Waterbury evening Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1887-1895, 1893-11-28
THE NEW TARIFF BILL.
It Proposes Some Sweeping Re-
auctions In Duties.
A RADICAL MEASURE OF REFORM.

a Synopsis OF the Chief Features of the
Democratic Measure shows That Wool,
Coal, Iron Ore, Lumber. Copper, Salt
and Many Minor Articles Are to he Free.
WASHINGTON. Nov. sS-The meeting Of
the ways and means committee, at which
the new tariff bill was presented, was very
brief. All the Democratic members were
on hand, but the only Republican members
present were Messrs. Reed, Burrows, Hop
kinS, Payne and Dalzeil Immediately
after the roll call Chairman Wilson spread
the tariff bill before the committee. The
only advance copy furnished was one given
to the White House messenger a half hour
previous for transmission to the president
No business whatever was transacted by
the committee. The Republican members
were supplied with copies of the bill, afew
ocular remarks being made, and the COM
mittee adjourned to give time to the mi
nority to examine the measure.
The FREQ List
On and after the LIST of March, 1894, the
following articles are to be added to the
free list:
Ammonia, carbonate of. muriate of. or sal
Rmmoniac and sulphate Of.
Anthony as reGulus or metal; apples, green
or ripe; apples, dried, desiccated, evaporated
or prepared in any manner and not otherwise
provided for in this act; articles for the use OF
the United States.
Bacon and hams, beef. mutton and pork and
meats of all kinds prepared or preserved not
specially provided for in this act. Barite,
sulphAte Of or barites, including barites
earth; all binding Irvine manufactured in
whole or in part from ixtle or tampico fiber.
MANILA, sisal grass or sum, Of single ply and
measuring not exceeding 600 feet to the pound
birds, stuffed, not suitable for millinery orna-
ments, and bird skins prepared for preserVa-
ton, but not farther advanced in manufacture;
blue vitriol, or sulphate Of COPPER; bone char,
suitable for use in dccoloriEing sugars; all pub
locations Of foreign governments and publica-
tons containing observations of scientific ple-
nomena and the results of scientific observa-
tons: borax, crude or borate of soda, or borate
OF lime; oamphor Of all kinds; clAys or earths,
unwrought or manufactured. not specially
provided for in this act; coal, bituminous and
shale, and coal slack or culm; coke; coal tar.
crude, and all preparations and products Of
coal tar. not colors or dyes, not specially pro
vided for in this act; oxide of cobalt.
Copper imported in the form OF ores, old cop
per, fit only for manufacture, clipping from
new copper and all composition metal OF which
copper Is component material OF chief value
not especially provided for in this act; regulus
Of copper and black or coarse copper and cop
per cement. copper in plates, bars, tngots or
pigs, and other forms, not manufactured, not
especially provided for in this acts copperaS or
sulphate of iron: cotton ties of iron steel cut
TO lengths punched or not punched, with or
| without buckles, for bolting cotton; cork wood.
cut into squares or cubes; diamonds, dust OF
bort and jewels to be used in the manufacture
OF watches or clocks: yolks OF eggs of birds fish
and insects; downs of all kinds, crude or not
dressed. eolored or manufactured. not specially
provided for in this act; fresh fish; furs I'M
| dressed.
Extracts or paStcS OF indigo are carmincs.
| Iodine, resublimed: iron ore. including man.
| ganiferous iron orc, also the druss or residuum
| from burned pyrites and sulphur ore, as py-
rites or sulphuret of iron in its natural state;
| lard. lemon Juice, lime juice and sour orange
| juice; mica and metallic mineral substances in
| a crude state and metals unwrought, not spe-
| cially provided for in the act; milk. fresh;
| nickle, nickle oxide, all of any kind in which
| nickle is the component material or chief; ocher
| and ocher earths, sienna and sienna earths,
lumber and lumber earths not specially provided
| for in this act, dry.
