The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-03-16
ment of the legal duties shall be placed

w nile the duty Oh clothing WOOL is
larger in proportion to the foreign val
lie than on manufactured articles, yet
it is thought desirable for the public
interest and for our agriculture that
we should produce this prime neces-
sity for ourselves. The duty on car
pet wool, as we'll as upon many other
articles, is imposed mainly for reve-
nue.. The irritation caused by the use
of a few woods heretofore classed as
carpet woods being used for clothing
purposes, has been remedied by trans
ferring such woods to the clothing
wool classes, but the duty on clothing
woods has been restored to the rate
of the act of $780,
In framing this new tariff, the aim
has been to make the duties specific or
at least partly specific, so far as pos
sible to protect the revenue, and also
to protect our own industries. This
has been done in response to the wishes
of the better class of importers as we'll
as of the administrators of the law and
of our own purchasers. The very gem
eral substitution of specific duties, even
where they are only the equivalent of
existing advalorems, will, of itself, in
crease the revenue and strengthen the
protection offered to our industries.
The reciprocity provisions of an act
of 1890 have not only been fully re-
stored. but this policy has been ex-
tended by adding to sugar, tea, coffee
and hides as articles on which to make
reciprocal agreements, such articles as
champagnes, brandy, wines, artificial
and natural mineral waters, argols and
silk laceS. In adding these articles
the reciprocity provision is strength
ened greatly by providing for reduc-
ton of duties on them TO countries Civ
ing us similar concessions.
The bill as a whole, has the unani-
nous support of the Republican mem
bers of the ways and means committee.
and will, it is hoped, receive the sup
port not only of Republicans but of
others who believe that revenue should
be at least equal to expenditures. with
a small surplus added, and who are
patriotic enough to entertain the con-
viction that in adjusting duties TO Sc
cure such revenue it is wise policy to
encourage home production and manu-
features and thus provide employment
at good wages for the laborers of our
people upon whose purchasing power
depends the market for our produc-
lions.
THE FREE LIST.
Among the articles on the free list
of the tariff are the following:
Any animal imported specially for
breeding purposes shall be admitted
free; provided, that no such animal
shall he admitted free unless of a
recognized breed and duly registered
in the book OF record established for
that breed.
Animals brought into the United
States temporarily for period not ex-
ceeding six months for the purpose of
exhibition or competition for prizes Of
fered by any agricultural or racing as
ISOLATION; but bond shall be given in
accordance with the regulations pre-
scribed by the secretary of the treas
ury; also teams of animals. including
their harness and tackle and the wag-
Ons or other vehicles actually owned
by persons emigrating from foreign
countries TO the United States with
their families, and in actual use for the
purpose of such emigrationn under
such regulations as the secretary of the
treasury NAV prescribe. and wild ami
mails intended for exhibition in zoolog-
ical collections for scientific and edu-
cational purposes ard not for sale or
profit.
Articles in a crude state used in dye
ing or tanning not specially provided
for.
Asbestos, il its natural state, as
taken from the earth, not sorted, puri
fed or advanced in anY manner.
Asphaltum and albunen, crude, not
dried or otherwise advanced in any
manner.
Binding Irvine, except such as is i'm
ported from a country which lays an
import duty on like articles imported
from the United States, which shall be
subject to duty of one-half Of 1 cent
per pound.
Bullion, gold or silver.
CamDhor. crude.
Castor oil caStoreum.
Coal, anthracite and coal stores of
American vessels.
Coal tar, crude and pitch Of coal tar
and dead or creosote oil.
Cocoa, or cocoa crude.
Coffee.
Coins, gold, silver and copper.
Cotton and cotton waste.
Diamonds and other precious stones,
rough and uncut.
Drugs.
Fruits
Furs, undressed.
Fur skins.
Grasses and fibres, iute, butts. ma
nilla. sisal grass, sum and all other
textile grasses or fbrous vegetable
substances, not dressed, not specially
provided for.
Hides, raw or uncured, whether dry,
sailed or picked. Angora goat skins.
raw, without the wool unmanufac-
tured, and skins. except sheep skins
with the wool.
Hoofs, manufactured.
Horns and parts OF. not cut, sawed
or otherwise manufactured, horn strips
and TIPS.
Ice.
India rubber, crude and milk of, and
old scrap or refuse India rubber.
Ivory tusks sawed vertically, across
the grain, with cuts not less than four
inches apart. and not otherwise cut or
manufactured or advanced in value
from the natural state and vegetable
ivory
Lithographic stones. not engraved.
Meershaum, crude or unmanufac-
tured.
Mineral. crude, or not advanced in
value or condition by refining or grind
ing. or by other process of manufac-
ture not specially provided for.
Needles, hand sewing and darning.
Newspapers and periodicals, the lat
ter meaning unbound or paper-covered
containing current litera-
ture and issued at periods.
Nuts. Brazil nuts, cream nuts, palm
nuts and palm nut kernels; cocoanutS
in the shell and broken cocoanut meat
or copra, not shredded, dessicated or
prepared in any manner.
Ores, of gold, silver, copper or nickel
and nickel matte; sweepings of gold
and silver.
Paper stock, crude of every descrip-
ton. including all grasses, fibreS, rags