The herald., 1893-11-28
a REFORM MEASURE.
The New Tariff Bill Satisfies the Most
Radical Refnrmera.

The New Tariff Bill Satisfies the Most
Radical Reformers.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 27.-The new DEM
ocratic tariff bill was given out today.
Its provisions fulfill every expectation
of those who predicted it would be
measure of radical reform. In many
respects it is surprise even to the
Democrats, as it is unprecedented in
many provisions. The free list is of
liberal scope sufficient to satisfy the
most radical advocates of reform, and
the refutation of the principle Of reci-
procity is decisive and emphatic. Thus
the bill, in addition to tariff reforms
will, if passed, necesaitate the readjuat-
ment ofSthe treaties with the South
American countries which enjoy prac-
tical or theoretical reciprocity with the
United States. The bounty on sugar,
instead of being repealed at once, will
be repealed by easy graduations and will
not reach its full effect till after the
close OF the present century.
THE FREE LIST.
Beginning March 1st next, the follow.
ing articles are added to the free list:
Bacon, hams, beef, mutton, pork, meats
of all kinds prepared or preserved, not
otherwise provided for; baryta, bind
ing twine made in whole or part of
thistle or Tampico fibre, MANILA, sisal,
or sunni, single ply. measuring not more
than 600 feet to the pound stuffed
birds not suitable for millinery, bird
skins prepared for preservation; blue
yitriol, bone, coal, bituminous and
shale, and slack or cut coke; coal tar
x,oA xrousInI
for; oxide OF cobalt, copper ores, old
compositions of which copper is the chief
copper and copper cement; copper
plates, bars, ingots, pigs and other
forms; copperas, cotton ties, diamonds,
duet or for jewels used in the manufac-
ture of watches and clocks; yolks OF
eggs of birds, fish and insects; crude
down, fresh fish, undreseed furs, iodine,
resublimated iron ore, including mag
niferous iron, dross of burnt pyrites,
sulphur pyrites in natural state; lard,
lemon juice, mica, crude metallic
minerals and unwrought metals; ochre
ochery earths, sienna and sienna earths,
umber and umber earths; cotton seed
oil paintings and statuary; plows, tools,
disc hArrows, harvesters, reapers, drills,
mowers, horse rskes, cultivators, thresh-
ing machines cotton gins; plush, black,
for making mems hats; quicksilver,
salt, silk not further advanced in manu-
facture than carding or combing;
soap not otherwise provided for;
sulphate of soda, or salt cake, or inter;
sulphuric acid, tallow and wool, grease;
straw, burrstone, bound into milstones;
freestone, granite. sandstone, limestone
and other building or monumental stone,
except marble undressed: all wearing
apparel and other personal effects, on
identity being established under regnla-
tions to be established by the
treasury; timber, hewn aud sawed;
epar and wharf timber, squared
or sided timber, sawed boards,
planks, deals; other lumber, lsth, pick
cts palings, ehingles, etaves and manu-.
factured wood, provided the same duties
as now exist shall obtain in all caseg in
which an export duty is laid on any ar
ticle in the above schedule; chair cane
or reeds; woods named cedar, lignum-
vitae. lancewood, ebony. box, granadilla.
mahogany, rosewood, satinwcod; all
forms cabinet wooda, in the log, rough
or hewn; manufactured bamboo and
rattan; briarrcot or brisrwood, reeds
and sticks OF partridge: hairwood, or
ange, myrtle and other woods in the
rough; all wool OF sheep, hair of camel,
goat, alpaca and other like animals;
wool and hair on the skins; oils, yarn,
waste, card waste, burr waste, rags and
flags, including sil waste or rage COM
posed wholly or in part of wool.
THE METAL sCEEDULss.
Tho metal schedules arc alrloat wholly
by ad valorsm duties ss follows: Iron
in pigs, 221@ per ceatum; all iron in
ioims more advanced than pig and less
finished than bars, 20; bar iror reisd or
iron in coils or rode, 80;
beams, girdsrs, joists, angles, car trucka,
chan1ela and other structural iron or
steel. a5; boiler or osher plate iron Or