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' • iTBE NEW TARIFF BILL
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'Text of the Measure as Planned
v by the Committee.
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THE NEW RATES AND THE OLD.
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■ubstanco of the Free List Section—Coal,
Iron Orc, Wool and Lumber to Pay No
' More Duty—View, of Congressmen WH
son and Bryan.
The following is a full synopsis of the tariff
bill reported by tho ways and means commit
tee with a comparison with the present tariff.
The bill is to go into effect on March 1,11-04. it
It passes congress:
THE FREIS LIST.
The free list schedule includes the following:
i Acids.
Apples.
Arsenic.
Bacon and hams, beef, mutton and pork and
meats of all kinds, prepared or preserved, not
specially provided for In this act.
Binding twine.
. Birds, stuffed.
Blue vitriol or sulphate of copper.
Bone char, suitable for use in decolorizing
sugars.
► Borax, crude, or borate of soda or borate of
lime.
Camphor of all kinds.
IL Clays or earths, unwroughtor unmanufac
tured.
Coal tar, crude, and all preparations and
products of coal tar.
Copper imported in the form of ores.
Copper in plates, bars, ingots or pigs and
ether forms not manufactured.
Cotton ties of Iron or steel cut to lengths,
punched or not punched, with or without
buckles, for baling cotton.
Cork wood cut into squares or cubes.
Coal, bituminous and shale, and coal, slack
■er culm; coke.
Diamonds, dust or bort, and jewels to be
•Bed in the manufacture of watches or clocks.
Eggs.
I Fresh fish.
i Furs, undressed.
! Ice.
• India rubber, crude.
lodine, resublimed.
I Iron ore, including manggnifarous iron ore.
I Lard, lemon juice, lime juice.
Milk, fresh.
1 Nickel, nickel oxide, alloy.
i Cottonseed oil.
Paintings in oil or water colors and statuary.
Vines of all kinds, commonly known as nurs
•ry stock.
Plows, tooth and disk harrows, harvesters,
reapers, drills, mowers, horse rakes, cultiva
tors, thrashing machines and cotton gins.
Plush, black, known commercially as hat
ters' plush, composed of silk or of silk and cot
” ton, and used exclusively for making men’s
hats.
Quicksilver.
Salt in bulk and salt in bags, sacks or barrels.
Silk, partially manufactured from cocoons
or from waste silk and not further advanced
than carded or combed silk.
Soap, all otherwise not especially provided
for.
Sulphate of soda or salt cake or niter cake.
Sulphuric acid.
Tallnw and—w-jul grease, including utai
known commercially as degras or brown wool
grease.
Freestone, granite, sandstone, limestone.
All wearing apparel and other personal ef
fects shall be admitted free of duty without
regard to their value upon their identity being
established under such rules and regulatious
as the secretary of the treasury may prescribe.
Timber, hewn and sawed, and timber used
for spars and in building wharves.
Timber, square or sided; sawed boards,
plank, deals and other lumber.
Chair cane or reeds, wrought or manufac
tured from rattans or reeds.
Whalebone, unmanufactured.
Works of art, the production of American
artists residing temporarily abroad, or other
works of art, including pictorial paintings on
glass, imported expressly for presentation to a
national institution or to auy state or munici
pal corporation or incorporated religious soci
ety, college or other public institution.
Woods—Namely, cedar, lignum vitas, lance
wood, ebony, box, grenadilla, mahogany, rose
wood, satinwood and all forms of cabinet
woods.
AU wool of the sheep, hairof the camel, goat,
alpaca and other like animals, and all wool
- and hair on the skin, noils, yarn waste, card
waste, burr waste, rags and flocks, including
*ll waste or rags composed wholly or in part
—es wool.
Raw sugar.’
SCHEDULE A—CHEMICALS.
Acids—Acetic or pyroligneous acid, 20 per
eent (present duty, 146 cents per pound).
Alcoholic perfumery, $2 per gallon and 25 per
cent (present duty, *2 per gallon and 50 per
•ent).
Alumina, and alum cake, patent alum, sul
phate of alumina and aluminous cake and
glum in crystals or ground, 20 per cent (present
duty, 6-10 cent per pound).
Blacking of all kinds, 20 per cent (present
*«T'y, 25 per cent).
Refined borax, 20 per cent (present duty, 4
Jnts per pound).
*■ Chloroform, 25 cents per pound (present duty,
-■6 cents per pound).
Glycerin, crude, 1 cent per pound; refined,
• cents per pound (present duty, crude, 196
dents per pound; refined, 446 cents per pound).
Castor oil, 35 cents per gallon (present duty,
40 cento per gallon).
Cod liver oil, 20 per cent ad valorem (present
duty. 15 cents per gallon).
Flaxseed or linseed and poppy seed oil, 15
seats per gallon of 746 pounds weight (present
duty, 32 cents per gallon).
Olive oil, 35 cents per gallon (present duty, 85
seats, per gallon).
Opium, aqueous extract of and tincture of, 25
per cent (present duty, 40 per cent).
Opium containing less than 0 per cent of
morphiaAhd opium prepared for smoking, *6
per pound (presontduty, *l2 per pound).
Varnishes. 25 per cent, and on spirit var
nishes for the alcohol contained therein, *1.32
per gallon additional (present, *1.32 per gallon
and 35 per cent).
Cosmetics, dentifrices, etc., 40 per cent (pres
ent duty, 50 per cent).
(Astlle soap, 20 per cent ad valorem; all de
scriptions of toilet soap, 35 per cent ad valorem
(present duty, castile soap. 15 cents per pound:
ether soap, 20 per cent).
SCHEDULE B—CROCKERY.
Brick, not glazed, 20 per cent; glazed or dec
orated, 30 per cent. Tiles, plain and encaustic,
not glazed, 25 per cent ad valorem; glazed or
decorated, 40 per cent (present duty, not glazed,
*1.25 per ton; decorated, 45 per cent: tiles, etc.,
25 per cent, plain or decorated).
Earthenware and China—Common brown
earthenware, not ornamented, 20 ;>ercent (pres
ent duty, !.’■> per cent).
