The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1894-08-28

WAsaIEoroS, D. G.. August 27.-sec.
,..ary Carlisls has decided and will In.
,.ruct customs collectors that goods
placed 10 bonded warehouses under tho
Mckinley law and made FREQ Of duty
under tho now tariff act are entitled to
free entry and neod not DO exported
and reimported in order to get the
benoa.s Of the new act This is Of
especial interest TO tho wool trade, as a
largo amount Of wool ls stored now in
bonded warehouses. In this as all
other mooted questions the secretary
will follow the intent Of Congress aud
lot aggrieved parties appeal to the
courts if they care TO contest on tech
pical grounds. In accordance with this
determination he undoubtedly will
hold that diamonds arc dutiablo, not
outstanding the erroneous puuctu'
alton OF the free list.
Tho secretary to-day sent the follow
ing telegram 10 customs officials at all
ports Of tho United States:
"Yessels with cargo not discharged
nor entered for consumption may be
made vessel warehouses temporarily for
such goods as shall be entered to-day in
bond"
Tho secretary to-day sent tho follow.
ing telegram to collectors at New York,
san Francisco, Boston, Philadelphia,
baltimore, New Orleans, Chicago aud
Port Townsend, Wash:
"TREAsURY DEPARTMENT, !
OFFICE OF TIE SECRETARY,
WASHINGTON, D. c., August q, 1891. }
Collectors Of CuEoms:
You aro instructed as follows, con-
cerning the collection Of duties under
tho recent revenue legislation Of Con-
gross:
"First-All articles heretofore subject
10 duty but made FREQ by the provisions
Of the now act may DO Withdrawn from
warehouse on and after August %, 1894,
without tho payment OF duty.
"Second-Ali manufactured articles
specifically or generally provided for In
schedule K, which are composed wholly
OF materials other than wool or worsted,
or OF which some ono material other
than wool or worsted Is the component
part OF chief value, will be admitted on
and after August 20, 1924, at tho rnto oil
duty prescribed in tho new net; all
other manufactured articles specifically
or generally provided for In snid schod-
ulo will continue, until January l, 1895.
to pay therateB Of duty imposed thore.
on BY the act entitled, An Act to Re-
duce tho Revenue, Equalize Duties on
Imports, and for Other Purposes, up.
proved October /, 1900.
'Third-Cotfee and tea, and hides aud
skins, raw or uncured, whether dry,
sailed or picked, will DO admitted FREQ
Of duty on and after tho twenty-oighth
day Of August, 1894, and treasury circu-
lar s l2,5i0, dated March "a. 1902, lie.
sued in accordance With proclamatlons
Of tho President Of the United States
dated March Is, 1892, and directing tho
collection Of duties upon certain
articles. being the products Of, or ex.
ported from, Ycnezuela, Colombia, and
Hayti, is hereby revoked.
ISigned) J. G. CARLISLE,
Secretary"
Although, as stated, 1t Is Secretary
Carlisle's purpose that tho intent Of
changes shall be followed, It is learned
that as to all questions Of errors In pune
tuation Secretary Carlisle will make no
decisions or give no instructions to
collectors until after the actual cases
hayc come before him on appeal from
tho decisions Of tho board Of general ap'
praisers as TO whether diamonds, seeds
aud certain other articles are, by the
terms Of the bill, on tho dutiablo or tho
iree list, collectors will, Of course, with
out any instructions, hold them TO DO
dutiahie in order 10 protect themselves,
and importers must 60 to law II they
contest these rulings.