The record-union., 1893-11-28

cheaper CRATES OF pocket cutlery, 30 per
cent; higher grades, -; table cutlery, 80.
Copper ores and pig copper are made
free. We are large exporters of the lat
ter, and the duty served only to allow
the producer TO sell higher TO our people
than to foreigners.
Nickel is free, lead ore only 10 per cent,
pig lead ore l cent per pound, silver ores
free.
Unmanufactured lumber, free: manu-
tactured, p per cent.
On the subject of sugar, the statement
says: Sugar has been a difficult matter
TO deal with. Raw sugar was transferred
to the free list by the Mckinley bill, be-
cause nearly all the taxes paid on il went
to the public Treasury. There is strong
desire among the members of the COM
mittee to put an ad valOrem duty OF 20 or
% per cent. on it and abolish the bounty
at once. After much consideration it was
decided to reduce to one-half the duty on
refined sugars, and repeal the bounty
one-eighth each year, leaving raw sugars
untouched, as at present"
Burlaps and cotton and grain bagging,
Is per cent; when exported as covering,
free.
Wool free; this takes the stills from un-
der the wooden manufacturers and begetS
a hope that they may recover from the
languishing condition liz which they have
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we may get woolen goods at reasonable
rates.
Cloth and dry goods are put at 10 per
cent. clothing at -. The rates are higher
than the committee desired but it was
deemed temporarily necessary, because
our manufacturers have so long been eX
cluded from tWo-thirds of the wool of the
world that they will have to learn the
art of manufacturing with free wool. y
sliding scale, therefore, is added by
which the rates in the WOODEN schedule
are TO come down five points with the
lapse of five years. Carpets-an industry
in which we will soon be independent Of
cOmpetltiOn-are put at 80 per cent. for
Administers, Moquette and Wilton; 30 for
Brussels, while common grades range
from 30 down to 20.
The bill provides the duty shall be re-
moved from wool on March lst and re-
duced on woolen goods July 1st.
In the silk schedules the reductions of
rates are smaller than in cotton or wooden
fabrics.
Sole leather is reduced from 10 to per
cent. Leather gloves are classified accord
ing TO material and length and are uni
formly rated at specific duties, which av-
erage not over 25 per cent. on the common
varieties and near 40 per cent. on fine lamb
and kid gloves.
In the schedule Of sundries many arti-
cles, like hatters' plush, will be put on
the free list. The duty on cut diamonds,
pearls and precious stones is increased.
Works of art, am delighted to say, are
put back on the free list. All manufact-
ures of iron and steel have tariff Of %
per cent, except cast hollow ware, coated,
glazed or timed; iron and steel chains,
all kinds, 80 per cent.
The statement concludes as follows
The above is rapid summary Of the chief
changes made by the proposed bin and
will give satisfactory idea, believe, Of
its general structure. 1t is estimated that
it will reduce the revenue, on the basis of
the impOrtatiOns of 1892, about 500, 900, 900,
with an immensely larger decrease of tax
burdens to the American people. The
administrative law is retained with few
amendments suggested by the experience
of its operation. That law was chiefly
prepared by Hewitt when he was in Con-
greSS, and the changes proposed in 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 of importing as
outlawry, and not entitled to the protec-
tiOn of the Government.
Beginning March Ist next the following
articles are added to the free list: Bacon,
hams, beef, mutton, pork, meats of all
kinds, prepared or preserved, not other
wise provided for; baryta, binding twine
made in whole or in part of the Istle or
Tampico fiber, manila, sisal or sum,
single ply, measuring not more than 600
feet to the pound; stuffed birds not suit
able for millinery; birdskins prepared for
preservation; blue vitriol, bone oil, coal
bituminous and scale and black or cut
coke, coal TAR, not cOlOrs or dyes specially
provided for, oxide of cobalt, copper ores,
old copper, clippings from new copper,
all compositions of which copper is the
chief component of value, regulus and
block copper and copper cement, copper
plates, bars, ingots, pigs and other forms;
cotton ties; diamonds, dust or bort; Jewels
used in the manufacture of watches and
clocks; yolks of eggs of birds, fishes and
insects; crude down, fresh fish, undreSsed
furs, iodine; Sublimated iron ore, includ-
ing magniferous iron dross of burnt py-
rites, sulphur or pyrites IN natural state;
lard, lemon juice, mica and crude metal
lie minerals and unwrOught metals, ocher
and ochery earths, sienna and sienta
earths, umber and lumber earths, cotton
seed oil, paintings and statuary, plows,
tools, disc harrows, harvestels, reapers,
drills, mowers, horse-rakes, cuItiyatOrs,
threshlng machines, cotton gins, plush,
black for making mems hats, quicksilver,
salt, silk not further advanced in manu-
facture than carding or conbing, soap not
otherwise provided for, sulphate of soda,
or salt cake or nitre cake. sulphuric acid,
tallOw or wool grease, straw, burr stone
bound into millstones, frees tone, granite,
limestone and other building or monu-
mental stone, except marble undressed:
all wearing apparel and other personal
effects, on identity being established un-
der regulations to be established by the
Treasury.
Timber, hewn and sawed; spar and
wharf timber; squared or sided timber;
sawed boards; planks, deals and other
lumber; laths; pickets; palings; shingles:
slaves; manufactured wood; provided
the same duties as now exist shall obtain
in all cases in which an export duty
is laid on any article In the above sched-
uIe: chair cane or reeds.
Woods, namely, cedar, lignum vitae,
lancewood, ebony box, granadilla, ma
hogany, rosewood, satinwood all forms
OF cabinet woods in log, rough or hewn,
manufactured brlar root or briarWood
reeds or sticks of partridge, HARDWOOD,
pimento, orange myrtle and other woods
in the rough.
All wool OF sheep, hair of camel, goat,
alpaca and other like animals, wool and
hair on skin, noils, yarn waste, card
waste, burr waste. bags and flogs, includ-
ing all waste of bags composed wholly or
in part OF wool.
THE MEETING WAS BRIEF.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 27.-The meeting
of the Ways and Means Committee was
very brief. All the Democratic members
were on hand. but the only Republican
menb bers present were Reed, Burrows.
HOPKINS, Payne and Dalzel. Immedi-
ately after the roll-call Chairman Wilson
sDread the bill before the committee. and
the Clerk instantly thereafter supplied it
to members of the press on the outside.
The only advance copy furnished was
one given to White House messenger,
half an hour previous, for transmission
to the President. No business was trans
acted bv the committee. The Republican
members were supplied with copies of
the bill, few jocular remarks being