While granite common ware, 30 per cent;
china, porcelain, parinn ami bisque ware, not
decorated, 40 per cent; ditto, decorated, 45 per
cent (present duty, while granite,ss percent
china, etc,, 61 per veiil),
~li other earthen, stone and crockery ware,
35 per cent ad valorem; decorated, 40 per cent
(p.v ent duty, plain ware. 55 per coot: deco
rated, (JO per cent t.
Glass an<l Gusswure Plain green mid col
ei nl gla-sw ,-e, ;’<) p.-." cent; cat, engraved,
fainted and colored glass, not looking glass
plates, :>o per ceu'; e’lt glass bottles, decanters
lia p r cent nd valorem (present duty, plain,
in.m 1 cent per ixin.nl to Ij.) cents per pound: I
cut, etc.. 00 per cent ad valorem!,
L’nyoli’shed crown and w indow glass, not ex- !
■■ Cl.log hi I,;, 21 Indies square, 1 cent, per pound;
M >.ot ex ceding 21 by 30 incites square, 146 cents
p. rpo tnd; not exceeding 24 by 30inches square,
!!E r ents per pound; all above Hist 146 cent*
, per pound (present duty, 16 by 24, I’6 cents
get pound; 24 by 30j cents per pound; 24 by
86, cents per pound; all above, 346 cento per I
pound).
Cylinder and crown glass, not exceeding 18
by 24 Inches square, 246 cents per square foot;
not exceeding 24 by 80 inches square, 4 cents
per square foot; not exceeding 24 by 60 inches
square, 15 cents per square foot; above that,
20 cents per square foot (present duty, 16 by
24, 4 cents per square foot; 24 by 30, 6 cents per
square foot: 24 by 00, 20 cents per square foot;
above that, 40 cents per square fbot).
Cast polished plate glass, unsilvered, not ex
ceeding 10 by 24 inches square, 5 cents per
square foot; not exceeding 24 by 30 inches
square, 8 cents per square foot; not exceeding
24 by GO inches square, 18 cents per square foot;
all above that, 30 cents per square foot (pres
ent duty, 16 by 24. 5 cents per square foot; 24 by
80,8 cents per square foot; 24 by 60,25 cents pel
square foot; all above that, 50 cents per square
foot).
Cast polished plate glass, silvered, and look
ing glass plates, not exceeding 16 by 24 inches
square, 6 cents per square foot; not exceeding
24 by 30 inches square, 10 cents per square foot;
not exceeding 24 by 60 inches square, 20 cents
per square foot; all above that, 35 cents per
square foot. But no looking glass plates or
plate glass, silvered when framed, shall pay a
less rate of duty than that imposed upon sim
ilar glass of like description not framed, but
shall pay In addition thereto upon such frames
the rate of duty applicable thereto when im
ported separate (present duty, 16 by 24, 6
cents per square foot; 24 by 30, 10 cents per
square foot; 24 by 60, 35 cents per square foot;
all above that, 60 cents per square foot).
Spectacle glasses, eyeglasses, goggles, opera
glasses and other optical instruments, and
frames for them, 35 per cent (present duty, 60
per cent ad valorem).
Cast polished plate gloss, silvered or unsil
vered, and cylinder, crown or common window
glass, when ground, obscured, frosted, sanded,
enameled, beveled, etched, embossed, en
graved, stained, colored or otherwise orna
mented or decorated, shall be subject to a duty
of 10 per cent in addition to the rates other
wise chargeable thereon. (This provision ex
ists under the present bill.)
Marble of all kinds in rough, 40 cents per
cubic foot (present duty, 65 cents per cubic
foot).
Freestone, granite and other building stone,
except marble, not specially provided, dressed,
20 per cent (present duty, 11 cents per cubic
foot).
Roofing slates, 10 per cent (present duty, 25
per cent ad valorem).
SCHEDULE C—METALS.
The metal schedules of the bill are almost
wholly by ad valorem duties, while the present
law levies specific duties. The following are
the changes:
Iron in pigs, iron kentledge, spiegel eisen,
ferro manganese, ferro silicon, wrought and
cast scrap iron and cast steel, 2246 per cent ad
valorem (present law, 3-10 cent per pound); t ’1
iron in slabs, blooms, loops or other forms
more advanced than pig iron, and less finished
than iron in bars. 25 per cent ad valorem (pres
entlaw, 8-10 cent per pound); bar iron, rolled or
hammered iron, in colls or rods, and bars or
shapes of rolled iron, 30 per cent ad valorem
(present law, 8-10 cent per pound); beams, gird
ers, joists, angles, channels, car truck channels,
columns ana posts, or parts or sections of
columns and posts, deck and bulb beams and
bnilding forms, together with all other struc
tural shapes of iron or steel, whether plain or
punched, or filed for use, 35 per cent ad valorem
(present law,o-10cent per pound); boiler or other
plate iron or steel, except saw plates herein
after provided for, not thinner than No. 10
wire gauge, sheared or unsheared, and skelp
iron or steel sheared or rolled in grooves, SOper
cent ad valorem (present law, 5-10 cent per
pound); forgings of Iron or steel, or forged iron
“w steel combined, of whatever shape, or in
whatever stage of manufacture, not especially
provided for in this act,3o per cent ad valorem
(present law, 2 3-10 cents per pound); hoop, band
or scroll Iron or steel, except as otherwise pro
vided for in this act, 30 per cent ad valorem
(present law, 1 cent per pound); railway bars,
made of iron or steel, and railway bars made in
part of steel, common or black, including all
iron or steel commercially known as common
or black tagger’s iron or steel, and skelp Iron
or steel, 35 per cent ad valorem (present law, 1
cent per pound).
Tin Plates.
All iron or steel sheets or plates, and all
hoop, band or scroll iron, excepting what are
known commercially as tin plates, terne plates
and tagger’s tin and hereinafter provided for,
when galvanized or coated with zinc or spelter
or other metals, or any alloy of those metals,
35 per cent ad valorem (present law, three
fourths of 1 cent per pound). Sheet iron or
sheet steel, polished, planished or glanced, by
whatever name designated, 35 per cent ad va
lorem (present law, 2J6 cents per pound). Sheets
or plates of iron or steel, or tagger’s iron or
steel, coated with tin or lead or with a mixture
of these metals, or either of them, as a compo
nent part, by the dipping or any other process
and commercially known as tin plates, terne
plates and tagger’s tin, 40 per cent ad valorem
(present law, 2 2-10 cents per pound). In the
McKinley law these sections vary according to
the class of goods, but the figures given are the
important tin plate duties.
