
| personal effects shall be admitted free of duty
without regard to their value upon their iden-
| tity being established under such rules and
regulations as the secretary Of the treas
ury may prescribe; timber hewn and sawed
and timber used for spars and in
building wharves; timber, squared or sded
sawed boards, planks, deals and other lumber;
laths, pickets and palings; shingles and
slaves of wood of all kinds, wood unmanu-
factured; provided 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 to duty as now pro-
vided by law; chairs cane or reed wrought
or manufactured from rattans or reeds, woods
namely cedar, hgnum vitae, lancewood ebony,
box grandilla, mahogany, rosewood. satinwood
and all forms OF cabinet woods in the log,
rough or hewn, bamboo or rattan, unmanufac-
tured; briar root or briar wood, and similar
wood manufactured, reeds and sticks OF
partridge, HARDWOOD, pimento, orange, myr-
tie and other woods, in the rough or not
further manufactured than cut into lengths
suitable for sticks for umbrellas, 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, nails, yarn waste, card waste,
bur waste rags and flags, including gil waste
or rags, composed wholly or in part of wool,
Both copper ores and pig copper are made
free, VIC being large exporters Of the latter,
and the duty serving only to enable the pro-
ducer to sell higher to our people than to for
eigners. Nickel is free. Lead ore has small
duty Of Is per cent, and pig lead cent pound.
Silver lead ores are restored to the free list.
Unmanufactured lumber is free Manufac-
tured is put at % per cent, with the proviso
that in any export duties or charges on foreign
lumber 1t shall be admitted only at the rates
now existing.
Sugar has been a difficult subject to deal
with. Raw sugar was transferred to the free
list by the Mckinley BILL because nearly all
the taxes paid on it went to the public
treasury. strong desire amongst members
of the committee was to put ad valorem
duty of 90 or 25 per cent on it and TO abolish
the bounty at once. After much consideration
1t was decided to reduce to one-half the duty
on refined sugars and to repeal the bounty one
eighth each year, leaving raw sugar untaxed
at present.
In the tobacco schedule those rates were