The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1897-05-07
TARIFF BILL,
As Amended by the Senate Committee.
Reported in the Senate.
Additions Made to the House Free List
of the Tariff Bill by the Senate Com
mittee-Other Interesting Infor-
nation From the Capital.

nation From the Capital.
WASHINGTON, May 5-Senator Al
irich presented the tariff bill to the
senate Tuesday and gave notice that
t would be called up on Tuesday, the
18th inst.
The time for the bill to take effect
is made July 1, 1897, instead of May 1.
Many and important changes were
uade by the senate tariff sub commit.
Zee in the wool and wooden schedule as
passed by the house. First-class woods
we're reduced from II cents per pound,
as provided in the house bill, to 6
per cents pound, and second-class woods
from ~ to cents, whereas the duties
On woods of the third-class were rails.
I'd. The dividing line in this latter
class was placed at 10 cents value,
woods under that value being made
1utiable at the rate Ct cents per
pound instead of so per cent. adval-
prem, as the house bill.
| Women and children's dress goods,
coat Innings, etc, valued at Is cents
per yard and less. are rated at So
cents per pard instead of cents as in
the house bill, while articles of this
class valued at more than Is cents are
reduced from cents to 612 cents pei
yard and so per cent. ad valor-
EN- instead of 20 per cent. as the
house bill added on all of them. The
above applies to goods the warp of
which consists wholly of cotton or
other vegeta BILE material. On women's
and children's dress goods ETC., which
are composed wholly or in part OF
wool and not specially provided for,
the duty is reduced from IL to 9 cents
per yard, with an ad valorem of so per
cent added. The rate on weddings,
goreings, suspenders, ETC., is reduced
from go to 40 cents per pound, though
the ad valorem addition of 60 per cent
| is not changed.
The following additions are made tc
the house free lists by the senate COM
mittee:
Benzic, carbo,ic, oxalic. salicylic and
Valerianic acids, all fast black coal
tar dyes, argots or cream tartars and
lees crystals, crudex beauxite, manila
Irvine measuring 900 feet to the pound,
boiling cloths composed of silk i'm
ported expressly for milling purposes,
books, maps, music, engravlngs,
photographs, etchings and charts,
printed more than 20 years be-
fore the date of Importation; all
photographic charts and scientific
BOOKS devoted to original scientific
research and publications issued for
their subscribers by scientific and lit
erary associations, or publications o.
individuals for gratituous private cir
culation and public documents issued
by foreign governments; books
printed exclusively in foreign
languages or for the blind,
books, maps, ETC., especially imported,
OF more than two copies in any one
invoice. for the use of any society or
institution established solely for re-
ligious, philosophical, educational,
scientific or literary purposes or for
The encouragement of the fine arts or
for the use of college, school or public
| library and not for sale; brass or Dutch
metal; bromine. curde liquid camphor,
charcoal, underground chicory root,
copper not manufactured and not spe.
cially provided for, ferina, fashion
plates; fish, except salmon, caught in
the great lakes, or other fresh waters,
/ by or for citizens Of the United States,
/ berries, fruit in brine, tropical fruit
! plants for propagation, white glass
! enamel for watch d;als, homes and
! whetstones, lemon, lime and orange
juices; loadstones, orange and lemon
peels not preserved, paintings, origi-
NAL drawings and sketches, engrav-
ings and statuary, not otherwise not
provided for; peraffine, philosophical
and scientific apparatus for schools,
libraries and societies; professional
books, implements and instruments
and tools of trade or occupation in the
actual possession at the time of per-
sons arriving in the United States.
regalia and gems, statues, casts Of
marble, bronze alabaster, where spec.
ally imported in good faith for the
Sc of society, school or library; salop,
sauerkraut, beet, canary, cauliflo wer,
,oriander, mangel-wurzer, raddish and
spinach seeds and bulbs, not edible;
skins of all kinds, raw, not specifcal-
provided for; tapioco; poplar and
other pulp woods; heating bolts, stave
bolts, railroad ties.
Articles stricken from the free list
include casks, barrels bags, ETC., ex.
ported FROM and reimported into this
country. There is new paragraph in
regard to coal tar which continues in
The free list and which reads as fol.
lows:
Coal tar, crude pitch of coal tar
and products of coal tar, known as
creosote oil, benzol, naphthaline, KY.
lol, phenol and cresol."
Fish roe preserved for food purposes
is excluded from the list, as are hides,
Angora goat skins, asses skins; also,
mineral salts for mineral waters
The paragraph in the free list relat.
ing to oils is rewritten and somewhat
enlarged. The paragraph in regard
to wearing apparel is also new. II
strikes out the house provision limiting
the exemption to citizens of the United
States to 500 in value and also the
house provision to the effect that