Steel ingots, cogged ingots, blooms and slabs,
by whatever process made; die blocks or
blanks, billets and bars and tapered or beveled
bars, steamer crank and other shafts, shafting,
wrist or crank pins, connecting rods and pis
ton rods, pressed, sheared or stamped shapes,
saw plates, wholly or partially manufactured;
hammer molds or swaged steel, gun barrel
molds not in bars, alloys used as substitutes
for steel tools, all descriptions and shapes of
dry sand, loam or iron molded steel castings,
sheets and plates not specially provided for in
this act and steel in all forms and shapes
not especially provided for In this act, 25
per cent ad valorem (present law, 4-10 cent
to 7cents per pound, according to value). Wire
rods, rivet, screw, fence and other iron or steel
wire rods and nail rods, whether round, flat,
oval, square or In any other shape. In coils or
otherwise, 80 per cent ad valorem (present
law, 6-10 cent per pound). Iron or steel wire
and wire or strip steel, commonly known as
crinoline wire; corset wire and hat wire, flat
steel wire or sheet steel, in strips, uncovered or
covered with cotton, silk or other material; iron
or steel wire cloths and iron or steel wire net
tings made In meshes of any form, ironor steel
wire coated with zinc or tin or any other metal,
wire rope and wire strand, 30 per cent ad va
lorem (present law, 146 to Scents per ixrund, ac
cording to value).
Iron or Steel Manufactures.
Anchors, or parts thereof, of iron or steel,
mill Irons and mill cranks of wrought iron anc
wrought iron for ships and forgings of iron o>
steel, or of combined iron and steel, for vessels,
steam engines and locomotives, or uarts there
of, 25 per cent ad valorem (presen, law, 1 8-l(
cents per pound). Axles, or parts thereof, axle
bars, axle blanks, or forgings for axles, wheth
er of iron or steel, without reference to the
stage or state of manufacture, 25 per cent
ad valorem (present law, 2 cents per pound).
Anvils of iron or steel, or of Iron and
steel combined, by whatever process made,
or in whatever stage of manufacture. 26
per cent ad valorem (present law, 24s
cents per pound). Blacksmiths' hammers and
sledges, track tools, Kpdges and crowbars,
whether of Iron or steel, 35 percent ad valorem,
(present law, 244 cents per pound). Boiler or
other tubes, pipes, flues or stays of wrought
Iron or steel, 25 per cent ad valorem (present
law, 244 cents per pound). Bolts with or with
out threads or nuts, or bolt blanks and finished
hinges or hinge blanks, whether of iron or
steel, 25 per cent ad valorem (present law, 244
cents per pound).
Curd clothing, 30 per cent ad valorem (pres
ent law, 25 and 50 cents per square foot). Cast
iron pipe of every description, 25 per cent ad
Valorem (present law, 9-10 cent per pound).
Cast iron vessels, plates, stove plates and irons,
sad irons, tailors' irons, h itters’irons and cast
ings of iron not specially provided for in this
act, 25 per cent ad valorem (present law, 1 2-10
cents per pound). Castings of malleable iron
not specially provided for In thia act, 25 yer
cent ad valorem (present law. 196 cents per
pound). Cast hollow ware, coated, glazed or
tinned, 30 yer cent :vl valorem (present law, 3
cents per pound). Cnains of .-ill kinds, made cf
ironor sto’l, 30 per, cent ad valorem (present
law, 1 6-10 to 244 cents per pound).
Cutlery.
Penknives or pocketknives of all kinds, or
parts thereof, and erasers, or parts thereof,
THE WEtsKLY
I wholly or partly manufactured, razors or razoi
blades, finished or unfinished, valued at not
more than 60 cents per dozen, 35 per cent ad
I valorem (present law, 12 to 50 cents a dozen).
Valued above that, 45 per cent ad valorem
(present law, $1 to *2 per dozen). Table knives, '
forks, steels and all hunting, kitchen, bread,
butter, vegetable, fruit, cheese, plumbers',
painters’, palette and artists’ knives; also all
carving, cooks’ and butchers’ knives, forks and
steels, all sizes of all the above, finished or un
finished, 35 per cent ad valorem (present law,
*1 to $5 per dozen). Files, file blanks, rasps
and floats, of all cuts and kinds, 35 per cent
ad valorem (present law. 35 cents to $2 per
dozen).
Muskets, muzzle loading shotguns and sport
ing rifles and parts thereof, 25 per cent ad va
lorem (no change). Sporting breechloading
shotguns and pistols and parts thereof, 35 per I
cent ad valorem (present law, $1 to *6 and 35 I
per cent ad valorem). Sheets, plates, wares or
articles of iron, steel or other metal, enameled
or glazed with vitreous glasses, 35 per cent ad I
valorem (present law 45 and 50 per cent ad va
lorem).
Iron Nails, Machines, Etc.
Cut nails and cut spikes of iron or steel, 25
percent ad valorem (present law, 1 cent per
pound). Horseshoe nails, hob nails and all
other wrought iron or steel nails not specially
provided for in this act, 25 per cent ad valorem
(present law, 4 cents per pound). Wire nails,
mado of wrought iron or steel, 25 per cent ad
valorem (present law, 2 to 4 cents per pound).
Spikes, nuts and washers and horse, mule or
ox shoes of wrought iron or steel, 25 per cent
ad valorem (present law, 1 8-10 cents per
pound). Cut tacks, brads or sprigs of all
i kinds, 25 per cent ad valorem (present law, 2J4
to 296 cents per pound). Needles for knitting
or sewing machines, crochet needles and tape
needles and bodkins of metal, 25 per cent ad
valorem (present law, 35 per cent ad valorem).
Steel plates (engraved), stereotype plates, elec
trotype plates and plates of other materials,
engraved or lithographed, for printing, 25 per
cent ad valorem (no change). I
Wheels, or parts thereof, made of iron or
I steel, and steel tired wheels for railway pur
, poses, whether wholly or partly finished, and
iron or steel locomotive, car or other railway I
tires or parts thereof, whether wholly or part- ■
ly manufactured, and ingots, cogged ingots,
blooms or blanks for the same, without regard
to the degree of manufacture, 35 per cent ad
valorem (present law, 196 to 244 cents per
, pound). |
Chronometers, box or ship’s, 10 per cent
(no change). |
Watches and clocks and parts thereof, 25 per
cent (no change).
