The herald., 1897-03-16

chain Venetian carpets, ten cents yard
and forty per cent ad valorem.
Wool and two-ply ingram carpets.
fourteen cents yard and forty per cent
ad valorem.
Carpets and carpeting wool, flax or
cotton, or composed in part Of either.
not specially provided for, fifty per cent
ad valorem
Mats, rugs, screens, covers, hassoc]ss,
bed sides, art squares and other por-
tions of carpets or carpetinG made
wholly or in part Of wool and not spe-
cially provided for, shall pay the rates
on carpetings of like character; the
word ''wcol' is described to include
wool or hair of the sheep. camel. goat,
alpaca or other animal prepared by the
wooden, worsted, felt or any other pro-
cess of manufacture.
Schedule E-Sugar, molasses and man
ufactures thereof, one Of the most i'm
portant, is also one of the shortest in the
act.
Sugars, not above No. 16 and concen-
dutiable at 1 cent per pound and three
hundredths of cent additional for each
degree above No. 16 and on all refined
sugars 1875 cents per pound; molasses
above 16 degrees, cents per gallon. On
sugars from bounty paying countries
an additional duty equal to the full
amount of the bounty is levied. Sugars,
tank bottoms, etc., the product Of any
country which pays directly or Indirect
\ Whafh-
er imported directly and in condition
as exported therefrom or otherwise shall
pay in addition to the foregoing rates
duty equal to such bounty, or so much
thereof as may be in excess Of any tax
collected by such country upon such
article or upon the beet or cane from
which it is produced.
1t is provided, however, that this does
not affect the existing Hawaiian recip-
rocity treaty. Other duties in this sched-
ule are: Maple sugar and syrup, cents
per pound; glucose or grape sugar III
cents per pound, sugar cane In its nat
ural state or manufactured, 20 per cent
ad valorem.
Saccharine, 81 per pound and Is per
cent ad valorem. Sugar candies, all con-
fectionery and all other articles made
wholly or in part of sugar. valued at Is
cents per pound or less, cents per
pound, 20 per cent ad valorem. Valued
at more than Is and not more than 30
cents per pound, IL cents and 20 per cent
ad valorem; above 35 cents, so per cent
ad valorem.
The weight of wrappers shall be in
cIuded In the dutiable weight OF the
merchandise.
The wood schedule fixes the duty on
timbers for spars and wharves at one
cent per cubic foot, sawed boards and
other lumber of whitewood. sycamore
ana basswood.$ 81 per 1000 feet. sawed lum-
ber not specifically provided for, per
1000 feet planed lumber 30 per cent ad
yalorem per 1000 feet for every side
planed; tongued and grooved pfaned one
side 81 additional; both sides $3.50. No
deduction is made in measurement for
planning, etc. 1t is provided that In case
a foreign country imposes an export tax
on lumber then an ad valorem duty Of
25 per cent shall be added to the regular
duties from this country.
Reciprocity-The reciprocity Of the
bill authorizes the president to make
treaties with foreign countries by which
he will lower the duties on certain goods
In return for reciprocal or equivalent
concessions to productions or manufac-
lures of the Unites' States.
THE FREE LIST.
The free list differs from the existing
law in the restoring to their proper
schedules in tn dutiable list of the fol-
lowing articles: Angola, or crude tar
tar; art, educational, stops Of glass or
metal valued at less than six cents gross,
cotton bagging and gunny cloth, bur-
laps, bologna sausage, bolting cloths,
blue vitriol. chicory root. bones, farina.
fashion plates engraved, feathers, straw
hat braids, broom corn, fish for bait.
floor mattings, large glass plates OF
discs for optical purposes and broken
glass, gunny bags, jute. sorted bones
and whetstones, lemon and lime juice.
magnets, nux vomica, oakum, oil cake.
ochre, orange and lemon peel, orchids,
palms and forcing plants. peltries, phil
osophical and scientific apparatus and
plaster casts. polishing stones, profess
sional books. cider, copper in ihgots and
plates not. otherwise provided for, cop
peras, milk, mineral waters, molasses,
crude, opium raw, paintings and sketch
es not otherwise provided for. parafiin,
nursery stock. plows and harrow teeth,
cotton gins. reapers, etc, ha.ter's plush,
salt, sauer kraut, sausage skins, shells,
shrimps and she'll fish, foreign postage
stamps, tallow and wool grease. terra
alba, tinsel wire. tripoli. waters, nom
medicated and unedible. rail ties, poles.
laths, sawed boards and some other de-
scriptions ,of partially manufactured
wood.
DINGLEY'S ESTIMATES.
Chairman Dingley of the ways and
means committee, in response to re.
quest that he furnish synopsis Of the
new tariff bill presented by him today
made the following statement:
The bill has two purposes. namely to
raise additional revenue and to encour-
age the industries OF the United States.
On the basis OF the importations for
the last fiscal year the bill would In
crease the revenue about $112, 600, 900. d.
vided among the several schedules
roughly as follows:
A-Chemicals, $S,500.000.
B-Crockery and glassware, $4,000. 900.
C-Metals, $4. 900. .000.
D-Wood, $l,750,00O.