Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1893-11-30

Washington, u. c., Nov. 2I.-Th,
new democratic tariff bill was givel
out to the public today. The bount,
, on sugar, which was to be so promptly
, repealed, is instead to be repealed 10y
easy gradati0nS and will not reach its
conclusive effect until after the enc
of the present century.
The committee met at II o'clock this
morning, and after the roll call Chair
man Wilson at once laid the bill be
fore the entire committee. On an6
after the LIST of March. 1894, the fol
lowing articles are to be added to the
free list:
Articles for the use of the United
StateS-Bacon and hams, beef, mutton
pared or preserved, not especially pro
vided for this act; baryta all binding
Irvine manufactured in whole or in
part from istle or tampico fiber, manila
niSal grass or sum, of single ply and
measuring not exceeding 900 feet tC
the pound; birds, stuffed, lot suitable
for millinary ornaments, and birdSkins
prepared for preservation but not fur
ther advanced in manufacture; blue
vitriol or sulphate of copper; bone
char, suitable for use in decoriziH g
sugars; coal, bituminous and shale
and coal, slack or cut; coke; coal tar
crude, and all preparations and pro
ducts of coal tar not colors or dyes
not especially provided for in this act;
oxide OF cobalt; copper imported in
the form of ores; old copper, fit only
for manufacture; clippings from new
copper, and all composition metal OF
which copper is a component material
of chief value not specially provided
for i'll this act; reguluS of copper and
black or coarse copper, and copper
cement; copper in plates, bars, ingots
or pigs, and other forms not manu-
featured not especially provided for
III this act; cOpperaS or Sulphate of
iron; cotton ties Of iron or steel cut tc
lengths, punched or not punched, with
or without buckles, for betting cotton
diamonds, dust or bort and jewels to
he used i'll the manufacture Of watches
or clocks; yOlkS of eggs of birds, fish
and insects; downs Of all kinds, crude,
not especially provided for in this act
fresh fish; fllrs, mdress4d: iodine re-
sublimated iron ore, including mama
ganiferOus iron ore; also the dross or
residuum from burnt pyrites, and sui
phurOr, and pyriteS or Sulphuret of
iron in it's natural state; lard; lemon
iIIinn limo i,Iian nd i,,ia 4.
mica and metallic mineral substances
in a crude state and metals unwrought
not especially provided for in this act;
Ochre and Ochery earths, sienna and
sienna earths lumber and umber earthS,
not specially provided for in this act;
cottonseed oil; paintings in oil or
water cOlOrS, and Statuary, not other
wise provided for in this act; plows,
tools and discharrows; harvesters,
reaperS, drills, mowers, hOrserakes,
cultivators, threshing machines and
cotton gins; plush, black, for making
mems hats; quicksilver; salt; silk par
tally manufactured, from cOcoons or
from waste silk and not farther ad-
vanced or manufactured than carded
or combed silk; soap, all not otherwise
specially provided for in this act; sui
plate of soda or salt cake or nitre cake;
sulphuric acid and tallow and wool
grease, aincluding that known COM
mercially as degras or brown wool
grease; straw; burr stone, bound up
into mill stones; free stOne granite;
sandstone; limestone and other build
ing or monumental, except marble,
manufactured or undreSSed, not eS-
pecially provided for in this act; all
wearing apparel and other effects shall
be admitted free of duty without re-
gard to their value from their identity
being established under such rules and
regulations as the secretary of the
treasury may prescribe; timber hewn
and sawed, and timber used for spars
and in building wharves; timber, squar-
ed or sided; sawed boards, planks.
deals and other lumber; laths, pickets
and pailings; shingles; slaves of wood
of all kinds; wood manufactured; pro
vided that if any export duty is laid
upon the above mentioned articles Oh
either of them, all said articles import
ed from said country shall be subject
ed to duty as now provided by law
chair cane or reeds, wrought or man.
ufactured from rattanS or reeds; woods
namely cedar, lignum, vitav, lancewood
ebony, box, granadilla, mahogany
rosewood, satinwood and all forms OF
cau4net woods, in the log, rough OF
hewn; bamboo and rattan, unmanu
featured; briar root or briar wood and
similar wood unmanufactured;r reeds
and sticks of partridge, HARDWOOD pi
mentO, orange, myrtle and other woods
in the rough or not further manu-
featured than cut into lengths suitable
for sticks for umbrellas, parasols, sun
shades, whips or walking canes; al
wool of the sheep, hair of the camel
goat, alpaca and other like animals
and all wool and hair on the skin
nOils; yarn waste; card waste; bun
waste; rags and fogs, including al
waste or rags composed wholly or in
part of wood
Chairman Wilson has issued the fol
lowing statement in regard to the bill
/ The democratic members of the com
mittee on ways and means have felt
as none others could feel, the momen
tous responsibility resting upon then
and the magnitude, difficulty and deli
cacy of the duty assigned them Of fran
ing tariff bill for nation of 10000,
900 people The bill they were called
on to reform is a vast and 1abyrinthiaI
system of class taxation, the culmina
ton Of thirty years control of the tax
,,or,or Inv fou, int c+c