SCHEDULE D—WOOD.
' House or cabinet furniture of wood, 25 per
cent (present duty, 35 per cent ad valorem). I
i Casks, barrel*, etc., 20 per cent (present duty,
1 30 per cent ad valorem).
J SCHEDULE E—SUGAR.
I That the bounties authorized to be paid to
. producers of sugar by section 231 of the act
■ entitled “An act to reduce revenue, equalize
• duties and for other purposes," approved Oct.
i 1, 1890, shall be reduced one-eighth part of
■ : their respective amounts as prescribed in said
, act each year, beginning with July 1,1895, and
extending to July 1,1902, inclusive, and shall
1 thereafter cease and determine.
All sugars above No. 16 Dutch standard in
color shall pay a duty of 5-20 cent per pound
i (present duty, 5-10 cento per pound). I
Sugar candy and all confectionery, sugars
after being refined, 80 per cent (present duty,
) 5 cents per pound). |
> Glucose or grape sugar. 15 per cent (present
’ duty, *4 cent per pound).
SCHEDULE F—TOBACCO.
On all leaf tobacco, on such part thereof as
i is commercially known as wrapper tobacco
1 1 and suitable for cigar wrappers, if unstemmed,
. | *1 per pound; if stemmed. *1.25 per pound
( I (present duty, unstemmed, *2 per pound;
, I stemmed, §2.75 per pound).
All other leaf tobacco, if unstemmed, 35 cents
[ per pound; if stemmed, 50 cento per pound
L (present duty, the same).
, Tobacco, manufactured or unmanufactured,
of all description, not specially enumerated, 40
cents per pound (present duty, the same).
Snuff, of all description, 40 cents per pound
(present duty, 50 cents per pound). |
‘ Cigars, cheroots and cigarettes of all kinds,
. Including wrappers, $3 per pound and 25 per
cent (present duty, *4.50 per pound and 25
: per cent ad valorem).
SCHEDULE G—AGRICULTURE.
All live animals not specially provided for,
20 per cent (present duty, 20. per cent ad va
lorem).
Buckwheat, corn or maize, cornmeal, oats,
oatmeal, rye, rye flour, wheat and wheat flour,
20 per cent, but each of the above products
shall be admitted free of duty from any coun
try which imposes no import duty on the like
product when exported from the United States
(present duty. 15 cents per bushel).
Rice cleaned, 144 cents per pound (present
duty, 2 cents per pound). Uncleaned rice or rice
free of the outer hull and still having the in- |
ner cuticle on, 1 cent per pound (present duty, 1
144 cents per pound). Rice flour and rice meal
and rice broken, which will pass through a
sieve known commercially as No. 12 wire sieve, I
44 cent per pound (present duty, 46 cent per i
pound). Paddy, or rice having the outer hull '
on, 54 cent per pound (present duty, 96 cent per
pound).
Butter and substitutes therefor, 4 cents per
pound (present duty, 6 cents per pound).
Cheese, 25 per cent (present duty, 15 cents per
pound).
Hay, *2 per ton (present duty, *4 per ton).
Hops, 8 cents per pound (present duty, 15
cents per pound).
Potatoes, 10 cents per bushel of 60 pounds
(present duty, 25 cents per bushel).
Fish in cans or packages, except anchovies
and sardines, and fish packed in any other
manner, not specially enumerated, 25 per cent
(present duty, 80 per cent).
There shall be allowed on the Imported tin
plate need in the manufacture of cans, boxes,
packages and all articles of tinware exported,
either empty or filled with domestic products,
a drawback equal to the dnty paid on such tin
plate, less 1 per cent of such duty.
SCHEDULE H—SPIRITS.
Brandy and other spirits manufactured or
distilled from grain or other materials, *I.BO
per proof gallon. Cordials, liquors and other
spirituous beverages, or bitters of all kinds
containing spirits and not especially provided
for, *I.BO per proof gallon (present dnty *2.50
per proof gallon).
No lower rate or amount of duty shall be
levied, collected and paid on brandy, spirits
and other spirituous beverages than that fixed
by law for the description of first proof, but it
shall be increased in proportion for any great
er strength than the strength of first proof, and
all imitations of brandy and spirits or wines
Imported by any names whatever shall be sub
ject to the highest rate of duty provided for
the genuine articles respectively intended to
be represented, and in no case less than *1 per
gallon.
Bay mm or bay water, whether distilled or
compounded, of first proof and In proportion
for any greater strength than first proof, *1
per gallon (present duty, *1.50 per gallon).
Champagne and all other sparkling wines in
bottles containing each not more than one
quart and more than one pint, *7 per dozen
(present duty, *8 per dozen). Containing not
more than one pint each and more than one
half pint, *3.50 per dozen (present duty, *4
per dozen). Containing one-half pint each or
less, *1.75 per dozen (present duty, *2 per doz
en). In bottles or other vessels containing more
than one quart each, in addition to *7 per doz
en bottles on the quantity in excess of one
quart, at the rate of *2.25 per gallon (present
fluty in addition to *8 per dozen, the rate of
*2.50 per gallon).
Still wines, including vermouth, in casks, 50
tents per gallon (present duty the same.) In
bottles or jugs, per case of one dozen bottles or
jugs, *1.60 per case (present duty the same).
Ale, porter or beer, In bottles or jugs, 30 cento
per gallon, but no separate or additional duty !
shall be assessed on the bottles or jugs; other- '
wise than in bottles or jugs, 15 cents per gallon | 1
(present duty, 40 cents per gallon; bottles or
jugs, 20 cents per gallon). i
AH iutitoUops of natural rnlfler*! waters and
all artificial mineral waters, 80 per cent ad va
lorem (present duty, 20 cents per gallon and
duty on bottles).
| SCHEDULE I—COTTONS.
Cotton Manufactures—Cotton thread, yarn,
warps or warp yarn, whether sing.e or ad
vanced beyond the condition of single, valued
at not exceeding 15 cents per pound, 23 per
cent; valued at over 15 cents per pound and
not exceeding 30 cents per pound, 25 per cent
(McKinley rate, about 10 cents per pound); val
ued at over 30 cents per pound and not exceed
ing 45 cents per pound, 30 per cent; valued at
over 45 cents per pound, 85 per cent (McKinley
rate, 18 to 40 cents per pound).
