St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-11-24
NEW TARIFF BILL.
New York Hera1d's Accurate Out
line of the Bill.

line of the Bill.
NEW YORK, Nov. 24.-The Heralds
Washington correspondent says he is
able to send an accurate outline of the
tariff bill. as far as determined.
The free list will include nearly all
raw and crude materials which enter
into manufactures. Woods. 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
flee 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 number of cases of
an extension of time of from three to
SIX mouths to work Off accumulated
stocks before the reduced duties OH fin
lshed products take effect
This will be true of wooden goods and
probably of manufactures of linen. 1t
is doubtful 1t any discrimination of this
sort Is made Ill regard to manufactures
OF iron. which will have to submit to
some considerable cuts.
The specie duties on bottles. glass;
ware and plate glass may possibly be
retained, but they will be decidedly
reduced, and plate glass is likely to BIZ
put at Uniform and ad valoren: rate of
40 per cent
Steel rails will probably be put at IS
or 50 ton. Rails Will be one of The few
articles upon which specific duty will
be retained. Pig iron will probably be
put at 8 per cent ad valorem, as pro-
posed III the last congress, and bar iron
Will be reduced at least per cent.
lin plate will be charged l cent per
pound,and increased imports are counted
upon to make the revenue nearly as
great as under the present duty of 2 2-I0
cents.
The specific duties on cotlery will be
abolished and ad valorem duty be sub
Stltuted.
Block tin will 90 back on the free list.
where 1T was before the enactment of
the Mckinley bill, and copper ore will
follow it on the same list.
The textile schedule will not suffer
quite so much as china and metals, for
there will be few duties il any higher
than 40 per cent ad valorem Specific
duties and compensatory duties will
almost universally be wiped off the
statute.
The committee believe that reduc-
ton OF or 10 per cent in the silk duties
VIII yleld as much revenue as at present.
Wool goods will follow substantially the
rates of the Springer bill. but some of
the cheaper goods, especially cloth, will
be put in class at 80 per cent.
The rate OH nearly all manufactures
of cotton will be 40 per cent. This will
include hosiery Manufactures of flax,
hemp and jute will he greatly reduced
in view Of the placing of the raw ma
terlal Oh the free list.
Binding Irvine is likely to be made
free of duty. The high duties imposed
on agricultural products will be merci
lessly slaughtered. A duty will be re
tanned on lemons and oranges, but sew
eral other fruits will go upon the free
list. The duty on wrapper tobacco Will
be reduced to 81 or $3.50 per pound when
unSteamed, and so cents more per pound
when steamed.
The internal revenue features of the
Dill are substantially agreed upon, eX-
cept 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 are
counted upon to produce increased i'm
ports, this effect may not appear
for year or two. The proposed
duty on sugar will bring iii about $780,
100000. and it is thought that some
thirty or forty millions will be received
received from the increase in whisky
and from the income tax.