Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1893-11-25

New YORK, November 24.-The Her
AIDS Washington correspondent says
he is able to send an accurate outline Of
the tariff bin as far as determined.
The free list will include nearly all
raw and crude materials, which enter
into manufacture. Wools, hair OF the
camel and goat, bituminous coal, iron
ore, lumber, salt, silver, lead ore. fax,
hemp and jute, and large number OF
chemicals will all be free of duty when
the new bill takes effect.
This will be the chief benefit to
manufacturers afforded by the new
measure, but they will also get the
benefit, in a number of cases, of an eK-
tension of time Of from 3 to months to
work of accumulated stocks before the
reduced duties on finished products
take effect. This will be true of wool
en- goods and probably of manufactures
Of alnen. 1t is doubtful II any dis
elimination of this sort is made In re-
gard to ma ufacturers Of iron which
will have TO scbmit TO some consider
able cuts.
THE SPECIFIC DUTIES.
OF bottles, glassware and plate glass
may possibly be retained, but they will
be decidedly reduced and plate glass Is
likely to be put at uniform and ad-
valorm rate OF 40 per cent.
Steel rails will probably De put at IS
or 50 ton. Rails will be one OF the
few articles upon which specific duty
will be retained. Pig iron will prob
ably be put at per cent. ad valorem
| as proposed In the last Congress, and
bar iron will be reduced az least 80 per
cent.
Tin plate will be charged one cent
per pound, and increased imports are
counted upon to make the revenue
nearly as great as under the present
duty OF two cents and two-tentbs.
The specific duties on cutlery will be
abolished and ad valorem duty be sub
stituted.
Block tin will go back on the free
list, where it was before the enactment
OF the Mckinley bill, and copper ore
will follow IL upon the same list.
A uniform sd valorem duty will be
imposed upon finished manufactures OF
wood, but logs will be free.
THE TEXTILE SCHEDULES
will not suffer quite so much as china
and metals, for there will be few duties,
II any, higher than 40 per cent adya-
orem. Specific duties and compensatory
duties will al most universally be wiped
out. The committee believes that
reduction OF or 10 per cent In the
silk duties will yield as much revenue
as at present. Woolen goods will fol-
/ low substantially the rates OF the
Springer bill, but some OF the cheaper
goods, especially cloth, will put In q
seperate class at 30 per cent The rate
on nearly all manufacturers OF cotton
will be 40 per cent This VIII Include
hosiery. Manufacturers Of fax hemp
aud iute will be greatly reduced In view
of the placing OF the raw material on
the free list. Binding twlne Is likely
TO be made free Of duty. The high du-
ties imposed or agricultural products
will be merciIessly slashed. A duty
will be retained on lemmons aud
oranges, but several other fruits will
20 on the free list. The duty on wrap
Der tobacco will be reduced 10 81 or
s1.5O per pound when unstemmed, and
so cents more per pound when stem
med.
An AID yALoREM RATE
Of o5 per cent. will probably be liked on
all gradesof sugar, although this Is one
of the questions still open. The poorer
grades OF sugar come in at lower hg-
ure. The duty on gloves Will be re-
duced.
The internal revenue features OF the
bill are substantially agreed upon, eI-
cept the form Of the income tak. There
will be no increase on beer or tobacco
or cigars. Tb3 only change will be on
whisky. The additions 70 the free list
will cause considerable losses OF reve-
nue., and while reductions OF duty are
counted upon TO produce increased I'M
ports. this effect may not appear Tor a
year or two. The proposed duty on
sugar will bring In about $50, 100000
and it lie thought that some $4,000, ,OOO
or $40. OOO, 600 will be needed from the
increase In the whisky taxes and from
the income tax.