Spool thread of cotton, containing in each
spool not exceeding lot) yards of thread, 444
; cents per dozen (McKinley rate, 7 cents).
| Cotton cloth not bleached, dyed, colored,
stained, painted or printed, and not exceeding
60 threads to the square inch, 1 cent per square
I yard (McKinley rate, 2 cents); if bleached, 144
cents per square yard (McKinley rate, 246 cents),
if dyed, colored, stained, painted or printed,!
cents per square yard (McKinley rate, 4 cents).
Cotton cloth, not bleached, dyed, colored,
stained, painted or printed, exceeding 5C
threads to the square inch, 144 cents per square
yard; if bleached, 146 cents per square yard
(McKinley rate, 244 cents); if colored, stained,
painted or printed, 294 cents per square yard
(McKinley rate, 4 cents); dyed, colored, stained,
painted or printed, valued at over 12 cents per
square yard, 30 percent (McKinley rate, 35 per
cent).
. Cotton cloth, not bleached, dyed, colored,
stained, painted or printed, exceeding 5C
threads to the square inch, 146 cents per square
yard (McKinley rate, 2 cents); if bleached,
246 cents per square yard (McKinley rate, 4
cents); if dyed, colored, stained, painted or
printed, 346 cents per square yard (McKinley
rate, 5 cents); all unbleached cotton valued at
over 746 cents per square yard, 25 per cent ad
valorum; bleached, valued at over 10 cents per
square yard, 30 per cent ad valorem; dyed, col-
1 ored, stained, painted or printed, valued at
over 1246 cents per square yard, 35 per cent
(McKinley rate, 40 per cent).
| Ready Made Clothing.
1 Clothing ready made and articles of wearing
apparel of every description, handkerchiefs
and neckties or neckwear composed of cotton
or other vegetable fiber, 40 per cent ad valorem
(McKinley ra' >, 60 per cent).
i Plushes, velvets, velveteens, corduroys and
all pile fabrics composed of cotton or othei
; vegetable fiber, not bleached, dyed, colored,
stained, painted or printed, 35 per cent ad valo
rem (McKinley rate, 10 cents per square yard
and 20 per cent ad valorem).
Chenille curtains, table covers and all goods
manufactured of cotton chenille, 40 per cent
(McKinley rate, 60 per cent). Stockings, hose
| and half hose, composed of cotton or other
vegetable fiber, and shirts and drawers com
posed of cotton, valued at not more than *1.56
per dozen, 30 per cent (McKinley rate, 35 per
cent).
Stockings, hose and half hose knit by hand,
including such as are commercially known as
' seamless stockings, hose or half hose, ail of the
above composed of cotton or other vegetable
I fiber, 40 per cent (McKinley rate, from 20 cents
a dozen and 20 percent ad valorem to $2 a dozen
and 40 per cent ad valorem). Cords, braids,
boot, shoe and corset lacings, tape, gimps, gab
loons, webbing goring, suspenders and braces,
in the piece or otherwise, 35 per cent (McKin
ley rate, 4C per cent).
| All manufactures of cotton not specially
! provided for in this act, including cloth hav
ing india rubber as a component material, 85
' | per cent ad valorem (McKinley rate, 40 per
( eent).
SCHEDULE -J—FLAX AND JUTE.
Cables, cordage and twine (except binding
twine), composed in whole or in part of hemp,
1 10 per cent (McKinley rate, 146 cents per
• pound).
* Burlaps, not exceeding 60 inches in width,
and bags for grain, made of such burlaps, i
> per cent (McKinley rate, 2 cents per pound).
. Oilcloth for floors, stamped, painted or print-
1 ed, including linoleum, corticene, cork carpets,
20 per cent (McKinley rate, 40 per cent).
Collars and cuffs and shirts, and all articles
■ of wearing apparel of every description, not
1 especially provided for, composed wholly or in
part, of linen, 85 per cent (McKinley rate, 45 pei
percent).
I Laces, edgings, embroideries, insertings, neck
' rufflings, ruchings, trimmings, tuckings, lace
' window curtains and other similar articles, 36
' per cent (McKinley rate, 60 per cent).
SCHEDULE K—WOOL.
The classifications in the wool schedule prop
er are much briefer than in the McKinley law,
, and the whole subject is disposed of in two
| short sections of nine and six lines respective
ly. The first provides that wool of the sheep,
hair of the camel, goat, alpaca and other like
animals in the form of stubbing waste, roving
waste, ring waste, mungo, shoddies, garneted
or carded waste, carbonized noils or other
. waste product, any of which is composed
| wholly or in part of wool, the hairof the camel,
goat, alpaca and. other like animals, which
has been improved or advanced beyond its
i original condition as waste by tho use of ma
' chinery or the application of labor, or both,
shall be subject to a duty of 15 per cent ad va-
I lorcm, and the second that on wool of the
' sheep, hairof the camel, goat, alpaca or other
1 like animals in tho form of roving, roping or
tops valued at not more than 35 cents per
pound, the duty shall be 25 per cent ad valo
rem; valued at over 35 cents per pound, the
duty shall be 30 per cent ad valorem.
Duties are fixed on manufactures of wools as
follows:
On woolen and worsted yarns made wholly
or in part of wool, worsted, the hair of tho
camel, goat, alpaca or other animals, valued
at not more than 40 cents per pound. 30 per
cent ad valorem; valued at more than 40 cents
per pound, 35 per cent ad valorem (in the
McKinley law the duty on this class ranges
from 2746 to 3846 cents per pound, and from 35
to 40 per cent ad valorem). On woolen or
worsted cloths, shawls, knit fabrics, and all fab
rics made on knitting machines or frames, and
all manufactures of every description madt
wholly or in part of wool, worsted, the hair ot
the camel, goat, alpaca or other animals, not
specially provided for in this act, 40 per cent
ad valorem (the McKinley law imposes a
duty on this class ranging from 22 to 44 cento
per pound and from 30 to 50 per cent ad val
orem). On blankets, hats of wools and flan
nels for underwear and felts for paper makers*
use and printing machines, composed wholly
or in part of wool, the hair of tho camel, goat,
alpaca or other animals, valued at not more
than 30 ceuts per pound, 25 per cent ad
valorem, valued at more than 80 and
not more than 40 cents per pound, 80 per
cent ad valorem; valued at more than 40cento
per pound, 35 per cent ad valorem; provided
that on blankets over three yards in length
tho same duties shall be passed as on woolen
and worsted cloths, and on flannels weighing
over four ounces per square yard the same
duties as on dress goods (the McKinley law
fixes these duties on this class at from 1646 to
8846 cents Per pound and 30 to 40 per cent ad
valorem).
