The Coconino weekly sun., 1893-11-30
TARIFF CHANGES.
What Purports to Be an Accurate Outline of the Bill-The Free List Enlarged.


 NEW YORK, Nov. 25 The Herald's Washington correspondent says that 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, including wools, hair of the camel and goat, bituninous coal. iron ore, lumber, salt, silver, lead ore, fax, hemp and jute and large number of chemicals. This will be the chief benefit to manufacturers afforded by the new measure. but they will also also get the benefit in number of cases of an extension of time from three to six months to work off accumulated stocks before the reduced duties on finished products take effect. This will be true of woolen goods and probably of manu- factures of linen. It is doubtful if any discrimination of this sort is made in regard to manufactures of iron, which which will have to submit to some con siderable cuts The specified duties on bottle, glassware and plate glass may possibly be retained, but they will be reduced decidedly and plate glass is likely to be put at a uniform and ad valorem rate of 40 per cent.
 Steel rails will probably be put at ss or S9 a ton. Rails will be one of the few articles upon which specific duty will be retained. Pig iron will proba- bly, be put at per cent. ad valorem, as proposed in the last congress, and bar iron will be reduced at least 50 per cent. Tin plate will be one cent per pound and increased imports are counted upon to make the revenue nearly as 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 used. Block tin will go back on the free list, where it was before the enact ment of the Mckinley bill and copper ore will follow it. A uniform ad val orem duty will be imposed upon fin ished manufactures of wood, but logs will be free. The textile schedule will not suffer quite so much for there will be few duties, if any, higher than 40 per cent ad valorem.
 Specific duties and compensatory duties will almost universally be wiped of the statute.
 I he committee believe a reduction of or 10 per cent. in the silk duties will yield 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 separate class at 30 per cent The rate on nearly all manu- factures of cotton will be 40 per cent. This will include hoisery Manufact- ures of flax, hemp and jute will be greatly reduced in view of the placing of raw material on the free list.
 Binding twine is likely to be made free, and the high duties imposed on agricultural products will be merci- lessly slaughtered. A duty will be re- tained on lemons and oranges, but sew eral other fruits will go on the free list. The duty on wrapper tobacco will be reduced to s1 or s1. 50 per pound when unstemmed, and fifty cents more pct youud ''lIon stenarr'sd.
 Ad valorem rate of twenty-five cents will probably be fixed on all grades of sugar, although this question is still open. The poor grades come in at a low figure. The duty on gloves will reduced.
 The internal revenue features of the bill are agreed upon, except the form of the income tax. There will be nc increase on beer, tobacco or cigars | The only change will be on whisky.