The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1893-11-28
Mr.. Wilson's Tariff Bill Brought
Out Into the Light.
COAL, IRON ORE AND LUMBER ON
THE FREE LIST.
and the Sugar Bounty To Be Wiped
Out-Some of the Proposed Duties Com
pared with Those of Existing Law
Much of the Bill Especially Interest
ing to Maine Readers.

Much of the Bill Especially Interest
ing to Maine Readers.
Washington, November 27.-Aftel
weeks of preparation, involving an ex
haustive study of the subject, from 3;
Democratic point of view, the new tariff
bill is at last completed and was TO-DAY
made public. The bill, it should be ex
planned, is purely Democratic measure
1t is the work of the Democratic mem
bers of the committee, who have jealous
ly guarded its details even from thei
Congressional associates. 1t was not un
til today that the Republican member
of the committee were made acquainted
with it's contents, while their knowledg
Of the measure during the past fortnigh
has been gained wholly from the printed
accounts in the daily press.
The great strain under which Mr.. vii
son, the chairman, has labored for thu
past fortnight was painfully apparent to-
day. His face was pale and haggard,
| and his general appearance was that of a
| man suffering from mental and physical
1 overwork. While the other mem bers OF
| the committee no less conscientiously
| applied themselves to their duties they
have not shared the responsibility
which alone fell upon the chairman, and
/ the effect of their labor is not so ap.
| parent.
Repres tative Bynum makes the fol-
lowing statement concerning the bill,
pointing out some of the principal
| changes it makes and the result as
seen from the standpoint of it's friends:
/ Tho hill I1cfn tal ~ Il
| lumber, salt and iron ore on the free list.
and reduces the tariff on sugar from one
half to one-quarter of cent per pound
| it also provides for the extermination of
the bounty by degrees. AS rule, the
tariff has been made lowest upon the
cheaper goods of necessary use and left
highest upon the more expensive arti-
cles.
''The woolsschedule will, perhaps, at
tract most attention. We have left no
duty higher than 45 per cent on manu-
features of wool, and that only on ready
made garments, the average being less
than 40 per cent The cheap quality of
blankets and fannels are only taxed 25
per cent, and the lower grades of car
pets only 20. We have also applied a
gradual reduction to the wooden schedule
SO that, at the end of five years, the
highest duty will be 40 and the average
near 30 per cent.
Every material reductions have been
made in the cotton schedule. We have
placed iron ore on the free list, and
made a large cut all along the metal
schedule; the duty on steel rails is re-
duced more than so per cent Free lum-
Der will be great benefit to the people
of the prairie states. and free salt will
give to those who need salt for their cat
tie or for curing meat the same advant-
age which has been secured heretofore
by means of rebate to those who cured
fish.
Agricultural implements have been
placed upon the free list in order to ena-
BILE the farmer to better compete in for
eign markets, and because manyof our
agricultural implements are being sold
abroad today cheaper than at home.'
The Free List.
The free list adds to articles admitted
free under the present law coal, iron ore,
lumber, salt, milk, cabbages, apples and
many other articles. The free list takes
effect March /, 1884. It includes: .. sss=.
Any animal imported specially for
breeding purposes.
Apples; apples dried.
Bacon and hams; beef, mutton and
pork meats of all kinds prepared or pre-
served, not specially provided for in this
act.
Cabbages.
Coal; anthracite, bituminous and
shale; COAL black or culm.
Carcoal, cotton ties of iron or steel, cut
to lengths, punched OF not punched, with
or without buckles, for baling cotton;
cotton and cotton waste or f1ocks, ex-
pressly for dyeing.
Eggs and yolks of eggs of fish.
Feathers and downs for beds and
feathers and downs of all kinds crude or
not dressed, colored or manufactured.
Felt, adhesive, for sheathing vessels.
Fish, fresh; fish, for bait; fish skins.
Fruits, green. ripe or dried, not special
ly provided for.
Ice.
Iron ore, including manganiferous iron
ore, also dross or residuum from burnt
pyrites and sulphur ore, as pyrites or sui
phuret of iron in its natural state.
Lard.
Lifeboats and life saving apparatus
specially imported by societies incorpo-
rated or esta blished to encourage the
saving of human, life.
Lime, chloride of, or bleaching powder;
epson salts.
Marrow, crude.
Milk, fresh
Newspapers and periodicals, the term
periodicals" as herein used being under
stood to embrace only unbound or paper
covered publications, containing current
literature of the day, issued regularly at
stated pediods, weekly, monthly or
quarterly,
Nux vomica.
Spermaceti, whale and dssother fish oils
of American fisheries and all other
articles, the products of such fisheries
Paper stock, crude, of every descrip
tion. including all grasses, fibers, rags
lother than o1d), waste, savings, clip
pings, old paper, rope ends, waste
bagging, old and refuse gunny bags or
ennny.cioth, poplar. or other woods, fit
oniy 10 be converted into paper.
Pease, green in bulk or abarrels, sacks
The personal and household effects, not
merchandise, of citizens Of the United
States in foreign countries.
Statuary. casts of marble, bronze
ala bsater or plaster of Paris, specially
lmnorted in good faith for the use Of any
socisty or Institution Incorporated or
esta hiished fer religious, philosophical,
edncational, scientific or literary pur-
NOSES. or for the encouragement Of the
t;..ss orts and not intended for.-sale.