Dress Goods.
On women’s and children's dross goods, coat
linings, bunting and goods of similar descrip
tion or character, composed wholly or in part
of wool, worsted, the hair of the camel, goat,
alpaca or other animal, not specially provided
for in this act, 40 per cent ad valorem (the
present law fixes a duty of from 7 to 12 cents
per square yard on cloths embraced in this
schedule, and 44 cents on wools and hair, and
from 40 to 60 per cent ad valorem). On cloth
ing ready made and articles of wearing
apparel of every description, made up or
manufactured wholly or in part, not specially
provided for in this act, felts not woven and not
specially provided for in this net, and plush
and other pile fabrics, all tho foregoing com
posed wholly or in part of wool, worsted, the
hair of the camel, goat, alpaca or other ani
mals, 45 per cent ad valorem (present law, 4946
cents per pound and GO par cent ad valorem).
On cloaks, dolmans. Jackets, talmas, ulsters
or other outside garments for ladles’ and chil
dren’s apparel and goods of similar descrip
tion or used for like purposes,composed wholly
or in part of wool, worsted, the hair of the
eamel, goat, alpaca or other animal, made up
ar manufactured wholly or in part, 45 per cent
*1 valorem (present law, 4046 cents per pound
ind 00 per cent ad valorem). On webbings,
jorings, suspenders, braces, b*hi#<e, bind- •
Ings, braids, galloons, fringes, gimps, cords,
cords and tassels, dress trimmings, laces and
embroideries, head nets, buttons or barrel but
tons, or buttons of other form, for tassels or
ornaments, any of the foregoing which are
elastic or nonelastic, made of wool, worsted,
the hair of the eamel, goat, alpaca or other
animal, or of which wool, worsted, the hair of
the camel, goat, alpaca or other animals is a
component material, 40 per cent ad valorem
(“resent law, 60 cents per pound and 60 per cent
ad valorem).
Carpets.
Abusson, axminster, moquette and chenille
carpets, figured or plain, carpets, woven whole
for rooms, and all carpets or carpeting of like
character or description, and Oriental, Berlin
and other similar rugs, 35 per cent ad valorem
(present law, CO cents per square yard and 46
per cent). Saxony, Wilton and Tournay velvet
carpets, figured or plain, and all carpets
or carpeting of like character or descrip
tion, 30 per cent ad valorem (present
law, 60 cents per pound and 40 per cent).
Brussels carpet, figured or plain, and all
carpet or carpeting of like character or de
scription, 30 per cent ad valorem (present law.
44 cents per square yard and 40 per cent). Tap
estry Brussels carpets, figured cr plain, and all
carpets or carpeting of like character or de
scription, printed on the warp or otherwise, 25
per cent ad valorem (present law, 28 cents per
yard and 40 per cent). Triple ingrain, three
ply, and all ingrain Venetian carpets, 25 per
cent ad valorem (present law, 19 cents per
yard and 40 per cent). Wool Dutch and two
ply ingrain carpets, 20 per cent ad valo
rem (present law, 14 cents per yard and
40 per cent). Druggets and bookings, printed,
colored or otherwise, felt carpeting, figured or
plain, 20 per cent ad valorem (present law, 11 to
22 cents per square yard and 40 per cent). Car
pets and carpeting of wool, flax or cotton, or
composed in part of either, not special!} pro
vided for in this act, 20 per cent ad valorem
(present law, 50 per cent). Mats, rugs, screens,
covers, hassocks. Led sides, art squares and
other portions of carpets or carpeting made
wholly or in part of wool, and not specially
provided for in this act, shall be subjected to
the rate of duty herein imposed on carpets or
carpeting of li’ - e character or description (pres
ent law, 50 per cent ad valorem).
The changes are to be made gradually. The
bill provides that on all rates of duty in the
woolen schedule, except on carpets, there
shall be a reduction of 1 cent on the hundred
on the Ist day of July, 1896, and thereafter of a
like amount on the Ist day of July, 1897, 1898,
1899 and 1900 respectively.
SCHEDULE M—PAPERS AND BOOKS.
Wood pulp, bleached or unbleached, 10 per
cent (McKinley rate, *2.50 to *7 a ton).
Printing paper, unsized, suitable only for
booksand papers, 12 percent (McKinley rate,
15 per cent). Same, sized, 15 per cent (McKin
ley rate, 20 per cent).
Copying paper, silver paper and all tissue pa
per, albuminized or sensitized paper, 25 per
, cent (McKinley rate, 8 cents per pound 15
i per cent ad valorem.)
Surface coated papers and manufactures
I thereof, cardboard, lithographic prints, photo
i graph, autograph and scrap albums, 25 per cent
i (McKinley rate, 35 per cent).
, Paper envelopes, 20 per cent (McKinley rate,
25 cents per thousand.)
, Paper hangings, writing paper, drawing pa
per, 20 per cifht (McKinley rate, 25 pej cent).
Blank books, 20 per cent (McKinley rate, 25
per cent).
Books, pamphlets and other printed matter,
25 per cent (no change).
- Playing cards, 10 cents perpack and 50 per
cent ad valorem (McKinley rate, 50 cents per
pack).
Other manufactures of paper, 20 per cent
, (McKinley rate, 25 per cent).
SCHEDULE N—SUNDRIES.
Hair pencils, 30 per cent; brushesand feather
dusters, per cent; brooms, 20 per cent (pres
ent duty, 40 pet ecilth
Button forms—Lastings, mohair, cloth, silk
or other manufactures of or made
' i in patterns of such size, or cut
,' in such manner as to be fit
sively, 10 per cent (present duty,
! i Buttons, commercially known as agate but
tons, 25 per cent (present duty, 25 per cent).
