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' • iTBE NEW TARIFF BILL ? : 'Text of the Measure as Planned v by the Committee. K THE NEW RATES AND THE OLD. < ■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*.” 3