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monds, pearls and other precious stones
Is increased.
Works of art are, I am delighted to
say, put back on the free list.

The above Is q rapid sum mary O.
the changes made by the proposed bill
and will give satisfactory idea, l be
lieYe, of its general structure. 1t Is es
timated that it will reduce the revenue
on the basis of the importations OF 1892
about fifty millions, with an immense
ly larger decrease of tax burdens to tht
American people. The administrative
law is reported with a few amend
ments, suggested by experience OF 1T
operation. That law was chiefly pre-
pared by Mr.. Hewitt when he was II
Congress, and the changes proposed 10
our bill are to make it more effective
while at the same time softening some
of the features added by the Mckinley
bill that would treat the business o.
importing as an outiaWry, not entitled
to the protection of the government.
There were present in the commit
tee room today when the seal of secrecy
was removed: Mr.. Wilson, the chair
man, Messrs. Tarsney, Breckenridge
Buynum, Turner and Bryan (Demo.
crats). and Reed, Burrows. Dalzell and
Hopkins Ire ublicans.) The corridors
ia the neighborhood of the room were
filled with newspaper men, representa-
tives of some OF the protected indus
tries, and others interested in tariff leg
islatlon.
RATES OF NEW DUTIES.
Following are some Of the principa
articles named In the bill and the rates
of duty imposed:
Alcoholic perfumeries, two dollars
gallon and 25 per cent.
Chloroform, 25 cents per pound.
Morphia, 80 cents per ounce.
Opium, aqueous, extract and tine
ture, 25 per cent; opium containing
less than nine per cent. of morphia ane
opium prepared for smoking, St
pound.
Varnishes, 25 per cent. and $1.32 ad
ditional on the alcohol in spirit var
niShes.
Sponges, ten per cent.
Sulphur, 20 per cent.
Brick, 20 per cent; decorated, 80. -
Tiles, plain, % per cent; glazed 4O
per cent.
Marble, rough, 40 per cent, per cubic
foot; dressed, rs cents per cubic foot:
Freestone, granite and other build
ing stone, not especially provided;
dressed, 20 per cent.
Iron, pig and scrap, and scrap steel
221< per cent; slab blooms, etc., 25 pei
cent; bar, 30 per cent; beams, girders
etc., So per cent; boilers, 80 per cent
forgings of iron or steel, 80 per cent;
railway bars. iron or steel, 25 per cent.
sheet iron or steel, 35 per cent; sheet
iron, galvanized, 35 per cent.
Tin plates, 40 per cent.
Steel ingots, blooms, etc., % per cent.
wire rods, 30 per cent.
Anchors and ship and mill forgings
% per cent; cast iron pipe, % per cent.
chains, 30 per cent.
Pocket cutlery, lowest 35 per cent.
highest 45 per cent; table cutlery, %
per cent.
Muzzle loading guns, 25 per cent.
breech leaders, 30 per cent .
Nails. 25 per cent; woud screws, 81
per cent; wheels, 55 per cent.
Brass, unmanuf 4ctured, 10 per cen t
Rolled copper, 20 per cent.
Lead ore, is per cent; lead sheets
and pigs one cent pound.
Willow ware. % per cent; casks
and shocks, 20 per cent; furniture. q
per cent.
Sugar-The present bounty is to b
extingushed one-quarted of a cent eacf
year until 1t has ceased to exist. Al
sugars above number sixteen Dutcf
standard, five-twentieths of one cent
pound.
Leaf tobacco for wrappers, unstem
med, dollar per pound; stemmed
dollar anda quarter; other leaf, un
stemmed, 35; stemmed, 30 cents; al
other tobacco not enumerated, 40 cent!
snuff. 40 cents; cigars, cheroots and
cigarettes, So per pound and 20 pei
cent.
Rice, cleaned, one and onehalf cents
per pound; uncleaned, one cent. Floul
and broken rice, one quarter cent;
paddy, three quarters of q cent.
Potatoes, 10 cents per bushel.
Vegetables in their natural state, moi
specially provided for ten per cent
Oranges, lemons and lines, packed
ten cents per cubic foot; bulk $1.5O per
thousand, and thirty per cent advalo'
rem on the boxes or barrels in addition.
Peanuts, q cent and half per pound.
Brandy, and other spirits, manufac
tured from grain or otder materials
$1.8O per proof gallon. Bay rum, a
dollar a gallon; champagne quarts,
81 dollars dozen; other sizes proper.
tionately. Malt liquors, bottled, *
cents per gallon; othtrwise than bottled
fifteen cents a gallon.
Cotton thread ranges from 30 to 3
per cent; sewing thread cotton. 4 l.:
cents per dozen for hundred yard spools
Cotton cloth ranges from one cent to
two and three-quarter cents per square
yard according TO quality and condition
with adyalorem addition for higher
grades ranging from 20 per cent, to Al
per cent.
Bagging for cotton of all kinds, fif
teen per cent; but when imported fol
covering articles to be exported, 1t is
free. Printing paper, unsized, twelve
per cent; sized, fifteen per cent.
Among the principal additions tt
the tree list are the following: BacoI
and hams, beef, mutton, pork ant
meats of all kinds not specially pro
vided for r;binding twine, borax, cam
phor, bituminous coal, coke, copper II
all crude forms. cotton ties, iron ore
cotton seeds oil, agricultural imple.
ments Cotton gins named), salt, soap
building material Except lnarble) lum-
ber timber and wood in all but a few
conditions which are named.
The metal schedule Of the bill leVie'
almost wholly adyalorem duties, while
the present law leaves specific duties.
A Gold Ftnd.
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