| Cottonsccd oil. cruton, paintings IN oil OF
water colors and statuary not otherwise pro
vided for in this act, but the term 'statury," As
herein used, shall be understood 10 include
only such professional productions in marble
stone, alahastcr or metal OF statuary, OF
| sculptor only; peas, green, in bulk or barrels
sacks or similar packages; vines of all kinds
| commonly known as nursery stock, not espe
cially provided for in this act; plows, tooth and
| disk harrows, harveSters, reapers. drills, NOW
| ers, horse rakes, cultivators, thrashing ma.
chimes and cotton gins; plush. black. known
| commercially matters plush, composed OF
silk, or OF silk and cotton, and used exclusively
| for making mems hats; quicksilver. salt ii
| bulk and salt in bags, sacks, barrels or Other
| packages. but the coverings shall pay the SAINT
| rate of duty as II imported separately-provid
| ed, that II salt is imported from any country
| which imposes duty upon salt exported from
| the United States then there shall be levied
| paid and collected upon such salt the rate OF
| duty now provided by law.
silk partially manufactured from CoCoons OF
| from waste silk. and not further advanced OF
manufactured than carded or combed silk
soap, all not otherwise specially provided for In
| this act; sulphate OF soda or salt cake or inter
| b 1vNN oil nd
| including that known commercially as degrAs
| or brown wool grease; straw: burr stone. bound
! up into millstones, freeStOne, granite, sand
| stone. Limestone and other building monu-
| mental, except marble, manufactured or I'M
| dressed not specially provided for in this act
| All wearing apparel and other personal ef-
| fects shall be admitted free Of duty without
| regard TO their value upon 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. squared
| or sided; sawed boards, plank, deals and other
| lumber; pine clRpboards, spruce clap0oards,
| hubs for wheels, posts last blocks, wagon
| blocks, car blocks, gun blocks. heading and all
| lake blocks or sticks, rough hewn sawed
| only; laths, pickets and palings, shingles,
slaves OF wood Of all kinds, wood uumAnufsc-
| tured: provided, that If any export duty is laid
| upon the above mentioned articles or either Of
| them all said articles imported from said coun-
| try shall be subject TO duty as now provided by
| law.
| Chairs, cane or reeds, wrought or manufac-
| tured, from rattans or reeds, woods-namely.
| cedar. lGnum vit4, lancewood. ebony. box.
| granadilla. mahogany, rosewood. satinwood
| and all forms Of cabinet woods in the log.
| rough or hewn; bamboo and rattan unmanufac-
tured, brier root or brierwood and similar
| wood unmanufRcted or not further manufac-
| tured than cut into blocks suitable for the ar
| ticles into which they are intended to be con-
| verified; bamboo. reeds and sticks of partridge,
HARDWOOD, pimento. orange, myrtle and other
| woods not otherwise especially provided for in
| this act in the rough or not further manufac-
| turcd than cut into lengths suitable for sticks
for umbrellas paraSnls, sun shades, whips or
| walking canes and India malRcca Joints not
| further manufactured than cut in suitable
| lengths for the manufactures into which they
| are intended 10 BE- converted: all 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, burr waste, rags
and iocks, including all waste or rags COM
| posed wholly or in part of wool.
The Metal Schedules.
| The metal schedule OF the bill arc almost
| wholly by adj valorem duties. while the present
| law levies specific duties The following are
the changes:
Iron in pigs. iron kentledge, spieGeleisen, fer
| 10 manganese, ferro silicon, wrought and cast
| scrap iron and scrap steel, SsA per centum ad
| valorem; present law three-tenths OF per cent
| per pound; all iron in slabs, blooms, loops or
| other forms more advanced than pig iron and
/ less finished than iron in bars, Is per centun
ad valorein; present law eight-tenths OF cent
per pound. Bar iron. rolled H hammered iron.
| In coils rods, and bars or shapes Of rolled
iron. 50 per oentum ad valorem: present law
| eight-tenths Of cent per pound Beams, grid
ers. ioists, angles, channels, car truck chan
nels, columns and posts or parts or sections Of
columns and posts, deck and bulb beams and
/ building forms. together with all other struc-
/ tural shapes Of iron or steel, s. per centum ad
| valorem Present law nine-tenths Of cent per
pound.
Boiler other plate iron or steel, except saw
plates hereinafter provided for, not thinner
than No. 10 wire guage, sheared or unsheared,