I Pearl and shell buttons, wholly or partially
.' manufactured, 40 per cent (present duty, 246
i cents specific and 25 per cent).
Ivory, vegetable ivory, bone or horn buttons,
25 per cent (present duty, 50 per cent).
Shoe buttons, made of paper, board, papier
mache, pulp or other similar material not spe
cially provided for in this act, 25 percent (pres
ent duty, 1 cent specific).
Manufactured corks, £0 per cent (present
duty, 15 cents specific).
Dice, draughts, chess men, ehess balls and
billiard, pool and bagatelle balls, 50 per cent
(present duty, 50 per cent).
Dolls and all other toys not composed of rub
ber, china, porcelain, parian, bisque, earthen
or stone ware, 25 per cent (present duty, 35 per
cent).
Emery grains and emery manufactured, 1
cent per pound (present duty, 1 cent specific).
Firecrackers of all sorts, 8 cents per pound
(present duty, 8 cents specific).
Fulminates, fulminating powders and like
articles, 30 per cent (present duty, 30 per cent).
Gunpowder and all explosive substances used
for mining, blasting, artillery or sporting pur
poses, when valued at 20 cents or less per
pound, 5 cents per pound (present duty, 5 cents
specific); valued ab<*re a) cents per pound, 8
cents per pound (present duty, 8 cents specific).
Matches, friction or lucifer, of all descrip
tions, 20 per cent (present duty, 10 cents gross
or 1 cent per 1,000).
Percussion caps, 30 per cent; blasting caps,
85 per cent (present duty,4o per cent).
Feathers and downs of all kinds, when
dressed, colored or manufactured, including
quilts of down and other manufactures of
down, and al to including dressed and finished
birds suitable for millinrry, ornaments and
artificial and ornamental feathersand flowers, !
6r parts thereof, or whatever material com
posed, 85 per cent (present duty, 50 percent).
Furs, dressed on the skin, but not made up I
into articles, and furs not on the skin, prepared
for hatters’ use,2opercent (present duty,2oper
cent).
Fans of all kinds, except common palm leaf
fans, 40 per cent.
Gun wads of all descriptions, 25 per eenl
(present duty, 35 per cent).
Hair, human, not manufactured, 20 per cent
(present duty, 20 per cent).
Haircloth, known as “crinoline cloth,” 30 per
cent (present duty, 8 cents specific).
Haircloth, known as “hair seating," 25 per
cent (present duty, 30 cents).
Hate for men’s, women’s and children’s wear,
composed of the fur of rabbit, beaver or other
animals, 80 per cent (present duty, 35 per cent).
Jewelry—All articles not especially provided
for in this act. and commercially known as
“jewelry,” and cameos in frames, 25 per cent
(present duty, 50 per cent).
Pearls, 15 percent (present duty, 10 per cent).
Precious stones of all kinds cut but not set,
15 per cent (present duty, 10 per cent); if set, 25
per cent (present duty, 25 per cent). Imita
tions of precious stones composed of paste or
glass not exceeding one inch in dimensions,
not set, 10 per cent (present duty, 10 per eent).
Sole leather, 5 per cent (present duty, 10 per
cent).
Bend or belting leather, and leather not es
pecially provided for, 10 per cent (present duty,
10 per cent).
Calf skins, tanned or dressed, dressed upper
leather, including patent, enameled and ja
panned leather, dressed or undressed, and fin
ished; chamois or other skins, 20 per cent
(present duty, 20 per cent). Bookbinders’ calf
skins, kangaroo, sheep and goat skins, includ
ing lamb and kid skins, dressed and finished,
20 per cent (present duty, 20 percent). Skins for
morocco, tanned but unfinished, 10 per cent
(present duty, 10 per cent). Pianoforte leather
and pianoforte action leather, boots and shoes
made of leather, 20 per cent (present duty, 35
per cent and 25 per cent).
Leather cut into shoe uppers or vamps, or
ether forms, suitable for conversion into manu
factured articles, 20 per cent (present duty, 35
per cent).
Gloves, made wholly or in part of leather,
shall pay duty at the following rates, the
lengths stated in each case being tho extreme
length when stretched to their full extent—
lamely:
Ladles’ or children's “glace” finish, Bchma-
length, *1 per dozen pairs (present duty, *L76
specific); over 14 inches and not over 17 inches
In length, *1.50 per dozen pairs (present duty,
80 per cent): over 17 inches in length, *2 per
dozen pairs (present duty, 60 per cent): men’s
“glace” finished, Schmaschen (sheep), *2 per
dozen pairs (present duty, 50 per cent and *4
specific).
Ladles' or children’s “glace" finish, lamb er
sheep, not over 14 inches in length, *1.75 per
dozen pairs (present duty, *1.75 specific); over
14 and not over 17 inches in length, *2.75 per
dozen pairs (present duty, 50 per cent); over IT
inches in length, *3.75 per dozen pairs (present
duty, 50 per cent). Men’s "glace” finish, lamb
or sheep, *3 per dozen pairs (present duty, M
per cent and *1 specific).
Ladies’ or children’s “glace” finish goat, kid
or other leather than of sheep origin, not over
14 inches in length, *2.25 per dozen pairs (pres
ent duty, 50 per cent); over 14 and not over 17
Inches in length, *3 per dozen pairs (present
duty, 50 per cent); over 17 inches in length, $4
per dozen pairs (present duty, GO per cent).
Men’s "glace” finish kid, goat or other leather
than of sheep origin, *3 per dozen pairs (pres
ent duty, 50per cent and *1 specific).
Ladles' or children’s of sheep origin, with
exterior grain surface removed, by whatever
nari-.e known, not over 14 inchesin length, *1.75
per dozen pairs (present duty,so percent); over
14 and not over 17 inches In length, *2.75 per
dozen pairs (present duty, 60 per cent); over 17
inches in length, *3.75 per dozen pairs (present
duty, 50 per cent). Men's of sheep origin, with
exterior surface removed, by whatever name
known, *3 per dozen pairs (present duty, 50 per
cent and *1 specific).
