The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1893-11-25

cast ofthe Bill.
New YoRk, Nov. 24-The Herald''
Washington correspondent says he is
able to send an accurate outline OF the
tariff bill as far as determined.
The FREQ list will include nearly all
the raw and crude materials which en-
ter into manufacture. WoolS, hair
camel and goat, bituninous coal iron
ore, lumber, salt, silver, lead ore, flax,
hemp and iute and a large number OF
chemicals will all be free Of duty when
the new bill takes effect.
This will be the chief benefit to manu-
facturers afforded by the new measure,
but they will also get the benefit, in a
number OF cases OF an extension OF time
from three to six months to work of
accumulated stocks before the reduced
duties on finished products take effect.
This will be true OF woolen goods and
probably of manufactures Of linen. 1t
is doubtful il any discrimination OF this
sort is made in regard to manufactures
of iron, which will have to submit TO
some considerable cuts.
The specific duties on bottles, glass
ware and plate glass may possibly be
retained. but they will be decidedly re-
duced, and plate glass ia likely to be
put at uniform and ad valorem rate OF
forty per cent.
Steel rails will probably be put at S.
or 50 a ton. Rails will be one of the
few articles on which a specific duty
will be retained. Pig iron will proba-
bly, be put at five per cent ad valorem,
ms proposed in the last Congress, and
bar iron will be reduced at least fifty
per cent.
Tin plate will be charged one cent
per pound, and increased imports arc
counted upon to make the revenue
nearly great as under the present duty
OF two and two-tenths cents.
The specific duties on cutlery will be
abolished, and an ad valorem duty be
substituted.
Block tin will 20 back on the free list
where it was before the enactment Of
the Mckinley bill, and copper ore will
follow it upon the same list.
A uniform ad 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,
The textile schedules will not eutfer
quite so much as the china and metals,
for there will be few duties, il any,
higher than 40 per cent advalorem.
Specific duties and compensatory duties
will almost universally be wiped out.
The committee believes that deduct
ion Of or 10 per cent in the silk duties
will yield as much revenue as at pres
ent. Woolen goods will follow subatan-
TALLY hte rates OF the Springer bill, but
some of the cheaper goods, especially
cloth. will be put in separate class at
80 per cent. The rate on nearly all
manufactures Of cotton will be 40 per
cent. This will include hosiery. Man
ufactures of fax, hemp and jute will be
greatly reduced in view OF the placing
OF the raw material on the free list,
Binding twine Is likely to be made free
of duty. The high duties imposed on
agricultural products will be merciless-
Iy slashed. a duty will be retained on
lemons and oranges, but several other
fruits will 20 upon the free list. The
duty on wrapper tobacco will be re-
duced to 81 90, or 81 so per pound when
unstemmed, and so cents more per
pound when stemmed.
An advalorem rate OF 25 per cent will
probably be fixed on all grades of sugar,
although this is one OF the questions
still open. The poorer grades Of sugar
come in at a lower figure. The duty on
gloves will be reduced. The internal
revenue features of the bill are SUBJ
stantially agreed upon, except the form
Of the income tax. There will be no
increase on beer or tobacco or cigars.
The only change will be on whisky.
The additions to the free list will
cause considerable losses Of revenue,
and while reductions of duty arc
counted upon to produce increased i'm
ports, this effect may not appear for a
year or two. The proposed duty on
sugar will bring in about 1000. 900
and it is thought that some $90,0O0,O0O
or $40,o00,o00 will be needed from the
increase in the whisky taxes and from
tho income tax,