The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1894-12-28
FREE WOOL NOW.
The New Schedules Take
Full Effect on Tuesday
Morning Next.
LIST OF WARES AFFECTED
A Treasury Ruling on Mohairs-
Dolls an Exception = Goods
Lying in Bond.
Lying in Bond.

IueSday, the nrSt Oh IHe new year, tiiS
tariff act passed at the last session of
Congress will be in full force and effect
in every particular. Although the bill
became law on the 18th day Of August
last, there was one whole schedule and
an item in one other schedule that were
not to take effect until January l. 1895.
The schedule was wool" and the single
item dolls etc."
Shortly after the tariff act passed
into operation the Secretary of the Treas
ury made a ruling, based upon an opin-
ion of the Acting Attorney General which
reversed the ruling of the Board of Cen
eral Appraisers at New York and which.
it was claimed by Senators, placed a
construction upon the terms of the act
entirely opposed to that which was in
tended by the legislative body. Para
graph 2S7 reads as follows:-
THE reduction of the rates of duty
herein provided for manufacturers Of
wool shall take effect January l, 1885.
Threughout the wool schedule, the hair
of the camel, goat or alpaca is classified
with wool. pure and simple, and when
the question came before the Board of
Appraisers they decided that goods made
new duty until January l. 1885. This rul-
ing the department reversed, and held
that only goods composed wholly of wool
should be exempt from the new duty until
January l. Consequently much of the
foreign manufactures entered were with
drawn for consumption under the reduced
rates Of duties.
NO DOUBT ON TUESDAY.
On Tuesday next there can be no doubt
however as to what the rates shall be
and any article coming under the wool
len schedule. however classified, will be
subject to the reduced duty, the delay
in thus putting into effect the reduction
being intended. as was brought out in
debate. for the protection of manufac-
turers and to enable them to manufac-
ture and put on the market the raw
material they had before foreign com
petition would compel them to sell at
less than cost. The idea was that by
the first of the year all would be on the
same basis, and the woollen manufac-
turers, owing to free raw material, would
be able to meet the prices of their for
eign competitors.
The reductions made in this schedule.
and which go into effect next Tuesday,
are of especial interest at this time. The
entire wool schedule shows great reduc-
tions, the average ad valorem rate un-
der the Mckinley act being 1882 per
cent; under the present law 1882 per
cent, making an average reduction of
$3.50 per cent The reductions upon the
various items of the woollen schedule
are as follows
Shoddy, II per cent.
Yarns, woollen and worsted, accord
ing to classification, 50 and SO per cent.
Cloths, three classes, so to rs percent.
Shawl, three classes. 55 to n per cent.
Knit fabrics. four classes. 81 to "a
per cent.
All other manufactures not specially
provided for. three classes. AZ to rs per
cent
Blankets, four classes, Sc to 72 per
cent.
Hats, four classes, 50 to Upper cent.
Flannels for underware, four classes.
4S to 70 per cent.
Dress goods, women's and childrens
italian cloth, ETC., five classes, 4S to 81
per cent
Other clothing. ready made, ETC.. aS
per cent.
Felts. not woven, 50 per cent.
Pushes and other pile fabrics, 50 per
cent.
Cloaks, dolmans, Jackets, talmas, ul-
sters and other outside garments for
women and children, etc, SO per cent.
Webbing, goring, braces, bindings,
fringes. gimps, crods and tassels, dress
trimmings, laces and embroideries, ETC.,
At per cent.
Carpets and carpeting:-
Aubusson, Administer, Moquette and
Chenille carpets, and carpets woven
whole for rooms, and Oriental, Berlin
and other similar rugs. "a per cent.
Saxony, Wilton and Tournsy velvet
carpets, 42 per cent.
Brussels, 81 per cent.
Velvet and tapestry velvet carpets,
printed on the warp or otherwise, A
per cent.
Tapestry Brussels, printed on the warp
or otherwise, 4S per cent.
Treble Ingram three-ply. and all
chain venetian carpets, 4s per cent.
Wool, Dutch and two-ply Ingram car
pets, 81 per cent.
Druggets and bookings printed, coll
ored or otherwise. Ga per cent.
Felt carpeting, 81 per cent.
Carpets, of wool, or in part of, not
specially provided for, 40 per cent.
Carpetings and carpets of cotton. 40
per cent.
DOLLS AN EXCEPTION.
The single item selected as an excep-
tion appears under the head Of sundries,
and Is as follows:--Dolls, doll heads, toy
marbles, of whatever material composed,
and all other toys not composed Of rub
Der, china, porcelain, parian, bisque,
earthsn or stoneware, and not specially
provided for in this act, 25 per cent. ad
valorenn.
This is reduction according to the
statement made by the Finance Commit
tees export of % per cent, but the Nc
Kinley act made the duty on the same
paragraph Is per cent This new duty
goes into effect January / next.
The only other provisions of the tariff
act that goes into effect on the same day
is lat providing for the collection of an
income tax, but as that Is retroactive to
the extent of making the tax collectabIe
on incomes of the preceding calendar
year, it plays no important part In the
exemptions of the present tariff act.
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