Morris tribune., 1893-11-29
THE FREE LIST.

Numerous Articles Added Thereto by the
New Bill. f
WASHINGTON, Nov. 27.-The ways
and means committee met at II a. m.
and after the roll call Chairman Wilson
at once laid the bill before the entire
committee. On and after March l, 1894,
the following articles are to be added to
the free list:
Bacon and hams, beef, mutton and
pork. and meats of all kinds prepared or
preserved, not specially provided for In
this act.
Baryita, all binding twine manufac-
tured in whole or in part from lstle or
tampico fibre, MANILA, sisal grass, or
sunna of single-ply, measuring not ex-
ceeding 600 feet to the pound.
Birds, stuffed, not suitable for MILL
nery ornaments, and bird skins, pre-
pared for preservation, but not further
advanced in manufacture.
Blue vitriol, or sulphate of copper.
Bone char, suitable for use in decoriz-
ing sugars.
Coal. bituminous and shale and coal,
slack or cut.
Coke, coal tar, crude and all prepara-
lions and products of coal tar, not colors
or dyes, not specially provided for IN
this act.
Cobalt, oxide Of.
Copper, imported in the form of ores;
old copper, fit only for manufacture,
Clipping from new copper, and all COM
position metal of which copper is COM
nonent material of chief value, not
specially provided 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 betting cotton.
Diamonds, dust or bort, and jewels to
be used in the manufacture of watches
or clocks.
Downs Of all kinds, crude, not spe-
cially provided in this act.
Fresh fish.
Furs, undressed.
iodine, resublimated iron ore, includ-
ing manganiferous iron ore, also the
dross or residium of the burnt pyrites
and sulphurous pyrites or sulphuret OF
iron IN its natural list.
Mica and metallic mineral substances
IA a crude state and metals unwrought,
not specially provided for in this act.
Ochre and ochery earths, sienna and
sienna earths, umber and lumber earths
not specially provided for in this act.
Cotton seed oil, paintings in oil or
water colors and statuary, not otherwise
provided for in this act.
Plows, tools and disc harrows, har-
yesters, reapers, drills, mowers, horse
rakes. cultivators, threshing machines
and cotton gins.
Plush, black, for making mems hats.
Quicksilver.
Silk, partially manufactured from
cocoons or from waste silk, and not
further advanced or manufactured than
carded or combed silk.
Salt, soap, all not otherwise specially
provided for in this act.
Sulpfzbe of soda, or salt cake, or nitre
cake, suphuric acid.
Tallow and wool grease, including
that known commercially as degras or
brown wool grease.
Straw, burr stones, bound up into
millstones; freestone, granite, sandstone,
limestone and other building or monu-
mental, except marble, unmanufactured
or undressed, not specially provided for
in this act.
All wearing apparel and other per-
sonal effects shall be admitted free of
duty, without regard to their value,
upon their identity being established
nnder 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,
rlank. deals and other lumber; laths,
pickets and palings; shingles; slaves of
wood of all lands; wood unmanufactured,
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 provided by law.
Chair cane or reeds, wrought or man.
ufactured from rattans or reeds.
Woods, namely cedar, ignum VITAE.
lancewood, ebony, box, granadiIla, ma
hogany, rosewood, satinwood and all
forms of cabinet woods in the
log, rough or hewn; bamboo and
rattan, manufactured; briar root or
briar wood and similar woods, manu-
factured; reeds and sticks of partridge,
pearwood, pimento, orange, myrtle and
other woods, in the rough, or not