Ladies’ or children's kid, goat or other leath
er than of sheep origin, with exterior grain
surface removed, by whatever name known,
not over 14 inches in length, *2825 per dozen
pairs (present duty, 50 per cent); over 14 inches
and not over 17 inches in length, *3 per dozen
pairs (present duty, 60 per cent); over 17 inches
in length, *4 per dozen pairs (present duty, 59
per cent). Men’s goat, kid or other leather than
of sheep origin, with exterior grain surface re
moved, by whatever name known, *3 per dozen
pairs (present duty, 50 percent and *1 specific).
In addition to the foregoing rates, there shall
be paid on all leather gloves, when lined, 60
cents per dozen pairs (present duty, 64 bents
specific).
Glove trunks, with or without the usual ac
companying pieces, shall pay 75 tier cent of the
duty provided for the gloves in the fabrication
i of which they are Suitable (present dnty, 75
per cent).
Manufactures of amber, asbestos, bladders,
coral, cat gut or whip gut or worm gut, jet,
paste, spar, wax, 25 per cent (present duty, 25
per cent).
Manufactures of bone, chip, grass, horn, In
dia rubber, palm leaf, straw, weeds or whale
bone, 25 per cent (present duty, 30 per cent).
Manufactures of leather, fur, gutta percha,
vulcanized india rubber, known as hard rub
ber, human hair, papier mache, plaster of
parts, indurated fiber wares and other manu
factures composed of wood or other pulp, 39
per cent (present duty, 35 per cent).
Manufactures of ivory, vegetable ivory,
mother of pearl and shell, or of which thess
substances, or either of them, are the compo
nent materials of chief value, and manufac
tures known commercially as beads or beaded
trimmings or ornaments, 35 per cent (present
duty, 40 per cent).
Masks composed of paper or pulp, 25 percent
(present duty, 35 per cent).
Matting and mats made of cocoa fiberor rat
tan, 20 per cent (present duty, 12 cents and 8
cents specific).
Pencils, lead or slate pencils, 25 per cent
(present duty, 50 cents specific and 30 per cent
. and 4 cents specific).
| Pencil leads, not In wood, 10 per cent (present
duty, 10 per cent). t
Pipes, pipe bowls, of ail materials, and all
smokers’ articles whatsoever, 50 per cent (pres>
ent duty, 75 per cent). All common tobacco pipes
of clay, 10 cents per gross (present duty, 15
cents specific).
i Umbrellas, parasols and sunshades, covered
with material composed wholly or in part of
silk, wool or goat hair, 45 percent (present duty,
55 per cent). If covered with paper or other
material,3spercent(presentduty, 45 percent).
Umbrellas, parasols and sunshades, sticks
for, if plain or carved, finished or unfinished,
20 per cent (present duty, 85 and 50 per cent).
Waste, not specially provided
10 pej - cent (present duty, 10
PARTS OF THE RE
| ENACTED.
Section 3, which follows the free list, is sub
stantially the same as section 4 of the McKin
ley bill. Section 4 practically re-enacts section
sos the McKinley bill. Section 5 follows sec
tion 6 of the McKinley bill so closely that even
the date, March 4,1891, when it is to go into ef
fect.is inadvertently retained. A similar remark
applies to section 6, which is section 7 of the
McKinley billi, with the date (1891) unchanged.
Sections 7 and 8 are the same as sections 8 and
9of the McKinley bill. Section 9 is :he same
as section 10 of the McKinley bill. Section l‘>
is the same as section 11 of the old k,w. Sec
tions 11, 12 and 13 arc the same as sections 12,
13 and 14 of tho old law. Sections 14, 15 and 16
are the same as sections 17, 18 and 19 of the old
law. Sections 17 and 18 are sections 20 and 21
of the McKinley bill. Sections 19, 20,21, 22, 23,
24 and 25 respectively are the same as the old
law.
Chairman Wilson’s Summary of the Bill.
Mr. Wilson, chairman of the committee,
gives the main features of the bill as follows:
I “First—The adoption, wherever it seemed
practicable, of ad valorem instead of specific
duties.
“Second—The freeing from taxes of those
great materials of industry that lie at the basis
of production. Specific rates of daty are ob
jectionable for these reasons: They frequently
conceal a rate of taxation too enormous to be
submitted to if expressed in ad valorem terms,
as the duty of 8 cents on 100 pounds on salt in
bulk, which amounts to over 80 per cent on a
| common necessity of life. They always bear
l heavily on the common article used by the
masses and lightly by the expensive article
I consumed by the rich, as a tax of *3oon all
houses would be little or nothing on the great
mansion and very high on the humble home.
"And, contrary to common belief, specific
duties lead to greater frauds in administration,
for counting and weighing at theciirtomhonee
are done by the cheapest and most easily cor
rupted labor, while ad valorem rates are as
sessed by the best paid and most responsible
appraisers. The ad valorem system has worked
well In practice, is essentially the fair system,
because it is a tax upon the actual value of an
article and was declared by Mr. Clay himself
to be In theory and according to every sound
principle ot justice entitled to the preference
and vindicated by long trial.”
Congressman Bryan’s Summary.
The following summary of the bill has been
prepared by Representative Bryan of Ne
braska:
“The bill jnst completed puts wool, coal,
lumber, salt and iron ore on the free list, and
reduces the tariff on sugar from J 6 to 46 of a
cent per pound; it also provides tor the exter
mination of the bounty by degrees. As a rule
the tariff has been made lowest ui>on the
cheaper goods of necessary nse and left high
est upon the more expensive articles. Tho
wool schedule will, perhaps, attract most at
tention. We have left no duty higher than 45
per cent on manufactures of wool, and that
only on ready made garments, the average
being less than 40 per cent. The cheaper qual
ities of blankets and flannels are only taxed
25 per cent, and the lower grades of carpets
only 20.
“We have also applied a gradual reduction
to the woolen schedule, so that at the end of
five years the highest duty will bo 40 and the
average near 30 per cent. Very material re
ductions have been mado on tho cotton sched
ule. We h .ve placed iron ore on the free list,
and made t large cut all along the metal
schedule. The duty on steel rails is reduced
more than 50 per cent. Free lumber will be a
great benefit to the people of the prairie states,
and free salt will give to those who need salt
for their cattle or for curing ment the same
advantage which has been secured heretofore
bv means of rebate to those who have cured
I It. Agricultural implements have been
1-iaced upon the free list in order to enable the
fa: :ner to better compete in foreign markets
and because many of our agricultural imple
ments are being sold abroad today cheXfter
than at horn*.”
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