Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1897-03-14

Special to the Register.
Washington, March 13.-It is not yet
certain that the tariff bill can be re-
ported to the House on Monday. While
the bill was practically completed last
night as to its principal features, there
are a few details yet to be arranged.
It is possible, however, to give at TINS
time the result of the committee ac-
ton upon the schedules of greatest in
terest TO the upper Ohio Valley.
Iron ores are duti2,.F1 at 40 cents
ton; pig iron, 81; tin plates, IL cents
pound; steel rails, $7.S4 a ton, the same
as in the existing law; lead, 112 cents
a pound; nickel, cents a pound.
The rates upon the earthenware
schedule are as follows: Common yell
low and brown earthenware, plain or
embossed, common stoneware and cru
cibles not decorated in any manner, ~
per cent: china, porcelain, parian, BIS
que earthenware, stone and crockery-
ware. including clock cases, plaques, Or
naments, toys, toy tea sets, charms,
vases and statues, painted, tinted, STAIN
ed. enameled. printed gilded or other
wise. decorated or Ornamented in any
manner, 90 per cent; plain Whlte ana
without superadded ornamentatlon OF
any kind SO per cent; all other china,
porcelain, parian, bisque, earthen, stone
and crockeryware, and manufactures
thereof, name unknown, not specially
provided for, if painted, tinted, stained,
enameled, printed, gilded or otherwise
decorated of ornamented in any man
ner. GO per cent; if not ornamented
and decorated. 80 per cent; articles
composed of earthen or mineral sub
stances not specially provided for, II
not decorated in any manner, 30 per
cent; if decorated, 45 per cent.
The lumber schedule in its principal
features is as follows: Timber hewn
and sawed only, 81 per 1000 feet, board
measure; timber used for spars and IN
building wharves and timber squared
and sawed only, not specially provided
for in this act, l cent per cubic foot;
sawed boards, planks, deals and other
lumber of white wood, sycamore and
bass wood, 81 per LOCO feet, board
measure; sawed lumber not specially
provided for in this act, 81 per 100 feet,
board measure; but when lumber OF
any sort is planed or finished, in addi-
ton to the rates provided there shall
levied and paid for each side so
Dlaned or finished 80 cents Ter 1000
feet. board measure, and if planed on
one side and tonged and grooved, 81
per 600 feet, board measure, and If
planed on two sides and tonged and
grooved, S1.50 per 1000 feet, board
measure.
The glassware schedule is long. One
branch of it is as follows: Plain green
or colored, moulded or pressed, and
flint and lime glass bottles holding
more than one quart, and demijohns
and carboys, covered or uncovered, and
other plain or green colored, moulded
or pressed bottle glassware not spec
ially provided for in this act, ] cent;
plain green or colored moulded or
pressed flint or lime glass bottles and
vials. holding not more than one quart
and not less than IL pints, IL cents;
holding less than one-fourth of a pint,
so cents gross; provided, that none Of
the above articles shall pay less rate
Of duty than 40 per cent ad valorem.
The bill is entitled An act TO provide
revenue for the government and to pro-
tect the industries Of the United
States" and is expected to produce an
additional income Of between $60000,-
OC0 and $70,0O0,000 a year The prin
cipal increase is expected from the in
crease OF the sugar dues. From this
source alone an additional revenue of
about s27OOO00O is anticipated by
Chairman Dingley. II is estimated
that the restoration Of the wool duties
will provide an increase Of $14,0O0,OOO.
Restoration Of the Mckinley rates on
lumber and timber will add another
good sum. The fax, jute and hemp
and sundries schedule will add perhaps
$4,000, 900 or $4,000, 900. Each of the
other schedules, with few exceptions,
is expected to contribute to the increase
of revenue, the total increase being so
distributed as to bear lightly upon any
class Of consumers, while the benefits
to be derived from the protective fea-
lures Of the law are also distributed to
all lines of business and to all sections